>
> >The tale of Toby
> >
> >Once primest prigs would ogle old louse
> >trash with the never failing cantrip-blouze
> >But f’ the swinger swindler and foot pad
> >the decoys and bamboozles at the last go drab:
> >swindled on a crank’s blag or tout’s tip
> >or in bluff-gaff wi’ doxy gash clap.
> >A dawg like the slatten get ‘eir ‘ed stove in
> >And snooze cuff cured in pools of bludgeonin’,
> >This sham of slang this slum drawl is for slags
> >That humbug to old bogus hacks flog.
> >
> >So recant then but can’t? there’s a recanter everyday
> >can’t recant cant, while there’s betrayal to betray.
> >
> >
> >Almost all the words here are gleaned from the Oxford
> >English Dictionary and are in Cant a language now
> >defunct but once (so dictionary makers would have us
> >believe) spoken by thieves and tramps and prostitutes.
> >Most of the words that you aren't familiar with above
> >are synonyms for prostitute except cantrip which means
> >magic. Slag isn't Cant and I decided on a whim to use
> >it anyway.
> >
Chris Hayden sez: Sort of reminds me of some of the more gracious
renderings of Eminem, the Geto Boyz or the Insane Clown Posse.
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