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A43142	The canting academy, or, The devils cabinet opened wherein is shewn the mysterious and villanous practices of that wicked crew, commonly known by the names of hectors, trapanners, gilts, &c. : to which is added a compleat canting-dictionary, both of old words, and such as are now most in use : with several new catches and songs, compos'd by the choisest wits of the age ...	Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?	1673 (1673)	Wing H1243; ESTC R9723	96,642	212

idleness so sharply that the husbandman whose ground was found barren and his pastures unoccupied was presently put from the place and his ground given to another man Macarius and Diogenes for that they would not be accounted idle persons the one would remove heaps of sand from place to place and the other would tumble his tub up and down Augustus did win the Souldiers unto him with rewards the common sort with plenty of Victuals and all generally with the pleasure of ease Tacitus When Augustus reproached a certain Player becayse through his occasion there was a tumult among the people he answered It is good for thee O Casar that the people be with held by our idle exercises from busying their brains about other matters Of Gluttony This deadly enemy to health replenisheth the body with Humors Wind Inflammations Distillations and Operations and change of Meats draweth pleasure out of the bounds of sufficiencie Pleasure in all things which pleaseth where as in simple and uniform things delight never exceedeth the appetite and natural necessity THe Arigentines builded as though they should always live and did seed as though they should always die Plato The Emperor Septimus Severus and Jovinianus died with eating and drinking too much Valentinianus a famous Emperor died suddenly of a surset Lucullus being asked one day by his Servant whom he had invited to his feast seeing so much meat prepared answered Lucullus shall dine with Lucallus Plut. Vitellius Spinter was so much given to gluttony and excess that at one supper he was served with two thousand several kind of fishes and with 7000 flying Fowl Muleasses King of Tennis after he was deprived of his Kingdom in his return out of Almaign being without hope that the Emperor Charles the fifth would help him at all he spent one hundred Crowus upon a Peacock dressed for him Maximilian the Emperor devoured in one day forty pounds of flesh and drunk an hogshead of Wine Geta the Emperor for three days together continued his Festival and his delicates were brought in by order of the Alphabet Astydamas being invited by Ariobarzanes to a Banquet eat up all that alone which was provided for divers Guests There was a Contention between Hercules and Lepreas which of them both should-first devour an Oxe in which attempt Lepreas was overcome afterwards he challenged him for drinking but Hercules was his Master Aglais whose practise was to sound the Trumpet devoured at every meal twelve pounds of flesh with as much bread as two bushels of wheat would make and three gallons of Wine Philoxenes a notorious glutton wished he had a neck like a Crane that the sweet meat which he eat might be long in going down Ravisius Lucullus at a solemn and costly feast he made to certain Embassadors of Asia among other things he did eat a Griph boiled and a Goose in paste Lucullus took great pains himself in furnishing of a Feast and when he was asked why he was so curious in setting out a banquet he answered That there was as great disrcetion to be used in marsh●lling of a Feast as in the ordering of a Battle that the one might be terrible to his enemies and the other acceptable to his friends Plut. In Rhodes they that love fish are accounted right courteous and free-hearted men but he that delighteth more in flesh is ill thought of and to his great shame is reputed a bondslave to his belly Sergius Galba was a devouring and gluttonous Emperor for he caused at one banquet seven thousand birds to be killed Xerxes having tasted of the figs of Athens sware by his Gods that he would eat no other all his life after and went forthwith to prepare an Army to conquer Grecia for no other cause but to fill his belly full of the figs of that Countrey The Sicilians dedicated a Temple to Gluttony and erected Images to Bacchus and Ceres the God and Goddes of Wine and Corn. M. Manlius in times past made a Book of divers ways how to dress meat and another of the tastes sauces and divers means of services which were no sooner published but by the decree of the Senate they were burned and if he had not fled speedily into Asia he had been burned with them There was a Law in Rome called Fahia by which it was prohibited that no man should dispend in the greatest Feast he made above an hundred Sextexterces Nisoeus a Tirant of Syracuse when he understood by his Soothsayers that he had not long to live what he had left he spent in belly-chear and drunkenness and so died Mar. Anthonius set forth a book of his drunkenness in which he proved those pranks when he was