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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The Arch-bishop and Country-man.
AN Arch-bishop of Cullen riding with a great train after him, by a place where a Country-man was a ditching; the Swain burst out into an exceeding great laughter; which the Bishop perceiving, com∣manded him straight before him, and asked him, Why he laughed so? Marry I laugh (said the Pesant) to think that St. Peter, who was the Prince of the Apostles, should live and dye so poor; and that those who pretend to be his Successors should ride in so great Pompe and State. The Arch-bi∣shop seeing himself thus nearly toucht, said, My friend, I ride not with this great train as I am an Arch-bishop or Priest, but as I am a Duke and Prince of the Empire. The Swain hearing him say so, burst out into a
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greater laughter then before; and being a∣gain demanded the reason thereof, I laugh (said he) to think that if this Duke, you name your self to be, were in Hell, where do you i∣magine the Arch-bishop would be?
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