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From Joe Miller’s Jest Book, which is a pirated but exact version of The Jest Book, selected and arranged by Mark Lemon, except for some Americanized spellings; New York : Hurst & Co., no date; pp. 373-389.

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T H E J E S T B O O K.

INDEX

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Abbey Church at Bath, The 244

A Bed of — Where ? 238

Abernethy, Mr. 77

Above Proof 297

Absent Man, An 116

Absurdly Logical 319

Acceptable Deprivation, An 201

Accommodating 213

Accommodating Physician, A 180

Accommodating Principles 153

Accurate Description 201

Acres and Wiseacres 355

Act of Justice, An 147

Advantageous Tithe, An 255

Advertisement Extraordinary 88

Advice Gratis 160

Advice to a Dramatist 199

Advice to the Young 138

Affectionate Hint, An 344

Aged Young Lady, The 235

Agreeable and Not Complimentary 71

Agreeable Practice, An 248

Agricultural Experiences 184

Alere Flamman 252

Allegorical Representation 310

All the Difference 5, 367

All the Same 314

Almanac-Makers 159

Alone in his Glory 14

Always the Better 336

Amende Honorable, The 310

American Penance 217

Ample Apology, An 356

Anecdote, An 86

Anglo-French Alliance, The 50

Angry Ocean, The 81

Answered at Once 288

Answering her According to her Folly 345

Anticipated Calamity, An 349

Anticipation 110

Any Change for the Better 220

Any Port in a Storm 57

Apish Resemblance, An 322

Apt Reproof, An 307

Arcadian, An 128

Architectural Pun, An 61

Argument, An 125

Artificial Heat 28

Artistic Touch, An 171

As Black as he could be painted 337

Aspiring Poverty 345

Assurance and Insurance 228

As You Like It 87

At his Fingers’ Ends 106

Attending to a Wish 169

Attic Jest, An 69

Attired to Tire 343

Audley, The Late Lord 130

Auricular Confession 227

Awkward Orthography 298

“ Aye ! There’s the Rub ” 93

BACK-HANDED HIT, A 209

Bad Bargain, A 131

Bad Company 166

Bad Crop, A 18, 58

Bad Customer, A 96

Bad Example, A 1

Bad Habit, A 136

374

Bad Harvest, A 23

Bad Judge, A 287

Bad Label, A 92

Bad Medium, A 217

Bad Preacher, A 226

Balancing Accounts 66

Banker’s Check, A 17

Barber Shaved by a Lawyer, A 305

Bark and Bite 231

Barry’s Powers of Pleasing 34

Base Joke, A 347

Bearable Pun, A 358

Bear and Van 16

Bearding a Barber 2

Bed of — Where ? A 238

Benefit of Competition 212

Best Judge, The 110

Best Wine, The 300

Better Known Than Trusted 193

Bewick, The Engraver 194

Bill Paid in Full 228

Billy Brown and the Counsellor 50

Birth of a Prince, The 178

Bishop and Churchwarden, A 71

Bishop and his Portmanteau, The 55

Bit of Moonshine 335

Black and White 19, 63

Black Joke, A 159

Black Letter 101

Blotting it Out 95

Blowing a Nose 55

Book Case, A 70

Boswell’s “ Life of Johnson, ” A 154

Braham and Kenney 237

Bred on the Boards 162

Brevity of Charity 215

Brief Correspondence, A 179

“ Brief Let It Be ” 210

Bright and Sharp 63

Bright Rejoinder, A 346

Bringing his Man Down 245

Broad-brim Hint, A 81

Broad Hint, A 85, 165

Broad-sheet Hint, A 75

Broken Head, A 98

Brotherly Love 46, 300

Brutal Affections 67

Budget of Blunders, A 141

Buried Worth 56

Burke and Fox 258

Burke’s Tediousness 270

Business and Pleasure 326

Busy Bodies 124

But one Good Translation 358

Byron Libellous 342

Calculation 105

Caledonian Comfort 99

Calf’s Head Surprised, A 25

Caliban’s Looking-Glass 51

Cambridge Etiquette 76

Candid Counsel, A 156

Candid on both Sides 222

Candle and Lantern, The 125

Canine Poetry 169

Canning’s Parasites 71

Capital Joke, A 56

Capital Letter, A 14

Carrots Classically Considered 222

Cart before the Horse, A 60

Case of Necessity, A 189

Cash Payments 149

Catching him Up 70

Cause and Effect 226, 344

Cause of Absence 40

Cautious Lover, A 108

Celestial Vision, A 351

Certain Crop, A 208

Certainly not Asleep, A 109

Certainty, A 83

Challenging a Jury 107

Change for a Guinea 337

Change for the Better, A 197

Changing Hats 280

Changing His Coat 3

Changing his Line 39

Characteristics 237

Charitable Wit 195

Charity and Inconvenience 326

Charity Begins at Home 312

Charles, Duke of Norfolk 271

375

Charles II. and Milton 192

Chartist not a Leveller, A 334

Chatham, Lord 263

Cheap at the Money 209

Cheap Cure, A 17

Cheap Watch, A 168

Check to the King 22

Cheese and Dessert 21

Chemical Oddity 322

Chesterfield, Lord 37

Chin-surveying 280

Choice of Evils, A 334

Choice Spirits 180

Church in the Way, The 246

City Glutton 358

City Varnish, A 61