overcome with wine to be good and lawful Darius had written upon his grave this inscr●iption I could drink store of Wine and bear it well Ptolomey who in a mockery was called Philopater because he put to death his Father and Mother through wine and women died like a beast Aruntius a Roman being drunken deflowred his own Daughter Medullina whom he forthwith killed Tiberius Caesar was preferred to a Pretorship because of his excellencie in drinking Diotimus was sirnamed Funnel or Tunnel be cause he gulped down wine through the channel of his Throat which was poured into a Funnel the end whereof was put into his mouth with out interposition between gulps In the Feast of Bacchus a Crown of Gold was appointed for him that could drink most Cleio a woman was so practised in drinking that she durst challenge all men and women whatsoever to try masteries who could drink most and overcome all Cleomenes King of Lacedemonia being disposed to carouse after the manner of the Scythians drank so much that he became and continued e ver after senceless Cyrillus Son in his drunkenness wickedly slew that holy man his Father and his mother great with Child he hurt his two sisters and deflowred one of them Androcides a Gentleman of Greece hearing of Alexanders excess in Drunkenness wrote a Letter to him wherein was a Tablet of Gold with these words thereon engraven Remember Alexander when thou drinkest wine that thou doest drink the blood of the earth Those of Gallia Transalpina understanding that the Italians had planted Vines in Italy came to conquer their Countrey so that if they had never planted Vines the French-men had not demanded the Countrey Four old Lombards being at Banquet together the one drank an health round to the others years in the end they challenged two to two and after each man had declared how many years old he was the one drank as many times as he had years and likewise his companion pledged him the one was 58. the second 63. the third 87. the last 92. so that a man knoweth not what they did eat or drink but he that drank least drank 5● cups of Wine Of Lechery T is bewitching evil being an unbridled appetite in whomsoever it reigneth killeth all good motions of the mind alteretr

drieth and weakneth the body shortning life diminishing Memory and Vnderstanding CYrena a notorius strumpet was sirnamed Dode camechana for that she found out and invented and found out twelve several ways of beastly pleasure Proculeius the Emperour of an hundred Sarmatian Virgins he took captive he deflowred ten the first night and all the rest within fifteen dayes after Hercules in one night deflowred fifty Johannes à Casa Archbishop of Benevento and Legate in Venice writ a Book in praise of the abominable vice of Sodomitry Sigismund Malatesta strived to have carnal knowledge of his Son Rohert who thrustinst his dagger into his Fathers bosom revenged his wickedness Cleopatra had the use of her brother Ptolomeus company as of her husbands Antiochus stayd a whole winter in Chalcidea for one maid which he there fancied Lust was the cause of the Wars between the Romans and the Sabines Thalestris Queen of the Amazons came 25 days journey to lie with Alexander Adultery in Germany is never pardoned Messalina and Popilia were so incontinent that they contended with most shameful harlots prostituting themselves without respect of time place or company to any though never so base Claudius deflowred his own sisters and Semiramis burned in beastly lust towards her son Ninus Nero caused Atticus a Roman Consul to be slain that he might the more conveniently enjoy the company of his wife Commodus not contented with his three hundred Crncubines committed incest with his own sisters Caligula did the like but the one was slain by his wife the other by his Concubine Adultery was the cause of the first alteration of the City of Rome Sempronia a woman well learned in the Greek and Sappho no less famous defended luxury and last by their writings Cleopatra invited Anthony to a Banquet in the Province of Bithinia in the wood Sesthem where at one instant of threescore young Virgins fifty and five were made Mothers Cleophis a Queen of Tridia saved her Kingdom and Subjects from destruction by a nights l●dging with Alexander by whom she had a Son called Alexander who was afterward King of India she was ever after called Scortum Reginum Helogabalus not only deflowred but also married a Virgin Vestal saying it was reason that Priests should marry Nuns because that in times past he had been Priest of the Sun Jane Quen of Naples was hanged up for her advoutry in the very same place where she had had hanged her husband Andreas afore because he was not as she said able to satisfie her beastly desire Feron King of Egypt had been blind ten years and in the eleventh the Oracle told him that he should recover his sight if he washed his eyes in the water of a woman which never had to do ●t any but her husband whereupon he first made ●l of his ●w●wif 〈◊〉 ●ha● did him no good after 〈◊〉 insinite o●h● which did him all as little five only one by 