We beg for our Bread, yet sometimes it happens We fast it with Pig, Pullet, Coney, and Capons The Church's Affairs, we are no Men-slayers, We have no Religion, yet live by our Prayers; But if when we beg, Men will not draw their Purses, We charge, and give Fire, with a Volley of Curses; The Devil confound your good Worship, we cry, And such a bold brazen-fac'd Beggar am I. VIII We do things in Season, and have so much Reason, We raise no Rebellion, nor never talk Treason; We Bill all our Mates at very low rates, While some keep their Quarters as high as the fates; With Shinkin-ap-Morgan, with Blue-cap, or Teague, [8] We into no Covenant enter, nor League. And therefore a bonny bold Beggar I'll be, For none lives a life more merry than he. [1 Notes] [2 wet linen] [3 ale-house] [4 stocks] [5 Notes] [6 Notes] [7 beggar's patter] [8 Notes] A BUDG AND SNUDG SONG [Notes] [1676 and 1712] [From _A Warning for Housekeepers_... by one who was a prisoner in Newgate 1676. The second version from the _Triumph of Wit_ (1712)]. I The budge it is a delicate trade, [1] And a delicate trade of fame; For when that we have bit the bloe,[2] We carry away the game: But if the cully nap us, [3] And the lurries from us take, [4] O then {they rub}{he rubs} us to the whitt [5] {And it is hardly }{Though we are not} worth a make [6] II {But}{And} when we come to the whitt Our darbies to behold, [7] And for to (take our penitency)(do out penance there) {And}{We} boose the water cold. [8] But when that we come out agen [And the merry hick we meet] [9] We (bite the Cully of; file off with) his cole [10] As (we walk; he pikes) along the street. III [And when that we have fil'd him [11] Perhaps of half a job; [12] Then every man to the boozin ken [13] O there to fence his hog; [14] But if the cully nap us, And once again we get Into the cramping rings], [15] (But we are rubbed into; To scoure them in) the whitt. IV And when that we come (to; unto) the whitt, For garnish they do cry; [16] (Mary, faugh, you son of a whore; We promise our lusty comrogues) (Ye; They) shall have it by and bye [Then, every man with his mort in his hand, [17] Does booze off his can and part, With a kiss we part, and westward stand, To the nubbing cheat in a cart]. [18] V {But/And} when {that/---} we come to {Tyburn/the nubbing cheat} For {going upon/running on} the budge, There stands {Jack Catch/Jack Ketch}, that son of a {whore/bitch}, [19] That owes us all a grudge. {And/For} when that he hath {noosed/nubbed} us, [20] And our friends {tips/tip} him no cole, [21] {O then he throws us in the cart/He takes his chive and cuts us down}, [22] And {tumbles/tips} us into {the/a} hole. [An additional stanza is given in _Bacchus and Venus_ (1737), a version which moreover contains many verbal variations]. [23] VI