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 13, 2024.

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235.

A great Spanish Commander, that had been in service against the Turks: when he came home, he told such a loud lie before the Council of Spain, that all lookt upon it as ridiculous, but impudent in him to tell it there; then the Council put him out, and call'd in one of the Captains, who did not only second what his Commander had said, but told a louder lie; for which he was re∣buk't by one of the Council, for telling such a notorious untruth: O my Lord, says he, you

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must pardon me, I do but my duty in follow∣ing my Commander. Then they told him he had out-done his Commander: The more is my honour and glory then; says he, and I hope the King will pay me well for it.

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