Delight and pastime, or, Pleasant diversion for both sexes consisting of good history and morality, witty jests, smart repartees, and pleasant fancies, free from obscene and prophane expressions, too frequent in other works of this kind, whereby the age is corrupted in a great measure, and youth inflamed to loose and wanton thoughts : this collection may serve to frame their minds to such flashes of wit as may be agreeable to civil and genteel conversation / by G.M.
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Delight and pastime, or, Pleasant diversion for both sexes consisting of good history and morality, witty jests, smart repartees, and pleasant fancies, free from obscene and prophane expressions, too frequent in other works of this kind, whereby the age is corrupted in a great measure, and youth inflamed to loose and wanton thoughts : this collection may serve to frame their minds to such flashes of wit as may be agreeable to civil and genteel conversation / by G.M.
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Miege, Guy, 1644-1718?
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London :: Printed for J. Sprint ... and G. Conyers ...,
1697.
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"Delight and pastime, or, Pleasant diversion for both sexes consisting of good history and morality, witty jests, smart repartees, and pleasant fancies, free from obscene and prophane expressions, too frequent in other works of this kind, whereby the age is corrupted in a great measure, and youth inflamed to loose and wanton thoughts : this collection may serve to frame their minds to such flashes of wit as may be agreeable to civil and genteel conversation / by G.M." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50811.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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descriptionPage 132
LVI.
Upon Cosier, the Cobler;
Come, gentle Reader, gentle Friend,Come, and behold poor Cosier's End.Longer in length his Life had gone,But that he had no Last so long.O mighty Death! whose Art can killThe Man that made Soles at his will.
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