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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33.

An Arch Wagg hearing a Woman cry Kitchin Stuff, ask't her what it was? she said, That which drops from Flesh. Well, says he, Call to morrow morning, and I'll help you to some: And having▪ got a Pot full of Sir-reverence, the Woman, as her Custom is, puts her hand into the Pot, and drawing it out, smelt the affront, and began to be angry; Nay, says he, don't be angry, for I helpt you to that

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which falls from the Flesh. 'Tis very true indeed, says she, and I find your Flesh is now very dry (she strok't his Face with her hand) and it wants a little greasing, and stands I think in need of basting too, and being a lusty Jade, did baste him well-favouredly.

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