“I will never leave or forsake the company, but observe and keep all the times of appointment, either by day or by night, in every place whatever. “I will not teach anyone to cant; nor will I disclose any of our mysteries to them. “I will take my prince’s part against all that shall oppose him, or any of us, according to the utmost of my ability; nor will I suffer him, or anyone belonging to us, to be abased by any strange abrams,[156] ruffies,[157] hookers,[158] palliardes,[159] swaddlers,[160] Irish toyles,[161] swigmen,[162] whip Jacks,[163] Jarkmen,[164] bawdy baskets,[165] dommerars,[166] clapper dogeons,[167] patricoes,[168] or curtails;[169] but I will defend him, or them, as much as I can, against all other outliers whatever. I will not conceal aught I win out of libkins,[170] or from the ruffmans,[171] but will preserve it for the use of the company. Lastly, I will cleave to my doxy,[172] wap[173] stiffly, and will bring her duds,[174] margery praters,[175] gobblers,[176] grunting cheats,[177] or tibs of the buttery,[178] or anything else I can come at, as winnings for her wappings.”[179] [154] Maunder, _beggar_. [155] Tawny prince, _Prince Prig, the head of the gipsies_. [156] Abrams, _half-naked beggars_. [157] Ruffies, _beggars who sham the old soldier_. [158] Hookers, _thieves who beg in the daytime and steal at night from shops with a hook_. [159] Palliardes, _ragged beggars_. [160] Swaddlers, _Irish Roman Catholics who pretend conversion_. [161] Toyles, _beggars with pedlar’s pack_. [162] Swigmen, _beggars_. [163] Whip Jacks, _beggars who sham the shipwrecked sailor_. [164] Jarkmen, _learned beggars_, _begging-letter impostors_. [165] Bawdy baskets, _prostitutes_. [166] Dommerars, _dumb beggars_. [167] Clapper dogeons, _beggars by birth_. [168] Patricoes, _those who perform the marriage ceremony_. [169] Curtails, _second in command, with short cloak_. [170] Libkins, _lodgings_. [171] Ruffmans, _bushes or woods_. [172] Doxy, _mistress_. [173] Wap, _to lie with a woman_. [174] Duds, _clothes_. [175] Margery praters, _hens_. [176] Gobblers, _ducks_. [177] Grunting cheats, _pigs_. [178] Tibs of the buttery, _geese_. [179] Wappings, _coition_. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. JERRY JUNIPER’S CHANT. (_From Ainsworth’s Rookwood._)