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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Will. Summers and Cardinal Woolsey.
WIll. Summers that was first Cardi∣nal Woolsey's Fool, hearing that his Master was like to be Pope, came run∣ning to the Cardinal, and with great ex∣pressions of joy, told him what he ha•• heard: Why art thou so over-joy'd at this news, said Woolsey to his Fool? Marry quoth Will, because that I hope when you are Pope, you will do as St. Peter did when he was Pope. What was that, said the Cardinal? Why St. Peter, when he was Pope he brought in Lent, and all the Fastings days because his Father and Brothers were Fisher¦men; and I hope when you are Pope, you will
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put them all down, because your Father and Brothers were Butchers.
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