Lexicographical Neighbors of Lests
Literary usage of Lests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry by John Payne Collier (1820)
"His Court witty lests—His sound Citty lests—His Country pretty lests: full of
Delight, Wit and honest Mirth," 1611; and it is not improbable that this ..."
2. Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century by John Ashton (1883)
"I. His Court Witty lests. 2. His found City lests. 3. His Countrey- pretty lests.
full of delight, Wit and honest Mirth. London. Printed by IH.3 for Andrew ..."
3. Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century by John Ashton (1883)
"I. His Court Witty lests. 2. His found City lests. 3. His Countrey- pretty lests.
full of delight, Wit and honest Mirth. London. Printed by IH.3 for Andrew ..."
4. The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry by John Payne Collier (1820)
"His Court witty lests—His sound Citty lests—His Country pretty lests : full of
Delight, Wit and honest Mirth," 1611; and it is not improbable that this ..."
5. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"Collections of separate unconnected specimens of wit like the "Cambridge Jests"
or the rival Oxford series, "lests from the ..."
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