I will take my prince’s part against all that shall oppose him,
   or any of us, according to the utmost of my ability; nor
   will I suffer him, or any one belongiug to us, to be abused
   by any strange abrams, rufflers, hookers, pailliards,
   swaddlers, Irish toyles, swigmen, whip jacks, jarkmen,
   bawdy baskets, dommerars, clapper dogeons, patricoes,
   or curtals; but will defend him, or them, as much as I
   can, against all other outliers whatever.  I will not conceal
   aught I win out of libkins or from the ruffmans, but
   will preserve it for the use of the company.  Lastly, I
   will cleave to my doxy wap stiffly, and will bring her
   duds, marjery praters, goblers, grunting cheats, or tibs
   of the buttery, or any thing else I can come at, as
   winnings for her weppings.

  The canters have, it seems, a tradition, that from the three
   first articles of this oath, the first founders of a certain
   boastful, worshipful fraternity (who pretend to derive their
   origin from the earliest times) borrowed both the hint and
   form of their establishment; and that their pretended
   derivation from the first Adam is a forgery, it being only
   from the first Adam Tiler:  see adam tiler.  At the
   admission of a new brother, a general stock is raised for
   booze, or drink, to make themselves merry on the occasion. 
   As for peckage or eatables, they can procure without
   money; for while some are sent to break the ruffmans,
   or woods and bushes, for firing, others are detached to
   filch geese, chickens, hens, ducks (or mallards), and pigs. 
   Their morts are their butchers, who presently make
   bloody work with what living things are brought them; and
   having made holes in the ground under some remote hedge
   in an obscure place, they make a fire and boil or broil their
   food; and when it is enough, fall to work tooth and nail: 
   and having eaten more like beasts than men, they drink
   more like swine than human creatures, entertaining one
   another all the time with songs in the canting dialect.

  As they live, so they lie, together promiscuously, and know
   not how to claim a property either in their goods or children: 
   and this general interest ties them more firmly together
   than if all their rags were twisted into ropes, to bind
   them indissolubly from a separation; which detestable
   union is farther consolidated by the above oath.

  They stroll up and down all summer-time in droves, and
   Dexterously pick pockets, while they are telling of fortunes;
   and the money, rings, silver thirribles, &c. which they
   get, are instantly conveyed from one hand to another,
   till the remotest person of the gang (who is not suspected
   because they come not near the person robbed) gets possession
   of it; so that, in the strictest search, it is impossible to
   recover it; while the wretches with imprecations,
   oaths, and protestations, disclaim the thievery.