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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descriptionPage 114
King James and the Welshman.
KIng James riding late home from Theo∣balds to White-hall chanc'd to be catcht in a shower of rain, whereupon command was given to his retinue to ride faster: amongst the rest was a Welshman a retainer to the Earle of Pembroke, who being badly mount∣ed, flutterd and spurd with his legs to keep pace with them, and made such a bustle with be labouring his horse, that the King asked him who he was? Ant please her Ma∣jesty (the Welshman replyed) her is as good a Shentleman as the best of them, but her Cattel cannot travel so fast.
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