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 Constable carrying a big belly'd wench before a Justice, said to him; An't please your Worship I have brought you a Maid-with Child: whereupon the wench called him Fool and Knave; being reprov'd by the Justice, she answer'd thus: Sir, this Constable must be one of them; for if I am a M•id, he is a Fool to think I can be with Child: and if I am not with Child, he is a Knave f•r saying so.
