Joe Miller's Jests, or The Wits Vade-Mecum

OR, THE
WITS
VADE-MECUM .
BEING
A Collection of the most Brilliant Jests; the Politest Repartees; the most Elegant Bons Mots, and most pleasant short Stories in the English Language.
First carefully collected in the Company, and many of them transcribed from the Mouth of the Facetious Gentleman, whose Name they bear; and now set forth and published by his lamentable Friend and former Companion, Elijah Jenkins , Esq;
Most Humbly Inscribed
To those Choice-Spirits of the AGE,
Captain Bodens, Mr. Alexander Pope, Mr. Professor Lacy, Mr. Orator Henley, and Job Baker, the Kettle-Drummer.
LONDON:
Printed and Sold by T. Read, in Dogwell-Court, White-Fryars, Fleet-Street , MDCCXXXIX.
Transcriber's Note: Jest number 59 was omitted from the original text.