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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	wood_n	world_n	write_v	33	3	4.8134	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43690	Coffee-house jests. Refined and enlarged. By the author of the Oxford jests. The fourth edition, with large additions. This may be re-printed, Feb. 25. 1685. R.P.	Hickes, William, fl. 1671.	1686 (1686)	Wing H1885; ESTC R216840	88,901	208

Husband tell me are we to be at the charge of a Rope or they for I would have all things ready that might do you a Kindness For here I have brought one forty Miles to do you a Courtesie And so left the Rope with him Well Wife says he I thank you heartily and pray go home and look after the Children No Husband says she I have not come so far but a Grace a God I 'll see you hang'd before I go 316. A very great Student that had written many excellent Books and one among the rest was he had wrote a History of the whole World This said Student it seems had lost himself in a Wood because he took little notice of the Path being still in a musing condition At last being weary and his Stomach crying Cupboard also began very seriously to endeavour to get out of the Wood and after he had wandered about a great while he met by chance with a Country Man that liv'd near Oxford and was then going thither to Market which Country Man knew him very well then he desired him to guide him out of the Wood and he 'd give him Six pence Sir says he I do admire very much that you that have writ a Tract of the whole World should not now find the Tract out of this little Wood Friend says he I think thou art Wood Sir says he if I am mad I am not fit to be your guide but you speak as if you mere in a wood Yes faith says the Student so I am and I would fain get out on 't if I could 317. Another Simple Rumpish Minister as he was riding one Afternoon to a Parsonage which he had eight Miles from Oxford which he used to do every Saturday that is if it be fair to Preach there on Sunday but if otherwise then one of the Junior Fellows in the Colledge where he was Head was sent in his room This said Minister se●ing a Boy at Plough in the Fields with Oxen which it seems was a smart knave rid up with his Man to him and there began to catechize the Boy notably and after the Boy had answered him hand-pat to all his questions which the Parson admired Now Sir says the Boy I hope you 'll give me leave to ask you a Question Yes Boy says he with all my heart Pray Sir says he 〈◊〉 tell me who made these O●… 〈…〉 says the Parson Nay that 's a lie says the Boy for God made 'em Bulls but my Father made 'em Oxen. And so drove away the Plough and whistled on still that though the Parson askt him many other questions yet he took no notice of him nor did not afford him another word Then he and his Man rode away from him This Story his Man told when he came home for which his good Master turn'd him out a-doors so kind they were still to all that told truth 318. A Plain Country Fellow coming to the Market at Brainford one Tuesday he cheapned of a Butcher a Shoulder of Mutton the Butcher told him he would have Twenty pence for it Fie says he twenty pence I 'll tell you not long since you goodman Brown there 's a Man in this Town that is call'd John Bennet who within this Sennet sold me a Shoulder of Mutton witness your Neighbour John Sutton for no more than fourteen pence or I wish I may ne'r go hence Well says the Butcher strait Take it so for this conceit Probatum est 319. A Gentleman having drank very hard at the Kings-Head Tavern came Reeling out up Chancery Lane and chanced to Reel within the Rails of the Pump and kept his motion round so long that he was tired whereupon leaning on the Rail he askt one that passed by where he was he told him over against the Chancery I thought so says he and that 's the Reason I think I shall never get out of this place 320. A sturdy Beggar meeting a high Commander of the long Parliament Army under whom he was a Souldier began to beseech his Honors Charity upon a poor crippl'd Souldier that had lost his Blood and Limbs in the States Service The Officer very gravely answer'd him He had not for him God bless your Honor for although you are not in humor to supply my wants at this present I am ever bound to pray for your Honour because you have saved my Life at which word his Honor vouchsaf'd to look back and ask'd him where and how he had sav'd his Life To which the Beggar replied Your Honour may Remember when you fled into the Saw-pit I followed you or else I had stood to and been Slain I thank your good Honour 321. Two old Companions that had not seen each other a great while met in St. Paul's Church-yard who after some little Discourse had in the Street agreed by consent to go to the Feathers-Tavern where they sate pecking from six in the Evening till past ten at night and having in this time drank sufficiently one of 'em desired to be gone urging to him that he knew his Impediment viz. He could neither go nor stand when he was Drunk well says the other and thou knowest I am Tongue-tied and cannot speak when I am fudled but I believe that one pint more will neither hinder my talking nor thy walking 'faith says the other if I cannot go thou must lead me he answered him he would and the t'other pint brought both of them to their Infirmities so that the one was Lame and the t'other was Dumb and having paid the reckoning about eleven a Clock the Dumb Man by the help of the Drawers got the Lame Man down stairs where at the Bar he takes the Lame Man upon his back and away he marches with him towards Ludgate where the Watch being set before they came near they call'd Who goes there Come before the Constable So the Dumb Man unseen by the Watch set 〈◊〉 the Lame Man in the dark by the Prison door upon a Bench and goes to the Constable who ask'd him what he did out so late And where he had been To all which the Dumb Man made many mouths and signs but could not answer the Lame Man in the dark being troubled to hear his Friend so hardly put to it with Questions calls out to the Constable and tells him He cannot speak what says the Constable is there more of you Come you before the Constable and answer you can speak but I can't go says the other with that they went all to him and he gave them so sufficient an account of what they were where they had been what were their impediments and how they got together that the Constable and Watch laugh'd heartily bidding the Dumb Man take up his Lame Luggage and march home 322. When Dun that kept the Meremaid-Tavern in Cornhill being himself in a Room with some witty Gallants one of them which it seems knew his VVife too boldly cryed out in a fantastick