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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Title: 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.
Author: Miege, Guy, 1644-1718?
Publication: London :: Printed for J. Sprint ... and G. Conyers ...,; 1697.
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No less Ingenious was the Answer of a Lord Mayor to our King James I. Who being displeased with the City, for refu∣sing to lend him a Sum of Money he requi∣red, threatned that he would remove his Court, with all the Records of the Tower, and the Courts of Judicature, to another Place, with farther Expressions of his In∣dignation. Your Majesty, answered the Lord Mayor calmly, may do what you please therein, and your City of London will still prove dutiful; but she comforts her self with the Thoughts that Your Majesty will leave the Thames behind you. Whereby he gave the King to understand, that as long as the Thames should run before the City of London, it could not fail of flourishing by the Advantage of Trade, whatever Dis∣advantages it lay under on his Majesty's Side.