Jests

This is rather sorry stuff; but then in purely rural places, untouched by that great civiliser, the railroad, a little wit goes a great way, as we may see by the following story told in Pasquil's "Jests," 1604.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

The earliest example of it occurs in the "Jests" attributed to Richard Tarleton, the famous comic performer of the Elizabethan stage, who died in 1588 -- the year of the Armada.

The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897

The ludicrous side of this subject may be seen by reading Tarlton's "Jests" and his

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

Even Joe Miller, in his "Jests,", has an eye to poetical justice; generally gives the victory or turns the laugh on the side of merit.

the literary miscellany or, lections and extracts, classical and scientific; with originals, in ... shenstone and franklin 1812

[214] [The writer seems here to have intended an allusion to Scogin, whose "Jests" were well-known at that time as a popular book.] [215] [_I think_, omitted in second 4to.] [216] A strong kind of cloth so called, and several times mentioned in

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

Fools "(inserted in the introduction to the reprint of his" Jests "by the Shakespeare Society, from a MS. belonging to the Editor of this volume), was written for his humorous recitation by some popular author.

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

I was very much taken by the taglines of Home Brew, which states that it is "Full of Moonshine," and promises "Peppy Stories - Pungent Jests - Piquant Gossip."

Peppy Stories, Pungent Jests, Piquant Gossip scottedelman 2008

The English have never learnt that we have the Advantage of 'em, especially by way of physical Strength & Vigour; and that there is a Price to be paid for the continual childish Japes & Jests they seem habituated to make at our Expense.

"I encourage conservative and libertarian — or just mischievous — students to flood the system with complaints about anything that offends them." Ann Althouse 2008

I am as willing to be amus'd by Satires and Jests upon Tories equally as Whigs.

Did yesterday's hostage crisis teach us anything about Hillary Clinton? Ann Althouse 2007

Jests, jokes, jigs and jorums for the Wake lent from the properties of the late cemented Mr T.M. Finnegan R.I.C. Lipmasks and hairwigs by Ouida Nooikke.

Finnegans Wake 2006