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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A Countrey Man going along Lime∣strest, saw a Rope with a handle to it hand out of the Door; now he not knowing what was the meaning of it, went and played with it; and pulling it a little hard, the Merchant being in the Compting▪house, came out to the door, and asked the Countryman what he would have? He answered, nothing but he pull'd the string, and the Bell

rang: the Merchant seeing him so simple, asked him what Country-man he was? I am an Essex man, an't please you, says he: Ay, says the Merchant, I have heard that in Essex a man can't beat the hedg, but out comes a Calf? True, says he, and I see that in London a man can't ring a Bell, but out comes a Cuckold.