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 Gentleman of Grays-Inn last Win∣ter desir'd another of the same Inn to lend him Bakers Chronicle for an hour or two: He sent him word▪ That he could not spare it out of his Chamber, but if he pleased to come thither, he might use it all day there. Not long after, the other Gentleman desir'd him to lend him his Bellows: he sent him word, He could not spare them out of his Chamber, but if he pleased to come thither he might use them all day long there.
