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friend_n	answer_v	king_n	lord_n	916	5	3.9995	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61403	England's merry jester: or, Court, city and country jests new, and suitable to the humours of the times; witty and familiar, for the encrease of merriment, and improvement of friendly conversation, as they are used among the wits of the age. To which are added, as a second part, Bulls; banters, quibbles, repartees, pleasant stories, and poems: the qualifications of an expert town-wheedle; with the art and mystery of wheedling. All profitable, pleasant, and delightful. The like never before published. Done by a lover of merriment.	J. S.	1693 (1693)	Wing S54; ESTC R219786	62,071	198

search to be made for him to cause him to be punished but he could not be found till some of his Friends prevailed with the King to make his Peace And where then said he do you think all this while I have hid my self We know not reply'd they Why said Archee I 'll tell you even in the Chappel-Pulpit for I knew his Grace never wou'd come there to look for me 14. A down-right Country Farmer coming to bring this great Prelate Rent for some Tenures he held of him and having never before been in the presence of any but a Justice or the Mayor of a Corporation accosted him with May it please your Worship at the same time giving a scrape with his Hob-nail Shoes but was jogged by the Servants behind him and order'd to say Grace instead of Worship What said he must I say Grace where there 's no Meat but if it be the fashion here 't is an odd one then lifting up his Hands he said The Eyes of all things c. and so went on to the Admiration of the Bishop who took him to be distracted till he found he had done it by Misunderstanding 15. King Charles the First riding a Progress and coming to a Country Knight's House who though proud of the King's Visit yet his Coffers could not reach to a very sumptuous Entertainment for so great a Train but having very fine Orchards and Gardens it being Fruit time of year what wanted in Fish Fowl Sweet-meats c. was supplyed by the Tables being loaded with Pears Apples Plumbs Nuts c. insomuch that the King said What means this we shall ruin the Country which a blunt Country Fellow who waited hearing and thinking to put a fine Gloss upon the matter replyed Your Majesty need not fear that for we have so many that we are forced to give them to the Hogs which pretty Complement set the whole Company in a Laughter 16. Hugh Peters the Bell-weather Holder-forth who was a kind of a Buffoon Jester to Oliver Cromwell Preaching at White-Hall before him began commend the Officers for their Courage and Bravery telling how they had been Advanced what Favours they had received from the Protector but here 's particularly one amongst you that has been as deserving as the best of you a Man that has had Experience of Hemp in his Calling for some say he 's a Shoe-maker others that he 's but a Cobler but let him be which of these he will his Name is Hewson and here sits a sleep under the Pulpit This Banter upon the cobling Colonel made such a tittering among those that sate next to him that he awak'd and thinking all was done was about to go out which Peters perceiving said Nay Colonel since you have had such a large Nap you are by this time sober enough to take 'tother Glass and turning up his Pulpit-glass went on with another Hour's Harrangue much to the like edifying purpose 17. The French Ambassadour residing at Court in the Reign of King Charles the Second to boast the Greatness and Success of his Master went vauntingly about shewing a Distich he had made Una dies Lotheros Burgundos Hebdomas una Una domat Battavos Luna quid Annus agit This proud Insult displeasing the witty Lord Rochester since dead he was resolved to put upon the Monsieur and looking over his shoulder turn'd them thus into English Lorrain he stole by Fraud he got Burgundy Holland he bought but Faith he 'll pay for 't one day Upon this the French-man made his Complaint to the King but to no purpose the King telling him he was a person that would have his Humours of that kind do what he could 18. This Noble-Man being very early in St. James's Park walking and musing for new Crotchets of Poesie met the King with his Brother and the Duke of Lauderdale walking from White-Hall to St. James's the King seeing him said How now Rochester what makes you so early here I warrant you have some new-minted Fancies in your Head Come let us hear one of them the Earl excused it as not convenient