.... They haue a language among themselues, composed of omnium gatherum; a glimmering whereof one of late daies hath endeuoured to manifest, as farre as his Au­ thour is pleased to be an intelligencer; The substance whereof, he leaueth for those that will dilate thereof, en­ ough for him to haue the praise, other the paines, not­ withstanding Harmans ghost continually clogging his conscience with Sic vos non vobis. .... .... Suppose now by this the greatest part of them are sayling on the blacke Sea, what will become of them, how they arriued, how entertained by the Inhabitants there, and of their prosperous voyage, you shall heare at the next boat-post. In the meane time, because the Bel­ man entreateth any that is more rich in canting, to lend him better or more with variety, he will repay his loue double: I haue thought good not only to shew his errour in some places in setting downe olde wordes vsed fortie yeeres agoe before he was borne; for wordes that are vsed in these dayes (although he is bold to call me an v­ surper (for so he doth in his last round) and not able to maintayne the title) But haue enlarged his Dictionary (or Master Harmans) with such wordes as I thinke hee neuer heard of (and yet in vse too) but not out of vaine glorie, as his ambition is, but indeede as an experienced souldier that hath deerely paid for it: and therefore it shall be honour good enough for him (if not too good) to come vp with the Reare (I doe but shoote your owne ar­ row backe againe) and not to haue the leadyng of the Van as he meanes to doe, although small credite in the end will redound to eyther. You shall know the wordes not set in eyther his Dic­ tionaries by this marke §: and for shewing the errour in his words, and true englishing of the same and other, this marke ¶ shall serue. § Abram madde. § He maunds Abram, he begs as a madde man. Autem the Church. Autem mort, a married woman. ¶ Bung is now vsed for a pocket, heretofore for a purse. Boord a shilling. Halfe a Boord, sixepence. Bowse drinke. Bowsing ken, an Ale-house Ben good. Benship very good. Buffa a Dogge. Bing a wast, get you hence. § Budge a beake, runne away. § A Bite, secreta () mulierum. Caster a Clocke. § Crackmans the hedge. Comission a shirt. § To Castell, to see or looke. § A Roome Cuttle, a sword. § A Cuttle bung, a knife to cut a purse. § Chepemans, Cheape-side market. To Cut , to tell or call. ¶ Cut me ben whids, tell me truth. ¶ To Cut quire whids, to lie. Crashing Cheates, Apples. ¶ Chates, the Gallowes: here he mistakes both the sim­ ple word, because he so found it printed, not knowing the true originall thereof, and also in the compound; as for Chates it should be Cheates, which word is vsed generally for things, as Tip me that Cheate, Giue me that thing: so that if you will make a word for the Gallous, you must put thereto this word Treyning, which signifies hanging; and so Treyning Cheate is as much to say, hanging things, or the Gallous, and not Chates. Coue a man. ¶ Cowch a Hogshead, to lie downe and sleepe: this phrase is like an Alminacke that is out of date: now the duch word to slope is with them vsed, to sleepe, and lig­ gen to lie downe. § Crancke, the falling sickenesse: and thereupon your Rogues that counterfeit the falling sickenes, are cal­ led counterfeit Crancks. To Cly the Iarke, to be whipped. Drawers Hosen. Dudes Clothes. Darkemans the night. Dewsauell the Countrey. Dup the gigger, open the doore. § A fflicke a Theefe. Fambles hands. Fambling Cheates, Rings. § Famblers, a paire of Gloues. § To Filch, to beate. § A Filchman, a cudgell or staffe. Flag, a groate. § To Fence properly, to sell any thing that is stolne. § To Foyst, to picke a pocket. § A Feager of Loges one that beggeth with counterfeit writings. Glasiers, eyes. § Greenemans the fields. Gan a mouth. Gage a quart pot. Granam Corne. Glymmer Fire. Gigger a doore. § Gilkes for the gigger, false keyes for the doore or pick­ lockes. § Gracemans, Gratious streete market. Gentry mort, a Gentlewoman. Gentry Cous ken, a Gentlemans