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Before I present the reader with the following primer of Beggars Cant, I think it not amiss to premise with a few words on the nature of Beggars themselves, by way of historical consideration, of the antiquity of the former and the universality of the latter: for though Beggars are found in all countries alike, they are not in all countries alike, their nature and genius being diverse in proportion to the countries in which they stroll, as now it is affirmed that they effect equally the countries where they rose and of those through which they pass.

–A New Dictionary of the terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew, In its Several Tribes, of Gypsies, Beggars, Thieves, Cheats, &c., by B. E. Gent