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 6, 2024.

Pages

253.

A Gentleman travelling into Norfolk by chance lost his way; and coming into a Village, and seeing a man standing at his door, askt him which was the next way to Norwich? The man (as many would do) askt him from whence he came? What's that to you, says he, from whence I come? You say true indeed, says the man, 'tis nothing to me, whence you come nor whither you go: and with that whipt in and shut the door upon the Gentleman, who else would have

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whipt his Jacket for him. So he did ad∣vise all his friends, if ever they travell'd in∣to Norfolk, never to call at that mans house, which he poor heart thought a great pu∣nishment for him.

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