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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An impotent Gentleman having marri∣ed a rich young Gentlewoman, whom he could not satisfie, gave a young lusty Gal∣lant Fifty pounds a year to do the work: But his Waiting-man seeing this Gallant one day with his Mistriss, ran to ac∣quaint his Master; but he, fained as if he were in a sleep, and gave no answer: which made him cry the more urgently, That his Marriage-Bed was defiled. When his Master saw he would not be quiet, Peace, peace, says he, I give him Fifty pound a year for doing it▪ Ah, Sir, repli∣ed the man, had I known that, I would have done it for half the money.