English villanies: seven severall times prest to death by the printers; but (still reviving againe) are now the eighth time, (as at the first) discovered by lanthorne and candle-light; and the helpe of a new cryer, called O-per-se-O: vvhose loud voyce proclaimes to all that will heare him; another conspiracy of abuses lately plotting together, to hurt the peace of this kingdome; which the bell-man (because he then went stumbling i'th darke) could never see, till now. And because a company of rogues, cunning canting gypsies, and all the scumme of our nation fight heere under their tattered colours, at the end is a canting dictionary, to teach their language: with canting songs
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Main Author: Dekker, Thomas 1572-1632 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Printed by M. Parsons, and are to be sold by Iames Becket, at the Inner-Temple gate in Fleet-street 1638
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Item Description:An expansion of "Lanthorne and candle-light", in turn a continuation of "The belman of London". - Dedication signed: T. Dekker. - Reproduction of the original in the British Library. - Running title reads: The bel-mans night-walkes. Whereunto is added O per se O. - STC (2nd ed.), 6492. - Signatures: A-O4
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