d presume to follow the scent but such as he ordered
on that party.

VII.--That if any one gave them shoes or stockings, they should convert
them into money to play.

VIII.--That they should steal nothing they could not come at, for fear
of bringing a scandal upon the company.

IX.--That they should cant better than the Newgate birds, pick pockets
without bungling, outlie a Quaker, outswear a lord at a gaming-table,
and brazen out all their villainies beyond an Irishman.

[37] Cell.

[38] Newgate.

[39] A woman whose husband has been hanged.

[40] A dancing-master.

[41] "Nothing, comrades; on, on," supposed to be addressed by a thief to
his confederates.

[42] Thus Victor Hugo, in "Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamne," makes an
imprisoned felon sing:

"J'le ferai danser une danse
Ou il n'y a pas de plancher."

[43] Thieves in prison.

[44] Shoplifter.

[45] Pickpocket.

[46] Handkerchiefs.

[47] Rings.

[48] To the pawnbroker.

[49] Snuff-boxes.

[50] Pickpocket.

[51] The two forefingers used in picking a pocket.

[52] Pickpocket.

[53] Pick a pocket.

[54] No inside coat-pocket; buttoned up.

[55] Scissors.

[56] Steal a pocket-book.

[57] Best-made clothes.

[58] Thief.

[59] With my hair dressed in the first fashion.

[60] With several rings on my hands.

[61] Seals.

[62] Gold watch.

[63] Laced shirt.

[64] Gentlemanlike.

[65] Easily than forged notes could I pass.

[66] Favorite mistress.

[67] Police.

[68] Taken at length.

[69] Cast for transportation.

[70] Fetters.

[71] Turnkey.

[72] Gipsy.

[73] Pickpockets.

[74] This song describes pretty accurately the career of an
extraordinary individual, who, in the lucid intervals of a half-crazed
understanding, imposed himself upon the credulous inhabitants of
Canterbury, in the year 1832, as a certain "SIR WILLIAM PERCY HONEYWOOD
COURTENAY, KNIGHT OF MALTA;" and contrived--for there was considerable
"method in his madness"--to support the deception during a long period.
The anachronism of his character in a tale--the data of which is nearly
a century back--will, perhaps, be overlooked, when it is considered of
how much value, in the illustration of "wise saws," are "_modern
instances_." Imposture and credulity are of all ages; and the Courtenays
of the nineteenth are rivalled by the Tofts and Andres of the eighteenth
century. The subjoined account of the _soi-disant_ SIR WILLIAM COURTENAY
is e