A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew, in Its Several Tribes of Gypsies, Beggers, Thieves, Cheats, &C

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Excerpt from A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew, in Its Several Tribes of Gypsies, Beggers, Thieves, Cheats, &C, : With an Addition of Some Proverbs, Phrases, Figurative Speeches, &C, For the Gyp/ies, they and the Foul Difeafe have alike the Fate to run through a Geography of Names, and to be made free of as many Coun tries, as zdmof'c th ere ate Languages to call them Names ih, for as the Preach call the Fox, the India Difeafe, they again give it to the Spaniards, as thefe to the French, [0 the French call the Gypfies Boemz'e, or Bohemians, belike, becaufe they made their fitfi: Appea~ rance in Bohemia of any Part of Europe, the Italians Name them Z ingarz' or Sarace¿s, the Spaniards hams as we Egyptians 5. Whether it be, that: the Imliaus Tarés, as the Spaniards give them the Mean, as bein bath the next Neighbots to eac 5 I take not up'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.