Cambridge jests, or, Witty alarums for melancholy spirits by a lover of ha, ha, he.

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Title
Cambridge jests, or, Witty alarums for melancholy spirits by a lover of ha, ha, he.
Author
Lover of ha, ha, he.
Publication
London :: Printed for Samuel Lowndes, and are to be sold at his shop ...,
1674.
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Subject terms
English wit and humor.
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"Cambridge jests, or, Witty alarums for melancholy spirits by a lover of ha, ha, he." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A32424.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2024.

Pages

162.

One having a Horse that was very har∣dy, and had but little stomack, though with himself he might easily by degree bring him to live without Hay or Oats and so substracted daily something fro his Meat, till at last the Horse died; an when afterwards he was carrying him o in a Cart to lay him in the Fields for th Crows, and his neighbours asked him how his Horse came to die? Why, thought, said he, to have made him live

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nothing; and just as I brought him to it, he died.

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