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: Whose 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 here under their Tattered Colours, At the end is a Canting
Dictionary, to teach their Language: with Canting Songs. A Booke to make
Gentlemen Merry. Citizens Warie. Countrimen Carefull. Fit for all
Iustices to reade over, because it is a Pilot, by whom they may make
Strange Discoveries. _London, Printed by M. Parsons, and are to be sold
by Iames Becket, at the Inner-Temple Gate in Fleet-street._ 1638.
=B. L.= 4^o. (7-1/4 × 5-1/2). S. 28. 4.
Collation: A-O^4, unpaged. Woodcut of the Bellman with verses below
on verso of titlepage. Epistle dedicatory to the Middlesex Justices
of the Peace, signed T. Dekker. Address to the reader. Table of
contents. This work was constantly reprinted under different
titles. The earliest edition appeared in 1608 as 'Lanthorne and
Candle-light. Or The Bell-mans second Nights walke' (Haz. II. 688),
being a sequel to 'The Belman of London' which was likewise first
printed in 1608. Apparently the eighth edition, but it is not
possible to trace all previous ones.