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''The Thirde Parte of Conny-catcliing " and in "The Defence" 

 garments are recovered by a pretense of magical powers. However, 

 Rowlands adds one or two good tricks of his own, thereby removing 

 gronnds for any serious charge against his work here. 



The material in this paper requires little synthesizing; it makes 

 its own comments which, it is hoped, throw some light on the metli- 

 ods of the Elizabethan pamphleteers. That these methods were not 

 only loose but often downright inmioral is proved beyond question 

 by the study of "Greenes Ghost," a pamphlet that must have en- 

 joyed some reputation in its day, even though its production was 

 made possible only by the most overt piracy. It is clear that 

 nothing can be urged in Rowlands' defence. The question of Eliza- 

 bethan plagiarism is not always so simple: intelligent distinctions 

 must be made, and to make this possible, certain standards must be 

 set. Samuel Rowlands' woi-k on the "Greenes Ghost" pamphlet 

 may safely be taken as an example of the sort of plagiarism which 

 the Elizabethans themselves felt to be clearly immoral. 



