Vulgar words in Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] (Page 1)
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hide, and say no more] [20: Notes] [21: hanging; pick a purse] [22: rob; whore; hang] [23: Notes] [24: Notes] [25: beggar; barn] [26: comes out; goes to people's doors--"Put something in my wallet."]
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[9 This young whore can lie like truth,] [10 fornicate vigorously for a penny] [11 And steal very cleverly] [12 on the countryside] [13 When the house was alarmed we had good luck] [14 in spite of frost and snow] [15 When they sought us we hid] [16 in the woods.]
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[1: penny] [2: ale-house] [3: drink] [4: purse; Notes] [5: steal his purse] [6: girls; whores] [7: pawn their clothes] [8: gentleman] [9: Notes] [10: Notes] * * * * * THE MAUNDER'S INITIATION [Notes] [1622] [From _The Beggars Bush_ by JOHN FLETCHER; also in _The New Canting Dict_:--"Sung on the electing of a new dimber damber, or king of the gypsies"].
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I I keep my Horse; I keep my whore; I take no rents; yet am not poor; I travel all the land about, And yet was born to ne'er a foot.
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II With partridge plump, and woodcock fine, At midnight, I do often dine: And if my whore be not in Case, [1] My hostess' daughter has her place.
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IV And when that we come (to; unto) the whitt, For garnish they do cry; [16] (Mary, faugh, you son of a whore; We promise our lusty comrogues) (Ye; They) shall have it by and bye [Then, every man with his mort in his hand, [17] Does booze off his can and part, With a kiss we part, and westward stand, To the nubbing cheat in a cart].
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[18] V {But/And} when {that/---} we come to {Tyburn/the nubbing cheat} For {going upon/running on} the budge, There stands {Jack Catch/Jack Ketch}, that son of a {whore/bitch}, [19] That owes us all a grudge.
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[1: Sneaking into houses and stealing anything to hand] [2: Accomplished the theft] [3: fellow catches] [4 swag [properly money]] [5: take us to Newgate; [Notes]] [6: halfpenny] [7: fetters] [8: drink] [9: countryman] [10: steal his money] [11: robbed] [12: half a guinea] [13: ale-house] [14: spend a shilling] [15: Handcuffs and leg-shackles] [16: "footing"] [17: whore] [18: gallows] [19: Notes] [20: hung] [21: give no money] [22: knife] [23: Notes] THE MAUNDER'S PRAISE OF HIS STROWLING MORT [Notes] [1707] [From _The Triumph of Wit_, by J. SHIRLEY: "the King of the Gypsies's Song, made upon his Beloved Doxy, or Mistress;" also in _New Canting Diet_.
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I I am a saucy rolling blade, [1] I fear not wet nor dry, I keep a jack ass for my trade, And thro' the streets do cry _Chorus_.
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II With such a companion, a green-stall to keep, To swig porter all day, on a flock-bed to sleep, [4] I was so good-natur'd, so bobbish and gay, [5] And I still was as smart as a carrot all day: But now I so saucy and churlish am grown, So ragged and greasy, as never was known; My Nancy is gone, and my joys are all fled, And my arse hangs behind me, as heavy as lead.
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Stop your clack, and be damn'd t'ye, and hear me complain.
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I cry, while I'm all over smart, For I'm bit by the arse, while I'm stung to the heart.
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rot ye, I see what it was you were at, Why you knocked up your froth, why you flash'd off your fat: To roll in her ivory, to pleasure her eye, To be tipt by her tongue, on her stomach to lie.
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Therefore, in jolly chorus now, Let's chaunt it altogether, And let each cull's and doxy's heart [6] Be lighter than a feather; And as the kelter runs quite flush, [7] Like _natty_ shining _kiddies_, To treat the coaxing, giggling brims, [8] With spunk let's post our _neddies_; [9] Then we'll all roll in _bub_ and _grub_, [10] Till from this ken we go, [11] Since rowling Joe's tuck'd up with Moll, And Moll's tuck'd up with Joe.
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[1: tramping; pick-pocket] [2: pickpocket] [3: paid for] [4: woman, girl] [5: jilted] [6: man; woman] [7: money] [8: whores] [9: spirit; spend our guineas] [10: drink; food] [11: drinking-house] THE BUNTER'S CHRISTENING.
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[11] In quod we lay three dismal weeks, Till Nell with crying swell'd her cheeks, And I damn'd the quorum all for sneaks And then sung fal de ral tit, etc.
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[1: Notes] [2: walked] [3: victims] [4: stole handkerchiefs; side pocket] [5: girl, whore] [6: talking noisily] [7: Notes] [8: wig] [9: steal] [10: shilling] [11: prison] [12: eat and drink] [13: made a rich haul] [14: are up to every move] A LEARY MOT [Notes] [_c_.
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[4] Derry down, down, derry down, II He met a bould yeoman, and bid him for to stand; "If I do, I'm damn'd!" said he, "although you cut it grand.
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[1: publicans] [2: years] [3: pretty women] [4: married women and men] [5: boon companion] [6: smuggler; pugilist; whore] [7: police; magistrate] [8: plunder cleverly stolen] [9: watches; chains; seals; stolen] [10: money; rings; spoons] [11: breast-pins; purses; pocket-book] [12: receiver of stolen goods; brothel] [13: thieves; drunkards] [14: buried] [15: taken to gaol; had cheated a life sentence] [16: hanged; drowned oneself] [17: got rid of the plunder] THE CHICKALEARY COVE [Notes] [_c_.
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[1: making love] [2: lie] [3: assaulting the police] [4: take unlimited credit] [5: in prison] [6: hung] [7: clothes] [8: silver] [9: money] [10: drunk] [11: child] [12: drunken bout] [13: policeman] 'ARRY AT A POLITICAL PICNIC [By T Milliken in _Punch_, 11 Oct.] DEAR CHARLIE.
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Lawn-tennis, quoits, cricket, and dancing for them as must be on the shove, But I preferred pecking and prowling, and spotting the mugs making love.
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[19] I do not care one bloody damn, A mot's good-night to one and all.
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[15] VI I was fullied, and then got three stretch for the job,[16] And my trip--cuss the day as I seen her-- [17] She sold off my home to some pals in her mob, [18] For a couple of foont and ten deener.
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'turd in your mouth'.
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: also _queere_ = base, roguish; _queer-bung_ = an empty purse; _queer-cole_ = bad money; _queer-diver_ = a bungling pickpocket; _queer-ken_ = a prison; _queer-mart_ = a foundered whore, and so forth.
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_Mack_ = pimp.