[CD] "An Abraham-man is he that walketh bare-armed, and bare-legged, and fayneth hymselfe mad, and caryeth a packe of wool, or a stycke with baken on it, or such lyke toy, and nameth himselfe Poore Tom." Fraternitye of Vacabondes.
[CE] A person who asks charity, and feigns sickness and disease.
[CF] One who pretends to be dumb. In Harman's time they were chiefly Welsh-men.
[CG] An artificer who mends one hole, and makes twenty.
[CH] A jarke man can read and write, and sometimes understands a little Latin. A patrico solemnizes their marriages.
[CI] These are commonly women who ask assistance, feigning that they have lost their property by fire.
[CJ] A woman who cohabits with an upright man, and professes to sell thread, &c.
[CK] "These antem mortes be maried wemen, as there be but a fewe: for antem, in their language is a churche—" &c. Harman. Sign. E. iv. A walking morte is one unmarried: a doxe, a dell, and a kynchin morte, are all females; and a kynchen co is a young boy not thoroughly instructed in the art of canting and prigging.
[CL] In Florio's Italian Dictionary, the word dinascoso is explained "secretly, hiddenly, in hugger-mugger." See also Reed's Shakspeare, xviii. 284. Old Plays, 1780. viii. 48.
[CM] Herbert notices Cock Lorelles Bote, which he describes to be a satire in verse, in which the author enumerates all the most common trades and callings then in being. It was printed, in black letter, Wynken de Worde, 4to. without date. History of Printing ii. 224, and Percy's Reliques, i. 137, edit. 1794.