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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61.

A cleanly woman in Cambridge-shire, had made good store of Butter, and whilst she went a little way out into the Town, about some earnast occasions, a neighbour's Dog came in, in the mean time, and eat up half the Butter: Being come home, her maid told her what the Dog had done, and that she had lockt him up in the Dairy-House: So she took the dog, and hang'd him up by the heels, till she had squeez'd all the Butter out

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of his Throat again; which she pretty cleanly Soul, took, and put to the rest of the Butter, and made it up for Cambridge Market; but her Maid told her, she was asham'd to see such a nasty Trick done: Hold your peace, you Fool, says she, 'tis good enough for Schollards; away to Market with it.

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