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
Une Personne qui marchoit devant le Roy _Alphonse_ ayant poussé une
Branche d’Arbre, elle fit ressort, et frappa l’oeil du Roy, qui en
fut meurtri, et en devint fort enflé. Comme chacun lui temoignoit
avoir part à sa douleur: _Je n’ai point de Mal_, dit-il, _qui me
touche plus sensiblement, que la douleur et la crainte de celui qui
ma blessé_.
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A Man who had married an ugly Woman, upon account of her great
Fortune, having one Day surpriz’d her with a Spark, he told her,
_Since thou hast one that Kisses thee for nothing, What needest
thou get a Husband at the Expence of thy Fortune_.
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Un Homme qui avoit épousé une laide Femme, en consideration de son
grand Bien, l’ayant un jour surprise avec un Galand, il lui dit,
_Puis qu’on te baise gratis, qu’étoit il besoin de chercher un Mari
aux depens de ton Bien?_
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A Plough-man seeing the Archbishop of _Cologn_ go by attended with
a great many Soldiers, could not forbear laughing: The Archbishop
prest him to tell him the reason: ’Tis because I wonder, said
the Plough-man, to see an Arch-bishop arm’d, and follow’d not
by Church-men, but Soldiers, like a General of an Army. Friend,
answer’d the Archbishop, know that I am a Duke as well as an
Archbishop; In my Church I perform the Office of an Archbishop with
my Clergy, but in the Field I march like a Duke, accompanied with
my Soldiers: _I understand you my Lord_, reply’d the Peasant, _But
pray, tell me, when my Lord Duke goes to the Devil, what will then
become of my Lord Archbishop?_
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Un Laboureur voyant passer l’Archevêque de _Cologne_ accompagné
de plusieurs Soldats, ne pût s’empêcher de rire: L’Archevêque
le pressa de lui en dire le sujet; C’est, dit le Laboureur, que
je suis ètonnè de voir un Archevêque armé, et suivi, non pas
d’Ecclesiastiques, mais de Gens de Guerre, comme un Général
d’Armèe. Mon ami, lui rèpondit l’Archevêque, apprenez que je suis
Duc aussi bien qu’Archevêque. Dans mon Eglise je fais la fonction
d’Archevêque avec mon Clergé, mais dans la Campagne je marche en
Duc accompagné de mes Soldats. _J’entens bien, Mon Seigneur_, lui
repliqua le Païsan, _mais dites moy, je vous prie, quand Monsieur
le Duc ira à tous les Diables, que deviendra Monsieur l’Archévêque_.
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The Duke of _Milan_ being Besieg’d, and hard put to it in a Castle
by the _Florentines_, could find no manner of Meat that pleas’d his
Palate when he was at Table, and as he often quarrell’d with his
Cook about it, this cunning Servant after many other Excuses, told
him at last: _My Lord, will you give me leave to be plain with you?
The Meat is good and well drest, but, Faith, the_ Florentines _have
taken away your Stomach-_
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