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Some merry Companions having been at an Ordinary all day, when by much drink they began to be mad, began at last
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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to jeer one another concerning their Mi∣strisses, whereat one struck the other a box in the ear, and all expected some bloody event; but the injur'd person de∣manded what the other meant, whether he were in jest or in earnest; In earnest, said the other, whose Collar had carried him beyond the bounds of Friendship. The other more considerate and loath to quarrel with his Friend, 'Tis well you are, said he, for I like not such jesting.