Claim on the Country, A 249

Classical Wit 333

Claw and Claw 54

Clear Case, A 122

Clear the Court 118

Clearing Emigrants 272

Clerical Wit 95

Clever Dog, A 47

Climax, A 19, 341

Clonmel, Lord 172

Close Escape, A 187

Close Translation, A 317

Coat-of-Arms, A 211

Cockney Epigram, A 36

Cold Comfort 132

“ Cold Compliment, ” A 73

Coleridge and Thelwall 275

College Bell ! The 109

Collins, The late Mr. 24

Colonial Breweries 313

Colorable Excuse, A 179

Colorable Resemblance, A 145

Comedian and a Lawyer, A 190

Common Case, A 64

Common Politeness, A 195

Common Want, A 219

Comparison, A 152, 234, 273

Comparisons are Odious 2

Comparative Virtue 357

Complimentary 4, 362

Compliment Ill-received, A 78

Conceited but not Seated 201

Con-cider-ate 139

Concurrent Events 134

Conditional Agreement, A 315

Confidence 103, 120

Confidence — taken from the French, A 193

Confirmed Invalid, A 1

Congratulations to One Who Curled his Hair 85

Conjugal Caution, A 8

Conjugal Conclusion, A 282

Connoisseur, The 7

Connubial Compliment, A 365

Conservative Logic 300

Considerable Latitude 44

Considerate Mayor, A 292

Considerate Son, A 89

Consistency 179

Constitutional Pun, A 4

Contraband Scotchman 67

Convenient Theory, A 358

Cooke’s Explanation of the Family Plate 158

Cooking his Goose 315

Cool as a Cucumber 356

Cool Hand, A 85

Cool Proposition, A 299

Cool Retort 208

Corporation Politeness 219

Corruptly Incorruptible 172

Couleur de Rose 58

Coulson, Sir Thomas 232

Critical Politeness 30

Criticising a Statue 152

Cruel Case, A 229

Cruel Suggestion 68

Cup and Saucer 200

Cut and Come Again 51

Cut Direct, The 124

Cut Infernal, The 103

Cutting an Acquaintance 253

Cutting his Coat 57

Cutting off the Supplies 310

Cutting on Both Sides 69

DAMPED ARDOR 240

Dancing Prelates, The 226

376

Dangerous Generalization, A 243

Dangerously Well 89

Dead Language 110

Deadly Weapon, A 288

Dear Bargain, A 323

Dear Speaker, A 319

Death and Dr. Bolus 335

Death-bed Forgiveness 323

Debt Paid, The 77, 326

Debtor and Creditor 126

Decanting Extraordinary 168

Defining a Creed 335

Delicate Hint 130

Delpini’s Remonstrance 144

Democratic Vision 80

Deserved Retort, A 64

Destitution of the Smith Family 351

Devil’s Own, The 229

Dialogue in the Western Islands of Scotland 279

Difference, A 4

Difference of Opinion 277

Difficult Task, A 188

Difficulties in Either Case 318

Dinner Code 368

Direct Road, The 197

Disappointing Subscriber, A 194

Disapprobation 45

“ Distant ” Friend, A 259

Distant Prospect, A 16

Distressful Denouement, A 300

Doctor Glynn’s Receipt for a Cucumber 285

Doctor Weather-eye 59

Doctrine of Chances, The 15

Dodging a Creditor 136

Dogged Answer, A 10

Dog Tax, The 352

Doing Homage 223

Domestic Economy 92

Double Knock, A 116

Double Sight 365

“ Double Times, ” A 88

Doubt Explained, The 353

Doubtful Compliment, A 31

Doubtful Creed, A 105

Dreadful Suspicion, A 328

Drinking Alone 174

Driving it Home 113

Droll to Order 322

Dry, but not Thirsty 350

Dry Fellow, A 227

Dull Man, A 274

Dulness of a Debate 162

Dunning and Lord Mansfield 39

Dunning and Lord Thurlow 97

Duplex Movement 58

Dutiful Daughter, A 309

EARLY BIRDS OF PREY 261

Early Habits 342

Easily Answered 135

Easily Satisfied 164

East Indian Chaplaincy, An 245

Easy as Lying 29

Easy Way, An 302

Ebenezer Adams 150

Effort of Memory, An 163

Elegant Compliment An 32

Elegant Retort 205

Elliston and George IV. 240

Eloquent Silence 117

Emperor of China 48

Empty Gun, The 113

Empty Head, An 92

Encouragement 216

Endless Task, An 351

Entering the Lists 236

Entertaining Proposition, An 318

EPIGRAMS : —

Accounting for the Apostacy of Ministers 173

Addressed to Miss Edgeworth 83

A Good Word for Ministers 39

An Affirmative 367

By a Plucked Man 93

Conversational Epigram, A 365

“ Cumberland ” 34

From the Italian 82

He that will never look upon an Ass 159

“ I’m Living Still ” 17

“ Life is a Lottery ” 90

“ Nature ” to the Shoulder the Burden Suits 311

On a Bad Man 47

377

On a Bald Head 198

On a Certain Mr. P.’s Indisposition 196

On a Debtor Lord 222

On a Gentleman Named Heddy 297

On a Great Talker 337

On a Lady who Squinted 79

On a Lady who was Painted 262

On a Little Member’s Versatility 203

On a New Duke, A 37

On a Petit-Maître Physician 240

On a Squinting Poetess 315

On a Stone thrown at a very Great Man, but which missed him 26

On a Student 232

On Alderman Wood 224

On an M. P. who recently got his Election at the Sacrifice of his Political Character 214

