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 13, 2024.
Pages
284.
Another remarkable Drunkard, that al∣ways when he went abroad; would have hanging by his side a great short Hanger in a Leather Belt; and one time having been at it till he was red hot with tippling; he and his Companions paid the Reckon∣ing, and having laid by his Dagger, when he was going away, instead of the Dag∣ger put the end of his Leather Belt into the ear of a Chamber-pot, half full of Piss, and so fastened it to his side, and so marcht out into the Streets, and every step some Piss would slop out; which set the Peaple in the Street into a laughter, and came flocking about him: and he thinking that
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they came to abuse him, went to reach his Dagger, but instead of that laid hold of the Chamber-pot and threw all the Piss in the Peoples Faces; and so by that found his Error, and then went back for his Dag∣ger.
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