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 ...
- 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.
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- Subject terms
- English language -- Slang -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
- Wit and humor.
- Songs, English -- Texts.
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"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 April 30, 2024.
Contents
- frontispiece
- THE CANTING Academy, OR, THE Devils Cabinet Opened: WHEREIN IS SHEWN
- To all sorts of Persons, But more especially, Inn-keepers, Victuallers, and TRAVELLERS.
- THE CONTENTS.
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Villanies Discovered: OR THE DEVILS CABINET Broken Open, &c.
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The Form of the Oath, with the Articles thereunto annexed, which these
Gypsies and other Stroling Canters take, when they are first admitted into this Society. - The Reasons, or Causes, of their following this course of Life.
- 1. Canting Song.
- 2. Canting Song.
- 3. Canting Song.
- 4. Canting Song.
- 5. Canting Song.
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An account of the notable and notori∣ous life of a late and eminent King of the
Gypsies, yet living, taken ver∣batim as he himself related it. - canting dictionary
- A Character or Description of the Roguish Professors of that mysterious and Diabolical Gibberish called Cant∣ing.
- The Ʋpright Man.
- A Ruffler.
- Of Anglers.
- Of Rogues.
- VVild Rogues.
- Priggers of Prancers.
- Of Palliards or Clapperdogeons.
- Of Fraters.
- Of Quire Birds.
- Of Abram Men.
- Of Whip Jacks.
- Of Mumpers.
- Of Dommerars.
- Of Jack-men.
- Of Patrico's.
- Of Irish-Toyls, or Swig Men.
- Of Kynchen Coes.
- Of Glymmerers.
- Of Bawdy-Baskets.
- Of Autem Morts.
- Of Strowling-Morts.
- Of Doxies.
- Of Dells.
- Of Kynchin-Morts.
- A Padding Song.
- Of the Low Pad.
- Of the Gilt.
- Of the Budge.
- The Ken-Miller.
- The Huff.
- The File and Bulker.
- The Moon Curser.
- The Bawd Pimp and Whore.
- The Park Song.
- Of the Shop lift.
- Of the Night-Walker and Diver.
- Of the Bawd and whore.
- The vicious and Remarkable Lives of Mother Craftsby, and Mistress wheedle.
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The Form of the Oath, with the Articles thereunto annexed, which these
- title page
- MISCELANIES, and other JOVIAL PARADOXES: Or, the Canters-Academy OF COMPLEMENTS.
- THE EPILOGUE: OR, Vices SAD CATASTROPHE.