Shakespeare Jest-Books. Various

       ¶ Of an other frier that taxed Erasmus for writyng Germana theologia. cxxv.

       ¶ Of an other that inueighed agaynst the same Erasmus. cxxvi.

       ¶ Of kyng Richarde the iii, and the Northern man. [315] cxxvii.

       ¶ Of the Canon and his man. cxxviii

       ¶ Of the same Canon and his sayd man. cxxix.

       ¶ Of the gentilman that checked hys seruant for talke of ryngyng. cxxx.

       ¶ Of the blynde man and his boye. cxxxi.

       ¶ Of him that sold two lodes of hey. cxxxii.

       ¶ How a mery man deuised to cal people to a playe. cxxxiii.

       ¶ How the image of the dyuell was lost and sought. cxxxiiii.

       ¶ Of Tachas, kyng of Aegypt, and Agesilaus. cxxxv.

       ¶ Of Corar the Rhetorician, and Tisias hys scoler. cxxxvi.

       ¶ Of Augustus and Athenodorus the Phylosopher. cxxxvii.

       ¶ Of the frenche kyng and the brome seller. [339] cxxxviii.

       ¶ An other tale of the same frenche kyng. [340] cxxxix.

       ¶ What an Italyan fryer dyd in his preachyng. cxl.

       ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

       MERY TALES AND QUICK ANSWERES.

VOL. I.

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Shakespeare Jest-Books;

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      REPRINTS OF THE EARLY

       AND VERY RARE JEST-BOOKS SUPPOSED TO

       HAVE BEEN USED BY SHAKESPEARE.

      A Hundred Mery Talys,

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      FROM THE ONLY KNOWN COPY.

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Mery Tales and Quicke Answeres,

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      FROM THE RARE EDITION OF 1567.

      Edited, with Introduction and Notes.

      BY

      W. CAREW HAZLITT,

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      OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

      ——That I was disdainful—and that I had my good wit out of the Hundred Merry Tales. Beatrice, in Much Ado about Nothing.

       LONDON: WILLIS & SOTHERAN, 136, STRAND.

      MDCCCLXIV.

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¶ Of him that said there were but two commandementes. i.	11
¶ Of the wyfe who lay with her prentys and caused him to beate her husbande disguised in her rayment. ii	12
¶ Of John Adroyns in the dyuyls apparell. iii.	14
¶ Of the Ryche man and his two sonnes. iv.	18
¶ Of the Cockolde who gained a Ring by his iudgment. v.	19
¶ Of the scoler that gave his shoes to cloute. vi.	20
¶ Of him that said that a womans tongue was lightest of digestion. vii.	ib.
¶ Of the Woman that followed her fourth husbands bere and wept. viii.	21