Shakespeare Jest-Books Part 17

IMPRINTED

_at London

in Fleete strete, by_

H. Wykes.

1567.

The Table.

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-- _Of hym that rode out of London, and had his seruaunt folowynge hym on foote._ i. 15

-- _Of hym that preached on saynte Christofers day._ ii. 16

-- _Of the frenche man that stroue with the Fanwaye for his armes._ iii. _ib._

-- _Of the curate that sayde our lorde fedde fyue hundred persones._ iiii. 17

-- _Of hym that profered his doughter to one in maryage._ v. 18

-- _Of the men of the countrey, that came to London to bye a crucifixe of wodde._ vi. _ib._

-- _Of hym that folowed his wyfe to buryeng._ vii. 19

-- _Of hym that felle in to the fyre._ viii. _ib._

-- _Of hym that used to calle his seruaunte the kynge of fooles._ ix. 20

-- _Of the yonge woman, that sorowed so greatly the deathe of her husbande._ x. 21

-- _Of hym that kyssed the fayre mayde with the longe nose._ xi. _ib._

-- _Of the uplandysshe mans answere concernyng the steple and pulpytte._ xii. 23

-- _Of the beggers aunswere to mayster Skelton the poete._ xiii. _ib._

-- _Of the chaplen that sayde our ladye mattens lyenge in his bedde._ xiiii. 24

-- _Of hym that loste his purse in London._ xv. 25

-- _Of the marchaunt that loste his boudget betwene ware and London._ xvi. 26

-- _Of him that was called k.o.c.kold._ xvii. 27

-- _Of the iolus man._ xviii. 28

-- _Of the fat woman that sat and solde frute._ xix. _ib._

-- _Of a poller that begyled a preste._ xx. 29

-- _Of Papirius pretextatus._ xxi. 31

-- _Of the corrupte man of lawe._ xxii. 33

-- _Of kynge Lowes of Fraunce and the husbandman Conon._ xxiii. 34

-- _Of a picke thanke, that thought to begyle the same moste prudent kynge._ xxiiii. 37

-- _Of Thales the great astronomer, the whiche felle in to a ditche._ xxv. 38

-- _Of the astronomer that theues robbed._ xxvi. 39

-- _Of the plough man that wolde saye his pater noster with a stedfast mynde._ xxvii. _ib._

-- _Of him that dreamed he founde golde._ xxviii. 40

-- _Of the crakynge yonge gentyll man that wolde ouerthrowe his enemys a myle of._ xxix. 42

-- _Of him that fell of a tre and brake a rybbe in his syde._ x.x.x. 44

-- _Of the fryer that brayed in his sermon._ 45

-- _The oration of th amba.s.sadour that was sent to Pope Urban._ x.x.xii. 46

-- _Of the amba.s.sadour that was sent to the prince Agis._ x.x.xiii. 47

-- _The answere of Cleomenes to the Samiens amba.s.sadour._ x.x.xiiii. _ib._

-- _Of the wyse man Piso, and his seruant._ x.x.xv. 48

-- _Of the marchant that made a wager with his lorde._ x.x.xvi. 49

-- _Of the scrowes that the frier gaue out against the pestilence._ x.x.xvii. 51

-- _Of the physition that used to wryte bylles ouer nyght called resceytes._ x.x.xviii. 52

-- _Of him that wolde confesse him by a lybell in wrytynge._ x.x.xix. 53

-- _Of the hermite of Padowe._ xl. 54

-- _Of the uplandissh man that saw the kyng._ xli. 56

-- _Of the courtier that bade the boye to holde his horse._ xlii. 57