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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'Twas in the Rebellious Times of Oli∣ver, that a Phanatical Souldier came drunk into Kings Colledge Chappel at Cambridge and going to the place where Prayers used to be read, he began to rail against the King, the Bishops, and particularly the two Universities, calling them the two Eyes of the Devil; adding moreover, that as his party had ruined the Walls of one, meaning that of Oxford, so they would deface the other of Cambridge. Nay then, replied a Scholar, I perceive Cambridge will be defaced when the Devil is blind,