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One askt another of his Companions at a Coffee-house, What was the meaning of this Proverb, viz. The City for wealth and the Country for health? He told him it was
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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- 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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- Hickes, William, fl. 1671.
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- London :: printed for Hen. Rhodes, next door to the Swan-Tavern, near Bride-Lane in Fleet street,
- 1686.
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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 May 2, 2024.
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preposterous, for you know there's more Healths drank in the City than in all the Country agen. Why, says he, that makes for the Proverb, for if they drink away their healths they can never be well: but the truth is, that the wealth of the Country being brought into the City, is the occasion of so much drinking of Healths.