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| A18367 | A. S. | The Booke of bulls, baited with two centuries of bold jests, and nimble-lies, or, A Combat betweene sence and non-sence, being at strife who shall infuse most myrth into the gentle-reader a treatise in variety of pleasure second to none ever yet printed in the English-tongue : wherein is contained nothing alreadie published / collected by A.S. Gent. | 1636.0 | 26279 | 8242 | nan | ./cache/A18367.xml | ./txt/A18367.txt |
| A66812 | Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Selections. 1669. | Witty apophthegms delivered at several times, and upon several occasions by King James, King Charls, the Marquess of Worcester, Francis Lord Bacon, and Sir Thomas Moor ; collected and revised. | 1669.0 | 36136 | 10712 | nan | ./cache/A66812.xml | ./txt/A66812.txt |
| A28301 | Blackmore, Richard, Sir, d. 1729. | A satyr against wit | 1700.0 | 4020 | 1186 | nan | ./cache/A28301.xml | ./txt/A28301.txt |
| A68702 | Boorde, Andrew, 1490?-1549. | The first and best part of Scoggins iests full of witty mirth and pelasant shifts, done by him in France, and other places: being a preseruatiue against melancholy. Gathered by Andrew Boord, Doctor of Physicke. | 1626.0 | 26104 | 8257 | nan | ./cache/A68702.xml | ./txt/A68702.txt |
| A95862 | Burton, Robert, 1577-1640. | Versatile ingenium, The Wittie companion, or Jests of all sorts. From citie and countrie, court and universitie. : With an account of the life of the laughing philosopher Democritus of Abder̀a. / By Democritus Junior. | 1679.0 | 66130 | 20406 | nan | ./cache/A95862.xml | ./txt/A95862.txt |
| A35190 | Crouch, Humphrey, fl. 1635-1671. | England''s jests refin''d and improv''d being a choice collection of the merriest jests, smartest repartees, wittiest sayings, and most notable bulls yet extant, with many new ones never before printed to which are added XIII ingenious characters drawn to the life / the whole work compil''d with great care and exactness, and may serve as the witty-man''s companion, the busie-man''s diversion and the melancholy man''s physick and recreation, calculated for the innocent spending of the winter evenings by H.C. | 1693.0 | 34029 | 10840 | nan | ./cache/A35190.xml | ./txt/A35190.txt |
| A20101 | Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632. | Iests to make you merie with the coniuring vp of Cock VVatt, (the walking spirit of Newgate) to tell tales. Vnto which is added, the miserie of a prison, and a prisoner. And a paradox in praise of serieants. Written by T.D. and George Wilkins. | 1607.0 | 22272 | 6741 | nan | ./cache/A20101.xml | ./txt/A20101.txt |
| A20519 | Dobson, George, attributed name. | Dobsons drie bobbes sonne and heire to Skoggin. Full of mirth and delightful recreation. | 1607.0 | 33788 | 10047 | nan | ./cache/A20519.xml | ./txt/A20519.txt |
| A51187 | Flatman, Thomas, 1637-1688. | Don Juan Lamberto: or, a comical history of the late times. The first part. By Montelion Knight of the Oracle, &c. | 1661.0 | 33934 | 10320 | nan | ./cache/A51187.xml | ./txt/A51187.txt |
| A66814 | Frith, John. | The witty jests and mad pranks of John Frith commonly called, the merry-conceited-mason, brother and fellow-traveller : with Captain James Hinde the famous high-way-man. | 1673.0 | 5314 | 1363 | nan | ./cache/A66814.xml | ./txt/A66814.txt |
| A85877 | Gayton, Edmund, 1608-1666. | Walk knaves, walk. A discourse intended to have been spoken at court and now publish''d for the satisfaction of all those that have participated of the svveetness of publike employments. By Hodg Tvrbervil, chaplain to the late Lord Hevvson. | 1659.0 | 5872 | 1666 | nan | ./cache/A85877.xml | ./txt/A85877.txt |
| A15606 | Herbert, George, 1592-1637. | Wits recreations. Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses | 1640.0 | 42343 | 14971 | nan | ./cache/A15606.xml | ./txt/A15606.txt |
| A43690 | Hickes, William, fl. 1671. | Coffee-house jests. Refined and enlarged. By the author of the Oxford jests. The fourth edition, with large additions. This may be re-printed, Feb. 25. 1685. R.P. | 1686.0 | 46014 | 14830 | nan | ./cache/A43690.xml | ./txt/A43690.txt |
| A50616 | Mennes, John, Sir, 1599-1671. | Recreation for ingenious head-peeces, or, A pleasant grove for their wits to walk in of epigrams 700, epitaphs 200, fancies a number, fantasticks abundance : with their addition, multiplication, and division. | 1654.0 | 61105 | 21479 | nan | ./cache/A50616.xml | ./txt/A50616.txt |
| A65514 | Person of quality. | Westminster-drollery, or, A choice collection of the newest songs & poems both at court and theaters by a person of quality ; with additions. | nan | 39258 | 13658 | nan | ./cache/A65514.xml | ./txt/A65514.txt |
| A59997 | Shirley, James, 1596-1666. | VVits labyrinth, or, A briefe and compendious abstract of most witty, ingenious, wise, and learned sentences and phrases together with some hundreds of most pithy, facetious and patheticall complementall expressions / collected, compiled and set forth for the benefit, pleasure or delight of all, but principally the English nobility and gentry by J.S., gent. | 1648.0 | 12049 | 3753 | nan | ./cache/A59997.xml | ./txt/A59997.txt |
| A13376 | Tarlton, Richard, d. 1588, attributed name. | Tarltons jests Drawne into these three parts. 1 His court-witty iests. 2 His sound city iests. 3 His countrey pretty iests. Full of delight, wit, and honest mirth. | 1638.0 | 12386 | 4032 | nan | ./cache/A13376.xml | ./txt/A13376.txt |
| A13520 | Taylor, John, 1580-1653. | Wit and mirth chargeably collected out of tauernes, ordinaries, innes, bowling greenes, and allyes, alehouses, tobacco shops, highwaies, and water-passages : made vp, and fashioned into clinches, bulls, quirkes, yerkes, quips, and ierkes : apothegmatically bundled vp and garbled at the request of old Iohn Garrets ghost / by Iohn Taylor, water-poet. | 1628.0 | 14256 | 4883 | nan | ./cache/A13520.xml | ./txt/A13520.txt |