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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

voice was in consideration thereof profer'd a good exhibition in a Cathedral Church which he refused and went to another place within a year after he came thither again but with his voice much impaired and now he offer'd his service upon those conditions which he formerly refused but he had answer made him That where h● wasted his steel he might go and wast his Iron A mistake A Citizen having been abroad in the Country came home to his wife all bemi●ed with durt who asking him how he came in that sad pickle Why said he as I was riding along in a fair way my Horse stumbled and threw me over head and ears in durt The Knight and Gentleman THere was a Knight who spent much and owed much who had a young Gentleman living by him that was so good a fellow as he seldom eat at home yet notwithstanding retain'd a Steward in continual standing wages The Knight upon a time merrily asked him what he means to keep a Steward having so little use to put him to The Gentleman no less merrily answer'd Your worship hath great reason for in truth my Steward and your Treasurer may very well be whipt at the Carts-tail for Vagabonds The Yeoman and Gallant A Plain Yeoman riding upon a large lean horse a Gallant that met him thinking to put a Jest upon him asked him what a yard of his horse was worth the Yeoman thereupon alighted and lifting up his horse-tale said Enter into the shop and they within will show you Jack Franck. MY Lord Maynard kept a Fool whose name was Jack Franck that went in a py'd Calve-skin suit he being one day in the High-way a Gallant came riding by all bedawbed with Silver-lace who spying Jack asked him whose Fool he was said Jack I am my Lord Maynards Fool and now I have told ye whose Fool I am pray tell me whose fool you are A witty answer of a Jester ONe asked a Lords Jester what vertue he thought was in a Turkey-stone to which he answer'd That if you should chance to fall from the top of a house you to break your neck and the stone to have no hurt A mistake A Certain Noble-man being invited to dinner at a Knights house amongst other chear there was a Chine of Beef which did so please him that he said he would speak to his Slaughter-man to cut all his meat out into Chines The Printers man A London-Printer sent his Prentice for a mess of Mustard who asking where he should fetch it he very surly answer'd him In France I will Sir said the Pren●ice and taking a Mustard-pot in his hand went forthwith down to Billingsgate where finding a Ship bound for France he embarked therein and away he went where he continued so long time before he returned as made up that day twelve-month when coming to his Master he delivered the foresaid pot full of Mustard saying Here Master is a mess of French Mustard for you Of the same THe said Prentice going up into the work-house found there a Dutchman working at the Press and snatching the Balls out of his hand gave him a good cuff on the ear and said Why how n●w Bu●ter-box can a man no sooner turn his back ● fetch a mess of mustard but you must straig● step in his place A Fishmonoger a Member IN the late times at such time as the Forces had taken Abberdeen in Scotland being betwixt sleeping and waking which they were debating whether they should keep or flight the Town He thinking they had been talking of keeping Habberdin ste● up and said For that I think there is ne● a one here knows better than my self y●● must put it into clean Rye straw c. A vindication HE being at another time one of a clo●● Committee a friend of his told his he heard that he had spoken High-treas●● there to which he answered He lies for I ●●ver spake one word good or bad in all that time Country-man and Faulkner A Plain Country-man and a Faulkn●●● journeying together the Countr●man told him that his Hawk had dung'● the Faulkner told him he should have samuted Anon after the fellow stumble● ●nd fell into a Cow-share and the Faulk●er asking him how he came so bewray'd ●e answer'd He fell in a Cow-mute A mistake A Gentleman being in company was commending a Tobacco-box of his ●ne asked him whether it were a wooden ●ne or no No said he it is made of Pear●●ee Double meaning A Certain Weaver who had often broken the eighth Commandment ●nd from all his Customers would be sure ●o steal something more or less which he ●id in a privy place he had in his house that ●e called Hell Now when any of his Cu●tomers used to charge him with such theft he would protest and swear If I have any ●ore then my due I pray God I may finde ●t in Hell The Maid a Washing A Maid washing cloaths by the Rivers side as she stooped many times her Smock would cleave close to her Buttocks one that came by seeing it said Have a care Maid for Bayard biteth on the bridle No quoth she not so he doth but onely wipe his mouth imagining you wi●● come and kiss him The Devil upon Dun. ONe prefer'd a rich Miser a Dun hors● to sell him who utterly refused hi● because of the colour saying The people call me the Devil already and if I should ride upon him they would say there is t●● Devil upon Dun. The Justice and fellow A Justice of the peace called one th●● was brought before him arrant knav● who replyed I am not so arrant a knave ● your Worship and there he made a pawse ● feigning to spit and then adjoyned takes me to be A wise reply ONe told his Neigbour that he had Pope in his Belly who answer'd Better so then to have a Devil in my heart The Maid and Physitian THere was a Maid who had taken a dra● too much of the Bottle and not we●● knowing what she ailed carried her wate● to a Physitian who bid her be of goo● chear For said he within these few months ●●u shall have the cause of your grief in your arms King Edward the Sixth KIng Edward the Sixth though he drew no strong Bow yet he shot well at a ●ark and when Dudley Duke of Northum●rland commended him once for well ●●ooting You shot better said he when ●ou shot off my good Unkle Protectors ●ead The Cooper and his Wife A Hasty Cooper beat his wife with a hoop for pissing the bed the Neigh●ours to reconcile him to her told him she ●as the weaker Vessel Therefore quoth ●e do I hoop her because she should hold water The French for a Cuckold AN English-man asked a French-gallant what was French for a Cuckold who answer'd Cocque Then said the English-man is it not true French to say Monsieur vous estes Cocques the French-man finding himself toucht to the quick an●wer'd It is true French in the plural

