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A02656 A caueat for commen cursetors vvlgarely called uagabones, set forth by Thomas Harman, esquier, for the vtilite and proffyt of hys naturall countrey. Newly agmented and imprinted Anno Domini. M.D.LXUII. Vewed, examined and allowed, according vnto the Queenes Maiestyes iniunctions Harman, Thomas, fl. 1567. 1567 (1567) STC 12787; ESTC S112487 48,296 64

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halfe myngled with Englyshe when it is familiarly talked and fyrste plaring thinges by their proper names as an Introduction to this peuysh spéeche Nab. a head Nabchet a hat or cap. Glasyers eyes a smelīg chete a nose gan a mouth a pratlynge chete a tounge Crashinge chetes téeth Hearing chetes eares fambles handes a famblinge chete a rynge on thy hand quaromes a body prat a buttocke stampes legges a caster a cloke a togeman a cota a commission a shierte drawers hosen stampers shooes a moflinge chete a napkyn a belly chete an apern dudes clothes a lag of duds a bucke of clothes a slate or slats a shéete or shetes lybbege a bed bunge a pursse lowre money mynt golde a borde a shyllinge halfe a borde sixe pence flagg a greate a wyn a penny a make a halfepenny bowse drynke bene good benshyp very good quiet nouhgt a gage a quart pot a skew a cuppe pannam bread cassan chéese yarum mylke lap butter mylke or whey pek meate poppelars porrage ruff pek haken a grunting chet or apatrices kichen a pyg a caklīgchet a cock or capō a margerye praier a Hen. a Roger or tyb of the buttery a Goose a quakinge chet or a red shanke a drake or ducke grannam corne a lowhīg chet a Cowe a bleting chet a calfe or shéepe a prauncer a horse antem a church Salomon a alter or masse patrico a priest nosegent a Nunne a gybe a writinge a Tarke a seale a ken a house a staulīg ken a house that wil receiue stolē ware a bousing kē a ale house a Lypken a house to lye in a Lybbege a bedde glymmar fyre Rome bouse wyne lage lage water a skyppar a barne strommell strawe a gentry cofes kenne A noble or gentle mans house a gygger a doore bufe a dogge the lightmans the daye the darkmās the night Rome vyle London dewse a vile the countrey rome morte the Qeune a gentrye cofe a noble or gentle man a gētry mort A noble or gentle woman the quyer custyn that Iusticer of peace the harmā beck the Counstable the harmanes the stockes Quyerken a prison house Quier cramprings boltes or fetters trinynge hanginge chattes the gallowes the hygh pad the hygh waye the ruffmanes the wods or bushes a smelling chet a gardē or orchard crassinge chets apels peares or any other frute to fyltche to beate to strike to robbe to nyp a bong to cut a purse To skowere the cramprings to weare boltes or fetters to heue abough to robbe or ryfle a boewethe to cly the gerke to be whypped to cutte beuie to speake gentlye To cutte bene whyddes to speake or gaue good words To cutte quyre whyddes to geue euel wordes or euell language to cutte to saye to towre to sée to bowese to drynke to maunde to aske or requier to stall to make or ordain to cante to speake to wyll a ken to robbe a house to pryggs to ryde to dup the giger to open the doore to couch a hogsheade to ly downe slepe to nyggle to haue to do with a woman carnally stow you a holde your peace bynge a waste go you hence to the ruffian to the deuyll the ruffian clythe the deuell take thée ¶ The vpright Cafe canteth to the Roger The vprighte man spaketh to the Roge Man Bene Lyghtmans to thy quarromes in what lipkē hast thou lipped in this darke manes whether in a lybbege or in the strummell God morrowe to thy bodye in what house hast thou lyue in all night whether in a bed or in the strawe Roge. I couched a hogeshed in a Skypper this darkemans I laye me downe to sléepe in a barne this night Man I towre the strummell tryne vpon thy nabcher Tagman I sée the straw hange vpon thy cap and coate Roge. I saye by the Salomon I wyll lage it of with a gage of bene house then out to my nose watch I sweare by the Mast I wyll wash it of with a quart of drinke then saye to me what thou wylt Man Why hast thou any lowre in thy bonge to house Why hast thou any money in thy purfe to drinke Roge. But a fiagge a wyn and a make But a grot a penny and a halfe penny Man Why where is the kene that hath the bene house where is the house that hath the good drinke Roge. A bene mort hereby at the signe of the prauncer A good wyfe here by at the signe of the hors Man I cutt it is quyer boufe I bousd a flagge the laste darkemans I saye it is small and naughtye drynke I dranke a groate there the last night Roge. But bouse there a bord thou shalt haue beneship But drinke there a shyllinge and thou shalt haue very good Tower ye yander is the kene dup the gygger and maund that is beneshype