. . . "The merry miscellany or, humourous companion. Containing a most agreeable variety of drollery, (viz.) Remarkable Jests, Smart Repartees, Excellent Humbuggs, Pleasant Stories, Strange Adventures, Comical Quibbles, Irish Bulls, English Proverbs, &c. Collected from the most Sprightly Wit's of of the last and present Age; without any Mixture of Insipid Tales, Bare Jests, and Insignificant Stories; a great part of which Work never yet appear'd before" . . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . "The merry miscellany or, humourous companion. Containing a most agreeable variety of drollery, (viz.) Remarkable Jests, Smart Repartees, Excellent Humbuggs, Pleasant Stories, Strange Adventures, Comical Quibbles, Irish Bulls, English Proverbs, &c. Collected from the most Sprightly Wit's of of the last and present Age ; without any Mixture of Insipid Tales, Bare Jests, and Insignificant Stories ; a great part of which Work never yet appear'd before"@en . . . . "Early works"@en . "Early works" . . "1700 - 1799" . . . .