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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?
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Of Abram Men.ABram Men are otherwise called Tom of Bed∣lams; they are very strangely and antickly garb'd with several coloured Ritbnds or Tape in their hat, it may be instead of a Feather, a Fox tail hanging down a long stick with ribbonds strea∣ming and the like; yet for all their seeming mad∣ness, they have wit enough to steal Poultry as they go, and will have his change of Wenches, oftner than people change their Linnen.Of Whip Jacks.WHip-Jacks are Counterfeit Mariners, who talk of nothing but Fights at Sea, Pyracies, Drownings, and Shipwracks; they have alwaies a Counterfeit Pass or License which they call a Gybe, and the Seals thereunto Jarkes; under this pretence they strole the Country, begging as they go, possessing the People with strange beliefs of their great losses, and that they onely beg to sup∣ply their necessities in their way home; and for their own certain supply, they will not stick to heave a Booth; that is rob a Booth at a Fair, or in some by road rob an house, playing other very no∣torious prankes. These Rogues have learned their Sea terms by which they have cheated such as have been very expert in Sea-affairs, The Whip-Jack 0