The second part of conny-catching Contayning the discouery of certaine wondrous coosenages, either superficiallie past ouer, or vtterlie vntoucht in the first. ... R.G.
- Title
- The second part of conny-catching Contayning the discouery of certaine wondrous coosenages, either superficiallie past ouer, or vtterlie vntoucht in the first. ... R.G.
- Author
- Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by Iohn Wolfe for William Wright, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church yard, neare to the French schoole,
- 1591.
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- Subject terms
- Crime -- England -- Early works to 1800.
- Criminals -- England -- Early works to 1800.
- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 16th century -- Early works to 1800.
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https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02141.0001.001
- Cite this Item
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"The second part of conny-catching Contayning the discouery of certaine wondrous coosenages, either superficiallie past ouer, or vtterlie vntoucht in the first. ... R.G." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02141.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- frontispiece
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TO ALL YOONG GENTLEMEN, marchants, citizens, apprentices, yeomen,
and plaine countrey farmers, Health. -
THE SECOND PART
of Conny-catching. -
THE SECOND PART of Conie-chatching.
- A pleasant tale of the Connie-chatchers.
- A pleasant Tale of a Horse, how at Vxbridge, hee coosened a Conny-catcher, and had like to brought him to his Neckuerse.
- A discourse, or rather discouery of the Nip and the Foist, laying open the nature of the Cut-purse and Picke-pocket.
- A merry tale how a Miller had his purse cut in New gate market.
- A kinde conceipt of a Foist performed in Paules.
- A quaint conceite of a Cutler & a cutpursse.
- The discouery of the Lifting Law.
- The discouery of the Courbing Law.
- Of a Courber, & how cūningly he was taken.
- Of the subtilty of a Curber in coosoning a Maide.
- The Discouerie of the Blacke Art.
- A true and merry Tale of a Knight, and a Tinker that was a pick-locke.