Musa Pedestris by John S. FarmerThree Centuries of Canting Songs

Produced by Tiffany Vergon, Jerry Fairbanks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team Musa Pedestris THREE CENTURIES OF CANTING SONGS AND SLANG RHYMES COLLECTED AND ANNOTATED by JOHN S. FARMER CONTENTS Index to Titles Index to Authors Forewords Notes Appendix “A beggar I’ll be” (Anon–1660) “A Gage of Ben Rom-Bouse” (Middleton and Dekker–1611) “A Hundred Stretches