On Bank Notes being made a Legal Tender 53

On Bishop ——’s Religion 365

On Black and White 63

On Blank Cartridge 341

On Bloomfield, the Poet 291

On Butler’s Monument 340

On Charles Kean, the Actor 80

On “ Disloyal ” Collins 336

On Dr. Glynn’s Beauty 182

On Dr. Lettsom 290

On Dr. Walcot’s Application for Shield’s Ivory Opera Pass 315

On Dr. Walcot’s Request for Ivory Tickets 318

On Farren the Actor 54

On Hearing a prosing Harangue from a Certain Bishop 245

On Interminable Harangues 76

On Jekyll’s nearly being thrown down by a small Pig, A 116

On L—d—d—y 81

On Lord ——’s delivering his Speeches in a sitting Position, owing to excessive Gout 121

On Lord E—nb—h’s Pericranium 89

On Lord W——’s saying the Independence of the House of Lords is gone 193

On Marriage 170

On Meanness 117

On Mr. Croker 111

On Mr. Gully 234

On Mr. Milton, the Livery Stable-keeper 239

On Mr. Pitt’s being pelted by the Mob 295

On Neglect of Judicial Duties 129

On Rogers, the Poet 226

On Shelley’s Poem, “ Prometheus Unbound ” 230

On Sir Walter Scott’s Poem of Waterloo 304

On the alleged Disinterestedness of a Certain Prelate 109

On the Charge of Illegally Pawning brought against Captain B——, M. P. 200

On the Column to the Duke of York’s Memory 29

On the Death of Foote 81

On the Depth of Duke ——’s Arguments 88

On the Disappointment of the Whigs 307

On the Duke of ——’s Consistency 104

On the Four Georges 294

On the Immortality of ——’s Speeches. 89

On the King’s Double Dealing 166

On the late Duke of Buckingham’s Moderate Reform 328

On the Marriage of a very thin Couple 172

On the Name of Keopalani 153

On the Oiled and Perfumed Ringlets of a certain Lord 178

378

On the Price of Admission to see the Mammoth Horse 266

On the Sincerity of a certain Prelate 134

On the Two Harveys 247

On Two Contractors 316

On ——’s Ponderous Speeches, A 223

On ——’s Veracity 319

“ Pocket your Watch, ” 131

Suggested by Hearing a Debate 241

“ There’s Nobody at Home ” 65

To Closefist 303

To Lady, Mount E—— 300

To the “ Coming ” Man 313

“ Turncoat ” 46

Upon the Trustworthiness of —— —— 332

“ Very like a Whale ” 154

Written on the Union, 1801 298

Episcopal Sauce 114

Epitaph for Sir John Vanbrugh 16

Epitaph on a Miser 220

Epitaph upon Peter Staggs 227

Equal to Nothing 177

Equality 52, 156

Equality of the Law 288

Equitable Law 290

Equivocal Preference, An 355

Equivocation, An 198

Erasmus v. Luther 293

Error Corrected, An 237

Error in Judgment 306

Erskine, Henry 220, 244

Erskine’s Firmness 327

“ Essay on Man ” 185

Euclid Refuted 162, 333

Evasion, An 335

Evidence of a Jockey 75

Exaggeration 160

Excusable Fear 275

Excuse for Cowardice 295

Existence of Matter 363

Expectoration 211

Expensive Job, An 362

Expensive Trip, An 311

Experimentum Crucis 324

Explanation, An 180

Extenuating Circumstances 119

Extinguisher, An 12

Extraordinary Compromise 177

Extreme Simplicity 87

Extremely Sulphurous 366

Extremes Meet 59, 77

Eye to Profit, An 33

FAIR DISTRIBUTION, A 344

Fair Proposal, A 105

Fair Repulse, A 54

Fair Substitute, A 4

Fall in Mitres, A 23

False Delicacy 23

False Estimate 216

False Face True, A 292

False Quantities 154

False Quantity 27

Familiar Friend, A 329

Familiar Illustration, A 41

Familiarity 177

Family Party, A 25

Family Pride 74

Farmer and Attorney 44

Farren the Actor, On 54

Fashion and Virtue 329

Fat and Lean 264

Fatigue Duty 152

Favorite Air, A 210

Fear of Educating Women 140

Feeling His Way 103

Feeling Witness, A 59

Female Talkers 49

Few Friends 185

Fiction and Truth 264

Fig for the Grocer, A 150

Fighting by Measure 49

Filial Affection 182

Fillip for Him, A 18

Fire and Water 155

Fire of London, The 31

Fishing for a Compliment 82

Fishy, Rather 80

Flash of Wit, A 276

Flattery Turned to Advantage 30

Flying Colors 318

Following a Leader 78

Fool and his Money, A 359

379

Fool Confirmed, A 252

Fool or Knave 313

Foote and Lord Townsend 94

Foote’s Last Joke 368

Force of Habit, The 125, 257

Force of Nature 55

Force of Satire, The 49

Forcible Argument, A 276

Foreign Accent, A 29

Forgetful Man, A 181

Fortunate Expedient, A 294

Fortunate Stars 271

Fowl Joke, A 311

Fox, Mr. Charles, James 361

Free Translation, A 355

French Language 109

French Precipitation 52

Full House, A 257

Full Inside 170

Full Stop, A 264

Funeral Invitation 356

Garrick and Foote 199

Garth and Rowe 357

Generosity and Prudence 213

Gently, Jemmy 151

Genuine Irish Bull 128

Genuine Laziness 360

George II. and the Recorder 106

Getting a Living 274

“ Getting the Worst of It ” 340

