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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.
Gay, TomDate: [1770?]- E-books
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Tommy Trapwit's pleasant tales, entertaining stories, and merry jests . Recommended to the perusal of the little gentry of this Kingdom, by their old friend Margery commonly called Goody, two shoes.
Trapwit, Tommy.Date: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]- E-books
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The Merry jester, or, The rakes pocket companion . Containing a collection of comical and diverting jests. To which is added the fifteen plagues of a maidenhead, and the virgin's dream.
Date: Printed in the year 1771- E-books
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Cambridge jests. Being wit's recreation. If what's here said don't every humour fit, cease to find fault, till you can find more wit
Date: [1750?]- E-books
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The wits museum: or, the new London jester being a collection of the most brilliant jests, curious Bon-Mots, and the most pleasing short Stories in the English Language, as related by the following facetious Gentlemen: C. Bannister, J. Palmer, W. Palmer, Edwin, Lee-Lewis, Ned Scott, Harry Hale, Jack Quick, S.G. Delpini, And the Rest of the Sons of Conviviality, From the Witty Lord to the Droll Punster. To which is added a choice collection of moral sentences; also, a selection of Curious Epigrams.
Date: [1794?]