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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Subject terms
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

300.

There's a Proverb which says, Two heads are better than one; which made a Boy it seems bid his Father, when he went to buy some Sheep, to take their Dog with him: For, says he, he that you are to deal withal is a crafty fellow; and though 'tis said that two heads are better than one, that is, I think he means Codsheads, when they are both scarce enough for the company; also if both the heads be without wit, 'twere better have none.

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