HALLIWELL’S Archaic Dictionary, 2 vols, 8vo. 1855_A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James.

An invaluable work, giving the cant words used by Decker, Brome, and

a few of those mentioned by Grose.

HARLEQUIN Jack Shepherd, with a Night Scene in Grotesque Characters,

8vo. (_About_ 1736)

Contains Songs in the Canting dialect.

HARMAN’S (Thomas, Esq.) Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors,

vulgarely called Vagabones, set forth for the utilitie and profit of

his naturall countrey, augmented and inlarged by the first author

thereof; whereunto is added the tale of the second taking of the

counterfeit Crank, with the true report of his behaviour and also

his punishment for his so dissembling, most marvellous to the hearer

or reader thereof, newly imprinted, 4to. _Imprinted at London, by H.

Middleton_, 1573

Contains the earliest Dictionary of the Cant language. Four editions

were printed—

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