The thirteenth a famble, false rings for to sell, [17] When a mob, he has bit his cole he will tell; The fourteenth a gamester, if he sees the cull sweet [18] He presently drops down a cog in the street; [19] The fifteenth a prancer, whose courage is small, [20] If they catch him horse-coursing, he's nooz'd once for all. [21] Toure you well, etc. VI The sixteenth a sheep-napper, whose trade is so deep, [22] If he's caught in the corn, he's marked for a sheep [23] The seventeenth a dunaker, that stoutly makes vows, [24] To go in the country and steal all the cows; The eighteenth a kid-napper, who spirits young men, Tho' he tips them a pike, they oft nap him again. Toure you well, etc. VII The nineteenth's a prigger of cacklers who harms, [25] The poor country higlers, and plunders the farms; [26] He steals all their poultry, and thinks it no sin, When into the hen-roost, in the night, he gets in; The twentieth's a thief-catcher, so we him call, Who if he be nabb'd will be made pay for all. Toure you well, etc. [in _Bacchus and Venus_ (1737) an additional stanza is given:--] VIII There's many more craftsmen whom here I could name, [27] Who use such-like trades, abandon'd of shame; To the number of more than three-score on the whole, Who endanger their body, and hazard their soul; And yet; though good workmen, are seldom made free, Till they ride in a cart, and be noozed on a tree. Toure you well, hark you well, see where they are rubb'd, Up to the nubbing cheat, where they are nubb'd. [1: hung] [2: passer of base coin] [3: Look! be on your guard] [4: taken] [5: gallows: hung] [6: Tramp or foot-pad.] [7: housebreaker] [8: window thief] [9: valuables] [10: pickpocket; man or silly fop] [11: sneaking-thief] [12: accomplice who jostles whilst another robs: countryman] [13: thief who hooks goods from shop-windows] [14: public-house thief] [15: confidence-trick man; good-natured fool] [16: steals all his money] [17: Notes] [18: an easy dupe] [19: a lure] [20: horse-thief] [21: hung] [22: sheep-stealer] [23: as a duffer] [24: cattle-lifter] [25: poultry-thief] [26: bumpkins] [27: members of the Canting Crew] FRISKY MOLL'S SONG [1724] [By J. HARPER, and sung by Frisky Moll in JOHN THURMOND'S _Harlequin Sheppard_ produced at Drury Lane Theatre]. I From priggs that snaffle the prancers strong, [1] To you of the _Peter_ Lay, [2] I pray now listen a while to my song, How my _Boman_ he kick'd away. [3] II He broke thro' all rubbs in the whitt, [4] And chiv'd his darbies in twain; [5] But fileing of a rumbo ken, [6] My _Boman_ is snabbled again. [7] III I _Frisky Moll_, with my rum coll, [8] Wou'd Grub in a bowzing ken; [9] But ere for the scran he had tipt the cole, [10] The _Harman_ he came in. [11] IV A famble, a tattle, and two popps, [12] Had my _Boman_ when he was ta'en; But had he not bouz'd in the diddle shops, [13] He'd still been in Drury-Lane.