The English Rogue: Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty ExtravagantHead, Richard
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The English Rogue: Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty Extravagant
Head, Richard
Rogues and vagabonds -- England -- Fiction
_Earnest_ │ A part
_As tip me my Earnest_ │ Give me my part or share
_Frummagem_ │ Choakt
_Filch_ │ A Staff
_Ferme_ │ A Hole
_Fambles_ │ Hands
_Famble chears_ │ Rings or Gloves
_Fib_ │ To beat
_Flag_ │ A Groat
_Fogus_ │ Tobacco or Smoke
_Fencing Cully_ │ One that receives stollen goods
_Glymmer_ │ Fire
_Glaziers_ │ Eyes
_Grannam_ │ Corn
_Gentry-Mort_ │ A Gallant Wench
_Gan_ │ A Lip
_Gage_ │ A Pot or Pipe
_Grunting cheat_ │ A Sucking Pig
_Giger_ │ A Door
_Gybe_ │ Any Writing or Pass
_Glazyer_ │ One that goes in at the windows
_Gilt_ │ A Pick-lock
_Harmanbeck_ │ A Constable
_Harmans_ │ The Stocks
_Heave a Booth_ │ To rob an House
_Half bord_ │ Six pence
_Hearts ease_ │ A twenty shillings piece
_Jocky_ │ A Flayl, or mans Privities
_Jague_ │ A Ditch
_Jarke_ │ A Seal
_Ken_ │ An House
_Kinchin_ │ Little
_Knapper of Knappers_ │ A Sheep-stealer
_Kinchin Cove_ │ A little man
_Kate_ │ A Pick-lock
_Loure_ │ Money
_Lightmans_ │ Morning or Day
_Lib_ │ To tumble
_Libben_ │ An house to lie in
_Lage_ │ Water
_Libedge_ │ A Bed
_Lullabie-cheat_ │ A Childe
_Lap_ │ Pottage
_Lurries_ │ All manner of Cloaths
_Maunder_ │ To Beg
_Maunders_ │ Beggers
_Margery Prater_ │ An Hen
_Mill_ │ To steal
_Make_ │ An half-penny
_Mynt_ │ Gold
_Muffling cheat_ │ A Napkin
_Mumpers_ │ Gentile Beggars
_Milken_ │ One that Breaks houses
_Munns_ │ The Face
_Nab_ │ An head
_Nab-cheat_ │ An Hat
│⎧ To take
_Nab_ │⎨
│⎩ Or cheat
_Palliard_ │ One whose Father is a Beggar born
_Paplar_ │ Milk-Pottage
_Prats_ │ Thighs
_Prigg_ │ To Ride
_Peckidge_ │ Meat
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