The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English;: or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and ModernBoyer, Abel
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The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English;: or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and Modern
Boyer, Abel
Anecdotes; Wit and humor
A Taylor having a young and handsom Wife, went into the Country
to his Customers; in the mean time a lusty young Journey-man
sollicited her, but she refus’d; at last he vow’d, when she was in
Bed, he’d come into the Chamber; she vow’d if he did, she’d have a
great Knife in Bed with her to cut his Throat. At Night, he opens
the Door softly, but remembering the Knife, was stealing out again.
She hearing a noise, asked, who was there? ’Tis I, says he, and was
resolv’d to lye with you, but that I remember’d your Vow of the
Knife. _Oh! what a Fool was I_, says she, _to leave the Knife below
in the Kitchen?_
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Un Tailleur, qui avoit une Femme jeune & belle, s’en ètant allé en
Province chez ses Chalands; un de ses Compagnons jeune & vigoureux
tacha de la corrompre, mais elle le rebuta; Enfin il jura que lors
qu’elle seroit couchée, il la viendroit trouver dans sa chambre,
& elle jura de son côté que s’il le faísoit, elle auroit un grand
Couteau dans son lit pour lui couper la gorge. La nuit venuë, il
ouvre doucement la Porte, mais se ressouvenant du Couteau, il
alloit resortir à la derobée: Elle, entendant du bruit, demanda qui
c’ètoit? C’est moy, dit il, qui avois resolu de coucher avec vous,
n’ètoit que je me suis ressouvenu du serment que vous avez fait du
Couteau. _O! la sotte que je suis_, dit elle, _d’avoir oublié le
Couteau là bas dans la Cuísine!_
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One at a Lord’s Table, told him of a Piece of Chymistry, which he
saw in _Flanders_, which was a general Cure for all Diseases; nay,
I confess my self, says he, I could not have believ’d it, if I had
not seen it; at which the Lord wondred much, and ask’d a Grave
Philosopher at the Table, what he thought of it, _Why truly, my
Lord_, says he, _that Gentleman has spoken my Sentiments, for he
said he could not have believ’d it unless he had seen it, and truly
no more will I_.
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Un homme qui ètoit à la Table d’un Milord, l’entretenoit d’une
Operation chimique qu’il avoit veuë en _Flandre_, & qui ètoit un
Remede général pour toutes sortes de maux; & je vous avouë, dit il,
que je ne l’eusse pas creu si je ne l’eusse veu moi-même; le Milord
en parut fort surpris, & il demanda à un Philosophe grave qui ètoit
à Table, ce qu’il en croyoit: _Vrayment, Milord_, dit-il, _ce
Monsieur là vient d’expliquer mes sentimens, car il a dit qu’il ne
l’eût point creu, á moins que de l’avoir veu, & moy je ne saurois
le croire non plus_.
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