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<h1>The Letter G</h1>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GAG</h2>
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<p>to put iron pins into the
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Mouths of the Robbed, to hinder
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them from crying out.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GAGE</h2>
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<p>a Pot or Pipe. <i class="eg">Tip me a Gage</i>,
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give me a Pot or Pipe.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GAME</h2>
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<p>Bubbles drawn in to be
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cheated; also at a Bawdy house, lewd
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Women. <i class="eg">Have ye any Game Mother</i>?
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Have ye any Whores, Mistress bawd.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GAN</h2>
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<p>a Mouth.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GANS</h2>
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<p>the Lips.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GANG</h2>
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<p>an ill Knot or Crew of
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Thieves, Pick-pockets or Miscreants.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GAOL'ERS-<i>Coach</i></h2>
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<p>a Hurdle.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GARNISH-<i>Money</i></h2>
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<p>what is customarily
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spent among the Prisoners at first
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coming in.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GEE</h2>
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<p>as <i class="eg">It won't Gee</i>, it won't hit,
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or go.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GELT</h2>
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<h2>or <i>Gelt</i> [sic]</h2>
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<p>Money.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GENTRY-<i>Cove</i></h2>
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<p>a Gentleman.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GENTRY-<i>Cove-Ken</i></h2>
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<p>a Nobleman's
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or Gentleman's House.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GENTRY-<i>Mort</i></h2>
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<p>a Gentlewoman.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GEORGE</h2>
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<p>a Half-Crown piece.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GIG</h2>
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<p>a Nose; also a Woman's Privities.
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<i class="eg">Snichel the Gig</i>, fillip the Fellow
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on the Nose. <i class="eg">A young Gig</i>, a wanton
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Lass.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GIGGER</h2>
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<p>a Door, <i class="eg">Dub the Gigger,
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that we may ravage the Ken</i>, i. e. Open
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the Door with the Pick-lock, that we
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go in and rob the House.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GIG'GLERS</h2>
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<p>wanton Women.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GILL</h2>
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<p>a Quartern (of Brandy, Wine
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&c.) also a homely Woman.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GILL-FLURT</h2>
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<p>a proud Minks; also
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a Slut or light Housewife.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GILT</h2>
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<h2>or <i>Rum dubber</i></h2>
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<p>a Picklock, so
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called from <i>Gilt</i>, or <i>Key</i>; may of them
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are so expert, that from a Church-Door,
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to the smallest Cabinet or Trunk
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they will find means to open it. They
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generally pretending Business of Secrecy,
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covet to go up Stairs with their
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Company, in a Publick-House or Tavern,
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and then prying about, open any
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Door, Trunk or Cabinet that they
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think will afford them Booty, and so
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march off.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GIMCRACK</h2>
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<p>a spruce Wench.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GINGER-<i>Bread</i></h2>
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<p>Money.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GINGERLY</h2>
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<p>gently, soft, easily.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GINGUMBOBS</h2>
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<p>Toys or Baubles.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GINNY</h2>
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<p>an Instrument to lift up a
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Grate, the better to steal what is in the
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Window.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> GLAVER</h2>
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<p>to fawn and flatter.</p>
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<h2>GLAZE</h2>
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<p>a Window.</p>
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<h2>GLAZIER</h2>
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<p>one that creeps in at
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Casements, or unrips Glass-Windows
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to filch and steal.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GLAZIERS</h2>
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<p>Eyes. <i class="eg">The Cove has
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rum Glaziers</i>.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GLIB</h2>
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<p>smooth, without a Rub.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GLIM</h2>
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<p>a Dark-Lanthorn used in robbing
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Houses; also to burn in the Hand
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as <i class="eg">if the Cull was Glimmed, he'll gang to
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the Nub</i>; i.e. if the Fellow has been
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burnt in the Hand, he'll be hanged
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now.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GLIMFENDERS</h2>
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<p>Andirons. <i class="eg">Rum
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Glimfenders</i>, silver Andirons.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GLIMFLASHY</h2>
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<p>angry, or in a Passion.
