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.
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
264.
A Goldsmith it seems was formerly brought into the Star-Chamber for false Gold and Silver, for which they fin'd him 100 l. and about a Twelve Month after 100 l. more and a Year after that 100 l. more: then says he, My Lords, I see that you have fin'd me, and fin'd me agen, and refin'd me; but it seems you can't do so to my Metal, that nothing can melt me down in your sense. They told him if they could not melt him, they'd melt his purse so, that it should run quite out at last: But my Lords,
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says he, as the Cobler says, my Last is not come yet.
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