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in his purse for notbiug, and they he hath fortie shillings clapt in his 

 vnlike eiier to see hiui againe.-'^ liand, to assure the bargaine to 



seme one of them : he ijuts it vp 

 quietly, and bids them enquire for 

 him at such a signe and place, 

 where he never came, signifying 

 also his name : when in troth bee is 

 but a coozening companion, and no 

 such man to bee found. Thus goes 

 lie cleere away with fortie shillings 

 in bis pursse for nothing, and they 

 vnlike to see him any more,-^ 



The pages following this lengthy borrowing are also indebted 

 to G-reene; up to the point w^here Rowlands l)egins to tell, or better, 

 to re-tell specific stories, almost everything is early conny-catching 

 material made over. However, inasmuch as the verbal likenesses 

 are not great, parallel passages will not be given. The trick of 

 stealing a horse and then eating him out "lim by lim in wine and 

 capons" at some out of the way tavern is, I think, original with 

 Rowlands.-^ It may be worth while to note that "fawnguests" 

 are treated in "The Thirde Part of Conny-catching;" that nips 

 and foists are treated fully in the first two conny catching pam- 

 phlets, and also that the practices of the snaps and cloyers were 

 well known to Greene, as was also the rivalry existing between 

 the city and country nips and foists. This last can be well shown 

 by quotations which will, incidentally, again illustrate Rowlands' 

 careless handling of the truth : 



Greenes Ghost. 



There be divers sorts of Nips and Foysts both of the citie and coun- 

 trie : these cannot one abide the other, but are at deadly hatred, and will 

 boyle and discover one another by reason one is hhidrance to the other. 

 And these the former bookos have omitted." 



-•^ Worls, I, 10-14. 



-■ Greene, Worlcs, XI, 24-31. 



Dekker in The Bel-man of London steals this and several other tricks from 

 Greenes Ohost, copying them much more slavishly than his ability necessitated. 

 About these pilferings Professor Frank Aydelotte of Indiana University raises the 

 interesting question : "Can the same S. R. have written both Greenes Ghost and 

 Martin Mark-all?" 



Greene. I think, does not use the noun, "cloyer." He uses "snap" instead. 

 That he knew the cloyer's game cannot be doubted. "Truth, if fortune so favor 

 tliy husband tbat hee be neither smoakt nor cloyed, for I am sure all thy bravery 

 comes by his nipping, Foysting, and lifting." Disputation hctioeen a Hee Conny- 

 catcher and, a Shee Conny-catcher. X, 204. 



Greenes Ghost. I, 18. Exactly what Rowlands means by "former bookes" is 

 uncertain, the more so because just before the above quotation (pg. IG) he says 

 that "the first part of Conicatching" treats of nips and foists. He probably mean^ 

 that his book is the first to distinguish between the "Gentlemen Batfowlers" and 

 "the common rableraent of Cut-purses." 



