. London . n Gloriana they abound in everytown and in every street, theytramp along all the roads, theyhaunt the farmhouses, they robthe market-women and the oldmen. They have their ranksand their precedency. The Up-right man is a captain amongthem ; the Curtail has authorityover them ; the Patriarch Comarries them until death dothem part, that is to say, untilthey pass a carcase of anycreature, when, if they choose, they shake hands and goseparate ways. They are well known by profession andname at every fair throughout the country. They are GreatJohn Gray and Little John Gray ; John Stradling
. London . n Gloriana they abound in everytown and in every street, theytramp along all the roads, theyhaunt the farmhouses, they robthe market-women and the oldmen. They have their ranksand their precedency. The Up-right man is a captain amongthem ; the Curtail has authorityover them ; the Patriarch Comarries them until death dothem part, that is to say, untilthey pass a carcase of anycreature, when, if they choose, they shake hands and goseparate ways. They are well known by profession andname at every fair throughout the country. They are GreatJohn Gray and Little John Gray ; John Stradling with head ; Lawrence with the great leg ; Henry Smyth,who drawls when he speaks ; that fine old gentleman,Richard Horwood, who is eighty years of age and can stillbite a sixpenny nail asunder with his teeth, and a notabletoper still ; Will Pellet, who carries the Kynchen mort athis back ; John Browne, the stammerer ; and the rest of are all known ; their backs and shoulders are scored. TUDOR 245 with the nine-tailed cat; not a headborough or a constablebut knows them ever)- one. Yet they forget their prison andtheir whipping as soon as they are free. Those things arethe kittle drawbacks of the profession, against which must beset freedom, no work, no masters, and no duties. Who wouldnot go upon the budge, even though at the end there standsthe three trees, up which we shall have to climb by theladder ? % The Budge it is a delicate trade, And a delicate trade of fame ; For when that we have bit the bloe, We carry away the game. ?>. But when that we come to TyburnFor going upon the Budge,There stands Jack Catch the hangman,That owes us all a grudge. And when that he hath noosed us,And our friends tip him no cole ;O then he throws us into the cart,And tumbles us in the hole. In the streets of London they separate and practise eachin the quarter most likely to catch the gull. For instance,observe this well-dressed young gentleman, with the simplemanner and
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