England's jests refin'd and improv'd being a choice collection of the merriest jests, smartest repartees, wittiest sayings, and most notable bulls yet extant, with many new ones never before printed to which are added XIII ingenious characters drawn to the life / the whole work compil'd with great care and exactness, and may serve as the witty-man's companion, the busie-man's diversion and the melancholy man's physick and recreation, calculated for the innocent spending of the winter evenings by H.C.

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England's jests refin'd and improv'd being a choice collection of the merriest jests, smartest repartees, wittiest sayings, and most notable bulls yet extant, with many new ones never before printed to which are added XIII ingenious characters drawn to the life / the whole work compil'd with great care and exactness, and may serve as the witty-man's companion, the busie-man's diversion and the melancholy man's physick and recreation, calculated for the innocent spending of the winter evenings by H.C.
Author
Crouch, Humphrey, fl. 1635-1671.
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London :: Printed for John Harris ...,
1693.
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English wit and humor.
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"England's jests refin'd and improv'd being a choice collection of the merriest jests, smartest repartees, wittiest sayings, and most notable bulls yet extant, with many new ones never before printed to which are added XIII ingenious characters drawn to the life / the whole work compil'd with great care and exactness, and may serve as the witty-man's companion, the busie-man's diversion and the melancholy man's physick and recreation, calculated for the innocent spending of the winter evenings by H.C." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35190.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.

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141.

A Qaker having took a Lodging at the Kings-Arms Inn in Holbourne; the House being full, a damming Blade came up into the Room, and would have hectored him out, but the Qua∣ker told him 'twas his Room, and by Yea, and Nay, he should not come there.

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The Hector began to thunder out his Oahs, and to strike him; but the Quaker being a stout Fellow, return∣ed him his Blows with Intrest, and at last very fairly kicked him down stairs, upon which the Master of the House sent up the Tapster to know what was the Cause of this noise above, he told h•••• 'was nothing ut that Yea, and Nay had kickt God Damme down Stairs.

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