The poor Man and hasty Cook.
A Poor man in the City of Paris, went to a Cooks shop to have had some meat;
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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- 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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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66707.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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but the Cook was so busied about serving higher Guests, that in the mean time the mans stomack was satisfied with onely the smell of the meat, and so would have gone away: but the covetous Cook would be paid for his dinner; which the man re∣fusing, at last it was agreed to be decided by the next person that came by, which chanced to be the arrantest Idiot in all the City: he calling for a couple of pewter∣dishes, bid the man put his mony betwixt them, and then decreed that the Cook should rest satisfied for the smell of the meat, with onely the gingling of the mony.