but the King pressing it promising he would not be angry whatever it was he thus descanted on them For Maiden-Head-Bargains your Majesty's best The Duke for his Valour and breaking a Jest And Lauderdale that is so wondrous pretty By his Politicks gains the Applause of the City O my Conscience says the King he has Satyr'd upon us all well go thy ways thou art an Arch Wag and so they parted 19. King Charles the Second was a very merciful Prince to Offenders and extended his Clemency to a great many that were condemn'd the condemn'd Roll one day being presented to him by the Recorder of London to know his Pleasure who should Suffer several Courtiers being present interceded some for one and some for another whom he crossed out till there was but one left then he asked who spoke for him but none answering O my Conscience says the King this is a poor Fellow and wants Mony I 'll stand his Friend and struck him out 20. When the great Heat of Petitioning was one Foot a Petition among others was Delivered by which being read King Charles looking upon those that brought it said very familiarly to them Well Neighbours I cannot but wonder you should trouble your selves about my Business however we 'll defer it for this time and tell the rest of my Neighbours when I come to Windsor I 'll discourse it further with them over a Pot of Ale and so dismissed them smiling at the Answer they were to return to the rest of the Subscribers 21. A Woman who was adapted to some-what of the Frailty of her Sex being brought to bed of a Boy her Husband sitting by the Bed-side was consulting who should be Gossips and amongst others he named a person who was by some suspected to have a hand in the pye saying he knew he would stand whereat lifting up her Hands she reply'd O the Father that you should think of him 22. A plump Country Lass being in a London Service her Master wheedled her to his Embraces so that after repeated Dalliances she proved with Kid and one day there being a Pig for Dinner she happening to Long for the Ears eat them as knowing if they came to the Table they would not fall to her share and therefore made sure work before-hand the Mistress however missing them made Enquiry and being told the naked Truth by the simple Girl demanded how she came to be in that condition Why truly and indeed forsooth reply'd she by my Master's help the Woman then wishfully looking upon her Husband who sate by said Is this true Yes indeed reply'd he I believe it may And when was it done said she Why truly Sweet-heart when you were sick last Ah! reply'd she with a Sigh and was I so sick can a Woman be so sick that her Husband must needs go astray O unkind Man 23. A Woman in the Country

do you know that says his Master Why by St. Patrick's Shoe-buckle there be the great shign of it for the other Hawk is holding his Forehead 51. A Country Yeoman marrying a Farmer 's Buxom Daughter but she having a greater Kindness for another had promis'd him her Maiden-head and whil'st all were in the height of Merriment they two retir'd into a back Milk-house and there the Promise was made good but before the Sport was well ended her Mother came in and discovering what had passed fell a ratling her extreamly whil'st her Gallant sneaked away The Bridegroom hearing the noise came and desired to know what the matter was O Son says the old Woman the Baggage has just now carck'd a Pipkin that has been kept without a Flaw these Nineteen Years O Law says Clodpate who cou'd not reach the meaning on 't is that all Pray don't be angry and here is a Groat to buy another 52. A Woman who had a drunken Husband hi●…nking to reclaim him by Affrightment put him once into a Coffin and and laid him in a Vault where being dead drunk he slept all Night the next morning she knock'd so loud at the door of the Vault that he awaking asked who was there One said she that is come to bring Meat to the Dead ●… If you had brought Drink reply'd he you had been welcome but for Meat I have no occasion for and therefore may carry it back again O miserable Woman that I am said the Wise what a hard Fortune is mine to have a Husband that will be drunk even in his Grave 53. A Brisk Lass having married a Taylor carryed him to see her Friends in the Country where some Wenches gigling and being heard to say Margery has marryed a Taylor good lord what said she replying sharply wou'd you have had me a marryed an Angel 54. An old Knight who along time had a Female Help-mate called a House-keeper who had so well tickled his Fancy that when he dyed he left her his Coach and