[1: Notes; ale-house] [2: walk around] [3: rob passers-by] [4: police] [5: girl] [6: money; went off] [7: notes or gold] [8: object] [9: handcuffs] [10: drunk] [11: Notes] FLASHEY JOE [Notes] [1826] [By R. MORLEY in _Universal Songster_, ii. 194]. I As Flashey Joe one day did pass Through London streets, so jolly, A crying fish, he spied a lass 'Twas Tothill's pride, sweet Molly! He wip'd his mug with bird's-eye blue [1] He cried,--"Come, buss your own dear Joe"; [2] She turned aside, alas! 'tis true And bawled out--"Here's live mackerel, O! Four a shilling, mackerel, O! All alive, O! New mackerel, O." II Says I,--"Miss Moll, don't tip this gam, [3] You knows as how it will not do; For you I milled flash Dustman Sam [4] Who made your peepers black and blue. [5] Vhy, then you swore you would be kind But you have queer'd so much of late, [6] And always changing like the wind, So now I'll brush and sell my skate." [7] Buy my skate, etc. III She blubb'd--"Now, Joe, vhy treat me ill? You know I love you as my life! When I forsook both Sam and Will, And promised to become your wife, You molled it up with Brick-dust Sall [8] And went to live with her in quod! [9] So I'll pike off with my mack'ral [10] And you may bolt with your salt cod." Here's mack'rel, etc. IV I could not part with her, d'ye see So I tells Moll to stop her snivel; [11] "Your panting bubs and glist'ning eye [12] Just make me love you like the divil." "Vhy, then," says she, "come tip's your dad, [13] And let us take a drap of gin, And may I choke with hard-roed shad If I forsake my Joe Herring." Four a shilling, etc. [1: mouth; silk handkerchief] [2: kiss] [3: talk like that] [4: fought] [5: eyes] [6: acted strangely] [7: be off] [8: took as a mistress] [9: gaol] [10: walk] [11: crying] [12: paps] [13: shake hands] MY MUGGING MAID [Notes] [1826] [By JAMES BRUTON. _Universal Songster_, iii. 103]. I Why lie ye in that ditch, so snug, With s-- and filth bewrayed [1] With hair all dangling down thy lug [2] My mugging maid? II Say, mugging Moll, why that red-rag [3] Which oft hath me dismayed Why is it now so mute in mag, [4] My mugging maid? II Why steals the booze down through thy snout, [5] With mulberry's blue arrayed, And why from throat steals hiccough out My mugging maid? IV Why is thy mug so wan and blue, [6] In mud and muck you're laid; Say, what's the matter now with you My mugging maid? V The flask that in her fam appeared [7] The snore her conk betrayed, [8] Told me, that Hodge's max had queered [9] My mugging maid. [1: Notes] [2: ear] [3: tongue] [4: speech] [5: drink] [6: mouth] [7: hand] [8: nose] [9: Notes; got the better of] POOR LUDDY [Notes] [b. 1826] [By T. DIBDIN. _Universal Songster_, Vol. iii].