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 Lawyer and his man.

A Lawyer riding into the Country, had a man attending on him, who had been his servant neer a dozen years: Sir, said he, I have been with you thus long, and yet am very ignorant in the chief matters of your Profession, I pray resolve me which i•• the chief point of the Law. To whom hi•• Master said, If you will pay for our supper to night, I will tell it you: to which the servant willingly yeilded. Well then, said his Master, good witness is the chief point. So at night when they came to their Inne, his Master was very liberal in calling for Wine, good Cheer and Tobacco, insomuch that the Reckoning at last amounted to thirty shillings; which the Master told the man, he was to pay: Not I, says his man. Where∣fore? why, did not you promise to do it, said the Lawyer, if I would tell you the chiefest point in the Law, which I did? His man replyed, Where's your witness?