DIALOGUE BETWEEN A HEADMAN IN THE CANTING CREW AND A VAGABOND. (_From Thomas Harman’s Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors, vulgarly called Vagabones_, 1568.) _Upright Man._ Bene Lightmans[37] to thy quarromes,[38] in what lipken[39] hast thou lypped[40] in this darkemans,[41] whether in a lybbege[42] or in the strummel?[43] _Roge._ I couched a hogshead[44] in a Skypper[45] this darkemans. _Man._ I towre[46] the strummel trine[47] upon thy nachbet[48] and Togman.[49] _Roge._ I saye by the Salomon[50] I will lage it of[51] with a gage of bene bouse;[52] then cut to my nose watch.[53] _Man._ Why, hast thou any lowre[54] in thy bonge[55] to bouse?[56] _Roge._ But a flagge,[57] a wyn,[58] and a make.[59] _Man._ Why, where is the kene[60] that hath the ben bouse? _Roge._ A bene mort[61] hereby at the signe of the prauncer.[62] _Man._ I cutt it is quyer[63] bouse, I bousd a flagge the last darkmans. _Roge._ But bouse there a bord,[64] and thou shalt haue beneship.[65] Tower ye yander is the kene, dup the gygger,[66] and maund[67] that is bene shyp. _Man._ This bouse is as benship as rome bouse.[68] Now I tower that ben bouse makes nase nabes.[69] Maunde of this morte what ben pecke[70] is in her ken. _Roge._ She has a Cacling chete,[71] a grunting chete,[72] ruff Pecke,[73] Cassan,[74] and poplarr of yarum.[75] _Man._ That is benship to our watche.[76] Now we haue well bousd, let vs strike some chete.[77] Yonder dwelleth a quyer cuffen,[78] it were benship to myll[79] hym. _Roge._ Now bynge we a waste[80] to the hygh pad,[81] the ruffmanes[82] is by. _Man._ So may we happen on the Harmanes,[83] and cly the Tarke,[84] or to the quyerken[85] and skower quyaer crampings,[86] and so to tryning on the chates.[87] Gerry gan,[88] the ruffian[89] clye the.[90] _Roge._ What, stowe your bene,[91] cofe,[92] and sut benat wydds,[93] and byng we to rome vyle,[94] to nyp a bonge;[95] so shall we haue lowre for the bousing ken,[96] and when we byng back to the deuseauyel,[97] we wyll fylche some duddes[98] of the Ruffemans,[99] or myll the ken for a lagge of dudes.[100] [37] Bene Lightmans, _good day_. [38] Quarromes, _body_. [39] Lipken, _house_. [40] Lypped, _slept_. [41] Darkemans, _night_. [42] Lybbege, _bed_. [43] Strummel, _straw_. [44] Couched a hogshead, _lay down to sleep_. [45] Skypper, _barn_. [46] I towre, _I see_. [47] Trine, _hang_. [48] Nachbet, _cap_. [49] Togman, _coat_. [50] Salomon, _mass_. [51] Lage it of, _wipe it off_. [52] Gage of bene bouse, _quart of good drink_. [53] Cut to my nose watch, _say what you will to me_. [54] Lowre, _money_. [55] Bonge, _purse_. [56] To bouse, _to drink_. [57] Flagge, _groat_. [58] Wyn, _penny_. [59] Make, _halfpenny_. [60] Kene, _house_. [61] Bene mort, _good woman_. [62] Prauncer, _horse_. [63] Quyer, _bad_. [64] Bord, _shilling_. [65] Beneship, _excellent_.