A caueat o[r warening, for [?]] common cursetor[s vulgarely called [?]] vagabones, set forth by Tho[mas Harman, Esquier, for the [?]] vtilitie and profit of his natur[all countrey. Newly augmented and [?] en]larged by the first author [...] the tale of the second ta[...] crank, with the true [...]or, and also his puni[...] dissembling, most [...] hearer or reader [...]
Harman, Thomas, fl. 1567.
Here followeth their pelting speeche.
HEre I set before thee good Reader, the leud louse• language of these leutering Luskes, and laysy Lorels, wherewith they bye and sell the common people as they passe through the countrey: whiche language they terme Peddelers Frenche, an vnknowen tounge onely, but to these bold beastly bawdy beggers, and vayne vacabonds, being halfe myngled with Englishe, when it is familiarly talked, and fyrste placing things by their proper names, as an Introduction to this pee∣uish speache.
| Nab | a toung. | prat | hosen. |
| a head. | Crashing chetes | a buttocke. | stampers |
| Nabchet | teeth. | stampes | shoes. |
| a hat or cap. | Hearing chetes. | legges. | a mofling chete |
| glasyers | •ares. | a caster | a napkin. |
| eyes. | fambles | a cloke. | a belly chete |
| a smelling chete. | handes. | a •ogman | an apren. |
| a nose. | a fambling chete | a coate. | dudes |
| gan | a ring on thy hand. | a commission | clothes. |
| a mouth. | quaromes | a shirt. | a lag of dudes |
| a pratling chete. | a body. | drawers | a bucke of clothes. |
| a slate or slates | pek | a house. | woman. |
| a sheete or shetes. | meate. | a stauling ken | the quier cuffyn |
| lybbege | poppelars | a house that will re∣ceyue stollen wares. | the iusticer of peace |
| a bed. | porrage. | the harmā beck | |
| boung | ruff pek | a bowsing ken | the Constable. |
| a purse. | baken. | a ale house. | the harmans |
| lowre | a grunting che∣te or a patricos kinchen | a lypken | the stockes. |
| money. | a house to lye in. | quyerkyn | |
| mynt | alybbeg | a pryson house. | |
| golde. | a pygge | a bedde. | quyer cramp∣ringes |
| a borde | a cakling chete | glymmar | |
| a shilling. | a coke or capon. | fyer. | boltes or fetters. |
| halfe a borde | a margeri prater | Rome bouse | tryning |
| sixe pence. | a hen. | wyne. | hanging. |
| flagg | a roger or tyb of the butery | lag | chattes |
| a groat. | water. | the gallowes. | |
| a wyn | a gose. | a skypper | the •ygh pad |
| a penny. | a quaking chete or a red shanke | a barne. | the high way. |
| a make | strommell | the ruffmans | |
| a halfepeny. | a drake or a ducke. | strawe. | the wods or bushes |
| bowse | grannam | a gentry cofes k• | a smelling chete |
| drinke. | corne. | a noble or gentle∣ble mans house. | a gardē or orchard crasting chetes |
| bene | a lowhing chete | a gyger | appels, peares, or a∣ny other fruit. |
| good. | a Cowe. | a doore. | |
| benship | a bleting chete | bufe | to fylche |
| very good. | a calfe or sheepe. | a dogge. | to robbe. |
| quier | a prauncer | the lightmans | to nyp a boung. |
| nought. | a horse. | the day. | to cut a purse. |
| a gage | autem | the darkemans | To skower the crampringes |
| a quart pot. | a Church. | the night. | |
| a skew | Salomon | Rome vyle | to weare boltes or fetters. |
| a cuppe. | a altar or masse. | London. | |
| yannam | patrico | dewse a vyle | to heue a b• ugh |
| bread. | a priest. | the countrey. | to robbe or rifle a boweth. |
| cassan | nosegent | rome mort | |
| cheese. | a Nunne. | the Queene. | to cly the gerk• |
| param | a gyb | a gentry cofe | to be whipped. |
| mylke. | a writing. | a noble or gentlemā | to cut benle |
| lap | a Iarke | a gentry mort | to speake gentle. |
| butter mylke or whey. | a seale. | a Noble or gentle | to cut bene |
| a ken | |||
| whydds. | to see. | to robbe a house. | a woman eatnally. |
| to speake or giue good words. | to •ouse, | to pr•gge | stow you, |
| to drinke. | to ryde. | hold your peace. | |
| to ••tte quyer whyddes. | to maunde | to dup y• gyger, | •ynge a waste |
| to geue euil words | to aske or require. | to open the dore. | go you hence. |
| or euill language. | to stall. | to couch a hogs head | to the ruffian |
| to make or ordain | to the Deuill. | ||
| to cutte. | to cante | to ly downe and slepe | the ruffian cly thée. |
| to saye. | to speake. | to nygle | |
| to towre. | to mill a ken | to haue to dowith | the deuill take thee. |
