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Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by John S. Farmer
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If you'd share the swag, or have one dib. [14]
Quickly draw the bolt of your ken,
Or we'll not shell out a mag, old ----." [15]

V

Then says Uncle, says he, to his blowen, [16]
"D'ye twig these coves, my mot so knowing? [17]
Are they out-and-outers, dearie? [18]
Are they fogle-hunters, or cracksmen leary? [19]
Are they coves of the ken, d'ye know? [20]
Shall I let 'em in, or tell 'em to go?"

VI

"Oh! I knows 'em now; hand over my breeches--
I always look out for business--vich is
A reason vy a man should rouse
At any hour for the good of his house,
The top o' the morning, gemmen all, [21]
And for vot you vants, I begs you'll call."

VII

But now the beaks are on the scene, [22]
And watched by moonlight where we went:--
Stagged us a toddling into the ken, [23]
And were down upon us all; and then
Who should I spy but the slap-up spark [24]
What I eased of the swag in St James's Park. [25]
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