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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Another Rump Officer, which forsooth to be fine, must needs have a Muff; and be∣ing much put to't, to deliver a poor Priso∣ner also, was forc't to put into an Ale House, and bid him fill him a Pot of Ale, and he'd come presently: And when he came to the convenient place, and it being a lit∣tle duskish, and being in hast too, pretty worm; had forgot his Muff, which hung it seems behind him, and well he might be pardoned for it, for that was the first day that e're he wore a Muff; and making more than ordinary haste, it hapned that his new Muff lighted just underneath his Masters Name-sake, viz. the Rump, and he most valiantly discharg'd all into it; and so when he had done (though he did not

know what he had done) come out of the little House into the Yard, and as he was going into the House, thrust his pretty hand with his Gloves on into the Muff, which he quickly smelt and put him into such a fume, that he threw his Muff and Gloves in the Womans Face, and told her that was enough to pay for the pot of Ale, and so went away.