Se you yonder is she house open the doore and aske for the best Man This house is as benshyp as rome bouse This drinke is as good as wyne Now I to wer that bene bouse makes nase nabes Now I so that good drynke makes a dronken heade Man tide of this al drie what bene pecke is in herken Aske of this wyfe what good meate shée hath in her house Roge. She hath a Cacling chete a grunting chete ruff pecke cassan and popplarr of yarum She hath a hen a pyg baken chese and mylke porrage Man That is beneshyp to oure watche That is very good for vs. Now we haue well bousd let vs strike some chete Nowe we haue well dronke let vs steale some thinge yonder dwelleth a quyere custen it were beneshype to myll hym Yonder dwelleth a hoggeshe and choprlyshe man it weare very well donne to robbe him Roge. Nowe bynge we a waste to the hygh pad the ruffmanes is by Nays let vs go hence to the hygh waye the wodes is at hande Man So may we happen on the Harmanes and cly the Iarke or to the quyecken and skower quyart tramprings and so to tryning on the chates So we maye chaunce to set in the stockes eyther be whypped eyther had to prison house and there be shackeled with bolttes and fetters and then to hange on the gallowes Gerry gan the ruffian clye thee A torde in thy mouth the deuyll take thée Man What stowe you bene cofe and cut benar whydds and byng we to rome vyle to nyp a bong so shall we haue lowre for the bousing ken and when we byng back to the deuseauyel we wyll fylche some duddes of the Ruffemans or myll the ken for a lagge of dudes What holde your peace good fellowe and speake better wordes and go we to London to cut a purse then shal we haue money for the ale house and when wee come backe agayne into the countrey wée wyll steale some lynnen clothes of one hedges or robbe some house for a bucke of clothes ¶ By this lytle ye maye holy and fully vnderstande their vntowarde talke and pelting speache myngled without measure and as they haue begonne of late to deuyse some new termes for certien thinges so wyll they 〈◊〉 an alter this and deuyse as euyll or worsse This language nowe beinge knowen and spred a broade yet one thinge more I wyll ad vnto not meaninge to Englysh the same because I learned the same of a shameles Doxe but for the phrase of speche I set it forth onely There was a proude patrico and a nosegent he tooke his Iockam in his famble and a wappinge he went he dokte the Dell hée pryge to praunce he byngd a waste into the darke mans he fylcht the Cofe with out any fylth man WHyle this second Impression was in printinge it fortuned that Nycholas Blunte who called hym selfe Nycholas Gennyns a counterefet Cranke that is spoken of in this booke was foūde begging in the whyte fryers an New-yeres day last past Anno domini 1567 and commytted vnto a offescer who caried him vnto the depetye of the ward which comytted hym vnto the counter as the counstable and a nother would haue caried hym thether This counterfet Cranke ran awaye but one lyghter of fote then the other ouer toke hym so leading him to the counter where he remayned thrée dayes from thence to Bryde well where before the maisters he had his dysgysed aparell put vpon hym which was monstrous to be holde And after stode in Chepesyde with the same apparil on a scafold A Stockes to staye sure and safely detayne Lasy lewd Leutterers that lawes do offend Impudent persons thus punished with payne Hardlye for all this do meane to amende Fetters or shackels serue to make fast Male malefactours that on myschiefe do muse Vntyll the learned lawes do quite or do cast Such suttle searchers as all euyll do vse A whyp is a whyskar that wyll wrast out blood Of backe and of body beaten right well Of all the other it doth the most good Experience techeth and they can well tell ¶ O dolefull daye nowe death draweth nere Hys bytter styng doth pearce me to the harte I take my leaue of all that be here Nowe piteously playing this tragicall parte Neither stripes nor teachinges in tyme could conuert wherefore an ensample let me to you be And all that be present nowe praye you for me THis is the fygure of the counterfet Clarke that is spoken of in this boke of Roges called Nycholas Blunt other wyse Nycholas Gennyngs His tale is in the xvii lefe of this booke which doth showe vnto all that reades it woundrous suttell and crafty deseit doune of by him Thus I conclude my bolde Beggars booke That all estates most playnely maye see As in a glasse well pollyshed to looke Their double demeaner in eche degree Their lyues their language their names as they be That with this warning their myndes may be warmed To amende their mysdeedes and so lyue vnharmed ¶ Imprinted at London in Fletestrete at the signe of the Faulcon by Wylliam gryffith Anno Domni 1567. the eight of Ianuary