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Canting Song O per se O O1: For all your Duds are bingd awaste the bien Coue hath the loure.at bing a waste, v.
Canting Song O per se O O1: For all your Duds are bingd awaste the bien Coue hath the loure. O per se O M: Who therefore would pity such imposters [...] whose going Abram (that is to say, naked) is not for want of cloathes, but to stirre up men to pittie.at abraham, adj.
O per se O M: Who therefore would pity such imposters [...] whose going Abram (that is to say, naked) is not for want of cloathes, but to stirre up men to pittie.at abram, adj.
O per se O M: The Abram Cove, is a lustie strong Roague, who walketh with a Slade [sic] about his Quarrons (a sheete about his body) Trining, hanging to his hammes, bandeliere-wise, for all the world as Cut-purses and Thieues weare their sheetes to the Gallows.at abram-man, n.
O per se O M4: They who are Counterfeiters of Passeports are called Ben-feakers, that is to say, Good makers.at bene feaker, n.
O per se O Canting Song O2: Bein darkmans then, bouse, mort, and ken / the bien coue’s bingd a wast.at bene cove (n.) under bene, adj.
O per se O Canting Song O2: Bein darkmans then, bouse, mort, and ken / the bien coue’s bingd a wast; / On chates to trine, by Rome-coves dine / for his long lib at last.at bene darkmans under bene, adj.
Canting Song O per se O O1: Bing out bien Morts and toure.at bene mort (n.) under bene, adj.
Canting Song O per se O O1: This Doxie Dell, can cut bien whids, and wap well for a win And Prig and cloy so benshiply all the Deusea-vile within.at beneshiply (adv.) under beneship, adj.
Canting Song O per se O O1: I met a Dell, I viewed her well, / she was benship to my watch.at beneship, adj.
O per se O L3: This killer brings to the slaughter-house of the Diuell (viz. a Bowsing Kenne) a Bleating Chete, (a Sheepe).at bleating cheat (n.) under bleat, v.
O per se O n.p.: But (alas!) the horses are at pasture fourescore or a hundred miles from their olde mangers: they were sould at some blinde drunken théeuish faire [Ibid.] At the end of fierce battailes, the onely Rendeuouz for lame souldiers to retire vnto, is an Hospitall: and at the end of a long Progresse, the onely ground for a tyred Iade to runne in, is some blind country faire, where hée may be sure to be sold.at blind fair (n.) under blind, adj.1
‘Of Clapperdogeons’ O per se O N2: Their Doxies will trauell [...] from Fayre to Fayre, from Market to Market, being able by their Maunding to get fiue Bordes (that is, fiue shillings) in a weeke.at bord, n.
Canting Song O per se O O2: Ben bowse thou shalt Bowse thy fill.at bouse, v.
O per se O L4: Their Ben Bouse (the strong Liquor) causing them to haue Nase Nabs (drunken Coxcombes) up fling they the Cannes.at bouse, n.
O per se O L3: This killer brings to the slaughter-house of the Diuell (viz. a Bowsing Kenne) a Bleating Chete.at bowsing-ken, n.
Canting Song O per se O O3: The nab was queer, the bube him nipped, His quaroms all was pocky.at bube, n.
Canting Song O per se O O2: No Doe was ever Buck’d like mine.at buck, v.1
Canting Song O per se O O3: To thy Buhar [...] I bid adieu.at bugher, n.
O per se O L3: Besides they have their canting word for the ‘Devil’ or the ‘plague’, etc., as, Ruffian for the one and cannikin for the other.at canniken, n.1
O per se O ‘Canting Song’ O2: Bein darkmans then, bouse, mort, and ken / the bien coue’s bingd a wast; / On chates to trine, by Rome-coves dine / for his long lib at last.at chats, n.1
‘Canting Song’ O per se O O1: To Strawling [sic] Ken, the Mort bings then to fetch lowre for her cheats.at cheat, n.
O per se O M: [They have] bodies of soares (which they call their great Cleymes). [Ibid.] O3: This cuffin, getting glimmer / I’ th’ prat, so cleymed his jockey.at cleyme, n.
Canting Song O per se O O1: Bingd out bien Morts and toure, bing out of the Rome-vile: And towre the coue, that cloyde your duds vpon the chates to trine.at cloy, v.
O per se O N4: At the Gallowes [they] are made Graduates of Newgate and other Gaoles, (the Hang-mans Colledges).at college, n.
‘Canting Song’ O per se O O1: And Iybe well Ierkt, tick rome confeck, for backe by glymmar to mawnd.at confeck, adj.
‘Canting Song’ O per se O O2: Till Cramprings quier, tip Cove his hire / and quier-kens do them catch.at cramp-rings, n.
‘Canting Song’ O per se O O2: Ben bowse thou shalt Bowse thy fill, And crash a grunting cheat that’s young.at crash, v.
Canting Song O per se O O3: This cuffin, getting glimmer I’ th’ prat, so cleymed his jockey.at cuffin, n.
‘Canting Song’ O per se O O3: Dimber Damber fare thee well Pallyards all thou didst excel.at dimber-damber, n.
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