and delightfull for men to reade.-Lege, Perlege, Relege.-1608.

Thieves falling out, true men come by their goods.-1615.

English Villanies, seven severall times prest to death by the printers; but (still reviving againe) are now the eighth time (as the first) discovered by lanthorne and candle-light: and the help of a new cryer, called O-per-se O; whose loud voyce proclaims, to all that will hear him, another conspiracy of abuses lately plotting together, to hurt the peace of the kingdom; which the bell-man (because he ther went stumbling i'th'dark) could never see till now; and because a company of rogues, cunning canting gypsies, and all the scumme of our nation, fight under their tattered colours. At the end is a canting dictionary to teach their language, with canting songs. A booke to make gentlemen merry, citizens warie, countrymen carefull; fit for justices to reade over, because it is a pilot by whom they may make strange discoveries.-London, 1638.

Bailey's and the new Canting Dictionary have also been consulted, with the History of Bamfield More Carew, the Sessions Papers, and

Author of "Boxiana," " Picture of the Fancy," "Sporting Anecdotes," &c.

"A kind of cant phraseology is current from one end of the Metropolis to the other, and you will scarcely be able to move a single step, my dear JERRY, without consulting a Slang Dictionary, or having some friend at your elbow to explain the strange expressions which, at every turn, will assail your ear."

Corinthian Tom-LIFE IN LONDON.

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