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 Though Holland has no Beggers, if the Dare/9 themfelves are not the greatefi Beggers in the World 5 and Swirverland has no Thieves, if the Smifs who are altogether Soldiers, are not the greateft of Thieves. Yet, I fay, neither the States that are with out Beggers, nor the (anions that are without Thieves, are notwith fianding either the one or the Other, Without Gypfies. So as what they want of Beggers and Thieves in point of Antiquity, the Gypfies claim a bove beth, in point of Univerfality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
