Part 10 (1/2)

[3: Look! be on your guard]

[4: taken]

[5: gallows: hung]

[6: Tramp or foot-pad.]

[7: housebreaker]

[8: window thief]

[9: valuables]

[10: pickpocket; man or silly fop]

[11: sneaking-thief]

[12: accomplice who jostles whilst another robs: countryman]

[13: thief who hooks goods from shop-windows]

[14: public-house thief]

[15: confidence-trick man; good-natured fool]

[16: steals all his money]

[17: Notes]

[18: an easy dupe]

[19: a lure]

[20: horse-thief]

[21: hung]

[22: sheep-stealer]

[23: as a duffer]

[24: cattle-lifter]

[25: poultry-thief]

[26: b.u.mpkins]

[27: members of the Canting Crew]

FRISKY MOLL'S SONG [1724]

[By J. HARPER, and sung by Frisky Moll in JOHN THURMOND'S _Harlequin Sheppard_ produced at Drury Lane Theatre].

I

From priggs that snaffle the prancers strong, [1]

To you of the _Peter_ Lay, [2]

I pray now listen a while to my song, How my _Boman_ he kick'd away. [3]

II

He broke thro' all rubbs in the whitt, [4]

And chiv'd his darbies in twain; [5]

But fileing of a rumbo ken, [6]

My _Boman_ is snabbled again. [7]

III