Part 9 (1/2)

[8: Notes]

[9: fetters; wear]

[10: stocks]

[11: constables, look]

[12: pockets; money]

[13: clothes; general plunder]

[14: magistrate]

[15: country]

[16: gallows]

[17: Notes]

[18: night]

[19: hedge]

[20: fire, duck]

[21: goose]

[22: turkey]

[23: bacon]

[24: corn]

[25: any potable; porridge]

[26: dog; wooden dish]

[27: hook; counterfeit pa.s.s]

[28: cloak]

THE BLACK PROCESSION [Notes]

[1712]

[From _The Triumph of Wit_, by J. s.h.i.+RLEY:--”The twenty craftsmen, described by the notorious thief-taker Jonathan Wild”].

Good people, give ear, whilst a story I tell, Of twenty black tradesmen who were brought up in h.e.l.l, On purpose poor people to rob of their due; There's none shall be nooz'd if you find but one true. [1]

The first was a coiner, that stampt in a mould; The second a voucher to put off his gold, [2]

Toure you well; hark you well, see [3]

Where they are rubb'd, [4]

Up to the nubbing cheat where they are nubb'd. [5]

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The third was a padder, that fell to decay, [6]

Who used for to plunder upon the highway; The fourth was a mill-ken to crack up a door, [7]

He'd venture to rob both the rich and the poor, The fifth was a glazier who when he creeps in, [8]

To pinch all the lurry he thinks it no sin. [9]

Toure you well, etc.

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