Produced by Irma Špehar, Eleni Christofaki and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Transcriber's Notes: Variable, archaic or unusual spelling and punctuation have been retained apart from minor punctuation inconsistencies which have been silently corrected. An Errata list can be found at the end of the book. Footnotes were sequentially numbered and placed at the end of each section. The page headers of the book are presented as [Header] and, where possible, have been placed so as not to disrupt the reading flow. The two texts of Parson Haben's or Hyberdyne's _Sermon in Praise of Thieves and Thievery_ are printed on opposite pages. Here each text is shown individually. For this text version, text in superscript is placed within {curly brackets} preceded by a carat character like ^{this}. Diacritical marks that cannot be represented in plain text are shown in the following manner: [l~l] ll with a tilde through them [n)] n with a ) attached to the right side [=u] u with macron [=n] n with macron Mark up: _italics_ =blackletter typeface (Gothic)= +bold+ *smaller font* THE SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY. GENERAL EDITOR PROFESSOR I. GOLLANCZ, LITT.D. [Illustration] THE ROGUES AND VAGABONDS OF SHAKESPEARE'S YOUTH: AWDELEY'S 'FRATERNITYE OF VACABONDES' AND HARMAN'S 'CAVEAT': EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EDWARD VILES AND F. J. FURNIVALL [Illustration] CHATTO AND WINDUS, PUBLISHERS LONDON MCMVII R. CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BUNGAY. CONTENTS PAGE =Preface= i AWDELEY'S _Fraternitye_, not plagiarized from, but published 'a fewe yeares' before, Harman's _Caueat_ i HARMAN'S _Caueat_: two states of the 2nd edition. The latter, now called the 3rd edition, is reprinted here v Piraters from Harman: Bynnyman, and G. Dewes vi Short account of Thomas Harman vii HARRISON'S quotation of Harman, and his account of English Vagabonds, and the punishments for them xi _The Groundworke of Conny-catching_ is a reprint of Harman's _Caueat_, with an Introduction xiv DEKKER'S _Belman of London_: its borrowings from Harman xiv S. ROWLANDS'S _Martin Mark-all_ shows up Dekker, and has new Cant words xvi DEKKER'S _Lanthorn and Candle-light_ borrows from Harman: Canting Song from it xix