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

72.

A Gallant wooing his Mistress in Mar∣riage, she told him she'd have none of him if he did not leave off taking Tobacco, and he was Bound to under Hand and Seal, that he should never take any again; and on the Wedding Night he lay still and stirr'd not; she askt him the reason of it, he told her that she had bound him from Tobacco, which did usually make him active in all things, and without that was always like a Stone Statue. Then she immediately knockt for the Maid and bid her bring in

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the Bond, and withal some good Tobacco, and the Bond flung in the Fire; and after he had taken a Pipe then he gave her a kiss; then she call'd the Wench again saying, Hussey, I charge you to bring in a dozen more, and that with all speed; which being done, she left them to their repose.

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