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To thy bugher and thy skew, Filch and gybes I bid adieu, Though thy togeman was not new, In it the rogue to me was true.

[1: little man] [2: highway; beggeth] [3: body] [4: Notes] [5: Notes] [6: Notes] [7: Notes] [8: Notes] [9: fetters; wear] [10: stocks] [11: constables, look] [12: pockets; money] [13: clothes; general plunder] [14: magistrate] [15: country] [16: gallows] [17: Notes] [18: night] [19: hedge] [20: fire, duck] [21: goose] [22: turkey] [23: bacon] [24: corn] [25: any potable; porridge] [26: dog; wooden dish] [27: hook; counterfeit pass] [28: cloak]

THE BLACK PROCESSION [Notes] [1712]

[From The Triumph of Wit, by J. SHIRLEY:--"The twenty craftsmen, described by the notorious thief-taker Jonathan Wild"].

Good people, give ear, whilst a story I tell, Of twenty black tradesmen who were brought up in hell, On purpose poor people to rob of their due; There's none shall be nooz'd if you find but one true. The first was a coiner, that stampt in a mould; The second a voucher to put off his gold, Toure you well; hark you well, see Where they are rubb'd, Up to the nubbing cheat where they are nubb'd.