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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http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43690.0001.001
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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

305.

One passing by the Watch at Aldgate, says the Watch men, Who's there? Says he, Mine Ar— then they acquainted the Constable with it, for using such unseem∣ly Language: then says the Worshipful Mr. Constable. How dare you use such a word to them? O Mr. Constable, says he, are you there? Though I us'd it to them, I do con∣fess I dare not to you; for in truth Sir, now I have left mine Ar— behind me. Well, says the Constable, the next time you do so▪ I will make you leave your Sword be∣hind,

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and instead of casting up your sums with a pen, I shall make you do it in Coun∣ters.

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