Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by John S. Farmer
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[10: stocks]
[11: constables, look] [12: pockets; money] [13: clothes; general plunder] [14: magistrate] [15: country] [16: gallows] [17: Notes] [18: night] [19: hedge] [20: fire, duck] [21: goose] [22: turkey] [23: bacon] [24: corn] [25: any potable; porridge] [26: dog; wooden dish] [27: hook; counterfeit pass] [28: cloak] THE BLACK PROCESSION [Notes] [1712] [From _The Triumph of Wit_, by J. SHIRLEY:--"The twenty craftsmen, described by the notorious thief-taker Jonathan Wild"]. |
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