Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by John S. Farmer
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[10 shirt or sheet]
[11 straw] [12 in the barn; lie] [13 Notes] [14 the devil take the woman otherwise] [15 feet] [16 stockings; revel] [17 daylight] [18 hen] [19 chickens] [20 ale-house] [21 Money; steal] [22 pot; steal a purse] [23 wine; drink] [24 eat; pig] THE RUM-MORT'S PRAISE OF HER FAITHLESS MAUNDER [Notes] [1707] [From _The Triumph of Wit_, by J. Shirley: also in _New Canting Dict._]. I Now my kinching-cove is gone, [1] By the rum-pad maundeth none, [2] Quarrons both for stump and bone, [3] |
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