id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 8466 Farmer, John Stephen Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] .txt text/plain 41431 5801 98 [27 To rob each house let a man go] [33 A good-night then to drink, wench, and ale-house--] THE SONG OF THE BEGGAR [Notes] I looke like one half dead, Sir, [Attributed to JOHN FLETCHER--a song from a collection of black-letter [5: Drink a good health [Notes]] A MORT'S DRINKING SONG [Notes] THE RUM-MORT'S PRAISE OF HER FAITHLESS MAUNDER [Notes] Thou'st had thy time, tho' now grown old. THE SONG OF THE YOUNG PRIG [Notes] [4: pick a pocket; lay hold of notes or money] On the prigging lay to the flash-house came, [2] "NIX MY DOLL, PALS, FAKE AWAY" [Notes] THE HOUSE BREAKER'S SONG [Notes] I went the rounds proper, I tell yer; 'twas like the free run of a Bar, VILLON'S STRAIGHT TIP TO ALL CROSS COVES [Notes] _See_ Note to "The Canter's Serenade." This song appears to be a appear in a somewhat different form as "a new song" to the time of ./cache/8466.txt ./txt/8466.txt