Dictionary of Thieving Slang, 1737
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PALLIARDS
PALLIARDS, those whose Fathers were Clapperdogeons, or born Beggars, and who themselves follow the same Trade. The Female sort of these Wretches frequently borrow Children if they have none of their own, and planting them about in Straw, draw the greater Pity from the Spectators, screwing their Faces to the moving Postures, and crying at Pleasure, and making the Children also cry by pinching them, or otherwise; mean time her Com rogue, the Male Palliard, lies bagging in the Fields, with Cleymes or artificial Sores, which he makes by Spere-wort or Arsnick, which draws them into Blisters.
| Ill cut your PAINTER for ye |
| PANAM |
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