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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A Simpleton, having been married Se∣ven or Eight years, and had no Children, and one day a Kinsman of his coming to visit him, whispered to him (innocently) Cousen, Cousen, betwixt you and I my Wife's with Child; though, says he, I protest I had no hand in it: No, says he, I don't believe you had any hand in it: But being in a manner over-joy'd with the conceit on't, and (know∣ing it to be of his own begetting) said Cou∣sen, Cousen, but betwixt you and I, I shall have an Heir, and I hope you will be Godfa∣ther to it: No, says his Cousen, by no means, for if I should be God-father, all the Neigh∣bours will say you take Gods Name in vain there.