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

stained with the blood of the Lowse which had been shed in the dividing of her wherefore licking the blood off with his tongue he also became of the Royal-blood so that by eating that which had sucked the blood of the Prince Taylors have ever since been of the blood-Royal Of a Taylor A Taylor playing at cudgels and having his legs well beaten the company laughed heartily at him Why laugh you Gentlemen quoth the Taylor It is not my legs I stand upon when I get my living Another of Taylors ONe commended Taylors much for their dexterity saying they had their business at their fingers ends and I said another think them to be meer Woodcocks because they have both of them long bills Another ONe said that a Taylors feet must needs stink for when he was at his work they were always in his breech The Gentleman and Beggar A Beggar asked an Alms of a Gentleman who gave him a Tester the Beggar thanked him and said he would pray to God heartily for him but the Gentleman bid him pray for his self and not for him for be did not use to take any Alms usury Another A Gentleman walking over Lincolns-Infields was followed by a Beggar and earnestly importuned with the Terms of Good your Honour pray your Worship sweet Master bestow somthing on mee he to try this Beggars humour said that they used to call such as gave them nothing Rogues and Rascals no indeed said the Beggar not I I scorn to do it well said the Gentleman I le try ye for this once but the Beggar return'd him such a peale in his eares that he was glad to mend his pace to get out of the hearing of it The Loving Wife A Kinde wife followed her Husband to the Gallows and being half-way he desired her to trouble her self no further but to go home to which she answer'd Yes dear Husband now I have seen you thus far on your way faith I le see you hang'd too before I will leave ye Of a Witch A Witch being condemned and at the Stake to be burned desired her Son to fetch her some drink telling him she was exceeding dry O mother said he it is well you are so you will burn the better for that a great deal The unbelieving Cuckold A Fellow looking out at a window espyed his wife and another man very closely at it in lascivious embraces and hearing her tell the man how dearly she loved him above all the men in the world the Cuckold said aloud unto him Believe her not friend for she hath told me as much a thousand times and a thousand at the end of that and yet I have still found her false The Judge and his Tenant A Judge who bare great sway in the Country where he lived was about a sumptuous building for the bringing in of which materials divers Country-men were requested with their carts and horses amongst others one that dwelt neer him went with his Cart and Horse The Steward as was the manner of the Country had provided two Tables for their dinners for those that came gratis special cheer but for those that came for hire very ordinary Being in the Hall he in his Lords name invited them to sit down telling them one board was for them that came in love the other for those who came for money This Husbandman hearing how the business was orderd sat down at neither and being by the Steward asked why he did not place himself the Hind replyed he saw no Table provided for him for he came neither for love nor money but for very fear Marrying a Scold worse then hanging A Duke being highly offended with his Slave would have hanged him but at last he bethought himself of a worser punishment as he thought saying No hanging is too mild a torment for him I will Plague him worse I 'll marry him to a Scold The Fool best liked A Young youth having been to see a Play was asked when he came out of the Play-house which amongst those brave fellows he liked best the Youth said he liked the Fool best because he made most mirth and could have wished with all his heart that they had been all fools for his sake On disturbing the Players AT such time as the Rump began to bear sway the Players were soon disturbed by the Souldiers and had the thanks of the House for this their service being not willing that any should play the fool but themselves Amongst others Alderman A moved in the House that the Souldiers might have the Players Cloaths for their pains to which motion Harry Martin stood up and told the Speaker that he liked the Gentlemans motion very well but feared that they would fall out for the fools Coat Of Harry Martin THis Harry Martin being condemned for the execrable murther of the King was after sentence brought before the House of Lords to shew cause why he should not suffer the Execution of that sentence to which he returned answer That he came in upon the Kings Proclamation and well hoped that he should not suffer for that which he obeyed having never observed any of the Kings nor his Predecessors Proclamations before A sharp nip A Young Gallant in company was up with a great deal of foolish and prophane talk to whom a Gentlewoman said How much is the world mistaken in you that reports you to be an unthrift when you are so good a Husband that you will not spend your wit and words at once A watchful Mayor A Mayor of London dyed the same day that he was sworn of whom one said merrily He was a very vigilant Mayor that never slept all the time ●f his Mayoralty Of speaking Latine TWo Gentlemen were talking Latine in the company of a Gentlewoman who being suspitious that they spake of her desired them to speak in English that she might understand them For I am perswaded said she you are talking no good because I know when men speak Latine if it be but two words one of them is naught whereupon one of them said presently Bona Mulier to which she said I know Bona is good but I 'll warrant ye Mulier signifies something that is naught The riotous Gallant A Young Gallant new come to his means rioted in a very high manner his Mother blaming him for his unthriftiness in a ●elting chafe he said Faith Mother taunt ●e so but once more and for very spight ●'ll sell all the land and living I have To whom his Mother answered If you sell it for six pence you will be no looser by it for it ●ever cost you a groat A witty Jest TWo Gentlemens servants being drinking together chanced to fall out and ●t last amongst other discourse fell to vy●ng the Nobleness of their Masters one of ●hem saying My Master spends more in Mu●ard then yours does in Beef To whom ●he other replyed The more sawcy men his ●ollowers A sharp retort AN ancient Knight of a Noble Family meeting