dwelled, and marched home mannerly in his botes: farre from the place he dwelt not. J suppose at his comming home he sente such wayes as he suspected or thought mete to search for this prigger, but hetherto he neuer harde any tidinges againe of his palfreys. J had the best gelding stolen out of my pasture that J had amogst others, while this boke was first a printing." At the end of the several characters, the author gives a list of the names of the most notorious thieves of his day, a collection of the cant phrases used by them, with their significations; and a dialogue between an _uprighte man_ and a _roge_, which I shall transcribe:-- "The vpright Cose canteth to the Roger. _The vprighte man spaketh to the roge._ _Man._ Bene lyghtmans to thy quarromes in what lipk[=e] hast thou lipped in this darkemanes; whether in a lybbege or in the strummell? _God morrowe to thy bodye, in what house hast thou lyne in all night whether in a bed, or in the strawe?_ _Roge._ J couched a hogeshed in a skypper this darkemans. _I laye me down to sleepe in a barne this night._ _Man._ J towre ye strummell tryne vpon thy nabcher & togman. _I see the straw hange upon thy cap and coate._ _Roge._ J saye by the Salomon J wyll lage it of with a gage of bene bouse then cut to my nose watch. _J sweare by the masse J wyll wash it of with a quart of drinke, then saye to me what thou wilt._ _Man._ Why, hast thou any lowre in thy bouge to bouse? _Why, hast thou any money in thy purse to drinke?_ _Roge._ But a flagge, a wyn, and a make. _But a grot, a penny, and a halfe-penny._ _Man._ Why where is the kene that hath the bene bouse? _Where is the house that hath the good drinke?_ _Roge._ A bene mort hereby at the signe of the prauncer. _A good wyfe here by at the signe of the hors._ _Man._ J cutt it is quyer bouse J bousd a flagge the laste darkemans. _J saye it is small and naughtye drynke, J dranke a groate there the last night._ _Roge._ But bouse there a bord, and thou shalt haue beneship. _But drinke there a shyllinge, and thou shalt haue very good._ Tower ye, yander is the kene, dup the gygger, and maund that is beneshype. _Se you, yonder is the house, open the doore, and aske for the best._ _Man._ This bouse is as benshyp as rome bouse. _This drinke is as good as wyne._ Now J tower that bene bouse makes nase nabes. _Now J se that good drynke makes a dronken heade._ Maunde of this morte what bene pecke is in her ken. _Aske of this wyfe what good meate shee hath in her house._ _Roge._ She hath a cacling chete, a grunting chete, ruff pecke, cassan, and popplarr of yarum. _She hath a hen, a pyg, baken, chese and mylke porrage._ _Man._ That is beneshyp to oure watche. _That is very good for vs._