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
193.
Another reverend Drunkard having spent about Fifteen hundred Pounds a year in Drink, nay, was so much addicted to it that he counted all those his enemies that did perswade him against it; yet one took the boldness upon him as to upbraid him for such extravagency.
Puh, says he, what you thrust in at one Ear goes out at t'o∣ther. Nay, I'll tell you more than I am perswaded you know, for I also have spent above Ten thousand pounds in rea∣dy cash in Drink besides, and yet I have not drink enough Boys. For Drinking that, will make one fat, and brisk as Cat or Mouse, or Rat, and when I ha't—it
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makes me chat, like little Brat, that sits on the Mat.
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