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By Benjamin Errett

Acquired wit?

We’ve all been in that scenario the place we have to say whatever smart, yet risk free; clever adequate to teach a few intelligence, with out exhibiting off; whatever humorous, yet no longer a shaggy dog story. What we want in that second is wit—that glowing blend of appeal, humor, self belief, and such a lot of all, the fitting phrases on the correct time.

Elements of Wit is a fascinating publication that brings jointly the best wits of our time, and former ones from Oscar Wilde to Nora Ephron, Winston Churchill to Christopher Hitchens, Mae West to Louis CK, and plenty of in between.

With chapters masking the basic constituents of wit, this primer sheds mild on how anyone—introverts, extroverts, wallflowers, and bon vivants—can locate the ideal zinger, quip, parry, or retort…or a minimum of be a bit of extra attention-grabbing.

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Into the room came ‘twelve wessells with maidens singing, with their wessells; and after came the chief wives singing with their wessells; and the gentlewoman had ordained a great table of banquet, desserts of spices and fruit, as marmalade, gingerbread, jelly, comfit, sugar plate and divers others’. 20 What is not clear is whether the whole entertainment was arranged by the household, or whether the wassail-bearers were going from house to house and were lucky enough to 50 receive a very generous welcome at this one.

In 1616 Ben Jonson could portray a typical mummer’s costume as being a pied suit and a mask. 64 The tradition was ‘put down’ in the Fylde district of Lancashire in 1648 as part of the local dimension of the ‘Puritan Revolution’, 65 but is repeatedly recorded in southern England during the Interregnum. A set of Christmas ‘mummers’ got into a dispute with an alehouse-keeper at the Wiltshire clothing town of Calne in 1655, 66 another solicited rewards at the manor house of North Aston, Oxfordshire, in 1657, and two more did the same at that of Weston Underwood, Buckinghamshire, in 1659.

Trumpets then sounded, and the presents arrived carried by servants, first from the queen and then from his leading subjects. In her own chamber 52 the queen received hers. The royal couple had arranged for gifts from each of them, usually in cash, to be sent out to the officers of the household and to the chief lay and clerical dignitaries of the realm. If the latter were at their own seats, the presents were carried thither by Yeomen of the Guard. Upon the same morning the fifth earl of Northumberland was awoken by minstrels playing before his door, followed by his own fanfare of trumpets.

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