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 1, 2024.

Pages

265.

An Honest Man, that was a true Cava∣lier, was when he came from the Wars, so reduc'd, that he was forc'd to turn Ale-Draper, and his Sign was the Rose and Crown; and in 1649, the Rump forc't him to blot out the Crown, but left the Rose still, as they thought, to prick his Fingers; and when the King was restored, then he put on the Crown agen, and writ underneath, The Case is alter'd.

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