_Lanthorne and Candlelight_ is the second part of _The Belman of London_. Published also in 1608, it ran to two editions in 1609, a fourth appearing in 1612 under the title of _O per se O, or a new Cryer of Lanthorne and Candlelight, Being an Addition or Lengthening of the Belman's Second Night Walke_. Eight or nine editions of this second part appeared between 1608 and 1648 all differing more or less from each other, another variation occurring when in 1637 Dekker republished _Lanthorne and Candlelight_ under the title of _English Villanies_, shortly after which he is supposed to have died. _"Towre Out Ben Morts"_ Samuel Rowlands, a voluminous writer _circa_ 1570-1628, though little known now, nevertheless kept the publishers busy for thirty years, his works selling readily for another half century. Not the least valuable of his numerous productions from a social and antiquarian point of view is _Martin Mark-All, Beadle of Bridewell; his Defence and Answere to the Belman of London_ (see both Notes _ante_). Martin Markall delivers himself of a vivid and "originall" account of "the Regiment of Rogues, when they first began to take head, and how they have succeeded one the other successively unto the sixth and twentieth year of King Henry the Eighth, gathered out of the Chronicle of Crackropes" etc. He then criticizes somewhat severely the errors and omissions in Dekker's Canting glossary, adding considerably to it, and finally joins issue with the Belman in an attempt to give "song for song". Dekker's "Canting Rhymes" (plagiarised from Copland) and "The Beggar's Curse" thus apparently gave birth to the present verses and to those entitled "The Maunder's Wooing" that follow. Stanza I, line i. _Ben_ = Lat. _bene_ = good. _Mort_ = a woman, chaste or not. Line 3. _Rome-cove_ = "a great rogue" (B. E., _Dict. Cant. Crew_, 1690), _i.e_., an organizer, or the actual perpetrator of a robbery: _quire-cove_ = a subordinate thief--the money had passed from the actual thief to his confederate. _Rom_ (or _rum_) and _quier_ (or _queer_) enter largely into combination, thus--_rom_ = gallant, fine, clever, excellent, strong; _rom-bouse_ = wine or strong drink; _rum- bite_ = a clever trick or fraud; _rum-blowen_ = a handsome mistress; _rum-bung_ = a full purse; _rum-diver_ = a clever pickpocket; _rum-padder_ = a well-mounted highwayman, etc.: also _queere_ = base, roguish; _queer-bung_ = an empty purse; _queer-cole_ = bad money; _queer-diver_ = a bungling pickpocket; _queer-ken_ = a prison; _queer-mart_ = a foundered whore, and so forth. _Budge_ = a general verb of action, usually stealthy action: thus, _budge a beak_ = to give the constable the slip, or to bilk a policeman; _to budge out_ (or _off_) = to sneak off; _to budge an alarm_ = to give warning. _The Maunder's Wooing_ _See_ previous Note.