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A Countrey Gentleman being at Dinner in London, with several Gen∣tlemen of his acquaintance, one of them whose Name was Chambers, thinking to
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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put a Joque upon him, asked him why he wou••d not live in London in the Win∣ter, where he might find all sorts of Company to fit his Humour, I would Sir, says he, if I could find a House fit for my turn. Says Chambers, I can help you to one that has three Rooms of a Floor, but 'tis built of Wood. Where is it, says the Gentleman? Says he, at Tyburn; 'Tis true indeed, says the Gen∣tleman, 'tis a convenient House, and stands in a good Air; for it will quickly Cure a Man of all Diseases, and for a House that is but one Storyhigh, 'tis a very good one, and wants nothing in it but Chambers.