Containing the Entertaining and Merry Tricks and Droll Frolics
played by the Cobbler, how he got acquainted with the King,
became a Great Man and lived at Court ever after, 13
THE MERRY TALES OF THE
WISE MEN OF GOTHAM, 23
THE HISTORY OF
THOMAS HICKATHRIFT, 35
THE HISTORY OF
JACK THE GIANT-KILLER
Containing his Birth and Parentage; His Meeting with the
King's Son; His Noble Conquests over many Monstrous
Giants; and his rescuing a Beautiful Lady, whom he afterwards
married, 53
SIMPLE SIMON'S MISFORTUNES
AND HIS
WIFE MARGERY'S CRUELTY
Which began the very next Morning after their Marriage, 69
THE ADVENTURES OF
BAMFYLDE MOORE CAREW,
Who was for more than forty years King of the Beggars, 78
THE COMICAL SAYINGS OF
PADDY FROM CORK
With his Coat Buttoned behind, being an Elegant Conference
between English Tom and Irish Teague; with Paddy's
Catechism, and his Supplication when a Mountain Sailor, 95
THE HISTORY OF
DICK WHITTINGTON
AND HIS CAT, 117
THE MAD PRANKS OF
TOM TRAM,
Son in Law to Mother Winter; to which are added his Merry
Jests and Pleasant Tales, 127
A YORK DIALOGUE BETWEEN
NED AND HARRY:
Or Ned giving Harry an Account of his Courtship and Marriage
State, 141
DANIEL O'ROURKE'S WONDERFUL
VOYAGE TO THE MOON. 150
MOTHER BUNCH'S CLOSET
NEWLY BROKE OPEN;
Containing Rare Secrets of Nature and Art, tried and experienced
by Learned Philosophers, and recommended to all ingenious
young men and maids, teaching them, in a natural way, how
to get good wives and husbands. Approved by several that
have made trial of them; it being the product of forty-nine
years' study. By our loving Friend Poor Tom, for the King,
a lover of Mirth but a hater of Treason. In Two Parts, 159
THE COMICAL HISTORY OF THE
COURTIER AND TINKER, 178
THE HISTORY OF THE
FOUR KINGS
Of Canterbury, Colchester, Cornwall, and Cumberland, their
Queens and Daughters; being the Merry Tales of Tom
Hodge and his School-Fellows, 187
THE PENNY
BUDGET OF WIT
AND PACKAGE OF DROLLERY, 200
THE MERRY CONCEITS OF
TOM LONG THE CARRIER,
Being many Pleasant Passages and Mad Pranks which he observed
in his Travels. Full of Honest Mirth and Delight, 219
THE STORY OF
BLUE BEARD
Or the Effects of Female Curiosity, 230
THE LIFE OF
MANSIE WAUCH
Tailor in Dalkeith, 236
THE LIFE AND ASTONISHING ADVENTURES OF
Peter Williamson
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