Having even wearied ourselves with drinking and singing, we tumbled promiscuously together, Male and Female in Straw, not confining our selves to one constant Consort, we made use of the first that came to hand; by which means incests and Adulteries became our pastimes. By this means I grew weary of their practices, and therefore resolved to desert them as soon as the first opportunity should offer it self, which was in a short time; wherefore at the present I shall say no more of them, only give me leave to give some small account of their Language. The first Inventor of Canting, as I am informed, was Hanged about four score years since: such _Gibberish_ was never heard of before; since which time, there hath not been wanting such, who have taken pains in the pollishing, refining, and augmenting that Language of the _Devils Imps_. It is a confused invention of words; for its Dialect I cannot find to be grounded on any certain Rules; and no wonder since the Founders and Practicers thereof, are the chief Fathers and Nourishers of Disorder. Yet even out of that Irregularity a man may observe some kind of form, and some words do retain something of Scholarship, as _Togeman_, a Gown, from _Toga_; _Pannam_, from _Panis_ Bread; _Cosan_, _Caseus_, Cheese. The monosyllable _Cheat_; we use as a Relative, as _Nab_, a Head; _Nab-cheat_, a Hat, _&c._ _Cove_ or _Cuffin_ is in general terms a Man; but by adding _bien_, which signifies good or well, or _Quire_, which is wicked or Knavish; you make the word _Cove_ signifie an _Honest man_, or a _Justice of Peace_. Pardon the expression, for they call a Justice _Quier Cuffin_; that is to say, as before mentioned, a wicked, knavish, or foolish man. To conclude, I shall here insert this little Canting Vocabulary Alphabetically,