Cambridge jests, or, Witty alarums for melancholy spirits by a lover of ha, ha, he.
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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 May 16, 2024.
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213.
'Tis reported of King James, that when a Gentleman made as though he took a Louse off his Arm, he gave him Twenty pounds, saying it was a Gentle∣man's companion. Whereupon, to make the King merry, he said, That he would maintain a Louse to be the nimblest and the slowest of all Animals; the strongest and the weakest; the worst and the best. The nimblest, says he, because let me go never so fast▪ it never deserts me; the slowest, be∣cause if I will pull it out of my head and lay it down, it can never overtake me; the strongest, because if a house fall on me, yet 'tis ten to one if the Louse be kill'd and knock'd in the head; the weakest, because I
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can kill it with my Thumb; the worst com∣panion, because it alwayes preys upon me; and the best, because it alwayes accompanies me in my adversity.
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