Laugh and be fat, or The merry Jester : Containing the newest, drollest, queerest, completest, most commical, most facetious, and best collection, over offered to the inhabitants of Great-Britain, and Ireland, of diverting jests funny jokes frolicsoms stores humourous sayings entertaining tales lively bonmots pleasant adventures keen repartees merry waggeries excellent puns curious buils, English, Irish, and Scotch smart quibbles agreeable humbugs witty gibs, and other flashes of merriment. To which are added, the following humourous and agreeable articles, viz. new, merry, and ingenuous conundrums, rebuffes, riddles, epigrams, epitaphs, poems, acrosticks and other witticisms. Together with an entire new selection of toasts, sentiments, hobnabs. &c. at this time used in the best companies in London and Westminster. Calculated for both sexes, to kill care, to banish sorrow, and promote mirth, fun, jolity, and good humour: almost the whole of this work being really new, and written on purpose. To which is perfixed, the bad bargain on both sides. (Printed by A. Swindells, Hanging-Bridge. Manchester: and sold by J. Sadler, and M. Clements, 1797)