Note 1194 — ACT V. SCENE I.

Of cheators, lifters, nips, foists, puggards, curbers] “The Cheating Law, or the Art of winning money by false dyce: Those that practise this studie call themselues Cheators, the dyce Cheaters, and the money which they purchase Cheates.” Dekker’s Belman of London, 1608, sig. E 2.—“The Lifting Law ... teacheth a kind of lifting of goods cleane away.” Id. sig. G 3, where various kinds of lifters are described.—Concerning nips and foists, see note, p. 544.—Of puggards I can find no mention: pugging seems to mean thieving in the Winter’s Tale, act iv. sc. 2, Malone’s Shakespeare (by Boswell), vol. xiv. p. 334; and, according to Steevens (ad loc.), "is used by Greene in one of his pieces."—“The Curbing Law [teaches] how to hooke goodes out of a windowe.... He that hookes is cald the Curber.... The Hooke is the Courb.” Dekker, ubi supra, sig. G.