Produced by Tiffany Vergon, Jerry Fairbanks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team Musa Pedestris THREE CENTURIES OF CANTING SONGS AND SLANG RHYMES [1536-1896] COLLECTED AND ANNOTATED BY JOHN S. FARMER CONTENTS Index to Titles Index to Authors Forewords Notes Appendix "A beggar I'll be" (Anon--1660) "A Gage of Ben Rom-Bouse" (Middleton and Dekker--1611) "A Hundred Stretches Hence" (G. W. Matsell--1859) 'Arry at a Political Picnic (T. Milliken--1884) Beggar's Curse, The (Thomas Dekker--1608) "Bing Out, Bien Morts" (Thomas Dekker--1612) Black Procession, The (Anon--1712) Blooming Æsthetic (Anon--1882) Bobby and His Mary (Anon--1826) Bould Yeoman, The (Pierce Egan--1842) Bridle-cull and his little Pop-gun (Pierce Egan--1842) Budg and Snudg Song, A (Anon--1676) Banter's Christening, The (G. Parker--1789) By-blow of the Jug, The (Pierce Egan--1842) Cadger's Ball, The (Anon--1852) Canter's Serenade, The (Anon--1725) Chickaleary Cove, The (Vance--1864) "Come all you Buffers Gay" (Anon--1760) Coster's Serenade, The (A. Chevalier--1894) Culture in the Slums (W. E. Henley--1887) Dashy Splashy . . . little Stringer, The (Leman Rede--1841) "Dear-Bill--This Stone Jug" (Anon--1857) Double Cross, The (W. H. Ainsworth--1834) Faker's New Toast, The (Bon Gualtier--1841) Flashey Joe (R. Morley--1826) Flashman of St. Giles, The (Anon--1790) Frisky Moll's Song (J. Harper--1724) Game of High Toby, The (W. H. Ainsworth--1834) Happy Pair, The (G. Parker--1789) High Pad's Boast, The (J. Fletcher--1625) High Pad's Frolic, The (Leman Rede--1841) Housebreaker's Song, The (G. W. M. Reynolds--1838) Jack Flashman (Pierce Egan--1842) Lag's Lament, The (H. T. R.--1829) Leary Man, The (Ducange Anglicus--185?) Leary Mot, A (Anon--1811) Masqueraders, The (G. Parker--1789) Maunder's Initiation, The (J. Fletcher--1625) Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort, The (Anon--1707) Maunder's Wooing, The (S. Rowlands--1610) Merry Beggars, The (R. Brome--1641) Milling Match, The (T. Moore--1819) Miss Dolly Trull (Pierce Egan--1842) Mort's Drinking Song, A (R. Brome--1641) My Mother (Bon Gualtier--1841) My mugging maid (J. Bruton--1826) "Nix my Doll, Pals, Fake Away" (W. Harrison Ainsworth--1834) Nutty Blowen, The (Bon Gualtier--1841) Oath of the Canting Crew, The (R. Goadby--1749) On the Prigging Lay (H. T. R.--1829) Our Little Nipper (A. Chevalier--1893) Pickpocket's Chaunt, The (W. Maginn--1829) Plank-bed Ballad, A (G. R. Sims--1888) Poor Luddy (T. Dibdin--1826) Potato Man, The (Anon--1775) "Retoure my dear Dell" (Anon--1725) Rhyme of the Rusher (Doss Chiderdoss--1892) Rhymes of the Canting Crew (R. Copland--1536) Rondeau of the Knock, The (G. R. Sims--1890) "Rum Coves that Relieve Us" (H. Baumann--1887) Rum-Mort's Praise of her Faithless Maunder, The (Anon--1707) Sandman's Wedding, The (G. Parker--1789) Slang Pastoral, A (R. Tomlinson--1780) Song of the Beggar, The (Anon--1620) Song of the Young Prig, The (Anon--1810-9) Sonnets for the Fancy: I. Education. II.