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.
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London :: printed for Francis Kirkman and Richard Head,
[1667]
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Wit and humor -- Early works to 1800.
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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 18, 2024.
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A Welshman having received some affront in Smithfield, made no more adoe but brake the fellows head who gave him that affront, for which he was taken and forced to pay ten Groats, (his whole estate:) be∣ing at liberty, and both hungry and thirsty, he went to a Cooks shop, and called for as much belly-Timber of each sort as came to five-Groats. The Cook himself, his house being empty, seeing his Guest alone, sat down to bear him company: in their dis∣course, the Welshman told him how he had lately been abused, and would know of him whether it were a just thing for a man to pay ten Groats for drawing of blood; Yes, quoth he, it is so according to law: then said the Welshman, Here is five Groats to pay,
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••reake my head, and give me the rest again; which was all the satisfaction the Cook ••ould have of him for his Victuals.
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