Gluttons and Epicures 153

Going from the Point 335

Going to Extremes 332

Good Advice 3, 152, 208, 211

Good Appetite, A 254

Good at a Pinch 223

Good at the Halt 302

Good Authority 173

Good Character, A 304

Good Critic, A 114

Good Enough for a Pig 364

Good Evidence 227

Good Example, A 83

Good Excuse, A 134

Good Hearing 206

Good-hearted Fellow, A 81

Good Investment, A 235

Good Jail Delivery, A 183

Good Joke, A 210

Good Joke, A 361

Good Likeness, A 253

Good Mixture, A 283

Good Neighbor, A 197

Good News for the Chancellor 144

Good One, A 135

Good Parson, A 14

Good Place, A 30

Good Reason, A 47, 50, 53, 78

Good Reason for a Bad Cause, A 313

Good Recommendation, A 266

Good Riddance 105

Good Servant, A 66

Good Swimmer, A 171

Good Translation, A 138

Good Wife, A 250

Gouty Shoe, The 189

Graceful Excuse 175

Graceful Illustration, A 230

Grammatical Distinction, A 17

Grandiloquence 248

Grandson, The 299

Grave Doctor, A 18

Great Cabbage 251

Great Difference, A 132

Gretna Customer, A 100

Grim Joke, A 360

Guide to Government Situations, A 59

HABEAS CORPUS ACT 194

Hand and Glove 21

Handsome Contribution, A 42

Happy Man, A 121

Happy Suggestion, A 32

Hard Hit, A 187

Hard of Digestion 215

Having a Call 258

Heavy Weight, A 296

“ He Lies like Truth ” 21

380

He Who Sung “ The Lays of Ancient Rome ” 322

Henry VIII. 278

Hesitation in his Writing 59

High and Low 36

High Gaming 215

Highland Politeness 186

Hinc Illæ Lachrymæ 70

Hint for Genealogists, A 191

His Way — Out 188

Hoaxing an Audience 206

Holland’s Funeral 308

Home Argument, A 72

Home is Home 19

Honest Horse, An 31

Honest Man’s Litany, The 204

Honest Warranty, An 94

Honor to Tipperary, An 338

Hook’s Politeness 127

Hopeful Pupil, The 124

Hopeless Invasion, A 322

Horne Tooke and Wilkes 284

Horse Laugh, A 7

Horses to Grass 285

How to Escape Taxation 238

How go get rid of an Enemy 261

How to make a Man of Consequence 168

Human Happiness 64

Humane Society at an Evening Party, The 191

Humor Under Difficulties 52

Humorist Piqued, A 339

Husbanding his Resources 321

Husband’s Message, On Mr. 120

“ I CAN GET THROUGH ” 263

Illegal Indorsement, An 325

Imitation of a Cow 121

Important to Bachelors 280

Impossible in the Evening 254

Impossible Renunciation, An 191

Impromptu by Counsellor Bushe 181

Impromptu by R. B. Sheridan 180

Impromptu on an Apple being thrown at Mr. Cooke, A 230

Impromptu — “ St. Stephen’s Walls ” A 101

Impromptu — “ The Fall of Sparta ” 143

Impudent Wit, An 346

Inadvertence and Epicurism 286

Inconvenient Break Down, An 303

Independence 101

Indifference to Death 367

Indifference to Life 274

In-door Relief 185

Industry and Perseverance 212

Industry of the English People 307

Inevitable Misfortune, An 352

Information easily Acquired 326

Ingenious Device, An 196

Ingenious reply of a Soldier 37

Ingenuousness 104

Ingratitude 58, 283

Inhospitable Irishman, An 364

In Memoriam 320

Inquest Extraordinary 97, 312

Inquest — Not Extraordinary 132

Inquests Exraordinary 102

Inscription on Inscriptions, A 2

Insurance Assurance 360

Insurmountable Difficulty, An 260

Interested Inquiry 357

In the Background 230

In the Dark 218

Introductory Ceremony, An 67

Intruder Rebuked, The 30

In Want of a Husband 231

Ireland’s Forgery 134

Irish and Scotch Loyalty 290

Irish Imprudence 291

Irishman’s Notion of Discount, An 282

Irishman’s Plea, An 212

Iron Duke, The 118

“ I Takes ’Em as They Come ” 341

“ I’ve Done the same Thing often ” 103

JAMES SMITH AND JUSTICE HOLLAND 235

Jemmy Gordon 256

Jest of Ancestry, The 176

Jew’s Eye to Business, A 286

Johnson and Mrs. Siddons 128

Johnson, Dr. 190

381

Johnson, Dr., Without Variation 71

Johnson’s, Dr., Opinion of Mrs. Siddons 197

Joint Concern, A 46

Joke from the North, A 366

Jolly Companions 256

Judge in a Fog, A 199

“ Junius ” Discovered 11

Jury Case, A 350

Just as Wonderful 312

Just Debtor, A 56

Justice Midas 332

Justice not always Blind 144

KEAN’S IMPROMPTU 100

Keeping a Conscience 126

Keeping a Promise 117

Keeping It to Himself 333

Keeping Time 236

Kew, The Way to 297

Killed by his Own Remedy 338

Kind Hint, A 336

Kitchener and Colman 145

Knotty Point, A 47

Knowing Best 183

Knowing his Man 91, 313

Knowing his Place 69

Lamb and Erskine 123

Lamb and Sharp Sauce 212

Lame Beggar, The 308

Landlord and Tenants 48

Large, but not Large Enough 219

Last Resource, A 274

“ Last War, ” The 165

Late and Early 203

Late Dinner 112

Late Discoverer, A 330

Late Edition, A 15

The Latin for Cold 123

Latin Gerunds’s, On the 135

Law and Physic 181, 333

