Note 1186 — ACT V. SCENE I.
Reading edition
figging-law, &c.] "In making of which law, two persons haue the chiefe voices, that is to say, the Cutpurse and the Pickpocket, and all the branches of this law reach to none but them and such as are made free denizens of their incorporation....
“He that cuts the purse is called the Nip.
He that is halfe with him is the Snap or the Cloyer.
. . . . . . .
He that picks the pocket is called a Foist.
He that faceth the man, is the Stale.”
Dekker’s Belman of London, 1608, sig. H.