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like, ... Xay fui-ther. they will observe if he at aiiie time raile against 

 anie severe .Justice that hath the puiiishmeut of such uotorious persons, 

 aud if he do (as in some dnmlieu humour or other lie will over-shoote 

 himself in that liind) then will they conceale it, never discover it, but 

 domineere over them, throwe the pots against the wall, for he and his 

 house Is forfeit unto them. 



The Defence: 



Xow sir they liave sundry shifts to maintaine them in this versing, 

 for eyther they ereepe in with the goodwife and so undoo the goodman, 

 or els they beare it out with great brags if the Host be simple, or els they 

 trip him in some wordes when he is tipsy, that he hath spolien against 

 some .Justice of peace or other, or some other great man: and then they 

 hold him at a bay with that, til his backe almost breake.'' 



Now follows the story of the spurious justice who erossbites "a 

 Gentleman of the Innes of Conrt."^' This may ^vell be disenssed 

 in connection Avitli t^vo other stories, ' ' How a C'nrbar was drest with 

 an unsavonrie perftinie &c" and a recounting of the clever '^Wlio 

 am I ? " trick. All three are taken brazenly out of Greene : the 

 first, from. "A Disputation between a Hee and a Shee Conny- 

 catcher;" the second, from "The Blacke Bookes Messenger;" the 

 third, from "The Thirde Part of Conny-catching. " Not much 

 need be said about these cribbings ; if space permitted, their verbal 

 dependence upon the earlier versions could be pointed out. Ac- 

 cording to his habit Rowlands advertises the "Who am I?" trick 

 as " a new kind of conveyance. ' ' 



The statement made above to the effect that ' ' Martin ]\Iark-all ' ' 

 is neither the first nor the worst example of book-making in Row- 

 lands, if not already substantiated, ^^dll now be given additional 

 proof. Toward the end of "Greenes Ghost" without rhyme or 

 reason — except, perhaps, to make "a coyle about dogges without 

 mt" — is dragged in "A notable Scholer-like discourse upon the 

 nature of Dogges." Inasmuch as a part of this discourae appears 

 also in "Sumners Last AVill and Testament," one is led to expect 

 an authoritative discussion of the possibilities of Rowlands' in- 

 debtedness to Xashe in the IMcKerrow edition. Nor is one disap- 

 pointed. For a more thorough treatment of this particular matter 

 the reader is, therefore, referred to what is now, and is destined 

 long to remain, the final edition of Nashe. 



Only such extracts will be given here, as mil indicate the close- 



Beyond the game Greene's story lias an added point of interest — a country 

 foist is crossbit by the. trick after ttie city foists have failed to get a "snap" from 

 him. 



