Poor Robin's jests: or, The compleat jester Being a collection of several jests not heretofore published. Now newly composed and written by that well-known gentleman, Poor Robin, knight of the burnt island, and well-willer to the mathematicks. Together with the true and lively effigies of the said author. Licensed Feb. 2. 1666. Roger L'Estrange.

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Title: Poor Robin's jests: or, The compleat jester Being a collection of several jests not heretofore published. Now newly composed and written by that well-known gentleman, Poor Robin, knight of the burnt island, and well-willer to the mathematicks. Together with the true and lively effigies of the said author. Licensed Feb. 2. 1666. Roger L'Estrange.
Author: Poor Robin.
Publication: London :: printed for Francis Kirkman and Richard Head,; [1667]
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Subject terms: Wit and humor -- Early works to 1800.
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The Country-man and Doctor.

ANother Country-man suspecting that •• young Shepherd was over-familia•• with his Daughter, he went to a Doctor who was famed for a great Sooth-sayer i•• that Country, and presented him with •• couple of Capons, desiring to be resolved 〈◊〉〈◊〉 his foresaid jealousie. The Doctor having received the present, took a great Book, an•• turning over divers leaves, made a rumbling to himself as though he conjur'd: at la••••, taking his spectacles off his Noise, he asked the Country-man both their ages, who told him that his Daughter was fifteen years of age, and the Shepherd two and twenty: Nay, then (said the Doctor) if they be of that age, byrlady friend, it may very well be so indeed.