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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

so well knew a● the World me thinks you might easily find the way out of a Wood. Dr. Donne DR Donne having privately married Si● George Moors daughter whose name was Anne falling into his Fatherinlaw● displeasure he with a Diamond-ring wrote thus on the glass-window John Donne Ann● Donne done and undone Of Pope Adrian POpe Andrian the sixth being minde● to throw Pasquins Image into Tyber● to take away the cause of Libelling which was then used under the name of th●● ●mage The Duke of Sesa said unto him ●f your Holiness throw Pasquin into Tyber he will then turn Frog and croke both day and night whereas now he only crokes a day time The Pope and St. Peter IT is said of a certain Pope that when he was dead he went to Heaven●ates and knocked there St. Peter de●anding who he was he said the last de●eased Pope then said St. Peter If you be ●he Pope why do you knock since you ●ave the keys to come in at your pleasure ●o whom the Pope answer'd that his Prede●essors indeed had the keys but since that time ●e wards were alterd The Spanish Bishop and Shepherd A Spanish-Bishop seeing a Shepherd sunning himself said unto him I wonder ●at Shepherds now adays are not as they ●ere in time past when great Prophets ●nd Kings refused not to keep Sheep and ●o them also the Angels told the birth of ●ur Saviour to whom the Shepherd an●●er'd Neither are Bishops now adays as in old ●●me at divers of whose deaths Bells are said to ●ng of themselves and now can scarcely be ●●de to ring with mens strength Bishop Bonner BIshop Bonner being at the time of the Reformation degraded from his Bishoprick one thinking to put a jest upon him desired a piece of his tippet to heelstall his hose to whom Bonner answer'd that his tippet was not fit for that purpose but told him he had a foolish head of hi● own which would serve very well to line his Hat Another time riding abroad one met him and said good morrow Bishop Quondam to whom Bonner replyed Adi●● knave semper idem The Spanish-Fryar A Spanish-Fryar had a Bishoprick in India granted unto him but he desiring not to go out of his own Country th●● spake to the Kings Secretary Sir knowing that a Bishops place is a dangerous thing 〈◊〉 undertake and being conscious of my own insufficiency I am in the mind that to take i● upon me is the high-way to Hell and to go to Hell by India is a great way about wherefore I pray assign me some nearer Sea or no● at all The Bishop and his Chaplain A Bishops Chaplain helping his Lord on with his Rotchet it being the first time ●nd he not very perfect at it he said unto him My Lord methinks your Sleeves are ●ery strait True answer'd the Bishop for I have been these twenty years in getting them 〈◊〉 and never till now could do it Reason for this ANother said that the chief reason why the Anabaptists would have had the ●ells down out of the Churches was because of the Ropes being conscious to them●elves what they had deserved A useless Library A Scholar having a great Library and seldome or never coming at it to Study one said unto him It seems Sir that 〈◊〉 and your books are at a truce Peter Martyr PEter Martyr Chronicler to the King of Spain having a long time sued for a ●ishoprick and hearing at last that four Confessors were made Bishops at once ●aid Faith amongst so many Confessors one Martyr would have done very well The Bishop and Student A Young Student in Spain for some ● demeanors he had committed ● summoned before a Bishop who had a ve● reverend beard who after several Reaso● and Arguments in his defence at last ple●●ed Conscience What you talk of Co●science saies the Bishop and have never beard yet I cry you mercy quoth the S●●dent then for I perceive if Conscience g●● beards your Lordship hath got a very large 〈◊〉 A Request answered ONe desired a Gentleman to speak ● him to a certain Bishop that his Lo●●ship would be pleased to forgive him a De●● to whom he answer'd his Graces power ● to bind and not to loose The Abbot and the Messenger THere was a Bishop that sent six ● Capons to an Abbot whereof the Messenger eat up one of them by the way The Abbot having read the Bishops Letter and understanding that he had sent him ● Capons bid the Messenger thank his Lordship from him for five of them and as for t● sixth pray thank him thy self King Henry the eighth and the Abbot HEnry the eighth being abroad on hunting through the eager pursuit of his Game lost his attendants at length he wandred to the Abby of St. Albans where unknown he dined with the Abbot and fell so stoutly on that the Abbot taking notice thereof said he would give a hundred pound he had so good a stomach for quoth he my stomach is so queasie that I am ready to Surfeit with the pestle of a Larke or the wing of a Partridge The King remembring his words the next day sent for him up by a couple of Pursevants and without shewing any reason clapt him in the Tower where he was fed for a Fortnight with onely bread and water at last the King sent him a Rib of roast Beef on which he fed so heartily and made so deep an impression that the King stepping from his Coverture wherein he stood to see what the Abbot would do demanded of him his hundred pounds saying Since I have been your Physitian and recovered your stomach pay me my mony which the Abbot was forced for to do Another of King Henry the eighth and the Abbot of Glastenbury THe same King Henry having a months ●●nd to the Abbot of Glastenburies Esta●e who was one of the richest Abbots in England sent for him to his Court and told him that without he could resolve him three Questions he should not escape with his life The Abbot willing to get out of his clutches promised his best endeavours The Kings Questions were these First of what compass the world was about Secondly how deep the Sea was and Thirdly what the King thought The Abbot desired some few days respite which being granted he returned home but with intent never to see the King again for he thought the questions impossible to be resolved This his grief coming at last to the ears of his Cook he undertook upon forfeiture of his life to resolve those Riddles and to free his Master from danger The Abbot willingly condescended So the Cook got on the Abbots cloaths and at the time appointed went to the Court and being like the Abbot in Physiognomy was taken by all the Courtiers to be the same man when he came before the King omitting other circumstances h● thus resolved his three questions first of what compass the world was about he said It was but twenty four hours journey and