“This work affords a greater insight into the fashionable follies and
vulgar habits of Q. Elizabeth’s day than perhaps any other extant.”
DECKER’S (Thomas) O per se O, or a new Cryer of Lanthorne and
Candle-light, an Addition of the Bellman’s Second Night’s Walke, 4to,
black letter. 1612
A lively description of London. Contains a Canter’s Dictionary,
every word in which appears to have been taken from Harman without
acknowledgment. This is the first work that gives the Canting Song,
a verse of which is inserted at page 20 of the Introduction. This
Canting Song was afterwards inserted in nearly all Dictionaries of
Cant.
DECKER’S (Thomas) Villanies discovered by Lanthorne and Candle-light,
and the Helpe of a new Cryer called O per se O, 4to. 1616
“With Canting Songs neuer before printed.”
DECKER’S (Thomas) English Villanies, eight several times prest to Death
by the Printers, but still reviving again, are now the eighth time (as
at the first) discovered by Lanthorne and Candle-light, &c., 4to. 1648
The eighth edition of the “_Lanthorne and Candle-light_.”
DICTIONARY of all the Cant and Flash Languages, both Ancient and
Modern, 18mo. _Bailey_, 1790