Richard Head, The English Rogue (1665)
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Date
1665
Author
Book title
The English rogue described in the life of Meriton Latroon, a witty extravagant being a compleat history of the most eminent cheats of both sexes
Publication place
London
Publisher
Henry Mersh
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
canting
Language
headwords: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: 7 Palliards, or otherwise called Clapperdugeons, who go always with their Morts at their heels, and draw people the more to pitty them, with Sperewort or Arsnick raise blisters on their legs, which they can cure again at their pleasure. When they come into the streets of a Town or Country village, they divide themselves, and beg one on one side of the street, and the other on the other side; the purchase which they thus get. They sell to poor Tradse-men, or other labouring people, and with the money are merry at the Bowsing-ken. (p. 121; Wing H1248 [1668])
sample: 7 Palliards, or otherwise called Clapperdugeons, who go always with their Morts at their heels, and draw people the more to pitty them, with Sperewort or Arsnick raise blisters on their legs, which they can cure again at their pleasure. When they come into the streets of a Town or Country village, they divide themselves, and beg one on one side of the street, and the other on the other side; the purchase which they thus get. They sell to poor Tradse-men, or other labouring people, and with the money are merry at the Bowsing-ken. (p. 121; Wing H1248 [1668])
Wing
H1246
Other editions
1666: Wing H1247;
1667: Wing H1247A;
1668: Wing H1247a (EEBO/TCP transcript);
1669;
1671: Wing H1249;
1672a;
1672b: Wing H1248bA;
1674: Wing H1250;
1680: Wing H1249aA (EEBO/TCP transcript), -48cA;
1688: Wing H1245, --52
1667: Wing H1247A;
1668: Wing H1247a (EEBO/TCP transcript);
1669;
1671: Wing H1249;
1672a;
1672b: Wing H1248bA;
1674: Wing H1250;
1680: Wing H1249aA (EEBO/TCP transcript), -48cA;
1688: Wing H1245, --52
Modern editions
- New York: Dodd, Mead, 1928
Criticisms
- Gotti (1999): 33-38.
- Coleman (2004): 47-54.
Moseley, C. W. R. D. "Richard Head's `The English Rogue': A Modern Mandeville?." Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971): 102-07. view record