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<i class="eg">The Cull is glimflashy</i>, the Fellow is in
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a Heat.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GLIMJACK</h2>
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<p>a Link-boy.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GLIMMER</h2>
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<p>Fire.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GLIMMERER</h2>
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<p>such as with sham
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Licences, pretend to Losses by Fire
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&c.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GLIMSTICK</h2>
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<p>a Candle-stick. <i class="eg">Rum
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Glimsticks</i>, Silver Candlesticks. <i class="eg">Queer
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Glimsticks</i>, Brass, Pewter or Iron Candlesticks.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GOADS</h2>
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<p>those that wheedle in Chapmen
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for Horse-coursers.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GOAT</h2>
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<p>a Letcher, or very lascivious
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Person.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GOATISH</h2>
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<p>letcherous, wanton, lustfull.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GOB</h2>
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<p>the Mouth; also a Bit or
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Morsel; hence <i>Gobbets</i>, now in use for
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Bits; <i class="eg">Gift of the Gob</i>, a wide, open
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Mouth; also a good Songster, or Singing
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Master.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GOBBLER</h2>
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<p>a Turkey-Cock.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GOING <i>upon the Dub</i></h2>
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<p>Breaking a
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House with Picklocks.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GOLD-<i>Droppers</i></h2>
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<p>Sweetners, Cheats,
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Sharpers.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GOLD-<i>Finch</i></h2>
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<p>he that has often a
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Purse of Gold in his Fob.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GOLD-<i>Finders</i></h2>
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<p>Emptiers of Jakes or
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Houses of Office.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GOOD <i>Fellow</i></h2>
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<p>a Pot Companion or
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Friend of the Bottle.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GOOSE</h2>
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<h2>or <i>Goose cap</i></h2>
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<p>a Fool. <i class="eg">A
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Taylors Goose roasted</i>, a Red-hot
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smoothing Iron, to close the seams.
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<i class="eg">Hot and heavy like a Taylors Goose</i>. applied
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to a passionate Coxcomb.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GOREE</h2>
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<p>Money but chiefly Gold.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GRAFTED</h2>
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<p>made a Cuckold of.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GRANNAM</h2>
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<p>Corn.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GREEN <i>Bag</i></h2>
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<p>a Lawyer.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GREEN-<i>Gown</i></h2>
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<p>a throwing of young
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Lasses on the Grass, and kissing them.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GREEN <i>Head</i></h2>
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<p>a very raw Novice,
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or unexperienced Fellow.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GRIG</h2>
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<p>a Farthing; <i class="eg">A merry Grig</i>, a
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merry Fellow.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GRINDERS</h2>
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<p>Teeth.</p>
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<h2>GROPERS</h2>
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<p>blind Men.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GROUND-<i>Sweat</i></h2>
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<p>a Grave.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> GRUB</h2>
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<p>to eat, to dine, &c.</p>
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<h2>GRUB</h2>
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<p>Victuals.</p>
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<h2>GRUB <i>street-News</i></h2>
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<p>false, forg'd News.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GRUMBLING <i>of the Gizzard</i></h2>
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<p>murmuring, muttering, repining.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GRUNTER</h2>
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<p>a sucking Pig.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GRUNTING-<i>Cheat</i></h2>
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<p>a Pig.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GRUNTING-<i>Peck</i></h2>
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<p>Pork.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GULL</h2>
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<p>a Cheat.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GULLED</h2>
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<p>cheated, rooked, sharped.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GULL-<i>Gropers</i></h2>
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<p>a By-stander that
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lends Money to the Gamesters.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GUN</h2>
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<p>as <i class="eg">He's in the Gun</i>; he's in Liquor.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>A</i> GUN</h2>
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<p>a Lie.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GUNDIGUTS</h2>
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<p>a fat, pursy Fellow.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GUN-<i>Powder</i></h2>
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<p>an old Woman.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GUT-<i>foundered</i></h2>
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<p>exceeding hungry.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GUTLING</h2>
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<p>eating much.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GUTS</h2>
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<p>a very fat, gross Person.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GUTTER-<i>Lane</i></h2>
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<p>the Throat.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GUTTING <i>an House</i></h2>
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<p>rifling it, clearing it.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GUTTING <i>an Oyster</i></h2>
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<p>eating it.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GUZZLE</h2>
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<p>Drink.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GUZZLING</h2>
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<p>drinking much.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GYBE</h2>
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<h2><i>or</i> JYBE</h2>
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<p>any Writing or Pass
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sealed.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GYBING</h2>
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<p>jeering or jerking</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>GYPSIES</h2>
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<p>They endeavour to persuade
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the Ignorant, that they derive
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their Origin from the <i>Egyptians</i>, a People
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heretofore very famous for <i>Astronomy</i>,
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<i>Natural Magick</i>, the art of <i>Divination</i>,
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&c. and therefore are great Pretenders
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to <i>Fortune-telling</i>. To colour
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their Impostures, they artificially discolour
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their Faces, and rove up and
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down the Country in a Tatterdemalion
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Habit, deluding the ignorant Vulgar,
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and often stealing from them what is
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not too hot for their Fingers, or too
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heavy to carry off.</p>
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<p>It is the Custom of these Wretches
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to swear all that are admitted into their
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Fraternity, by a Form and Articles
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annexed into it, administred by the Principal
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<i>Maunder</i> or <i>Roguish Strowler</i>, and
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which they generally observe inviolably.
