_cace_ (or _case_) = a sleeping apartment or place--ward, barn, or inn: _darkmans_ = night + Lat. _casa_ = house etc.: '_mans_' is a common canting affix = a thing or place: _e.g. lightmans_ = day; _ruffmans_ = a wood or bush; _greenmans_ = the fields; _Chepemans_ = Cheapside market etc. Line 6. _docked the dell_ = deflowered the girl: _dell_ = virgin; _see_ Harman, _Caveat_ (1575), p. 75:--'A dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the upright man'. _Coper meke_ (or _make_) = a half-penny. Line 7. _His watch_ = he: _my watch_ = I, or me: _cf_. 'his nabs' and 'my nabs' in modern slang. _Feng_ (A. S.) = to get, to steal, to snatch. _Prounces nobchete_ = prince's hat or cap: _cheat_ (A. S.) = thing, and mainly used as an affix: thus, _belly-chete_ = an apron; _cackling-chete_ = a fowl; _crashing-chetes_ = the teeth; _nubbing-chete_ = the gallows, and so forth. Line 8. _Cyarum, by Salmon_--the meaning of _cyarum_ is unknown: _by Salmon_ (or _Solomon_) = a beggar's oath, _i.e_., by the altar or mass. _Pek my jere_ = eat excrement: _cf_. 'turd in your mouth'. Line 9. _gan_ = mouth. _My watch_, see _ante_, line 7. _Nace gere_ = nauseous stuff: _cf. ante_, line 4: _gere_ = generic for thing, stuff, or material. Line 10. _bene bouse_ = strong drink or wine. _The Beggar's Curse_ Thomas Dekker, one of the best known of the Elizabethan pamphleteers and dramatists, was born in London about 1570, and began his literary career in 1597-8 when an entry referring to a loan-advance occurs in Henslowe's _Diary_. A month later forty shillings were advanced from the same source to have him discharged from the Counter, a debtor's prison. Dekker was a most voluminous writer, and not always overparticular whence he got, or how he used, the material for his tracts and plays. _The Belman of London Bringing to Light the Most Notorious Villanies that are now practised in the Kingdome_ (1608) of which three editions were published in one year, consists mainly of pilferings from Harman's _Caveat for Common Curselors_ first published in 1566-7. He did not escape conviction, however, for Samuel Rowlands showed him up in _Martin Mark-All_. Yet another instance of wholesale "conveyance" is mentioned in the Note to "Canting Rhymes" (_ante_). In spite of this shortcoming, however, and a certain recklessness of workmanship, the scholar of to- day owes Dekker a world of thanks: his information concerning the social life of his time is such as can be obtained nowhere else, and it is, therefore, now of sterling value.