Tour you well, etc.
There’s many more Craftsmen[309] whom here I could name,
Who use such like Trades, abandon’d of shame;
To the number of more than threescore on the whole,
Who endanger their body, and hazard their soul;
And yet, tho’ good workmen, are seldom made free,
Till they ride in a cart, and be noozed on a tree.
Tour you well, hark you well, see where they’re rubb’d,
Up to the nubbing-cheat, where they are nubb’d.
This is taken from A Pedlar’s Pack of Ballads and Songs collected by W. H. Logan, (Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1869) which work contains some dozen cant songs, of which the best have been quoted. The others are so “Flash” in language that they could only be clearly interpreted by a regular Patter Cove.