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Old English Jest-Book.

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VOL. I.

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Shakespeare Jest-Books;

REPRINTS OF THE EARLY
AND VERY RARE JEST-BOOKS SUPPOSED TO
HAVE BEEN USED BY SHAKESPEARE.

A Hundred Mery Talys,

FROM THE ONLY KNOWN COPY.

II.

Mery Tales and Quicke Answeres,

FROM THE RARE EDITION OF 1567.

Edited, with Introduction and Notes.

BY

W. CAREW HAZLITT,

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.

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¶ A C. mery
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The Table.

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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. ii12
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
Of the Woman that sayd her woer came to late. ix.22
Of the Mylner with the golden thombe. x.23
Of the horseman of Irelande that prayde Oconer for to hange up the frere. xi.ib.
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