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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.
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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 17, 2024.

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On Mr. Prat.

SOme Thieves had stollen Sheep from one Mr. Prat, and killed them in a Wood; at their departure they had writ∣ten these lines, and fixed them in a Paper ••o the body of a Tree.

Master Prat, Your Sheep were very fat, We thank you for that.
Out of eleven We took but seven, Pray thank us for that.

Page 128

Amongst the Bryers and Thorns We have left you the head and the horns, Pray thank us for that.
The wool with the skins To buy your wife pins, Pray thank us for that.

Mr. Prat found the Verses, but could ne∣ver after that hear of his Sheep.

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