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 127
The Traveller and Cobler.
A Conceited Traveller having his shooes torn, went to a Coblers to have them mended, to whom he used these ex∣pressions, God save you Master mend-all, I have brought you here a pair of Cram-a-Crees, beseeching you of your benevolence to fix me on four preservatives against the cold evil of the Indies. The Cobler think∣ing coyned Silver was better then such coyned Language, returned him this an∣swer, Sir, your Eloquence passes my Intelli∣gence; yet if you please, I will Cobble you on four pieces for six pence.
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