Thieves, prostitutes, and bad characters would not attempt to obtain admission to establishments if this description:—no more than a person enjoying a competency would endeavour to become the inmate of a workhouse. Scenes of debauchery and unbounded license alone suit abandoned males and females;—and thus every guarantee would exist for the respectable management of those institutions which would save the honest poor from the low lodging-houses of London.[10] ----- Footnote 9: The following is a glossary which will enable the reader to comprehend the flash terms used in the thieves' marriage-service:— _Parish prig_, clergyman. _Bouncing ben_, learned man. _Padding-ken_, lodging-house. _Cop_, make over. _Shaler_, girl—young lady. _Fancy bloak_, paramour—fancy man. _Tip mauleys_, shake hands. _Jomen_, paramour—fancy girl. _On the cross_, out thieving. _Doss_, bed. _Traps_, constables. _Upon the nose_, on the watch. _Fly_, alert. _Pinch a lob_, rob a till. _Plan_, steal. _Sneezer_, snuff-box. _Randlesman_, a silk pocket handkerchief. _Work the bulls_, pass bad 5_s._ pieces (a favourite specie with coiners in those days). _Couters_, sovereigns. _Rum_, bad—spurious. _Go the jump_, steal into a room through a window. _Speel the drum_, run away with stolen property. _Shop-bouncer_, shop-lifter. _Get the clinch_, be locked up in gaol. _Lumbered_, imprisoned. _Fawney_, ring. Footnote 10: