This Booke of merriment
Will yield you sweet content,
And doe you no harme.
This new merry Booke was newly Invented,
But never before this time Imprinted.
Written by Laurence Price in the moneth of October. 1656.—London,
Printed for Tho. Vere[273] at the Angel without Newgate.
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[75.] Grenville, 11,163. The Wits, or Sport upon Sport. Being a curious Collection of several Drols and Farces, Presented and Shewn For the Merriment and Delight of Wise Men, and the Ignorant. As they have been sundry times Acted in Publique, and Private, In London at Bartholomew, In the Countrey at other Faires. In Halls and Taverns. On several Mountebancks Stages, at Charing Cross, Lincolns Inn Fields, and other places. By Several Stroleing Players, Fools, and Fidlers, and the Mountebancks Zainies with Loud Laughter, and great Applause. Written I know not when, by several Persons, I know not who, But now newly Collected by your Old Friend to please you. Francis Kirkman.[274] London, 1672.