Law and the Scottish Thane 342

Lawyer’s House 149

Lawyer’s Opinion of Law, A 99

Leaving His Verdict 100

Legal Adulteration 147

Legal Extravagance 249

Letter C, The 248

Letter H, The 136, 199

Letter Wanting, A 138

Liberal Gift 135

Licensed to Kill 160

Lie for Lie 198

Light-headed 20

Light Joke, A 250

Light Study, A 19

Light Subject, The 4

Lincoln’s-Inn Dinners 207

Lines to O’Keefe 330

Lingual Infection 214

Liquid Remedy for Baldness 196

Liston’s Dream 148

Literal Joke, A 125

Literary Pastime 354

Literary Rendering, A 284

Little Rain, A 260

Little to Give 171

Long Bill, A 145

Long Illness, A 279

Long Residence, A 239

Look A-head 178

Look in his Face 12

Losing an I 113

Lost and Found 276

Love and Hymen 148

Love of the Sea 157

Love Songs, by Dean Swift 32

Lusus Naturæ, A 189

Luxurious Smoking 173

Lying Consistently 20

MAC READY TO CALL 178

Mad Quakers 138

Maids and Wives 43

Majesty of Mud, The 61

Making a Clearance 143

Making Free 263

Making Free with the Waist 321

Making It Up 52

Making Progress 232

Malone, Sir Anthony 184

Man and a Brother, A 337

Man of Letters, A 26

382

Man of Metal 306

Man Without a Rival 198

Mark of Respect, A 100

Marriage 82, 211

Matter in his Madness 8

Maule-practice 249

Measure for Measure 64, 146

Measure of a Brain, The 93

Measuring his Distance 46

Mechanical Surgeon, A 169

Medical Opinion, A 158

Medicine must be of Use, The 62

Melodramatic Hit 279

Men of Letters 205

Men of Weight 322

Merry Thought, A 346

Michaelmas Meeting, A 331

Milesian Advice 77

Military Axiom, A 276

Military Eloquence 310

Milton on Woman 53

Mind your Points 242

Minding his Business 107

Minding his Cue 203

Miser’s Charity 53

Mistaken Identity 13

“ Mixture as Before, The, ” 22

Model Philanthropist, A 251

Modern Acting 185

Modern Sculptor, A 188

Modest Merit 75

Modest Request 25

Money-Borrower Deceived, The 306

Money-Lender, A 217

Money Returned 21

Money’s Work 188

Money’s Worth 233, 262

Moral Equality of Man 93

More Honored in the Breach 238

Mot of Defoe, A 54

Motherly Remark 233

Multiplying One 366

Musical Blow-up, A 174

Musical Taste 214

Mystery Cleared Up, A 237

NAMELESS MAN, A 260

Napoleon’s Statue at Bologne 128

Nat Lee and Sir Robert L’Estrange 43

National Prejudice 247

Natural Antipathy 228

Natural Grief 186

Natural Transmutation 60

Nature and Art 273

Naval Oratory 108

Neat Quotation, A 65

Neat Suggestion, A 315

Neck or Nothing 24

Neighborly Politeness 296

New Disguise, A 141

New Idea, A 296

New Reading, A 201, 271

New Relationship 3, 317

New Scholar, A 89

New Sign, A 154

New Sport, A 104

New View, A 255

New Way to Pay Old Debts 29

New Way with Attorneys, A 352

Nice Distinction, A 95, 112

Nice Language 120

Night and Morning 170

Nil Nisi, &c 166

No Intrusion 323

No Matter What Color 242

No Music in his Soul 329

No Redeeming Virtue 309

No Sacrifice 261

Noise for Nothing, A 167

Nominal Rhymes 83

Non Sequitur 57

“ None so Blind, ” &c. 58

North, Lord, Asleep 161

North’s, Lord, Drollery 241

Nosce te Ipsum 243

Not at all Anxious 324

Not at Home 207

Not Finding Himself 347

Not Giving Himself “ Airs ” 305

Not Importunate 236

Not Improbable 308

Not Insured Against Fire 186

383

Not Necessary 228

Not Quite Correct 252

Not Room for a Neighbor 339

Not Sick Enough for That 273

Not so Bad for a King 58

Not so “ Daft ” as Reputed 321

Not so Easy 106

Not to be Believed 342

Not to Be Bought 68

Not to be Done Brown 276

Not to be Tempted 218

Not to Be Trifled With 87

Nothing but Hebrew 266

Nothing but the “ Bill ” 12

Nothing Personal 190

Nothing Surprising 339

Nothing to Boast Of 313

Nothing to Laugh at 199

Notice to Quit 125

Notions of Happiness 181

Novel Complaint, A 8

Novel Idea, A 112

Novel Offence 45

OBJECTIONABLE PROCESS, AN 328

Odd Bird, An 102

Odd Comparison, An 40

Odd Family, An 99

Odd Fellow, An 68

Odd Foresight 166

Odd Housekeeping 225

Odd Notion, An 277

Odd Occurrence, An 242

Odd Question, An 186

“ Off with his Head ” 337

Offensive Preference, An 325

Old Adage Refuted, An 314

Old Friends 311

Old Joke, An 112

Old Stories Over Again 52

Ominous, Very ! 213

On the Right Side 40

On the Spot 327

One Bite at a Cherry 150

“ One for his Nob ” 9

One Good Turn Deserves Another 7

One Head Better than a Dozen 126

One-sided Joke, A 353

One-spur Horseman, The 255

One Thing at a Time 210

One Thing Wanting, The 7

Only a Ninepin 317

Only Enough for One 200

Only for Life 304

Open Confession 289

Opposite Tempers 281

Orators, The 185

Order for Two, An 82

Order ! Order ! 123

