Shakespeare Jest-Books. Various

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      Shakespeare Jest-Books

      Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664581631

Table of Contents

       VOL. I.

       Shakespeare Jest-Books;

       A Hundred Mery Talys,

       II.

       Mery Tales and Quicke Answeres,

       W. CAREW HAZLITT,

       ¶ A C. mery Talys.

       The Table.

       INTRODUCTION.

       A C. MERY TALYS.

       ¶ Of hym that said there were but two commandementes. i.

       ¶ Of the wyfe who lay with her prentys and caused him to beate her husbande disguised in her rayment. ii.

       ¶ Of John Adroyns in the dyuyls apparell. iii.

       ¶ Of the ryche man and his two sonnes. iv.

       ¶ Of the cockolde who gained a ring by his iudgment. v.

       ¶ Of the scoler that gave his shoes to cloute. vi.

       ¶ Of hym that said that a womans tongue was lightest of digestion. vii.

       ¶ Of the woman that followed her fourth husbands bere and wept. viii.

       ¶ Of the woman that sayd her woer came too late. ix.

       ¶ Of the mylner with the golden thombe. [17] x.

       ¶ Of the horseman of Irelande that prayde Oconer for to hange up the frere. xi.

       ¶ Of the preest that sayd nother corpus meus nor corpus meum. xii.

       ¶ Of two freres whereof the one loued nat the ele heed nor the other the tayle. xiii.

       ¶ Of the welche man that shroue hym for brekynge of hys faste on the fryday. xiv.

       ¶ Of the merchaunte of London that dyd put nobles in his mouthe in hys dethe bedde. xv.

       ¶ Of the mylner that stale the nuttes of the tayler that stale a shepe. xvi.

       ¶ Of the foure elementes where they shoulde sone be founde. xvii.

       ¶ Of the woman that poured the potage in the iudges male. xviii.

       ¶ Of the wedded men that came to heuen to clayme theyr herytage. xix.

       ¶ Of the merchaunte that charged his sonne to fynde one to synge for hys soule. xx.

       ¶ Of the mayde wasshynge clothes that answered the frere. xxi.

       ¶ Of the thre wyse men of Gotam. xxii.

       ¶ Of the graye frere that answered his penytente. xxiii.

       ¶ Of the gentylman that bare the sege borde on hys necke. xxiv.

       ¶ Of the merchantes wyfe that sayd she wolde take a nap at sermon. xxv.

       ¶ Of the woman that said and she lyued another yere she wolde haue a cockoldes hatte of her owne. xxvi.

       ¶ Of the gentylman that wysshed his tothe in the gentylwomans tayle. xxvii.

       ¶ Of the Welcheman that confessyd hym howe he had slayne a frere. xxviii.

       ¶ Of the Welcheman that coude nat gette but a lytell male. xxix.

       ¶ Of the gentyll woman that sayde to a gentyll man: ye haue a berde aboue and none benethe. xxx.

       ¶ Of the frere that sayde our Lorde fed fyue M. people with iii. fysshys. xxxi.

       ¶ Of the frankelyn that wold haue had the frere gone. xxxii.

       ¶ Of the prest that sayd Our Lady was not so curyous a woman. xxxiii.

       ¶ Of the good man that sayde to his wyfe he had euyll fare. xxxiv.

       ¶ Of the frere that had hys chylde make a laten xxxv.