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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A Welsh-man met another going up a Mountain with a large Pompion in his hand: he askt him what it was? He told him it 'twas a Mare's Egg, and would have a Colt; then he gave him a Groat for it, and carried it up the Hill; and when he was come to the Top, by chance he let the Pompion fall, which tumbled apace down the Hill, till it came to a Bush where it stopt; and by its beating the Bush, forc'd out a Hare from thence, which the Welsh-man seeing, thought 'twas a Colt; and cried as it ran, Stop her Colt, stop her Colt:

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yet for all that there went the Hare away, which made the poor Welsh-man for Grief to turn bald, in regard he had lost his Hare.

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