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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50811	Delight and pastime, or, Pleasant diversion for both sexes consisting of good history and morality, witty jests, smart repartees, and pleasant fancies, free from obscene and prophane expressions, too frequent in other works of this kind, whereby the age is corrupted in a great measure, and youth inflamed to loose and wanton thoughts : this collection may serve to frame their minds to such flashes of wit as may be agreeable to civil and genteel conversation / by G.M.	Miege, Guy, 1644-1718?	1697 (1697)	Wing M2008; ESTC R42126	47,689	172

stood up and offered him 5000 Crowns which she praid him to accept to supply his Occasions The Cardinal amazed at so great Civility expressed his Sense of it in a most decent manner And turning about to his Hatter It grieves me says he that I must leave this good Man unpaid to whom I owe a considerable Sum. 'T is true answered the Hatter that I am put to great Straits but that your Eminence may see I will not come short of any of your Creditors in point of Civility and Respect to your Person here are three Hats more which I beg your Eminence to accept of and carry with you to Rome This excessive Kindness from an ordinary Tradesman as it surprised all the Company so it drew Tears from the Cardinal with Thanks to Providence for the good Will of all of them towards him And after his Death his Brother did so punctually answer the Cardinal 's just Meaning that none of his Creditors lost any Thing by him II. A Gentleman who was great with the foresaid Cardinal went every where with him except to Church Which gave occasion to his Eminence to tell him he was his Friend usque ad Aras III. An Author having dedicated a Latine Book to Cardinal Richelieu and sent him a Copy of it the Cardinal answered his Civility in these three Words only Accepi Legi Probavi that is I have perused the Book you sent me and do Approve of it IV. Varillas speaking to one of Cardinal Baronius Ah! poor Baronius says he with his Twelve great Volumes it was God's great Mercy that he did write no more V. Cardinal Mazarine being told the Peace he had made was not advantagious to the People made this Return 'T is a young Tree says he that bears no Fruit as yet dabit Fructum suum in tempore VI. Instead of saying that a certain Bishop was made Cardinal the usual saying was that he was got into the College of Cardinals it being the first College he hapned to be a Member of VII A Bishop at Rome came to acquaint Cardinal Pole that he was going to his Diocess for a Month. I am glad on 't said the Cardinal for your sake you will suffer so much the less in Purgatory BISHOPS I. A Bishop being gone to Rome to make his Court in order to be made a Cardinal the Pope told him one Day that he was informed of his being a Bastard To which he made this Answer V. S. a fatto tanti altri Cardinali Asini che potrebbe far un Mulo That is to say Your Holiness has made so many Asses Cardinals that you may as well raise a Mule to that Dignity II. Another being gone to Rome for the same Purpose came home re infectâ and brought a great Cold with him Which one attributed to his Coming home without a Cardinal's Cap. III. A French Bishop being consecrated in the Sorbonne in the presence of a great many Bishops making a Semicircle in the Dome a Lady ravished with the sight of them in such Order said that she thought her self in Paradise In Paradise reply'd a Gentleman who stood by her there are not so many Bishops of our Church to be seen IV. A Gascoon bearing a Grudge against the Bishop of Bazas his Diocesan swore a great Oath he would never say Prayers any more in his Diocess Crossing over a River the Boat had a Mischance which made it leak The Waterman seeing his Boat sinking warned the Gascoon to commend his Soul to God Ay but said he are we still in the Bazadois meaning the foresaid Bishop's Diocess V. Upon ones saying that a certain Bishop had the Gout another that stood by alledged the Canon that says Si quis dixerit Episcopum podagrâ laborare Anathema sit VI. The Bishop of Grace in France having preached a Sermon upon Grace I have heard said the Bishop of Bellay one of his Hearers a Sermon upon Grace delivered with a good grace by the Bishop of Grace VII Some Country Bishops being with the Arch-Bishop of Paris told him they were amazed at one Thing in his Conduct that he never had any Difference with his Chapter 'T is my Opinion answered the Arch-Bishop that none but Country-Husbands will fall a cudgelling their Wives VIII The same Arch-Bishop being made Duke and Peer of France Now said one it cannot be said that Paris is Peerless IX A Bishop being often out when he preached and a Lady hapning to see his Picture somewhere One would think says she that he preaches X. A Bishop of Grenoble in Dauphiné who used to wear a long Beard had something faln upon it as he was eating Which a Servant of his taking notice of told him something did stick to his Greatnesses Beard Why not rather said one that sat by Vpon the Greatness of your Beard XI Another French Bishop of great Worth but a professed Enemy to Monks had some Difference with a great Cardinal who then governed the Kingdom of France This Cardinal however had him in so great esteem that he resolved to draw him into his Party in order to which he offered him an Abbey Which the Bishop refused saying that his Conscience would not allow of Plurality of Livings The Cardinal amazed at so unusual a Nicety of Conscience amongst Clergymen made him this Return My Lord says he you are a good Man and I would Canonize you for a Saint if you had not writ as you have against the Monks Would to God reply'd the Bishop that it were in your Power and that I deserved it then we should be both satisfy'd Thus he ingeniously checkt the Cardinal's Ambition by telling him that if he Canonized him they should be both satisfy'd For then the Cardinal must be Pope and he a Saint which was the Thing they aimed at XII A Bishop intertaining several Prelates at Dinner made a great shew of his wonderful Quantity of Gold and Silver Plate made by the best Workmen that could be got The Magnificence whereof being admired by the Company This I purchased said the Bishop in order to assist the Poor of my Diocess To which one of the Company answered ingeniously My Lord you might have spared them the Charge of the Making XIII A Bishop in the Reign of Henry VIII being appointed by the King to go to King Francis I with the Character of Embassador in a dangerous Juncture he represented to the King that such a threatning Embassy as he charged him with to so high-spirited a Prince as Francis I would go near to cost him his Life and therefore begg'd of the King he would be pleased to dispense him with that Commission Fear nothing said the King to him if the French King were so bold as to take away your Life I should infallibly revenge your Death by taking off many Heads for one from the French now in my Power I am apt to believe it reply'd the Bishop smiling but of all those many Heads there is none so fit