〈◊〉 he recovered his sight and then he put 〈…〉 death Julia he Daug● r● 〈…〉 so immodest shameless and ●ch● 〈…〉 ●mperour was never able to reclaim her 〈…〉 adm●nished to forsake her ba● 〈…〉 and to f●llow chastity as her Father did 〈◊〉 answered That her ●ather forgot he was Casar but as for her self she knew well enough that she was Casars Daughter Cornelius Gallus and Q. Elerius two Roman Knights died in the very action of their filthy lust Arichbertus eldest Son unto Letharius King of France died even as he was embracing his whores Alcibiades was burned in his bed with his Curtezan Timandra The Egyptians punishments against adultery was to cut off the nose of the woman and the privy parts of the man Alexander when a woman was brought to him one evening demanded of her why she came so late she answered that she stayed until her husband was gone to bed Which he no sooner heard but sent her away being angry with them that had almost made him commit adultery He was angry with Cassander because he would by force kiss a Minstrels maid Roduldus King of Lombardy being taken in adultery was slain by the womans Husband whom he abused Roderigo King of Spain was deprived of his Kingdom and life by the Sarazens who were called in by an Earl called Julian that he might be avenged of his King for forcing his daughter Calius Rhodoginus in his 11 Book of Antiquiquities telleth of a certain man that the more he was beaten the more he fervently desired women The widow of the Emperor Sigismund intending to marry again one perswaded her to spend the remainder of her life after the manner of the Turtle Dove who hath but one mate If you counsel me quoth she to follow the example of Birds who do you not tell me of Pidgeons and Sparrows which after the death of their mates do ordinarily couple with the next they meet Hiero King of Syracusa banished the Poet Epicharmus for speaking wantonly before hir wife and that very justly for his wife was a true mirrour of chastity Sulpitius Gallus put away his Wife by divorce because she went abroad unmasked Pompey caused one of his Souldiers eyes to be put out in Spain for thrusting his hand under a womans garment that was a Spaniard and for the like offence did Sertorius command a footman of his band to be cut in pieces If Caracalla had not seen his Mothers thigh he had not married her Speusippus the Philosopher one of Platoes folowers was slain for his adultery Tigellinus died among his Concubines FINIS a Budge is one that slips into an house in the dark and taketh what next comes to his hands and marche●h off with it b Bit the blow that is done ●he fear or committed the theft or roguery of what nature soever c Cully d naps e us that is the Person robbed apprehends them f Lurries Mony Watch Ring or any other moveable g Rubs 〈◊〉 ●o the h Whi● sends them to Newgate i Make ha●●eny k Darbies irons or Shackles or fetters for Fellons l Hick any person whatever of whom they can make a prey m File to rob or cheat n Cole Money of any s●rt o As he pikes as he walks o● goes p Half a job ten shillings or half a piece q Boozing Ken an Ale-house or house of entertaintment r fence his hog spend his shilling ſ Mob a Wench or Whore t Nubbing cheat the Gallows u Jack Kitch the proper name of the Common Hangman that is now in being x Tips him no Cole gives him no Money y Chive a Knife z Six and eight pence the usual fee which is given to carry back the body of the executed Malefactor to give it Christian burial

niggardship and covetousness commanded in Rome to be made publike places to receive Urine not to keep the City more sweet but to the end they should give him more rent Suetouius Simonides being demanded why he hoo●ded up money towards the end of his old age Because ●quoth he I had rather leave my goods to mine enemies than to have need of the relief of my friends while I am alive Virgil in his sixth book of Aeneiads putteth those persons in Hell which have done no good to their friends kinsfolk and neighbours but have been wholly wedded to their riches without imparting them to others Virgil. Ochus King of Persia would never go into the Countrey of Perseland because that by the Law of the Realm he was bound to give to every woman that had born children one French crown and to every woman with child two Plato thought it almost impossible for a man very rich to be honest yet Solon as wise as he desired to have riches but not to get them by wrong Plut. Anacreon having received of Polycrates five talents for a gift was so much troubled for the space of two nights with care how he might keep them and how to imploy them best that he carried them back again saying That they were not worth the p●ins he had already taken for them Socrates being sent for by K. Archelaus to come and receive store of Gold sent him word that a measure was sold in Athens for a penny double and that water cost him nothing Lyc●rgus abrogated the use of Gold and Silver coyn and appointed Iron money to be currant by this means he banished from them the desire of Riches Caligula took of every Curtezan as much of