John S. Farmer
Published: 2017-10-15
Total Pages: 268
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Excerpt from Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes, 1536-1896 Those exceptions, however, are alone held to be ample justification for such an anthology as that here presented. Moreover these Rhymes and Songs gathered from up and down the years, exhibit, en masse, points of interest to the student and scholar that, in isolation, were either wanting altogether, or were buried and lost sight of midst a mass of more (or less) valuable matter. 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.