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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Some Gentlemen that were riding a hunting in a gloomy day, and coming to a Shepherd that sate there under a Bush, they askt him what weather it would be to day? he said, That weather which pleaseth me. They askt him what he meant by that? Truly, says he, it shall be what weather it pleaseth God, and what wea∣ther pleaseth God that weather pleaseth me.