02164nam 2200361Ia 450 99638426910331620210212174613.0(CKB)1000000000586672(EEBO)2240859157(OCoLC)ocm12846236e(OCoLC)12846236(EXLCZ)99100000000058667219851125d1648 uy |engurbn#|||a|bb|English villanies[electronic resource] eight severall times prest to death by the printers, but (still reviving againe) are now the ninth time (as at first) discovered by Lanthorne and candle-light, and the helpe of a new cryer, called O-Per-Se-O whose lowd voyce proclaimes to all that will heare him, another conspiracie of abuses lately plotting together, to hurt the peace of this kingdome, which the bell-man (because he then went stumbling i'th' darke) could never see till now : and because a companie of rogues, cunning canting Gypsies, and all the scumme of our nation fight here under their owne tottered colours : at the end is a canting dictionarie, to teach their language with canting songs : a book to make gentlemen merrie, citizens warie, countreymen carefull : fit for all justices to reade over, because it is a pilot, by whom they may make strange discoveriesLondon Printed by E.P. for Nicholas Gamage ...1648[102] p. ill. (1 woodcut)Marginal notes.Dedication signed: Tho. Dekker.On prelim. p. [2] is a woodcut of the bellman with "The bell-mans cry".An edition (the 9th?) of the author's "Lanthorne and candlelight, or, The bell-mans second nights walke", 1609, a sequel to his "Belman of London", 1608. It appeared also under titles "O per se O", 1612 and "Villanies discovered", 1616.Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.eebo-0113Dekker Thomasapproximately 1572-1632.131563EAAEAAm/cWaOLNBOOK996384269103316English villanies2359284UNISA