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A Gentleman and a peevish Parson were riding together (in an extream rainy
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.
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- Hickes, William, fl. 1671.
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day) in the Forrest of Sherwood in Notting∣ham-shire; so that there was no House within four or five miles of the place, that they were soundly soust with the Rain; which made the Parson fret and vex ex∣treamly: Come chear up, says the Gentle∣man to him, for if it does not hold vp quickly we'll e'ne do as they do in Spain. Well, says the Parson, what's that? Why says t'o∣ther, e'ne let it rain on: which put the Parson in a greater chase than before. And as they gallopt along by a poor Begger∣man's Hutt, which was in the middle of the Forrest, and just in the High-way, and being almost a quarter of a mile gallopt beyond it, the Old Man hearing some Hor∣ses gallop by, come out and crys, D'ye hear, d'ye hear, d'ye hear Gentlemen, which made them think, that he would tell them something to avoid Robbing, and so pre∣sently gallopt back again to the Hutt. Then says the begger to them, Pray Gentlemen bestow a penny upon a poor Old Man: which put the Parson into such a Fury, that he would have beat the Begger, and had so done but for the Gentleman; who was so pleased with the Humour of the Old Man, and the Conceit also, and to see the Parson in such a Fume; that he threw him six-pence: So they both rode a∣way
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for Tuxford as fast as they could; and when they came there, they had never a wet Thred dry about them: Probatum est.