jest

Z--ds! damn the lock! 'fore Gad, you must be civil!

Plague on't! 'tis past a jest--nay, prithee, pox!

Give her the hair'--he spoke, and rapp'd his box.

From office business, news, and strife;

And (what most folks would think a jest)

Want nothing else except your wife.

When the game began between them for a jest,

He played king and she played queen to match the best;

“ Such petulant, jeering gamesters, that can spare

** No argument or subject from their jest.”

Finsbury ! or the citizens that come a ducking to Is-

lington ponds! A fine jest i’faith ! slid, a gentleman

mun show himself like a gentleman. Uncle, I pray

Brain. O lord, sir, that were a jest indeed 1

Kno. I am resolv’d ; 1 will not stop his journey.

Fall in between their hands that praise and love thee,[456]

And be to them a laughter and a jest:

But as for them which scorning shall reprove[457] thee,

_Gentleman._ Why, how now, sweet Nan! I hope you jest.