The word Cant is rather from
cantare
, as a chanting whine, than from the Andrew Cants, father and son, of Charles the Second's time.
| [No. 148] | Monday, August 20, 1711 | Steele |
Exempta juvat spinis e pluribus una.
Hor.
My Correspondents assure me that the Enormities which they lately complained of, and I published an Account of, are so far from being amended, that new Evils arise every Day to interrupt their Conversation, in Contempt of my Reproofs. My Friend who writes from the Coffee-house near the
Temple