Musa Pedestris

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Title: Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs
and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
Author: John S. Farmer
Release Date: July, 2005 [EBook #8466]?[Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule]?[This file was first posted on July 14, 2003]
Edition: 10
Language: English
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Musa Pedestris?THREE CENTURIES OF?CANTING SONGS AND SLANG RHYMES?[1536-1896]
COLLECTED AND ANNOTATED?BY?JOHN S. FARMER
CONTENTS
Index to Titles
Index to Authors
Forewords
Notes
Appendix
"A beggar I'll be" (Anon--1660)?"A Gage of Ben Rom-Bouse" (Middleton and Dekker--1611)?"A Hundred Stretches Hence" (G. W. Matsell--1859)?'Arry at a Political Picnic (T. Milliken--1884)?Beggar's Curse, The (Thomas Dekker--1608)?"Bing Out, Bien Morts" (Thomas Dekker--1612)?Black Procession, The (Anon--1712)?Blooming ?sthetic (Anon--1882)?Bobby and His Mary (Anon--1826)?Bould Yeoman, The (Pierce Egan--1842)?Bridle-cull and his little Pop-gun (Pierce Egan--1842)?Budg and Snudg Song, A (Anon--1676)?Banter's Christening, The (G. Parker--1789)?By-blow of the Jug, The (Pierce Egan--1842)?Cadger's Ball, The (Anon--1852)?Canter's Serenade, The (Anon--1725)?Chickaleary Cove, The (Vance--1864)?"Come all you Buffers Gay" (Anon--1760)?Coster's Serenade, The (A. Chevalier--1894)?Culture in the Slums (W. E. Henley--1887)?Dashy Splashy . . . little Stringer, The (Leman Rede--1841) "Dear-Bill--This Stone Jug" (Anon--1857)?Double Cross, The (W. H. Ainsworth--1834)?Faker's New Toast, The (Bon Gualtier--1841)?Flashey Joe (R. Morley--1826)?Flashman of St. Giles, The (Anon--1790)?Frisky Moll's Song (J. Harper--1724)?Game of High Toby, The (W. H. Ainsworth--1834)?Happy Pair, The (G. Parker--1789)?High Pad's Boast, The (J. Fletcher--1625)?High Pad's Frolic, The (Leman Rede--1841)?Housebreaker's Song, The (G. W. M. Reynolds--1838)?Jack Flashman (Pierce Egan--1842)?Lag's Lament, The (H. T. R.--1829)?Leary Man, The (Ducange Anglicus--185?)?Leary Mot, A (Anon--1811)?Masqueraders, The (G. Parker--1789)?Maunder's Initiation, The (J. Fletcher--1625)?Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort, The (Anon--1707)?Maunder's Wooing, The (S. Rowlands--1610)?Merry Beggars, The (R. Brome--1641)?Milling Match, The (T. Moore--1819)?Miss Dolly Trull (Pierce Egan--1842)?Mort's Drinking Song, A (R. Brome--1641)?My Mother (Bon Gualtier--1841)?My mugging maid (J. Bruton--1826)?"Nix my Doll, Pals, Fake Away" (W. Harrison Ainsworth--1834) Nutty Blowen, The (Bon Gualtier--1841)?Oath of the Canting Crew, The (R. Goadby--1749)?On the Prigging Lay (H. T. R.--1829)?Our Little Nipper (A. Chevalier--1893)?Pickpocket's Chaunt, The (W. Maginn--1829)?Plank-bed Ballad, A (G. R. Sims--1888)?Poor Luddy (T. Dibdin--1826)?Potato Man, The (Anon--1775)?"Retoure my dear Dell" (Anon--1725)?Rhyme of the Rusher (Doss Chiderdoss--1892)?Rhymes of the Canting Crew (R. Copland--1536)?Rondeau of the Knock, The (G. R. Sims--1890)?"Rum Coves that Relieve Us" (H. Baumann--1887)?Rum-Mort's Praise of her Faithless Maunder, The (Anon--1707) Sandman's Wedding, The (G. Parker--1789)?Slang Pastoral, A (R. Tomlinson--1780)?Song of the Beggar, The (Anon--1620)?Song of the Young Prig, The (Anon--1810-9)?Sonnets for the Fancy: I. Education.?II. Progress. III. Triumph (Pierce Egan--1824)?"The Faking Boy to the Crap is Gone" (Bon Gualtier--1841)?The Night before Larry was stretched (W. Maher--1816)?Thieves' Chaunt, The (W. H. Smith--1836)?Tottie (G. R. Sims--1887)?"Towre Out, Ben Morts" (S. Rowlands--1610)?True Bottom'd Boxer, The (J. Jones--1825)?Vain Dreamer, The (Anon--1725)?Villon's Good Night (W. E. Henley--1887)?Villon's Straight Tip (W. E. Henley--1887)?"When my Dimber Dell I Courted" (Anon--1725)?"Wot Cher" (A. Chevalier--1892)?"Ye Scamps, ye Pads, ye Divers" (Messink--1781)?"Ya-Hip, my Hearties!" (Gregson--1819)
INDEX TO AUTHORS
Ainsworth, W. Harrison?Anonymous?Baumann, Heinrich?Bon Gualtier?Brome, Richard?Bruton, James?Chevalier, Albert?Copland, Robert?Dekker, Thomas?Dibdin, Thomas?Doss Chiderdoss?Ducange Anglicus?Egan, Pierce?Fletcher, John?Goadby, Robert?Gregson?Harper, J.?Henley, W. Ernest?H. T. R.?Jones, J.?Maginn, William?Maher, Will?Matsell, G. W.?Messink?Middleton, Thomas?Milliken, T.?Moore, Thomas?Morley, R.?Parker, George?Rede, Leman?Reynolds, G. W. M.?Rowlands, Samuel?Sims, G. R.?Smith, W. H.?Tomlinson, R.?Vance
FOREWORDS
When Harrison Ainsworth, in his preface to Rookwood, claimed tobe "the first to write a purely flash song" he was very wide of themark. As a matter of fact, "Nix my doll, pals, fake away!" had beenanticipated, in its treatment of canting phraseology, by nearly three centuries, and subsequently, by authors whose names stand high, in other respects, in English literature.
The mistake, however, was not altogether unpardonable; few, indeed, would have even guessed that the appearance of utter neglect which surrounded the use of Cant and Slang in English song, ballad, or verse--its rich and racy character notwithstanding--was anything but of the surface. The chanson d'argot of France and the?romance di germania of Spain, not to mention other forms of the MUSA PEDESTRIS had long held popular sway, but there was to all appearance nothing to correspond with them