Horses and Five Hundred a Year in requital of which Extraordinary Benificence she Erected him a Monument where among other Things his Figure lay along at Large and hers was placed kneeling at its Feet with a Book as if Reading An Arch Wag seeing this who was no stranger to their Intreagues writ under it with a piece of Charcole viz. Though good Sir Harry wou'd not Marry He lov'd the Pleasure out of measure When he liv'd and had his Feeling She was Lying he was Kneeling But now he 's Dead and past his Feeling He is Lying she is Kneeling 55. A Gentlewoman who in her Life-time was of but light Fame and so Lustful that she labour'd to Sue out a Divorce against her Husband for Insufficiency but dyed before it could be obtained whereupon laying a Stone over her he caused these Lines to be Cut on it She 's dead who living no Man e're cou'd please No natural Engine her hot Lust could ease But now behold the Wonders Death can do One Stone sufficeth her we plainly shew Who in her Life-time wan't content with Two 56. A Weaver's Wife in Spittle-Fields upon the Death of her Husband ordered a Mason to lay a Stone on his Grave●… and being desirous to have some Word●… upon it knew not what at last it cam●… into her Head viz. Here lyeth the Bod●… of John Ball Weaver of Spittle-Fields And what more says the Mason who was a Thick-skull'd Fellow at Invention That 's all says the Woman upon this he thinking she meant the last Words for a Rhime set it down in this manner Here lyeth the Body of John Ball Weaver of Spittle Fields That 's all 57. In another place a Man having been very troublesome to his Neighbours they were all glad when he died yet in Remembrance of him clubb'd for a Stone upon which were Engraved these Lines Here lies the Body of John Dry Ho! ho do's he so and there let him lie If you disturb him he will have a Claw His very Ghost with you will go to Law 58. A Country Fellow who had never seen a Coach before observing one come rattling along with a Gentlewoman in it demanded of one that came riding behind what that Trundling-House was call'd who reply'd a Coach Very fine reply'd the Countryman And who is that Gay Woman in it Why the Queen of Hearts said the other In troth reply'd he I thought so because the Knave of Clubs was so close at her heels for they are always shuffled together 59. A Mountebank riding along the Road saw a great Croud in another Road a little distant and sent his Man to see what the matter was who come riding back in great hast and Consternation crying out before he came at him O Master fly fly for your Life What ails the the Fool what 's the matter said our Doctor O Sir said his Man there 's a Fellow a●…going to be hanged for killing a Man and you have killed forty to my knowledge in your time with your Pills and Potions 60. A swinging stomach'd Fellow being set to a large piece of Roast-Beef ●…ut sometimes at one end and sometimes at another the Mistress of the House entreated him to cut fair and not spoil the fashion of the Meat Don't ●…ou take care no care for that reply'd ●…e it matters not where I out for I ●…o intend to make both ends and the middle meet before I go and he proved as good as his word for he eat it ●…ll up to the Admiration of all the Beholders 61. Counsellour Marriot the great Eater ●…argaining with a Man that know him ●…ot to fill his Belly with Gammon of Ba●…on for a Shilling he presently devoured ●…ne Gammon at which the Man be●…an to grumble saying He had put it ●…nto his Breeches or convey'd it out at ●…he Window for he was consident no Man could ever eat it it weighed said 〈◊〉 Nine Pound and half Puh thou art a silly Fellow says Marriot and dost not understand what belongs to eating I 'll wager you the price of both I eat another Done said the Cook and fetched another standing by till he had eat above half and was going on to the rest then he snatched it away saying Certainly thou art the Devil for none but the Devil cou'd devour at such a rate and so without taking a penny of his Money entreated him to be packing 62. Henry the Eighth designing to Wa●… against France ordered a Rough Message of Defiance to be carried to the French King which was so grating that the Messenger doubted of his Life if he delivered it saying The French King would undoubtedly take his Head off reply'd old Harry sternly If he dares to do it I will revenge the Affront in taking off the Heads of a Thousand o●… his Subjects But alas Sir said the other what good will that do me when I have lost mine for I do not believe any of theirs will fit my Shoulders 63.