English villanies
Subtitle: eight severall times prest to death by the printers, but (still reviving againe) are now the ninth time (as at first) discovered by Lanthorne and candle-light, and the helpe of a new cryer, called O-Per-Se-O whose lowd voyce proclaimes to all that will heare him, another conspiracie of abuses lately plotting together, to hurt the peace of this kingdome, which the bell-man (because he then went stumbling i'th' darke) could never see till now : and because a companie of rogues, cunning canting Gypsies, and all the scumme of our nation fight here under their owne tottered colours : at the end is a canting dictionarie, to teach their language with canting songs : a book to make gentlemen merrie, citizens warie, countreymen carefull : fit for all justices to reade over, because it is a pilot, by whom they may make strange discoveries
Series: Early English books online; Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 711:1
Publisher: Printed by E.P. for Nicholas Gamage ...
Published: 1648
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Other titles: Lanthorne and candlelight.; O per se O.; Villanies discovered.
Work titles: Lanthorne and candle-light
Notes: Marginal notes.

Dedication signed: Tho. Dekker.

On prelim. p. [2] is a woodcut of the bellman with "The bell-mans cry".

An edition (the 9th?) of the author's "Lanthorne and candlelight, or, The bell-mans second nights walke", 1609, a sequel to his "Belman of London", 1608. It appeared also under titles "O per se O", 1612 and "Villanies discovered", 1616.

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