Obviously a companion song to the previous example: See Note _ante_. _Rum-Mort_ = a beggar or gypsy queen. Stanza I, line 1. _Kinching-cove_ = (literally) a child or young lad: here as an endearment. Line 4. _Clapperdogeon_ = "The Paillard or Clapperdogeons, are those that have been brought up to beg from their infancy, and frequently counterfeit lameness, making their legs, arms, and hands appear to be sore"--_Triumph of Wit_, p. 185. Stanza II, line 1. _Dimber-damber_ = a chief man in the Canting Crew, or the head of a gang. Line 2. _Palliard_ (See note Stanza I). Line 3. _jockum_ =_penis_. Line 4. _glimmer_ = fire; here, a pox or clap. Stanza V, line 1. _crank_ (or _counterfeit-crank_)--"These that do counterfet the cranke be yong knaves and yonge harlots that deeply dissemble the falling sickness".--(Harman, _Caveat_, 1814, p. 33). Line 1. _dommerar_= a beggar feigning deaf and dumb. Line 2. _rum-maunder_ = to feign madness. Line 3. _Abram-cove_ = a beggar pretending madness to cover theft. Line 4. _Gybes well jerk'd_ = pass or license cleverly forged. _The Black Procession_ See Note as to J. Shirley on page 209. _Frisky Moll's Song_ John Harper (d. 1742), actor, originally performed at Bartholomew and Southwark fairs. On 27 Oct. 1721 his name appears as Sir Epicure Mammon in the _Alchemist_ at Drury Lane. Here he remained for eleven years, taking the parts of booby squires, fox-hunters, etc., proving himself what Victor calls 'a jolly facetious low comedian'. His good voice was serviceable in ballad opera and farce. On account of his 'natural timidity', according to Davies, he was selected by Highmore, the patentee, in order to test the status of an actor, to be the victim of legal proceedings taken under the Vagrant Act, 12 Queen Anne, and on 12 Nov. 1733 he was committed to Bridewell as a vagabond. On 20 Nov. he came before the chief justice of the Kings Bench. It was pleaded on his behalf that he paid his debts, was well esteemed by persons of condition, was a freeholder in Surrey, and a householder in Westminster. He was discharged amid acclamations on his own recognisance. _The Canter's Serenade_ _The New Canting Dictionary_ (1725) is, in the main, a reprint of _The Dictionary of the Canting_* _Crew_ (_c_. 1696) compiled by B. E. The chief difference is that the former contains a collection of Canting Songs, most of which are included in the present collection. Stanza I, line 3. _palliards--see_ Note, p. 210, ten lines from bottom. _"Retoure My Dear Dell"_ _See_ Note to "The Canter's Serenade." This song appears to be a variation of a much older one, generally ascribed to Chas II, entitled _I pass all my hours in a shady old grove_. _The Vain Dreamer_ _See_ Note to "The Canter's Serenade." _"When My Dimber Dell I Courted"_