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 Man that had but one Eye, met early in the Morning one that had
a crooked Back, and said to him, _Friend, you are loaden betimes.
’Tis early indeed_, reply’d the other, _for you have but one of
your Windows open_.
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Un borgne rencontra un matin de fort bonne heure un bossu, & luy
dit, _compere, vous êtes chargé de bonne heure_; _il est vray qu’il
est de bonne heure_, dit le bossu, _car vous n’avez, encor qu’ une
fenêtre ouverte_.
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A certain Man said, That Wine had two bad Qualities: _First_, If
you mix Water with it, you spoil it. _Secondly_, If you mix none
with it, it will spoil your own self.
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Un certain homme disoit, que le vin avoit deux mauvaises qualitez:
la premiere, si l’on met de l’eau dans le Vin, vous le gâtez, la
seconde si vous n’y en mettez point, il vous gâte vous même.
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Two riding from _Shipton_ to _Burford_, and seeing a Miller riding
softly before them on his Sacks, resolv’d to abuse him; so one
went on one side of him, and t’other on the other side, saying,
_Miller, now tell us, which art thou, more Knave or Fool_? _Truly_,
says he, _I don’t know, which I am most, but I guess I am between
both_.
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Deux Hommes allant à cheval de _Shipton_ à _Burford_, & voyant un
Meunier, qui alloit tout doucement devant eux monté sur ses sacs,
ils resolurent de se moquer de lui, & pour cét effet l’un d’euxse
mít à un de ses côtez & l’autre de l’autre, _Lui demandant s’il
ètoit plut fripon que fou_? _Vrayment_, dit-il, _Je ne sai ce que
je suis le plus, mais je juge que je suis entre deux_.
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In _Flanders_ by accident, a _Flemish_ Tyler fell from the Top of
a House upon a _Spaniard_ and Kill’d him, though by good luck, he
escap’d unhurt himself; the next of the Blood, prosecuted his Death
with great Violence against the Tyler; and when he was offered
Pecuniary Recompence, nothing would serve him but _Lex Talionis_;
Whereupon the Judge said to him, that if he did urge that kind of
Sentence, it must be that he should go up to the Top of the same
House, and from thence to fall down upon the Tyler, and so to put
him to Death the same way he had kill’d his Kinsman.
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En _Flandres_ un Maçon _Flamand_ tomba par accident du Toit d’une
Maison sur un _Espagnol_, & le tua, quio qu’il eut le bonheur
d’echapper lui même sans se faire mal; le plus proche Parent fit
des poursuites vigoureules contre le Maçon au sujet de la mort
du Defunt, & quoy qu’il lui offrit une Recompense pecuniaire, il
insistôit toujours sur la loy du Talion. Sur quoy le juge lui dit
que s’il demandoit une telle sentence, il faloit qu’il montât sur
le Toit de la même Maison & que de là il se jettàt sur le Maçon, &
qu’ainsi il le fit mourir, de la mème maniere qu’il avoit tué son
Parent.
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