Musa Pedestris (Classic Reprint): Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes, 1536-1896: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes, 1536-1896 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes, 1536-1896

Those exceptions, however, are alone held to be ample justification for such an anthology as that here presented. Moreover these Rhymes and Songs gathered from up and down the years, exhibit, en masse, points of interest to the student and scholar that, in isolation, were either wanting altogether, or were buried and lost sight of midst a mass of more (or less) valuable matter.

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Excerpt from Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes, 1536-1896

When Harrison Ainsworth, in his preface to Rookwood, claimed to be "the first to write a purely flash song" he was very wide of the mark. As a matter of fact, "Nix my doll, pals, fake away!" had been anticipated, in its treatment of canting phraseology, by nearly three centuries, and subsequently, by authors whose names stand high, in other respects, in English literature.

The mistake, however, was not altogether unpardonable; few, indeed, would have even guessed that the appearance of utter neglect which surrounded the use of Cant and Slang in English song, ballad, or verse - its rich and racy character notwithstanding - was anything but of the surface. The chanson d'argot of France and the romance di germania of Spain, not to mention other forms of the Musa Pedestris had long held popular sway, but there was to all appearance nothing to correspond with them on this side the silver streak.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.