her gain as she could get of any man at once Pertinax being advanced to the degree of Emperor did not forget his niggardliness but parted Lettice and Ar●ichooks in two that the one half might be for his dinner and the other for his Supper Eutropius The Parsimony of Fabritius is not to be condemned for the age wherein he lived ought to excuse him in the which all magnificence was unknown to the Romans Justinian the Emperor for himself procured Riches and for the Devil he cheapned Souls he was covetous and maintained the heresie of the Pelagians Epimenides curse of Riches was that all the Treasures hoarded up by the covetous should be wasted by the prodigal The Romans and the Carthaginians were friends a long time but after they knew there was in Spain great mines of Gold and Silver immediately arose between them Civil Wars P. Diaconus Darius being very rich and covetous sent to Alexander in scorn to know where he had treasure to maintain such an Army who answered Tell thy Master that he keepth in his Coffe●s his Treasures of Metals and I have no other Treasure than the hearts of my friends Plutarch Angelot a Cardinal was so covetous that by a false door he descended into the Stable and every night stole away the Oates which his Horse-keepers had given his Horses and continued it so long till one of the Horse-keepers hiding himself in the stable did so belabour him with a Pikefork that he had much adoe to crawl away J. Pontanus Of Sloth In this Vice Wit Vnderstanding Wisdom and all honest endeavours are buried as it were in a grave from which ariseth the loathsome stench of corrupt maners and disordered life making of men women of women beasts of beasts monsters ALexander an Emperor of the East given to to great idleness demanded if he had long to live they answered him Yea If he could take away the teeth of a brazen Boar that stood in the Market-place meaning thereby that he should shorten his days except he gave over his idleness Zonarus A Senator of Rome who was falured by an other riding in his Chariot answered I will not say God save you since in going thus at your ease you shew you have no desire to live long Epaminondas discharged all his Souldiers that grew fat saying That as a woman too fat doth not easily conceave so doth fat hinder a man from doing his charge as Arms which are too heavy Scipio being arrived at his Camp banished all Souldiers slaves and Pages and all unprofitable people and made each one to carry his own Armour The Sabies having abundance of all kind of Riches spent their times slothfully The Nabathies having nothing but what they get by their virtue and labour are good husbands and abandon all idleness Metellus when he was arrived in Africa he took away whatsoever might seem to no●ri●h slothfulness and caused Proclamation to be made that none should presume to sell either bread or any other food dressed that the Carriers of water should not follow the Camp that the Souldiers should have no Pages no Beasts of Carriage that each one should keep his rank cast his Trench and carry his Victuals together with his Furniture Salust In the Islands named Bal●ares in Spain the Children might not eat untill they with their slings they had strucken down their meat which their Parents used ●o set for them upon an high beam or pool Pliny Epaminondas killed one of his Souldiers being asleep that was set to watch saying that he left him in the same estate that he found him The Kings of Persia and Macedonia were every morning awaked to put them in mind to take care of that which God had committed to their charge Herodo● At certain Games of Olympus there came a Philosopher of Thebes which had made all the apparel he wore himself the Assembly marvelling that one could do all this he answered The sloth of man is the cause that one Art is divided into divers for ●e that knoweth all Arts together must needs know one alone He was reputed a valn glorious Phil●sopher More hurtful was the City of Carthage to Rome after her destruction than during the whole course and season of Wars which the Romans had with her for that whilest they had enemies in Africk they knew not what vices meant in Rome Guevara The great Numantia in Spain could never be won notwithstanding fourteen years siege of the Romans till Scipio purged his Camp of loyterers perfumers and Harlots Darius plunged the Babylonis in all manner of idlenes that they might not have the heart afterward to rebel The same policie used Cimon to diminish the force of his Allies by granting them whatsoever they required The carelesness and negligence of Dionysius the Younger getting the upper-hand of him carried him to women and lechery and at length did break in sunder his Adamant chains that is the greatnumber of his warlike Souldiers and his store of Gallies of whom his Father had boasted that he left his Kingdom fast chained to his Son Sardanapalus through his slothfulnes was overcome by Artabactus and lost the Monarchy of Assyria The Pheacons counted it the greatest felicity that might be to do nothing 〈◊〉 The Romans used to punish