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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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- 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.
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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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- 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 1, 2024.
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Page 153
Westminster, had a Shock Dog which came up into his Chamber where he was, where it seems a Cat had kitten'd; then the Cat flew upon the Dog, and the Dog at her a∣gen:
Let 'em alone, says another, I'll war∣rant you the Dog will stand a shock or two with the Cat: Faith, says he, if he does, I'll bake a shock of Wheat into excellent Bread for him: And then he'll be a well-bread Dog too.