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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Title: 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.
Publication: London :: Printed for John Harris ...,; 1693.
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Subject terms: English wit and humor.
Cite this Item: "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 May 23, 2024.

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A Welsh-man that was condemn'd to be Hang'd, just before he was to be turn'd off, the Hang-man ask'd him if he had any thing to say; he answer'd he had a desire to speak with some of his Countrey-Men, before he died (if there were any there) so the Hang∣man call'd to know if there were any there he should hold up his Hand. It so happened that there was one there, so the Hang-man told him that the poor Man wou'd speak with him; so he drew near, and the Welsh-man ask'd him if he knew such and such in Wales, he replied he did; Then, says the Welsh-man, You know my Father and Mother, who I am certain will be very sorry to hear of my Misfortune; but pray, to comfort them, tell them that I dye a ••e∣ry good Christian, and am informed that I shall go to Heaven, and I hope they will follow me thither the same way.