Origin of the Term Grog 268

Original Attraction, An 79

Orthography 277

Our English Love of Dinners 176

“ Our Landlady ” 246

“ Out, Brief Candle ” 33

Out of Spirits 302

Outline, An 304

Outline of an Ambassador 272

Outward Appearance 28

Oxford and Cambridge Actors 132

PADDY’S LOGIC 54

Painful Examination, A 325

Painted Charms 326

Painting 162, 166

Painting and Medicine 221

Par Nobile Fratrum 148

Pardonable Mistake, A 6

Parliamentary Case 272

Parliamentary Reprimand 184

Participation in a Practical Joke, A 282

Partnership dissolved 88

Passing the Bottle 11

Pat Reply, A 161

Patrick Henry 175

Paying in Kind 130, 257

Pence Table 108

Perfect Bore, A 246

Perfect Discontent 131

384

Personalities of Garrick and Quin 231

Pertinent Inquiry 208

Pertinent Question, A 310, 347

Phenomenon Accounted for, A 63

Philanthropist, The 165

Philip, Earl of Stanhope 359

Philosophical Reason, A 255

Phonetic Joke, A 144

Picking Pockets 321

Pickpocketing 97

Piece de Resistance 123

Piece of Plate, A 113

Pigs and the Silver Spoon, The 292

Pill Gratis, A 133

Pink of Politeness, The 36

Pious Minister, A 131

Place Wanted, A 67

Plain Enough 267

Plain Language 149

Plain Speaking 249

Play Upon Words, A 256

Player, or Lord 320

Playing on a Word 33

Pleasant Deserts 72

Pleasant for a Father 354

Pleasant Invitation 8

Pleasant Message, A 363

Pleasant Partner, A 275

Plural Number, The 249

Poet Foiled, The 190

Poetical Shape, A 64

Poets to certain Critics, The 225

Point Needing to be Settled, A 349

Polite Rebuke, A 208

Polite Scholar, The 85

Political Corruption 80

Political Logic 348

Political Sinecure 240

Poor Curate, The 296

Poor Laugh, A 349

Poor Substitute, A 301

Pope’s Last Illness 281

Popping the Question 25

Porson v. Dr. Jowett 214

Porson’s Visit to the Continent A 27

Portmanteau v. Trunk 127

Portrait Capitally Executed, A 8

Poser, A 44, 203, 226, 267, 287

Poser by Lord Ellenborough, A 170

Possible Censors 365

Pot Valiant 225

Powder without Ball 281

Practical Retort 248

Precautionary 330

Preferable Way, A 334

Pressing Reason, A 232

Pretty Metaphor, A 26

Pretty Picture, A 38

Pretty Reply, A 358

Previous Engagement, A 366

Priest’s Orders 336

Prime’s Preservative 320

Primogeniture 22

Prince of Orange and Judge Jefferies, The 25

Principle of Governments, The 314

Probability, A 147

Problem for Total Abstainers, A 352

Profession and Practice 331

Professional 47

Professional Aim, A 318

Professional Candor 329

Professional Companions 330

Professional Recognition 351

Profitable Juggling 97

Promise to Pay, A 139

Proof Impression 23

Proof Positive 320

Proper Answer, A 206

Proper Distinction 174

Proper Name, A 299

Proper Retort, A 116

Proud Heart, A 191

Proverb Reversed, A 186

Provident Boy, A 62

Proving their Metal 16

Pulling Up a Poet 338

Punctuation 139

Pungent Pinch, A 336

Pun with an Irish Accent, A 352

385

“ Puppies never See till they are Nine Days Old ” 192

Putting a Stop to Pilgrim’s Progress 90

Quaint Epitaph 364

Quakerly Objection, A 80

Qualifying for Bail 33

Quantum Suff. 212

Queer Expression, A 282

Queer Partners 172

Query Answered, A 62

Query for Mr. Babbage, A 209

Question and Answer 60

Question Answered 312

Question for the Peerage, A 167

Question of Descent 354

Question of Time 133

Quick Lie, A 346

Quid Pro Quo 85, 216, 267, 269

Quiet Dose, A 226

Quiet Theft 151

Quin and Charles I. 316

Quin and the Parson 227

Quin’s Saying 50

Quin’s Soliloquy on Seeing the Embalmed Body of Duke Humphry at St. Alban’s 38

Quite Aground 199

Quite at Ease 271

Quite Natural 53

Quite Perfection 24

Quite Poetical 219

Quite Professional 290

RAILROAD ENGINEER, THE 155

Rake’s Economy, A 164

Rare Virtue, A 43

Rather A-curate 262

Rather Ethereal 278

Rather Ferocious 303

Rather Hard 133

Rather Saucy 161

Rather the Worst Half 256

Ready-made Wood Pavement 174

Ready Reckoner, A 70, 163, 259

Reason for being too Late, A 356

Reason for Belief, A 326

Reason for Going to Church 70

Reason for Not Moving, A 338

Reason for Polygamy, A 342

Reason for Running Away, A 248

Reason for Thick Ankles 293

Reason Why, The 94, 231

Reasonable Demand, A 149

Reasonable Excuse, A 193

Reasonable Preference, A 323

Reasonable Refusal, A 241

Reasonable Request 102

Reasons for Drinking 242

Rebel Lord’s , The 196

Reciprocal Action 355

Recruiting Serjeant and Countryman 86

Reflection, A 96

Reformation 176

Relations of Mankind 173

Remarkable Echo, A 309

Republic of Learning, The 107

Republic of Letters 324

Resignation 144

Resting Herself 334

