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
Crouch, Humphrey, fl. 1635-1671.
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A Great Sweater▪being subpoena'd to give his Oath upon a Trial▪ they brought him a Book to swear on: Faith, says he to the Clark, You may save your self that Labour, for there is no Oath but I can Swear it without Book.
