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

Author: Unknown

Editor: W. Carew Hazlitt

Release Date: August 27, 2009 [EBook #29821]

Language: English

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Old English Jest-Book.

VOL. I.

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.

MDCCCLXIV.

+ A C. mery

Talys.

The Table.

PAGE

+ _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 f