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.

Pages

34.

An English-man and his wife which was with Child, Lodg'd at a French-mans house where they understood not one another: It chanc't that one Night the English-wo∣man call'd for a Midwife, and he came down in his shirt to his Landlords Cham∣ber to acquaint them with it: and 'twas a very cold Night, says she to her Husband, Let the English-man come to Bed, for he can't go to his own Bed, as his Wives Condition is; and you need not fear any thing seeing you are a Bed with me; which being granted, he lay down on the other side of the Woman; and the French-man being tired the day before, fell fast asleep: But a little after the moving of the Bed, awak'd her Husband, saying, What a Pox are you a doing? Why, what would you have me to dy, says she, if I should speak to him, it would be to no purpose, for you know he understands not a word of our Language.

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