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Miss Dolly Trull

Miss Dolly Trull
1842

I

  Of all the mots in this here jug, 1 women; prison
    There’s none like saucy Dolly;
  And but to view her dimber mug 2 pretty face
    Is e’er excuse for folly.
  She runs such precious cranky rigs
    With pinching wedge and lockets 3 stealing plate
  Yet she’s the toast of all the prigs
    Though stealing hearts and pockets.

II

  Just twig Miss Dolly at a hop— 4 see; dance
    She tries to come the graces! 5 act
  To gain her end she will not stop
    And all the swells she chases.
  She ogles, nods, and patters flash 6 talks slang
    To ev’ry flatty cully 7 susceptible fellow
  Until she frisks him, at a splash 8 robs; entirely
    Of rhino, wedge, and tully. 9 money

Taken from Musa Pedestris, Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536―1896], collected and annotated by John S. Farmer.

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• 1811 Dictionary of UK Slang, originally by Captain Francis Grose
• 1736 Dictionary of Thieving Slang by Nathan Bailey