Coffee-house jests. Refined and enlarged. By the author of the Oxford jests. The fourth edition, with large additions. This may be re-printed, Feb. 25. 1685. R.P.

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Title
Coffee-house jests. Refined and enlarged. By the author of the Oxford jests. The fourth edition, with large additions. This may be re-printed, Feb. 25. 1685. R.P.
Author
Hickes, William, fl. 1671.
Publication
London :: printed for Hen. Rhodes, next door to the Swan-Tavern, near Bride-Lane in Fleet street,
1686.
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English wit and humor -- Early works to 1800.
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"Coffee-house jests. Refined and enlarged. By the author of the Oxford jests. The fourth edition, with large additions. This may be re-printed, Feb. 25. 1685. R.P." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43690.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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114.

Though age and youth can never agree yet once I knew two young and two old folks agree like Lambs together for divers years: and thus it was, An old Woman lov'd a young Man and married him; and likewise an old Man loved a young Woman and he maried her and they were both coup∣led

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made of his Estate now his Father was dead? He told him that he made more in one year than his Father did in twenty, for he made but Five hundred pound a year of it, but I made Ten thousand pound of it in one years time: O, says he, then I find that you were so good a Husband, that you sold it a year after your Fathers death; and I question now whether you will make any thing of it at all before the twenty years be at an end.

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