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Excerpt from Shakspeare's Jest BookCent Nouvelles Nouvelles or the Decameron of Boccaccio and those who are best acquainted with these twopopular works, will be most read y to admit that they are not sources from whence the sprightly Beatrice could have derived her sarcastic guips and lively repartees, as they con lsistpfincipally in amorous stories, many of them, in the latter, terminating tragically neither does it appear that either qf those works erieted suficiently early in an English dress. The entries in the Stationers books, and the passage in Laneham's Letter, most probably referred to these Tales and Quiche Answeres for it appears that their papular titles were The Hundred Merry Tales, and The Book of Merry Tales.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.