The Mad Pranks of Tom Tram, Son-in-law to Mother Winter / To Which Are Added His Merry Jests, Odd Conceits, and Pleasant Tales.

by active 1635-1671 Humphrey Crouch

TALE III.

Down in the west country a certain conceited fellow had a great nose; so a country-man by him with a sack of corn, jostled him, saying, your nose stands in my way; whereupon the other fellow with the great nose, took his nose in his hand, and held it to the other side, saying, A pox on thee, go and be hanged.