Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) Old English Jest-Book. VOL. I. Shakespeare Jest-Books; REPRINTS OF THE EARLY AND VERY RARE JEST-BOOKS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN USED BY SHAKESPEARE. A Hundred Mery Talys, FROM THE ONLY KNOWN COPY. II. Mery Tales and Quicke Answeres, FROM THE RARE EDITION OF 1567. _Edited, with Introduction and Notes._ BY W. CAREW HAZLITT, OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. ----_That I was disdainful,--and that I had my good wit out of the Hundred Merry Tales._ BEATRICE, in Much Ado about Nothing. LONDON: WILLIS & SOTHERAN, 136, STRAND. MDCCCLXIV. + A C. mery Talys. The Table. PAGE + _Of him that said there were but two commandementes._ i. 11 + _Of the wyfe who lay with her prentys and caused him to beate her husbande disguised in her rayment._ ii 12 + _Of John Adroyns in the dyuyls apparell._ iii. 14 + _Of the Ryche man and his two sonnes._ iv. 18 + _Of the Cockolde who gained a Ring by his iudgment._ v. 19 + _Of the scoler that gave his shoes to cloute._ vi. 20 + _Of him that said that a womans tongue was lightest of digestion._ vii. _ib._ + _Of the Woman that followed her fourth husbands bere and wept._ viii. 21 + _Of the Woman that sayd her woer came to late. ix._ 22 + _Of the Mylner with the golden thombe._ x. 23 + _Of the horseman of Irelande that prayde Oconer for to hange up the frere._ xi. _ib._ + _Of the preest that sayd nother Corpus meus nor Corpum meum._ xii. 26 + _Of the two freres whereof the one loued nat the ele heed nor the other the tayle._ xiii. 27 + _Of the welche man that shroue hym for brekynge of hys faste on the fryday._ xiv. 28 + _Of the merchaunte of London that dyd put nobles in his mouthe in hys dethe bedde._ xv. 30 + _Of the mylner that stale the nuttes of the tayler that stale a shepe._ xvi. 31 + _Of the foure elementes where they should sone be founde._ xvii. 36 + _Of the woman that poured the potage in the iudges male._ xviii. 37