Note 18 — THE HISTORY OF CANT, OR THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF VAGABONDS.

Gipsies in Spain, vol. i. p. 18. Borrow further commits himself by remarking that “Head’s Vocabulary has always been accepted as the speech of the English Gipsies.” Nothing of the kind. Head professed to have lived with the Gipsies, but in reality filched his words from Decker and Brome. [18]