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The chanson d'argot of France and
the
romance di germania of Spainnot to mention other forms of the MUSA PEDESTRIS had long held popular
swaybut there was to all appearance nothing to correspond with them on this side the silver streak.
It must be confessedhoweverthat the field of English slang verse and canting songthough not altogether
barrenhas yet small claim to the idiomatic and plastic treatment that obtains in many an _Argotsong _ and
Germania-romance; in truthwith a few notable
exceptionsthere is little in the present collection that can claim literary rank.
Those exceptionshoweverare 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 yearsexhibit_en masse_
points of interest to the student and scholar thatin isolationwere either wanting altogetheror were buried
and lost sight of midst a mass of more (or less) valuable matter.
As regards the Vulgar Tongue itself--though exhaustive disquisition obviously lies outside the scope of
necessarily brief forewords--it may be pointed out that its origin in England is confessedly obscure. Prior to
the second half of the 16th centurythere was little trace of that flood of u [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]