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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

if a man went as fast as the Sun he might easily go it in that space The second How deep the Sea was he answered Onely a stones cast for throw a stone into the deepest place of it and in time it will come to the bottom To the third Which I conceive saith he your Majesty thinks the most difficult to resolve but indeed is the easiest that is what your highness thinks I answer that you think me to be the Abbot of Glastenbury whenas indeed I am but Jack his Cook King Henry the Eighth and Will. Summers KIng Henry going once by water took Will. Summers his Jester along with him for his divertisement It happened the weather to prove very tempestuous so that being in some danger Summers said to him Harry Harry I had rather be thy Fool by Land then thy Companion at Sea which made the King when he came on Land to laugh heartily at his timorous disposition Another AT such time as King Henry was in opposition with the King of France it happened that Summers was then in the French Court in whom for his pleasant discourse that King was highly delighted and going upon a time to the House of Office to have the merryer Stool called Summers along with him and said unto him Look here Summers how I value thy King whose picture thou seest hanging here in my privy I see it well said Summers and withall I observe that you never look upon it but at the sight thereof you are ready to bewray your Breeches King Henry the eighth and the Prior of Dunmow KIng Henry going once to the Priory of Daumow he observed therein two Monkes which were reputed for very Holy-men whereof the one was exceeding fat the other extraordinary leane and asking the Prior the reason thereof he answer'd If it please your Majesty this Monke who is so exceeding fat thinks onely of God and the joys of Heaven and the other who is so extraordinary leane meditates continually on Death Dooms-day and Hell King Henry the thirds base Son KIng Henry the third had a base Son named Geoffery who in all his protestations used these words By the honour of the King my Father to whom Walter Malpas the Kings Confessor said Methinkes you might do well sometimes to remember your Mothers honesty as well as so often to mention your Fathers Royalty The Portugal Fryar A Portugal Fryar discoursing in his Sermon of a great victory his Nation had obtained against the Spaniards that day twelve-month he said Then both Armies camped near unto the River Wee Christians on the one side and the Spaniards on the other An Atheistical speech of a French-man A Younger Brother of a good Family in France having committed a Robbery was for the same convicted and Sentence of death pronounced against him at which he grew very much disquieted and something outragious in his discourse Wherefore the Fryar who was appointed to be his Confessor sought by Religious perswasions to comfort him bidding him be of good cheere for his next meals meat should be in Heaven Faith quoth the Thiefe I have small appetite at this time to any Heavenly food therefore if you will take the dinner for mee I will give you five pounds to discharge the shot The Irish Lord and Tory. AN Irish Lord named Mac Mahowne had taken one of the Tories Prisoner and for some secret grudge he bare unto him would by no entreaty spare his life but commanded he should be hanged presently and made a Fryar to shrive him who examining him of his sins asked him which was the heaviest and did most burthen his Conscience The Tory answer'd that which he most repented of was that the last week when he had Mahowne at his mercy in the Church that he did not set fire to it but out of pitty to save the Church let him escape which he counted the worst Act that ever he did The Fryar bid him to change his minde and die in charity or he would never go to Heaven N●y quoth the Tory I will never change my minde whatsoever becomes of my Soul Whereupon the Fryar went to Mahowne and desired him to defer the fellows Executill he were in a better minde for if he died being so much out of charity his Soule was sure to go to Hell The Tory hearing the Fryar entreate thus for him desired of Mahowne that seeing he was so unprepared to die and the Fryar so well disposed and ready to goe to Heaven that he would hang the Fryar and let him tarry till another time Mahowne hearing this mad answer forgave him his offence and pardon'd him that time The winking Parson A Parson in a certain Church in London used commonly to pray with his eyes shut one demanding the reason why he did so it was answer'd Because he would be thought to know the way to Heaven so well that be could find it blind-fold Cardinal Wolsey and the Nobleman A Ruffling Nobleman in the time of King Henry the eighth came into the Court with a Suit all bedawbed with Gold and Silver-lace saying Am not I a lusty man that can carry five hundred acres of land on my back To whom Cardinal Wolsey said You might better have employed some of it in paying your Debts 'T is true indeed quoth the Nobleman for the Lord my Father ought the goodman your Father thr●e half pence for a calves-head hold there is two-pence for it Wolseys Father being a Butcher The Welshman that fasted against his will A Welshman who was not much used to the Religious observation of fasting dayes was entertained into a Gentlemans service where according to the custome he was made to fast the Eves of divers Saints as Saint Peter Saint Paul Saint Bartholomew c. All which he grudgingly performed at length came the Eve of all Saints for which he was very willing to fast as supposing no more would come after but on Saint Andrews Eve it was told him he must fast again which he utterly refused saying he had fasted for all the Saints together and therefore he would fast no more but it was told him that he must fast for Saint Andrew also Why then quoth he pray tell mee where was Saint Andrew when all the Saints were together A good Jest of a Welshman A Welsh shentleman who had one of his own country-men waiting on him being at a Faire and drawing out a Purse with store of Money in it was espyed by a Cut-purse who never left dogging him till such time he had eas'd him of that burthen But his man espying him drew out his knife and cut off the Thiefs eare who feeling it to smart asked him what he meant by it No great harme friend said the Welshman showing him his ear in his hand onely give hur Master hur Purss and hur will give hur ear again Another A Young Cockney-Squire who loved to eat of Partridge would to have it the more reasonable as he thought keep a Hawk 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