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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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.
Pages
143.
A Gentleman being at Dinner with some others with powdered Beef and Mustard, he having too much mustard at one time on his Meat, made him shed tears in a plenti∣ful manner; then an old Gentlewoman ask't him, Why he cried so? He told her because his Grandfather died that day one and twenty years, and about that time a day. After Dinner, and the Gentleman gone, says the Gentlewomans Maid to her Mistress, that then waited at the Table, who was newly come out of the Coun∣trey; Truly forsooth Mistriss, says she, me∣thinks that Gentleman that dined here, is a very good condition'd man, as to be concerned
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so much for the death of his Grandmother, that died so many years ago. Probatum est.
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