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 hiring some Labour∣ers to pull down his old Wall, that he might build a new one; as they Page 124 were doing it, cry'd out to them to have a care, least the Foundation should tumble on their Heads.
