English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700; English wit and humor; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 17th century -- Literary collections
[69.] E. 1351/5 No-Body his Complaint. Dialogue between Master
No-Body, and Doctour Some-Body. A delightfull Discourse, by George
Baron
No-Body _Why do'st thou father all thy Lies
On me? heaping Indignities
On one that never injur'd thee?_
Some-Body _My Words and Acts hurt_ No-Body.
No-Body. Som-Body _hath belied me much_,
No-Body _sure hath cause to grutch_.
London. Printed by B. Alsop,[F. 270] dwelling near the Upper-Pomp in
Grub Street. 1652.
[70.] 2044, g. Ionson's Works. Vol. I. Epigrammes. I. Booke. The
Author B. I.[F. 271] London. 1616.[F. 272]
[71.] (C. 20, f. 9)/88 Roxburghe Ballads.
[72.] Grenville, 16,427. Ar't asleepe Husband? A Boulster Lecture.
Stored With all variety of Witty jeasts, merry Tales, and other
pleasant passages; Extracted from the choicest flowers of Philosophy,
Poesy, antient and moderne History. Illustrated with Examples of
incomparable constancy, in the excellent History of _Philocles_ and
_Doriclea_. By _Philogenes Panedonius_. London, Printed by R.
Bishop, for Richard Best, and are to be sold at his shop neare
Graies-Inne-gate in Holeborne. 1646.
[73.] (C. 39, k. vol. 2)/171 Bagford Ballads.
[74.] (E. 1640)/3 Here's Jack in a Box, that will Coniure the Fox, or
a new List of the new Fashions now used in _London_.
Come who buyes Jack in a Box,
That will Cunjure the Fox,
And move them to delight:
It may serve as I may say,
For to passe the time away,
In the long Winter nights,
To sit by a good fire,
When the Season doth require,
Your Body to keepe warme:
This Booke of merriment
Will yield you sweet content,
And doe you no harme.
This new merry Booke was newly Invented,
But never before this time Imprinted.
Written by _Laurence Price_ in the moneth of October. 1656.--London,
Printed for _Tho. Vere_[F. 273] at the _Angel_ without _Newgate_.
[75.] Grenville, 11,163. The Wits, or Sport upon Sport. Being a
curious Collection of several Drols and Farces, Presented and Shewn
For the Merriment and Delight of Wise Men, and the Ignorant. As they
have been sundry times Acted in Publique, and Private, In London at
Bartholomew, In the Countrey at other Faires. In Halls and Taverns.
On several Mountebancks Stages, at Charing Cross, Lincolns Inn Fields,
and other places. By Several Stroleing Players, Fools, and Fidlers,
and the Mountebancks Zainies with Loud Laughter, and great Applause.
Written I know not when, by several Persons, I know not who, But now
newly Collected by your Old Friend to please you.
Francis Kirkman.[F. 274] London, 1672.
[76.] (C. 20, f. 7)/343 Roxburghe Ballads.
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