Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by John S. Farmer
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Brandy or rum, I tipple in,
With my darling blowen, Sue. [8] IV Oh! grunting peck in its eating [9] Is a richly soft and savoury thing; A Norfolk capon is jolly grub [10] When you wash it down with strength of bub: [11] But dearer to me Sue's kisses far, Than grunting peck or other grub are, And I never funks the lambskin men, [12] When I sits with her in the boozing ken. V Her duds are bob--she's a kinchin crack, [13] And I hopes as how she'll never back; For she never lushes dog's-soup or lap, [14] But she loves my cousin the bluffer's tap. [15] She's wide-awake, and her prating cheat, [16 ] For humming a cove was never beat; [17] But because she lately nimm'd some tin, [18] They have sent her to lodge at the King's Head Inn. [19] [1: public house] [2: pipe; smoke] [3: paid a shilling ] [4: gin] [5: humbug] |
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