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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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 June 5, 2024.

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An English Merchant trading at Am∣sterdam, was to sell a thousand pounds worth of Gloves to certain Jews, and had agreed upon the price: but the Jews re∣canting of the bargain, when they brought their money would have but half. Well, said the English Merchant, then you must give me a little time to sort them, and you shall have half; so he commanded his men to put all the right-handed ones in one parcel, and the left in another: then when the Jews came, he bid them take their choice, which being made, and the money paid, they began to pack them up; but perceiving at last they were all for one hand, they were forced to come and buy the rest at the Merchants rate.

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