THE BUDGEON IT IS A DELICATE TRADE



The budgeon it is a delicate trade,

And a delicate trade of fame,

For when that we have bit the blow,

We carry away the game.



But if the cully nab us,

And the lurries from us take,

O then he rubs us to the whit

Though we are not worth a make.



From Popular Music of the Olden Time, Chappell

Note: This is a fragment; according to Chappell a complete song

appears in A New Canting Dictionary, 1725, and in The Triumph of

Wit. The song is in cant: a budge is a burglar. RG

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