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An Ignorant Countrey-man coming to Town, went to Covent-Garden, to a Gentleman to whom he was direct∣ed;
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.
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- Crouch, Humphrey, fl. 1635-1671.
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- 1693.
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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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who out of civility to the Coun∣trey man, shew'd him what was re∣markable thereabouts, as the Piazza's, and several Persons of Quaities stately Houses: At length he came to the Church, and the Countrey-man point∣ing to it, asked the Gentleman whose House that was? He told him it was the Lord of Hosts: The Countrey-man having never heard of such a Lord before, reply'd, It was some Scotch Lord, he'd warrant him.