_QUACKING-CHETE_, a drake or duck. _QUAROMES_, a body. _QUIER_ [queer], badde [see what has been previously said about this word]. _QUYER CRAMP-RINGES_, boltes or fetters. _QUIER CUFFIN_, the iustice of peace. _QUYER-KYN_, a pryson house. _RED SHANKE_, a drake or ducke. _ROGER_, a goose. _ROME_, goode [now curious, noted, or remarkable in any way. _Rum_ is the modern orthography]. _ROME BOUSE_ [rum booze], wyne. _ROME MORT_, the Queene [Elizabeth]. _ROME VYLE_ [or Rum-ville], London. _RUFF PECK_, baken [short bread, common in old times at farm houses]. _RUFFMANS_, the woods or bushes. _SALOMON_, a alter or masse. _SKYPPER_, a barne. _SLATE_, a sheete or shetes. _SMELLING CHETE_, a nose. _SMELLING CHETE_, a garden or orchard. _SNOWT FAYRE_ [said of a woman who has a pretty face or is comely]. _STALL_ [to initiate a beggar or rogue into the rights and privileges of the canting order. Harman relates, that when an upright-man, or initiated, first-class rogue, “mete any beggar, whether he be sturdy or impotent, he will demand of him whether ever he was ‘_stalled to the roge_’ or no. If he say he was, he will know of whom, and his name yt stalled him. And if he be not learnedly able to show him the whole circumstance thereof, he will spoyle him of his money, either of his best garment, if it be worth any money, and haue him to the bowsing ken: which is, to some typpling house next adjoyninge, and layth there to gage the best thing that he hath for twenty pence or two shillings: this man obeyeth for feare of beatinge. Then dooth this upright man call for a gage of bowse, which is a quarte potte of drink, and powres the same vpon his peld pate, adding these words,—I, _G. P._ do stalle the, _W. T._ to the Roge, and that from henceforth it shall be lawfull for thee to cant, that is to aske or begge for thi liuiug in al places.” Something like this treatment is the popular idea of Freemasonry, and what schoolboys term “freeing.”] _STAMPES_, legges. _STAMPERS_, shoes. _STAULING KEN_, a house that will receyue stollen wares. _STAWLINGE-KENS_, tippling houses. _STOW YOU_ [stow it], hold your peace. _STRIKE_, to steale. _STROMMELL_, strawe. _SWADDER_, or _Pedler_ [a man who hawks goods]. _THE HIGH PAD_, the highway. _THE RUFFIAN CLY THEE_, the devil take thee. _TOGEMANS_ [togg], a cloake. _TOGMAN_, a coate. _TO BOWSE_, to drinke. _TO CANTE_, to speake. _TO CLY THE GERKE_, to be whipped. _TO COUCH A HOGSHEAD_, to lie down and slepe. _TO CUTTE_, to say [_cut it_ is modern slang for “be quiet”]. _TO CUT BENE WHYDDES_, to speake or give good words. _TO CUTTE QUYER WHYDDES_, to giue euil words or euil language. _TO CUT BENLE_, to speak gentle. _TO DUP YE GYGER_ [jigger], to open the dore. _TO FYLCHE_, to robbe. _TO HEUE A BOUGH_, to robbe or rifle a boweth [booth].