[1: cell; Newgate] [2: woman whose husband has been hanged; child] [3: work away!] [4: dancing master] [5: never mind, friends] [6: hanging] [7: thieves; prison] [8: taught me thieving] [9: shoplifter; pickpocket] [10: silk handkerchiefs; rings] [11: pawnbrokers; snuffboxes] [12: pocket-book; nimble fingers] [13: pickpocket; steal] [14: inside pocket buttoned up] [15: steal a pocketbook] [16: best made clothes] [17: hair dressed; fashion] [18: hands bejewelled; seals] [19: gold watch; lace-frilled shirt] [20: clothes; fashionable; fine] [21: forged notes; pass] [22: favorite girl] [23: magistrates; sweetheart] [24: handcuffs] [25: warder] [26: gypsy] THE GAME OF HIGH TOBY [Notes] [1834] [By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH in _Rookwood_]. I Now Oliver puts his black night-cap on, [1] And every star its glim is hiding, [2] And forth to the heath is the scampsman gone, [3] His matchless cherry-black prancer riding; [4] Merrily over the Common, he flies, Fast and free as the rush of rocket, His crape-covered vizard drawn over his eyes, His tol by his side and his pops in his pocket. [5] _Chorus_. Then who can name So merry a game, As the game of all games--high-toby? [6] II The traveller hears him, away! away! Over the wide, wide heath he scurries; He heeds not the thunderbolt summons to stay, But ever the faster and faster he hurries, But what daisy-cutter can match that black tit? [7] He is caught--he must 'stand and deliver'; Then out with the dummy, and off with the bit, [8] Oh! the game of high-toby for ever! _Chorus_. Then who can name So merry a game As the game of all games--high-toby? III Believe me, there is not a game, my brave boys, To compare with the game of high-toby; No rapture can equal the tobyman's joys, [9] To blue devils, blue plumbs give the go-by; [10] And what if, at length, boys, he come to the crap! [11] Even rack punch has _some_ bitter in it, For the mare-with-three-legs, boys, I care not a rap, [12] 'Twill be over in less than a minute! _Chorus_. Then hip, hurrah! Fling care away! Hurrah for the game of high-toby! [1: the moon] [2: light] [3: highwayman] [4: black horse] [5: sword; pistols] [6: high-way robbery] [7: fleet horse; horse] [8: pocketbook] [9: highwayman] [10: bullets] [11: gallows] [12: gallows] THE DOUBLE CROSS [Notes] [1834] [By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, in _Rookwood_] I Though all of us have heard of crost fights, And certain gains, by certain lost fights; I rather fancies that its news, How in a mill, both men should lose; [1] For vere the odds are thus made even, It plays the dickens with the steven: [2] Besides, against all rule they're sinning, Vere neither has no chance of vinning. Ri, tol, lol, etc. II