The Booke of bulls, baited with two centuries of bold jests, and nimble-lies, or, A Combat betweene sence and non-sence, being at strife who shall infuse most myrth into the gentle-reader a treatise in variety of pleasure second to none ever yet printed in the English-tongue : wherein is contained nothing alreadie published / collected by A.S. Gent.

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To the Blinde Reader.

TO The discerning Reader.

TO The Bull-Reader.

THE BOOK OF Bulls.

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THE TWO LAST Centuries of Bulls, Iests and Lies.

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A lowd Lie.

Of a Fellow with a wide Mouth.

A Lie.

Of one who thought to get ano∣thers Sword by praising it.

A Lie.

Of a Puritan.

A Lie.

Of two chollerieke Gamesters.

A Lie.

Of the Kings Evill.

A Lie.

Of an old Man and a Boy.

A Lie.

Of a Gentlewoman who sung out of time, and tune.

A Lie.

Of a Thiefe.

A Lie.

Of a Fart.

A Lie.

Of a Three-penny-Ordinary.

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Of a Woman in Labour.

A Lie.

Of a Glutton.

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Of an Ape Carrier.

Of a Protestant, and a Papist.

Of two Gentlemen, and an Hostesse.

Of the Sunnes Eclipse.

Of a loving Wife.

Of a loving couple.

Of a Poet, and a Sculler.

Another of his touching a Pigge.

A Jinne of his to catch Fiddles.

Of a journy of his into the Countrey.

Of one whose Horse tired.

Of another whose Horse tired.

Of a Gentleman, and a Carman.

Of a Player, and a Bearward.

Of a Boy that saw a Dogge in a Wheele.

Of a ridiculous Fellow.

Of taking the Wall.

Of a House and a Sellar.

Of a witty Clearke.

Of a Spitter before a Justice.

Of a Tailor and a Horse.

Of Evill in Good.

Of a Jakesfarmer.

Of a Child, and a fat Man.

Of Bankes, and his Horse.

Of two men stunge with Gnats.

Of a Merry Fellow.

Of one who rswore being bound.

Of a Gentleman and a Pandar.

Of a Drunkards eyes.

Of a pend all in drinke.

Of one who lost his nose with the French Pox.

Of another nose lost with the same Pox.

Of Peters being at Rome.

Of the same Captaine Norris.

Of an Annuitie given to the same Captaine, by Sir Edward Norris.

Of a short Cloake.

Of no Lawyer is Heaven.

Of a fellow who gave his eldest Sonne to the Divell.

Of a foolish Constable.

Of a posie for a Ring.

Of one that called the Pope Antichrist.

Of a Woman and her Daughters▪ ugly alike.

Of Knights oth' Post.

Of a Formall Fellow.

Of a Traveller.

Of a witty Wench and her Lover.

Of laying ods.

Of a blind fellow playing upon a wheeled Cymball.

Of a long Nose.

Of a Gentleman, and a Shrieve of London.

Of a Silenc'd Minister, who spake in the nose.

Of a Puritans kneeeling to the Kings health.

Of a blind Man.

Of a Captaine and his Hostesse.

Of one demanding the way.

Of an Ʋsurer.

Of a Doctor of the Ciuill Law created at Orleans in FRANCE.

Of a mad-Man.

Of a fellow who had a shrew to his wife.

Of the builder of Bedlam.

Of a fellow three times im∣prisoned for naming his profession.

Of a Suter to a Widow.

A witty encounter betweene two.

Of a most significant word.

Of a Drunkard.

Of an ugly Man, and a beauti∣full Woman.

Of the same Mounsere.

Of a one ey'd Fellow.

Of a Musitian.

Of two Beggars.

Of Lice.

Of loosing Eares.

Of two Roarers.

Of an ugly Woman.

Of a Constable.

Of a Souldier.

Of a begging Souldier.

Of a short Memory.

Of a Foole.

Of a Fellow having two Wives.

Of a fellow in a Tempest.

Of a red-headed Host, and his more red-headed Guest.

Of a red-headed Chymney-Sweeper.

Of one in danger of arresting.

An Epitaph upon on who died of the French-Poxe.

Of two Sects of Philosophers, the Hennists, and Eggists.

Of taking the Wall.

Of Baboones.

Of a Glutton.

Of the Duke of Lerma.

Of a foolish Moun-siere.

Of the same Mounsiere.

Of the same Moun-siere.

Of the same Mounsiere.

Of a Poet.

Of Poets in generall.

Of Purgatory.

Of an Offering at a Wedding.

Of one who in a short time get a great estate by seaven Wives.

Of a Hare.

Of Sallets.

Of drinking with herbes.

Of drinking with an Orange peele.

Of a new Papist.

Of a Taylors Bill.

Of loosing eares.

Of a Souldier.

Of a Welshman.

Of one who fear'd arresting.

Of three Ʋniversities.

Of a Play.

Of Frigiditie.

Of sipwrack.

Of a young Seaman.

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Of a Disputation betweene a Protestant and a Papist.

Of Healths.

Of one in a storme.

Of a Sea Captaine, and an Ʋsurer.

Of two who went to see two playes.

Of houshold stuffe.

Of a Gentleman Arrested.

Of two Brothers.

Of a octour that dis∣puted by Signes.

Of two Drunkards.