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Roaring Girle, The, or Moll Cut-Purse

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Roaring Girle, The, or Moll Cut-Purse, a comedy by T. Middleton and Dekker, written ?1604–8, published 1611.

In this comedy there are some bustling scenes in which the life of the London streets is vividly presented, shop-keepers selling tobacco and feathers, their wives intriguing with gallants, and Moll Cutpurse talking thieves' cant and discomfiting overbold admirers.

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