Ingenii fructus: or, the Cambridge jests, being youth's recreation. I. Containing Delightful, Choice, and Uncommon Novels. II. Merry with Witty Jests, and Pleasant Tales and Bulls. III. The Cambridge Punns, and Drollery, suitable to Mirthful Entertainment. IV. The Original of the Word Cockney, put upon Citizens. The throwing at Cocks on Shrove-Tuesday. The Original and Reason of Horn Fair, and Cuckolds-Point. V. The whole Art and Mystery of Love, in Courting Maids and Widows with Sucess, Nicking the Critical Minute to Crown your Love Passion, with an happy Issue. VI. New Jests, which may serve for the Witty Man's Companion, the Bune Man's Diversion, and the Melancholly Man's Physick and Recreation. Calculated for the Meridian of Cambridgshire, and may serve elsewhere, for the Innocent spending of Winter Evenings. If these Grand Truths don't every Humour fic, Let Pops like me, ne'er nibble more at Wit The sixth edition with new additions. By W. B.

  • W. B.
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[1710?]
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London : printed for D. Pratt at the Bible and Crown, at the Corner of Church-Lane, over against York Buildings in the Strand, [1710?]

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[8],160p. : ill. ; 120.

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ESTC T70884

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