Retort Cutting, The 31

Reverse Joke, A 221

Reverse of Circumstances 10

Richmond Hoax, The 262

Right Organ, The 242

Rigid Impartiality 359

Ringing the Changes 91

Rising Son, The 1

Riskful Adventure, A 331

Rivals, The 110

Rogers — Poet and Skipper 176

Rowing in the same Boat 128

Rowland for an Oliver, A 163

Royal Jest, A 366

Royal Muff, A 164

Rub at a Rascal, A 61

Rule of Practice, A 354

Ruling Passion after Death, The 51

“ Ruling Passion Strong in Death, The ” 200, 350

Ruling Passion, The 129, 218, 367

Rum and Water 141

386

Runaway Knock, A 195

Running Accounts 291

Running No Risk 339

SADDLE ON THE RIGHT HORSE, THE 18

Safe Appeal, A 108

Safe Side, The 292

Sage Simile, A 61

Sailor’s Wedding 215

St. Peter a Bachelor 286

Salic Law, The 361

Salisbury Cathedral Squire, The 147

Sanitary Air, A 218

Satisfaction 108

Satisfactory Explanation, A 340

Satisfactory Reason, A 115

Satisfactory Total 105

Saucy Answer, A 363

Save us from our Friends 157

Saving Time 247

Scold’s Vocabulary, The 40

Scotch Caution 119

Scotch Medium 130

Scotch Penetration 133

Scotch Simplicity 42

Scotch Understanding 66

Scotch “ Wut ” 168, 316

Scotchmen and Highwaymen 291

Scott, Sir Walter, and Constable 288

Scott’s, Sir Walter, Parritch-pan A 283

Sealing an Oath 65

Seasonable Joke, A 89, 273

Season-ings, The 207

Secret Discovered, A 357

Seeing a Coronation 127

Seeing not Believing 270

Self-Applause 314

Self-Conceit 235

Self-condemnation 265, 325

Self-interest 367

Self-knowledge 76

Selwyn, George 47

Sensibility 304

Sent Home Free 192

Sentence of Death 34

Sermons in Stones 341

Setting him Up to Knock him Down 178

Setting Up and Setting Down 256

Settled Point, A 256

Severe Rebuke, A 285

Shakespeare Illustrated 129

Shakespearian Grog 350

Shaking Hands 53

Sharp Brush, A 320

Sharp, if not Pleasant 245

Sheepish Compliment, A 44

Sheridan and Burke 336

Sheridan Convivial 268

Short and Sharp 134

Short Commons 160

Short Creed, A 218

Short Journey 170, 278

Short Measure 168

Short-sighted 254

Short Stories 79

Should Not Silence give Consent ? 236

Shuffling Answer, A 327

Sign of Being Cracked 68

Significant Difference, A 332

Silent Appreciation 332

Silk Gown, A 93

Simple Division 19

Simplicity of the Learned Porson 82

Sinecure, A 182

”Sinking” the Well 297

Slack Payment 175

Sleeping at Church 268

Sleeping Round 106

Slight Difference, A 111, 238

Slight Eruption, A 114

Small Glass, A 92

Small Inheritance, A 3

Small Joke, A 343

Smart One-pounder, A 143

Smart Reply 220

Smoking an M. P. 114

Smoothing it Down 321

Snuff-box, The 273

387

Soft, Very ! 76

Soldiers’ Wives 253

Solomon’s Temple 202

Something for Dr. Darwin 1

Something Lacking 204

Something Like an Insult 80

Something Sharp 344

Something to be Grateful for 350

Something to be Proud Of 293

Something to Pocket 301

Soporific, A 195, 310

Sought and Found 309

Sound and Fury 9

Sound Conclusion, A 57

Sound Sleeper, A 17

Spare Man, A 145

Spare the Rod 239

Speaking Canvas, A 307

Speaking of Sausages 245

Special Pleading 37

Species and Specie 189

Specific Gravity of Folly, The 155

Specimen of the Laconic 306

Specimen of University Etiquette 158

Spirit and the Letter, The 112

Spirit of a Gambler 270

Spiritual and Spirituous 5

Spranger Berry 146

Sprig of Shillalah, A 27

Staffordshire Collieries, The 202

Steam-boat Racing 150

Stop Watch, A 184

Stout Swimmer, A 334

Strange Jetsum 133

Strange Objection, A 143

Strange Vespers 201

Stray Shot, A 77

Striking Notice, A 9

Striking Point, A 102

Striking Reproof 38

Subtraction and Addition 14

Sudden Change, A 90

Sudden Freedom 345

Suggestive Pair of Grays, A 197

Suggestive Present, A 140

Suggestive Question, A 148

Suggestive Repudiation 323

Suited to his Subject 35

Summary Decision 194

Sun in his Eye, The 346

Superfluous Scraper, A 356

Superiority of Machinery, The 306

Sure Take, A 277

Swearing the Peace 217

Swift, Dean, and King William 117

Sword and the Scabbard, The 108

Sydney Smith 104

Sydney Smith Soporific 223

Syllabic Difference, A 297

TAKE WARNING ! 315

Taking a Hint 217

Taking his Measure 121

Tall and Short 40

Taste of Marriage, A 165

Tavern Dinner, A 264

Tell it not in England 329

Telling One’s Age 225

Temperance Cruets 284

Tender Suggestions, A 345

Terrible Possibility, A 343

“ The Mixture as Before ” 22

Theatrical Mistakes 98

Theatrical Purgations 314

Theatrical Wit 124

Thelwall, Mr. 209

“ Thereby Hangs, ” &c. 167

Things by their Right Names 210

Three Degrees of Comparison 205

Three Ends to a Rope 231

Three Touchstones 15

