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 ...

About this Item

Title
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 ...
Author
Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?
Publication
London :: Printed by F. Leach for Mat. Drew ...,
1673.
Rights/Permissions

To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.

Subject terms
English language -- Slang -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
Wit and humor.
Songs, English -- Texts.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43142.0001.001
Cite this Item
"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43142.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.

Pages

Page [unnumbered]

[illustration]
A Court of Canters

See

Save my life and take all

Tip your 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or Ile illy on

I will Revenge

an easie mort

I was huedin the Naskin

Claying the Lung

a prigam of prancers

[illustration]

Ile smoke yt Iacka

Ile wap your bite

Kinchen 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ye 〈◊〉〈◊〉

Do you have questions about this content? Need to report a problem? Please contact us.