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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.
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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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ask'd him, What News there was in London? Faith, says he, all the news that I heard, was, That there was a great Press out for Cuckolds. Are you sure on't, says she? Sure on't, says he, I'm certain of it. Then I am resolved, says she, my dear Hus∣band shall not stir out till the Press is over; I'll allow him to press me; but he shan't be press'd himself; which shew'd her to be an honest, and truly loving Wife.