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 May 2, 2024.

Pages

272.

A Vaporing Coxcomb, introducing himself, as he did always, into all Com∣panies where pretty Ladies were, was tel∣ling the Ladies how such a one gave him a Ring, and t'other a Favour, and t'other a Kiss, and abundance more; which a Gen∣tleman that knew him very well, knew that he lied in all he said: and so whipt him in such terms that he did not under∣stand: For, says he, Ladies you must believe this Gentleman; for I have often been in his

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company, and among very pretty Ladies too, and they hove lov'd him so well, that they doat∣ed upon his very absence; and when many times be intruded himself among them, they would desire him to bestow his absence upon them. Law you there now Ladies, will you believe me ano∣ther time? says he.

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