The first and best part of Scoggins iests full of witty mirth and pelasant shifts, done by him in France, and other places: being a preseruatiue against melancholy. Gathered by Andrew Boord, Doctor of Physicke.
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- The first and best part of Scoggins iests full of witty mirth and pelasant shifts, done by him in France, and other places: being a preseruatiue against melancholy. Gathered by Andrew Boord, Doctor of Physicke.
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- London :: Printed [by Miles Flesher] for Francis Williams,
- 1626.
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- English wit and humor -- Early works to 1800.
- English wit and humor -- Early works to 1800.
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"The first and best part of Scoggins iests full of witty mirth and pelasant shifts, done by him in France, and other places: being a preseruatiue against melancholy. Gathered by Andrew Boord, Doctor of Physicke." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68702.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- The Prologue.
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A Table of the merry Iests and witty shifts of
Scogin. -
What shift
Scogin and his Chamber-fellow made to fare well in Lent. -
What shift
Scogin and his fellow made, when they lacked money. -
How
Scogin deceiued the Skinner. - How Iacke by playing of the Whiting, got his dinner.
- How Iacke made his Master pay a penny for the herring bones.
- How Iack by sophistry would make of two egges three.
- How a Husband-man put his sonne to Schoole with Scogin.
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How
Scogin and his scholler went to seek his horse - How Scogins scholler tooke orders.
- How the scholler said, Tom Miller of Osney, was Iacobs Father.
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How
Scogins scholler was made Priest. - What talke this wise Priest and his Father had as they rode home.
- How the Priest excused himselfe, because he did not preach?
- How the Priest fell asleepe as he was at Masse.
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How the Priest said,
Requiem aeternam on Easter day. -
How the Priest said,
Deus qui viginti filij tui, when he should haue said,Deus qui vnigeniti. - How the Priest was complained on for keeping a yong wench in his house.
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How the Parson said,
Anupsimus quaesimus do∣mine. -
How
Scogin told the hunter he had found a Hare. -
How
Scogin told his fellowes he knew where was a Pickerell. -
How
Scogin sold powder to kill fleas? - How Scogin drew out an old womans tooth.
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How
Scogin gaue one a medicine to make him go to it. - How Scogin gaue one a medicine to make him find his horse.
- Scogin was robbed as he went to London.
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Scogin told his wife he had parbraked a Crow. -
How
Scogin caused his wife to be let blood. -
How
Scogin and his wife made an Heire. -
How
Scogin got the Abbots horse. -
How
Scogin brought a dogs turd made in powder to the Apothecaries, to know what powder it was. - How Scogin did draw a tooth-drawers tooth.
- How Scogin serued the poore folkes that came to his house to aske almes.
- How Scogin came to the Court like a foole, and wonne twenty pounds with standing vnder a spout in the raine.
- How Scogin leapt ouer the Tables when dinner was done.
- How Scogin gaue one a Goose legge, that was gi∣uen him, and afterward told him he had eaten an hundred lice.
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How
Scogin swept a Lords Chamber. -
How
Scogin told those that mocked him, that hehad a wall eye. - How Scogin drew his sonne vp and downe the Court.
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How
Scogin greased a fat sow on the arse. -
How the King gaue
Scogin a house to doe what he would with it. - How Scogin played horse play in the Q. chamber.
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How
Scogin let a fart, and sayd it was worth forty pounds. -
How
Scogin asked of the King fiue hundred okes. -
How
Scogin would haue made a shepheard aske him blessing. -
How
Scogin gaue a Cowheard forty shillings to teach him his cunning in the weather. -
How a man told
Scogin, that he thought the buil∣ding of Paules cost forty shillings. - Of him that thought Paules steeple had beene so high, that one might looke ouer it.
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How
Scogin desired the King that hee might say,Aue Maria gratia plena, Dominus tecum, in his eare at certaine times. -
How
Scogin chalked out his wife the way to Church. -
How
Scogin desired of the Queene to know whe∣ther riches would not tempt men, and especial∣ly women. -
How
Scogin when he should haue beene beaten a∣mongst the Ladies and Gentlemomen, bad the strongest whore of them all giue the first stroke. -
How
Scogins wife came to the Queene, and howScogin was banished the Court. -
How
Scogin in the French Kings Court, came to a Gentlewomans doore, and whined like a dog. -
How
Scogin told the French men he would flye into England. -
How
Scogin prayed to a Roode for an hundred French Crownes. -
How
Scogin was new christened, and confirmed a knaue by the French Bishop. -
How
Scogin deceiued a Doctor of Physicke. -
How
Scogin and three or foure more deceiued Tapster. - How Scogin deceiued the Poulters wife.
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How
Scogin deceiued the Draper. - How Scogin told a shoe-maker hee was not at home.
- How the aforesaid shoo-maker gaue Scogin forty shillings to haue his house made greater.
- How the shomaker would haue made his house greater, and brake downe the one side of it.
- How Scogin told the French King that hee could not doe two things at once.
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How the French King had
Scogin into his house of office, and shewed him the King of Englands picture. - How Scogin put French earth into his shooes, and came into England.
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How
Scogin came to Cambridge, and how hee deceiued the poore folkes. -
How
Scogin rode to New-castle with MasterEue∣rid, and what talke hee had with a fellow that kept Oxen. -
What shift
Scogin made for bootes, and how hee deceiued two shoo-makers. -
How
Scogin ouertooke a Priest and kept compa∣ny with him, and how he and the Priest prayed for money. -
How
Scogin came to the Court like a monstrous beast, and should haue been hanged. -
How
Scogin asked the King and Queene forgiue∣nesse. -
How
Scogin told the Queene what a great studhe was in. -
How diuers Gentlemen of the Court came to
Sco∣gins house to make merry. -
How
Scogin fell sicke of a perillous cough. -
How
Scogin was shriuen and hosted. - How Scogin desired that hee might bee buried at the East side of Westminster.
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What
Scogin said when the holy Candle was puin his hand.