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The Manner of admitting a
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new Member, together with the said
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Oath and Articles, are as follows.</p>
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<p>The Name of the Person is first
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demanded, and a Nick-name is then given
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him in its stead, by which he is ever
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after called, and in Time, his other
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Name is quite forgotten. Then standing
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up in the middle of the Fraternity,
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and directing his Face to the <i>Dimber-Damber</i>,
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or Prince of the Gang, he
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swears in this Manner, as is dictated to
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him by one of the most experienced,</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>I <i>Crank-Cuffin</i> do swear to be a
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<i>True Brother</i>, and will in all Things,
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obey the Commands of the great
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<i>Tawny Prince</i>, and keep his <i>Councel</i>,
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and not divulge the Secrets of my
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Brethren.</p>
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<p>I will never leave nor forsake this
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Company, but observe and keep all
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the Times of Appointments, either
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by Day or by Night, in any Place
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whatsoever.</p>
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<p>I will not teach any one to cant;
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nor will I disclose ought of our
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Mysteries to them, although they
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flog me to death.</p>
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<p>I will take my Prince's Part against
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all that shall oppose him, or any of
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us, according to the utmost of my
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Ability; nor will I suffer him, or
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any belonging to us, to be abused by
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any strange, <i>Abrams</i>, <i>Rufflers</i>, <i>Hookers</i>,
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<i>Palliards</i>, <i>Swadlers</i>, <i>Irish-Toyls</i>,
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<i>Swig-men</i>, <i>Whip-Jacks</i>, <i>Jark-men</i>,
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<i>Bawdy-Baskets</i>, <i>Dommerars</i>, <i>Clapperdogeons</i>,
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<i>Patricoes</i> <i>or</i> <i>Curtals</i>, but will
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defend him or them as much as I can
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against all other <i>Outlyers</i> whatever.</p>
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<p>I will not conceal ought I win out
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of <i>Libkins</i>, or from the <i>Ruffmans</i>; but
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will preserve it for the Use of the
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Company.</p>
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<p>Lastly, I will cleave to my <i>Doxy
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Wap</i> stiffly, and will bring her Duds,
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Margery, Praters, Goblet, Grunting-cheats,
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or Tibs of the Buttery, or
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anything else I can come at, as <i>Winnings</i>
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for her <i>Wappings</i>.</p>
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<p>The <i>Canters</i> have, it seems a Tradition,
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that from the Three first articles
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of this Oath, the first Founders
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of a certain boastful, worshipful Fraternity,
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who pretend to derive there
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Origin from the earliest Times, borrowed
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of them, both the Hint and form
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of their Establishment. And that their
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pretended Derivation from the first
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<i>Adam</i>, is a Forgery, it being only from
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the first <i>Adam Tiler</i>. See ADAM TILER.</p>
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<p>At the Admission of a new Brother,
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a general Stock is raised for <i>Booze</i>, or
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Drink, to make themselves merry on
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the Occasion. As for <i>Peckage</i>, or Eatables,
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they can procure it without
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Money; for while some are sent to
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break the <i>Ruffmans</i>, or Woods and
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Bushes, for Firing, others are detached
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to filch Geese, Chickens, Hens, Ducks
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or Mallards, and Pigs. Their <i>Morts</i>
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are their Butchers, who presently make
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bloody Work with what living Things
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are brought them, and having made
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Holes in the Ground, under some remote
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Hedge in an obscure Place, they
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make a fire, and broil or boil their
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Food, and when 'tis enough, fall to
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work, Tooth and Nail, and having
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eaten more like Beasts than Men, they
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drink more like Swine than human
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Creatures, entertaining one another
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all the Time with Songs in the <i>Canting</i>
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Dialect.</p>
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<p>As they live, so they lie together promiscuously,
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and know not how to claim
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a Property either in their Goods or
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Children, and this general Interest ties
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them more firmly together, than if
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all their Rags were twisted into Ropes
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to bind them indissolubly from a Separation;
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which detestable Union is farther
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consolidated by the above Oath.</p>
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<p>They strowl up and down all Summertime
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in Droves, and dextrously pick
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Pockets, while they are telling of Fortunes;
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and the Money, Rings, Silver-Thimbles,
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&c. which they get, are
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instantly conveyed from one Hand, to
|
|
another, till the remotest Person of the
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|
Gang, who is not suspected, because
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they come not near the Person robbed,
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gets Possession of it, so that in the strictest
|
|
Search, it is almost impossible to
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recover it, while the Wretches with
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Imprecations, Oaths and Protestations,
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disclaim the Thievery. That by
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which they are said to get the most
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Money, is, when young Gentlewomen
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of good Families and Reputations have
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happenned to be with Child before
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Marriage, a round Sum is often bestowed
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among the <i>Gypsies</i>, for some one
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<i>Mort</i> to take the Child; and as that
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is never heard of more by the true
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Mother and Family, so the Disgrace
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is kept concealed from the World, and
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if the Child lives, it never known its
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Parents.</p>
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