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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66707	Poor Robin's jests: or, The compleat jester Being a collection of several jests not heretofore published. Now newly composed and written by that well-known gentleman, Poor Robin, knight of the burnt island, and well-willer to the mathematicks. Together with the true and lively effigies of the said author. Licensed Feb. 2. 1666. Roger L'Estrange.	Poor Robin.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1667 (1667)	Wing W3075A; ESTC R221040	62,408	171

was My Lord said he I am six and fourscore And why not fourscore and six said the Judge Because quoth he I was six before I was fourscore Of an old man AN old man complained that he had but one tooth left in his head which was fallen out lately with eating of a ripe Figg to whom one said But your tooth was more ripe A quick answer to a vain Boaster ONe boasted that there was not any one of his name in all England and yet he himself was a Gentleman to whom said one I am sorry Sir you have such a name that there is not one good of it Great bribes do great matters A Controversie in Law was at last referr'd to a Gentleman to decide and both Parties bound to stand to his award the Plaintiff to win him to his side presented him with a new Coach and the Defendant to gaine his favour gave him four brave Horses The Gentleman liking the Horses better then the Coach gave the verdict on the Defendants side whereupon the Plaintiffe asked him how it came to pass the Coach went out of the right way the Gentleman answer'd he could not help it for it was the Horses had drawn it so Nothing like money A Poor man in a Rightfull cause had sued a rich man so that at the last it came to a Tryal the rich man knowing his cause bad bribed the Judge with a dozen of Apostle spoons which at the time of tryal almost turned the Scales on his side the poor man perceiving how the matter went down on his knees in the middle of the Court and holding up his hands said Now the Lord Jesus be on my side or my cause is lost for the twelve Apostles are against mee The Serving-man and Mr. Jordan A Servingman being sent of an errand to one Mr. Jordan to tell him that his Master would speak with him meeting him by the way with more hast then manners said thus to him Mr. Piss-pot my Master must needs speak with you presently The Gentleman angry to be thus abused said Sirrah do not you know that my name is Jordan Why quoth the Servingman pray what difference is there betwixt a Piss-pot and a Jordan Of dying in Debt ONe that had often asked an old Debt was still put off with words that he would pay him ere it were long which made him to say I suppose at last you will die in my Debt to which the other answer'd I have lived now this forty years and am sure I never died in any ones Debt yet Of telling a Lye ONe seeing his Friend looking out at a Prison-window asked him why he came there who answered that it was for telling a Lye at which the other marvailing he explained his meaning saying that owing such a one a sum of money and not paying him at the time promised he arrested me for the same and put me in Prison by which meanes I am here for telling a Lye Of a Calves head SOme Gentlemen being set at dinner where amongst other dishes was a Calves-head one of them was very much commending it and amongst other good properties for the clearness thereof to which he was answered by one that it was very clear indeed yea so clear that he might see his own face therein The Country-fellow and Ship A Country-fellow new come to London that had never seen a Ship in his life coming to Tower-wharfe he there had the view of several wondring what they should be he asked one of the Ship-boys what that great thing was called in which he was who told him it was a Ship Then asked he him how old it was who answer'd him Two years old Good Lord said the Country-man but two years old what a great thing it will be by that time it comes to my age The Drunkards cause of spewing SOme Gentlemen being a bowling a drunken fellow was got into the Green whose Stomach being over-charged he fell a spewing before them all for which one of the Gentlmen blaming him Marry said he it would make any man spew to see how you bowle Of greedy eating A Fellow being sent of an errand to a Country-Gentlemans house had Victuals set before him on which he fell so greedily as made the Gentleman to stand and admire at his teeth and stomack-exploits and therefore in a kinde of Ironical speech he spake to him and bid him to eat heartily I thank you Sir said the fellow so I do I think I eat like a man Nay quoth the Gentleman that thou doest not for I never saw a man to eat so before I think thou doest rather eat like a Beast Woodcock and Swallow TWo Gentlemen were bowling together whereof the one was named Woodcock the other Swallow Mr. Swallow having thrown a good cast was boasting thereof to whom the other said It is not one Swallow that makes a Summer No said Swallow to him again neither is it one Woodcock that makes a winter The Gentleman and Mare A Glownish Gentleman had so far prevailed upon the affections of a Gentlemans Daughter that the Marriage was agreed upon but he besides the Portion promised would have into the Bargain a goodly Mare which was grazing in a Pasture before the house and so high he stood thereon that upon the refusal thereof he told the Gentleman that if he had not the Mare he would have none of his Daughter upon which the Marriage was quite broken off About a twelve-month after this penurious wooer chanced to meet the Gentlewoman at a Matket and would needs have renewed old acquaintance with her but she pretending ignorance told him that she did not know him No said he do no● you know me why I was once a Suiter to you O cry you mercy said she I think there was once such a Gentleman a suiter to my Fathers Mare but I assure you never any such a one a suiter to me Of picking a bone SOme variance happening betwixt a Gentleman and his Wife she refused to sit down to dinner with him whereupon to affront her having eaten the meat off of a bone he sent it to her by a Servant bidding him to tell her that there was a bone for her to pick to requite this frump she sent him word back again by the same Servant that she had three Children since they were married together whereof one of them was none of his and bid him to tell him that that was a bone for him to pick. The Gentleman and Butcher A Company being at Bowls of which was a Butcher and a Fantastical gallant in their play they chanced to fall out so that the Gallant up with a Bowl and struck the Butcher such a blow on his head as laid him shaking of his heels whereupon one of the standers by said I have seen many a Butcher knock down a Calf but I never before saw a Calf knock down a Butcher The Master and Maid A Master was once had before a Justice of

