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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79.

A reverend old Woman that had lived 70 odd, or thereabouts, and being something unsatisfied in her Religion, went to the Minister of the Town, who was a Presby∣ter, and having askt her many Questions, at last askt her how many Commandments there were? Truly Sir, says she, an't please your worship, I don't know: for I never minded any of 'em all. Then he called down his Maid Ann, and bid her name them all to her, and she named nine of them: What, says he, is there but nine? No, Sir

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says she, for you and I broke one last night. Nay, says the old woman, if they be so easie to be broke, I am glad I had nothing at all to to do with them.

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