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Joe Miller's jests: or, The wits vade-mecum. : Being a collection of the most brilliant jests, the most excellent bons mots; and most pleasant short stories in the English language; many of them transcribed from the mouth of the facetious gentleman, whose name they bear. To which are added, choice collections of moral sentences, and of the most pointed and truly valuable epigrams in the British tongue; with the names of the authors to such as are known. Most humbly inscribed to those choice-spirits of the age, His Majesty's poet, Mr. Colley Cibber; His Holiness's poet, Mr. Pope; Mr. Orator Henley; Mr. ancient pistol, David Garrick Charles Macklin, comedians; and Job Baker, the kettle-drummer