The slang lexicographer John S. Farmer collects songs and rhymes written in the cant of thieves, beggars and street people, from Tudor rogue literature through Dekker, Middleton and Brome to Pierce Egan, Harrison Ainsworth, music-hall artists and W. E. Henley. Footnotes translate the flash vocabulary of pockets, plate, fences and gaols line by line.
A lively, unusual anthology for lovers of slang, underworld history and the byways of English verse. Download the free EPUB.