of his Clyent as the usual custom is saying My Lord we came into this Tavern with a peaceable intention onely to drink a pint of wine with that Gentleman where we were by him abused beaten and misused and put in danger of our life John hearing him to say so could forbear no longer but stepping up said My Lord that fellow with the coyfe there tells a most damnable lye for he says he was beaten and misused in our house when I can justifie that he never was in our house in all his life 〈…〉 A Ric● 〈◊〉 ●ntestate his son came up to London to take out Letters of Administration of his Estate but being unacquainted with the customs belonging to the Spiritual Courts he went first to a friend of his telling him That his Father dyed detested leaving onely him and two young Infidels and therefore he was devised to come up to London to a Concealer of the Law that he might thereby deminish the Estate Good to save something for last ONe who was much conceited of his wit had made several Encomions on his Mistress beginning first with her head and so proceeded upon each member until such time as he came to her feet missing no part save onely her neck the reason whereof being demanded O said one there is great reason for that He reserves the neck-verse for himself knowing he shall have occasion for it hereafter TWo men walking through a Church-yard one of them affirmed that the Grave was Hell the other who had a shrewd curst wife lately buried there pointing to her Grave said Then one of the greatest Devils in Hel● 〈◊〉 Too true the more 's the pitty ONe that was a common swearer being sub-poena'd upon a tryal at Law where a Book was tender'd him whereon to take his Oath he told them they might save that labour For there was no oath but he could swear it without Book Nothing ask'd nothing given ONe asked a certain boon of a Gentleman for which his main reason to inforce it was this Alas Sir you may very well grant it me for this is nothing To whom the Gentleman replyed Sir I shall grant you your request for according to your own words 't is nothing that you ask me and so nothing I grant you Children and Fools tell truth ONe was chiding his Prentice for being so great a gurmundizer telling him that his Mistress did not eat the fourth part so much as he and yet she was plump and fair to whom the Prentice said I onely eat at set meals but my Mistress hath Cullises before Dinner and sweet-meats after dinner and puts more into her belly then ever you see or heard 〈◊〉 A double mistake A Gentleman lodging in a strange Inne having store of mony in his pockets put his Breeches under the Bolster when he went to Bed to secure them but the next morning having gotten a pretty dose over night he had quite forgotten where he had bestowed them and having fruitlesly searched a pretty while despairing of finding them he called for the Chamberlain asking him if he knew what was become of them Sir said the Chamberlain are you sure that you brought any in with you Why quoth the Gentleman do you think that I came without Breeches Sir said he if you are sure that you brought them with you you had best search your pockets and I question not but you will finde them there Some seeking to praise dispraise A Gentleman having invited about the Lent-time some friends to his house his Lady provided such chear as was seasonable the Collops and Eggs and as it fell out a Hog being slain she had a service vice of the puddings which being deservedly commended by t●●●●ests Nay said the Gentleman frie●●● be●● known to you my wife is abomination good pudding-wife A Taylors Hell A Certain Taylor who had in his life-time damned many a peece of Stuff to Hell at last chanced to fall extreamly sick and being in a trance he thought he saw all the Feinds of Hell mustered in his Chamber where they displayed a Banner of sundry colour'd Silks which he had stolen wishing that he might finde them all in Hell This Vision so affrighted him that upon his recovery he reformed his life carried home what was remaining of any Garment and laid a special charge upon his Journey-man that if any stuff brought in fell out too large if he saw his fingers inclined to filch that he should put him in minde of the Vision Not long after a Captain of a Ship brought to him some Velvet to make him thereof a pair of Breeches which being too much he snipt away three quarters of a yard of it under his Shop-board his Journey-man seeing this called to him and said Remember Master the Vision Peace knave said he peace there was not one su●h colour as this in all the whole Flag Anger without cause A Gentleman sent to an Arras-maker bidding him to work him on a piece of Cloath the figure of a Castle with a Dog in it sitting upon his tail and barking and at the Castle-gate a man standing in armour all which the Work-man promised to do and not long after brought it unto him But when the Gentleman saw it he began to fume asking the work-man where was the Dog that he bid him to make O Sir said the work-man I suppose those that are in the Castle are now gone to dinner and the Dog may be in some corner gnawing of a bone A costly truth A Wealthy Citizen had a riotous spend-thrift to his son whereupon he vowed that when he dyed he would give all his Estate to the poor In a little whiles time his son what with Dice and what with Drabs had spent all the maintainance that he had whereupon he told his Father that he might now give all his Estate to him and yet keep his vow for he could not give it to one poorer then himself A witty theivish answer A Fellow that was weary of going on foot spying a lusty Gelding in a Pasture was resolved to ride but having no bridle and a halter being ominous he was enforced to imbrace the Brute about his neck and with all speed made to the road But the Owner being in some grounds not far off and espying the cheat made after him undiscovered and being very well hors'd over-took this rank Rider and requiring of him the reason of his speed the other said Sir are you in a good hour the Master of this wilde Jade In a good hour I am replyed the Gentleman for half an hour later I believe had alterd the case In troth Sir said the Theif it is the joy of my heart that you have thus happily over-taken me for this head-strong Jade might very well have run away with me Or else said the Gentleman you have run away with him for therein was most danger but howsoever I will ease you of that trouble and so dismounting him forced him to walk on