A scary joke from 1630
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2018 8:37 pm
From "A Banquet of Jests" (1630)
Of one that was frighted by an Hobgoblin
A man being frighted with a strange apparition in the night, rose out of his bed in great feare and terrour, and began to exorcise it in these words,
If thou beest a good Angell, I know thou wilt not hurt me, because thou canst doe no evill,
And if thou beest the Devil or his Dam, I hope likewise thou wilt not hurt me neither, because of kindred sake... for I have married thy sister.
Of one that was frighted by an Hobgoblin
A man being frighted with a strange apparition in the night, rose out of his bed in great feare and terrour, and began to exorcise it in these words,
If thou beest a good Angell, I know thou wilt not hurt me, because thou canst doe no evill,
And if thou beest the Devil or his Dam, I hope likewise thou wilt not hurt me neither, because of kindred sake... for I have married thy sister.