Throw Physic to the Dogs ! 233

Thurlow and Pitt 121

Ticklish Opening, A 324

Tierney’s, Mr., Humor 277

Time out of Joint, The 187

Time works Wonders 112

Timely Flattery 316

Timely Reproof, A 115

Timidity of Beauty, The 143

To the “ Coming ” Man 313

Too Civil by Half 246

Too Cold to Change 65

388

Too Grateful 224

Too Liberal 260

Too Many Cooks 11

Too Much and Too Little 244

Too Much at Once 364

Too Much of a Bad Thing 165

Top and Bottom 140

Tory Liberality 56

Trade against Land 156

Transformation Scene, A 201

Transporting Subject, A 221

Transposing a Compliment 41

Travellers See Strange Things 317

True and False 251

True Courtier, A 43

True Criticism 267

True Dignity 261

True Evidence 156

True Joke, A 60

True of Both 287

True Philosophy 288

True Politeness 164

True to the Letter 287

Trump Card, A 13

Truth and Fiction 240

Truth and Rhyme 137

Truth at Last 133

Truth by Accident, The 216

Truth for the Ladies, A 100

Truth not Always to be Spoken 88

Truth not to be Spoken at All Times 78

Truth v. Politeness 255

Trying to the Temper 258

Twice Ruined 79

Two Carriages 275

Two Cures for Ague 353

Two Make a Pair 159

Two of a Trade 77

Two Sides to a Speech 90

Two Smiths, The 28

Twofold Illustration 42

Typographical Transfer, A 332

Typographical Wit 260

UGLY DOG, An 48

Ugly Trades 304

Unanswerable Argument, An 299

Uncivil Warning, An 351

Unconscious Insult, An 317

Unconscious Postscript, An 206

Unequal Arrangement, An 355

Unexpected Cannonade, An 340

Unfortunate Lover, A 181

Union is Strength 51

Union of Opposites 319

Unknown Tongue 38

Unlikely Result, An 348

Unpoetical Reply 120

Unreasonable 94

Un-rehearsed Effect, An 65

Unremitting Kindness 100

Untaxed Luxury, An 319

Unwelcome Agreement 158

Up and Down 301

Up in the World 9

Upright Man, An 87

Use is Second Nature 196

Useful Ally, A 90

Utilitarian Inquiry, A 328

VAILS TO SERVANTS 85

Vain Search, A 96

Vain Threat, A 343

Valuable Beaver, A 301

Valuable Discovery 90

Value of Applause 171

Value of Nothing 241

Verse and Worse 118

Verses written on a Window in the Highlands of Scotland 15

Very Appropriate 287

Very Like Each Other 270

Very Likely 249, 312

Very Pointed 22

Very Pretty 102

Very Serious 130

Very Shocking, If True 254

Very True 173, 286

Vice Versâ 190

Visible Darkness 10

Visible Proof 82

Visibly Losing 293

Voluminous Speaker, A 148

389

Vox et Præterea Nihil, A 147

Vulgar Arguments 122

WALKING-STICK, A 326

Walpoliana 107, 111, 119

Warm Friendships 98

Warm Man, A 348

Warning to Ladies 54

Waste of Time 42

Waste Powder 18

Way of the World 75

Way of Using Books 175

Way to Kew, The 297

Weak Woman, A 11

Wearing Away 347

Well-bred Horse 9

Well Turned 346

Wellington, Duke of, And the Aurist 87

Wellington Surprised 250

Welsh Wig-ging 26

Wet and Dry 141

What Everybody Does 294

What is an Archdeacon ? 295

“ What’s a Hat without a Head ? ” 285

What’s Going On ? 159

What’s in a Name ? 279

What’s in a Syllable ? A 151

What s my Thought Like ? 305

Wheel of Fortune, The 195

Where is the Audience ? 183

Where it Came From 316

Whig and Tory 67

Whist-Playing 229

Whitbread’s Entire 359

White Hands 287

White Teeth 275

Who’s the Fool ? 132

Who’s to Blame ? 136

Why are Women Beardless? 208

Why Master of the House 330

Wide-Awake Minister, A 347

Wide Difference, A 345

“ Wide, Wide Sea, ” The 315

Wife at Forty, A 45

Wignell the Actor 72

Wilberforce, Miss 298

Wilkes and Liberty 161

Wilkes and a Liberty 143

Wilke’s Ready Reply 224

Wilke’s Tergiversation 114

Wilkie’s Simplicity 91

Will and Away, A 259

Will and the Way 193

Windy Minister, A 259

Winner at Cards, A 303

Winning a Loss 160

Wise Decision, A 348

Wise Fool, A 198

Wise Precaution 13

Wise Son who knew his own Father, A 6

Wit and Quackery 95

Wits Agreeing 354

Witty at his Own Expense 365

Witty Coward 236

Witty Proposition, A 348

Witty Thanksgiving 338

Wolfe, General 167

Woman’s Promises, A 62

Wonderful Cure, A 179

Wonderful Sight, A 258

Wonderful Unanimity 331

Wonderful Woman, A 5

Wooden Joke, A 314

Woolsack, The 232

Word in Season, A 340

Word to the Wise, A 135

Words that Burn 11

Worst of All Crimes, The 63

Worst of Two Evils, The 269

Worth the Money 35

Worthy of Credit 129

“ Write me Down an Ass ” 135

Writing for the Stage 234

Writing Treason 230

Written Character, A 6

Wrong Leg, The 48

YANKEE YARN, A 157

Yorke, Mr. Charles 361

Yorkshire Bull, A 353

“ You’ll Get There Before I Can Tell You ” 239

Young Idea, The 247

ZODIAC CLUB, The 37

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