The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth / Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat'

The two texts of Parson Haben's or Hyberdyne's Sermon in Praise of Thieves and Thievery are printed on opposite pages. They are shown here in parallel columns.
Text in bold sans serif lettertype is printed in blackletter (Gothic) in the original.
THE SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY. GENERAL EDITOR PROFESSOR I. GOLLANCZ, LITT.D.
CHATTO AND WINDUS, PUBLISHERS LONDON MCMVII
R. CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BUNGAY.
There was a fewe yeares since a small bréefe setforth of some zelous man to his countrey,—of whom I knowe not,—that made a lytle shewe of there names and vsage, and gaue a glymsinge lyghte, not sufficient to perswade of their peuishe peltinge and pickinge practyses, but well worthy of prayse.
AWDELEY'S FRATERNITYE OF VACABONDES .
This description of the 'small bréefe,' and the 'lytle shewe' of the 'names and vsage,' exactly suits Awdeley's tract; and the 'fewe yeares since' also suits the date of what may be safely assumed to be the first edition of the Fraternitye , by John Awdeley or John Sampson, or Sampson Awdeley,—for by all these names, says Mr Payne Collier, was our one man known:—
These verses of Awdeley's, or Sampson's, no doubt led to his 'small bréefe' being entered in the Stationers' Register as a 'ballett':
1560-1. Rd. of John Sampson, for his lycense for pryntinge of a ballett called the description of vakaboundes ... iiij d .
And surely no doubt on the point will remain in his mind, though, if needed, a few more confirmations could be got, as
This alone settles the priority of the Bodley edition, as no printer, having an index alphabetical, would go and muddle it all again, even for a lark. Moreover, the other collations confirm this priority. The colophon of the Bodley edition is dated A.D. 1567, 'the eight of January;' and therefore A.D. 1567-8.