Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by John S. Farmer
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page 122 of 265 (46%)
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[By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, being Jerry Juniper's chaunt in _Rookwood_.] In a box of the stone jug I was born, [1] Of a hempen widow the kid forlorn, [2] Fake away! [3] And my father, as I've heard say, Was a merchant of capers gay, [4 ] Who cut his last fling with great applause. Nix my doll, pals, fake away! [5] To the time of hearty choke with caper sauce. [6] Fake away! The knucks in quod did my schoolmen play, [7] Fake away! And put me up to the time of day, [8] Until at last there was none so knowing, No such sneaksman or buzgloak going, [9] Fake away! Fogles and fawnies soon went their way, [10] Fake away! To the spout with the sneezers in grand array, [11] No dummy hunter had forks so fly, [12] No knuckler so deftly, could fake a cly, [13] Fake away! No slourd hoxter my snipes could stay, [14] Fake away! None knap a reader like me in the lay. [15] Soon then I mounted in swell street-high, Nix my doll, pals, fake away! |
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