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An ingenious young Man that was sent to a Boarding-School to learn Latine and to Write, and after he had been there
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.
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- 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.
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more than two years, his Father sent him a Letter that he should write to him, that he might see how he had profited both in his Learning and his Writing; and so ve∣ry Scholastically directs his Letter to his Father thus, To my most Obedient Father, which is my Mothers Husband, at the House where they live: Says a Man to him, They won't find the House by this direction: Puh; says he, no body but knows my Fathers House, for if I were in the Town I could find it my self and yet I have not been there this two years. And at the end he subscribed thus, I cease ever to be your Dutiful Son: and so forth.