{69b} _Knife_.

{69c} _Hoof_.

{69d} _Horseshoe nail_.

{69e} _Great file_.

{69f} _Tool box_.

{71} _Poison_.

{82} _Gipsy chap_.

{84a} _Going to the village one day_.

{84b} _Road my gypsy lass_.

{86} Mort, _i.e_., woman, concubine, a cant term.

{87} _Again_.

{90a} _Old man_.

{90b} _Wretch_, _hussy_.

{91} An old word for knife, used by Urquhart and also by Burns.

{93a} _Carcase_.

{93b} _Knife_.

{94a} _Donkey_.

{94b} _Lad_.

{106} The main characters in _Lavengro_ are three: the scholar (Borrow
himself), the gypsy (Mr. Petulengro), and the priest, or popish
propagandist. This last is the man in black. The word-master has in the
course of his travels heard a good deal about this man, and he is able to
identify him almost at once by his predilection for gin and water, cold,
with a lump of sugar in it. He hears of him first from his London
friend, Francis Ardry, then from an Armenian merchant whom he met in
London, and then again from a brother-author, who describes a silly and
intrusive Anglican parson, called Platitude, as a puppet in the hands of
"the man in black." The latter he characterises as a sharking priest,
who has come over from Italy to proselytize and plunder; he has "some
powers of conversation and some learning, but he carries the countenance
of an arch-villain; Platitude is evidently his tool."

{107} When Borrow (Lavengro, that is), was in London, his friend Francis
Ardry warned him against a certain papistical propagandist: "A strange
fellow--a half Italian, half English priest . . . he is fond of a glass
of gin and water--and over a glass of gin and water cold, with a lump of
sugar in it, he has been more communicative, perhaps, than was altogether
prudent. Were I my own master, I would kick him, politics and religious
movements, to a considerable distance."

{110} During his travels after his abandonment of Grub Street,
"Lavengro" frequently came upon the traces of the man in black. While
sojourning for one night with a hospitable though superstitious
acquaintance, whom he met after leaving Salisbury, "Lavengro" heard the
story of the Rev. Mr. Platitude, a sacerdotalist of weak intellects who
had been cajoled from his lawful allegiance to the "good, quiet Church of
England," by the wiles of a sharking priest come over from Italy to
proselytize and to plunder. From what he then heard of the sharking
priest, by putting two and two tog