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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A very honest and prudent Gentleman had the ill fortune to marry a Wife a grain too light; one day returning home, he went up the stairs, and found his Cham∣ber door open, entring, he caught his Wife and the Adulterer (who were so in∣tent upon their sport that they minded nothing else) in the very act; the Gen∣tleman seemingly unmoved, said, Wife, Wife, Wife, Indeed you don't do well to ex∣pose your own and my reputation thus to the hazard of being lost by carelessness: Sure in a business, that so nearly concerns us both, you might have shut the door: I pray consider what if any one else had come and caught you in this posture; and so went and left them the midness of this reproof so effectually wrought upon this Woman, that she ever after abhorred the thought of enjoy∣ing any other Man but her Hus∣band.