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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Subject terms: English wit and humor -- Early works to 1800.
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An Englishman and a Scotch-man were both in the Hold of a Ship together, in the last Engagement at Sea; and as they were in the heat of the Fight, says the English-man to him, Com let's go up, and partake with our Brethren in the Fight, and not stand here like Drones, and do nothing. Be God, says he, wi aw my heart: And as the English-man led the way, when he was half way up, a great Bullet came in, and cut him just in two in the middle. Udsbread, says the Scotch-man, What the deel dost gang up to fight, and leave thy Arse behind thee?