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The wit's magazine; or, new Convivial Jester. Containing a select collection of pleasing bon mots, humorous tales, lively jests, singular characters, Irish Bulls, smart repartees, droll epigrams, and funny epitaphs. Interspersed with many curious anecdotes of the wits of the last and present age, viz. Addison, Pope, Steele, Swift, Chesterfield, Church-Ill, Smollet, Johnson, Garrick, Quin, Foote, &c. Not published in any other Collection. Being a repository of genuine wit and humour, calculated for Enlivening a Social Hour, and promoting in offensive Mirth.