house. Harman becke the Constable. Harmons the stockes. § Iockam a mans yard. § Ian a purse. § Iere a Turd. Ken an house. Stawling ken, a house to receiue stolne goods, or a dwel­ ling house. § Lugges eares. Lagge of dudes, a bucke of clothes. § Loges a passe or warrant. § A Feager of loges, one that beggeth with false passes. Lybbeg a bedde. Lower money. Lybkin a house to lodge people. Lagge water or pisse. Lightmans the day. Mynt gold. The Muggill, the Beadle. Make an halfpenny. Maunding begging. § What maund doe you breake, what kind of begging vse you? § Ile myll your maund, Ile spoyle your begging. § To nip a Ian, to cut a purse. § Nab a head. § Nab cheate an hat. § Numans Newgate market. Nigling, company keeping with a woman: this word is not vsed now, but wapping, and thereof comes the name wapping morts Whoores. Prat a Buttocke. § Your prat whids Romely, you fart lustily. Pecke meate, pecke is not meate but peckage, pecke is taken to eate or byte: as the Buffa peckes me by the stampes, the dogge bites me by the shinnes. Ruff peck Bacon. § Peckage meat or Scroofe scraps. § To Plant to hide. § Stow your whids and plant § The Coue of the ken can kant. Prauncer an horse. Prigging riding. Patrico a Priest. Pad a Way. § Padder an high-way robber or purse taker. § Quire, this word is alwayes taken in il sense for naught § Quire ken a prison house. § Quire bowse bad drinke. § What a quire whidding keepe you, what a scolding keep you? Quarroms the body, or armes, or backe. Roome vile a great towne, commonly taken for London. Roome bowse wine: this word is alwayes taken in the best sense, to shew a thing extraordinary or excellent. § Roome bowsin ken, a Tauerne. Roome mort a Queene or Gentlewoman, and so Roome Coue a Gentleman. ¶ Ruffmans, not the hedge or bushes as heretofore: but now the eauesing of houses or roofes: Cragmans is now vsed for the hedge. Ruffian the diuell. § Scrappes, fatte and glorious bittes: sound blowes and bangings. § The muggill will tip you fat scraps and glorious bits, the Beadle will well bumbast you. Stampes legges. Stampers shooes. Slate a sheete. Scew a Cuppe or Glasse, a Dish or any thing to drinke in. Skipper a barne. ¶ Salomon the masse: Now when many doe presse the poore rogues so earnestly to sweare by the Salomon, doe not blame them though they refuse it; for although you know not what it meanes, yet they very well know: Many men I haue heard take this word Soloman to be the chiefe commander among the beggers; but to put them out of doubt, this is not he: marry there was one Soloman in K.HENRY the eights time that was a iol­ ly fellow among them, who kept his Court most an end at Foxe Hall at the vpper end of Lambeth (if it be true as their Records make mention) who was Succes­ sour to Cocke Lorrell: of him and his successors much is to bee spoken if licence may be graunted, and of whose Ruannagate race I could frame a whole trea­ tise: but here enough. § A Stander, he that stands sentinel vpon the Pad or high­ way to robbe. Stromell the straw. § Spreader butter. ¶ Smellar a garden, not Smelling cheate, for thats a Nose­ gay. § Treyning hanging. § Treyning cheate the gallous. § To tip to giue. § Tip a make ben Roome Coue, giue a halfepeny good Gentleman. To tower or Castell to see. § To whid to speake. § A Winne a penny. § Whittington Newgate. Not in OED Yarrim pottage or milke. And thus haue I runne ouer the Canters Dictiona­ ry, to speake more at large, would aske more time then I haue allotted me, yet in this short time that I haue, I meane to sing song for song with the Belman, ere I wholly leaue him. .... He [Puffing Dicke] gaue termes to robbers by the high way, such as robbe on horse-backe were called high lawy­ ers, and those who robbed on fote, he called Padders: the difference of these two sorts of villanes is this. The first sort are called Gent. robbers or theeues; and these ride on horses well appointed, and goe in shew like honest men: the other robbe on foote, and haue no other helpe but a paire of light heeles and a thicke woode. ....