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Tom gay's comical Jester, or The wit's merry medley
Being a new and most beautiful collection of brilliant jests, funny jokes, merry stories, humorous adventures, pleasant tales, smart repartees, witty quibbles, & Irish bulls, &c. &c. To which is added, a curious collection of new conundrums, rebusses and riddles, sharp epigrams, droll epitaphs, amorous, poems, songs, fables, &c. The whole being entirely freed from that dulness which infects most other jest books-and is calculated to kill care, banish sorrow, promote mirth, crack the sides, choar the heart, and prove an everlasting gordial for low spirits -
A Choice pennyworth of wit. or, A clear distinction between a virtuous wife and a Wanton Harlot
In three parts. Part I. How a merchant was deluded from his lady by a Harlot, to whom be carried gold jewels, and other things of value, for many years, which she receiv'd with unspeakable flattery, till his wife gave him a penny to lay it out for a pennyworth of wit. Part II. How he sailed into a far country where having exchanged his goods for other rich merchandize; and being in a tavern making merry, be scornfully derided his wife and extolled his Harlot; for which he was sharply reproved by an ancient man, who put him in a way to try his Harlot's love in time of trouble, for which the merchant gave him his wife's penny. Part III. How he returned richly laden to the British shore, and put himself in ragged array, and came to his Harlot, declaring that he had not only lost all that he had in a storm, but likewise he had slain one of his servants, for which his life was in great danger, and desired her shelter. But instead of so doing, she abused him with scandalous and vile language, threatning to have him apprehended. At which he left her, and returned to his wife (with the same pretence) who received him with unspeakable joy offering to sacrifice all that ever she had to save his life. Thus did he prove her a faithful wife, and the other a flattering Harlot. [With] other things worthy of note -
A Continuation of the humorous effects of cross-reading the news-papers
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Rochester's jests
or, the quintessence of wit; containing a new collection of merry stories, repartees, jokes, puns, Bulls, Blunders, Conundrums, the Newest Riddles, Rebusses, smartest Epigrams and Epitaphs; the most admired songs, sung by Mr. Beard, Mrs. Pinto, Miss Wright, &c. and two original love letters: To which is added, Wit Upon Windows, Copied by a London Rider. The Whole being free from that Obscenity, so frequent in most other Books of this kind, is calculated to inspire Mirth and Good Humour, without giving Offence to the chastest Ear