- [169] Roger. B.
- [170] man. B.
- [171] laye. B.
- [172] B. omits vpright.
- [173] nabches. B.
- [174] masst. B.
- [175] This leaf is supplied in MS. in Mr Huth’s edition.
- [176] good in the 1573 ed.
- [177] The 1573 ed. has some
[Headnote: HARMON. NYCHOLAS BLUNTE’S TRICKS.]
Hyle this second Impression was in printinge, it fortuned that Nycholas Blunte, who called hym selfe Nycholan Gennyns, a counterefet Cranke, that is spoken of in this booke, was fonde begging in the whyte fryers on Newe yeares day last past, Anno domini .1567, and commytted vnto a offescer, who caried hym vnto the depetye of the ward, which commytted hym vnto the counter; and as the counstable and a nother would haue caried hym thether, This counterfet Cranke ran awaye, but one lyghter of fote then the other ouer toke hym, and so leading him to the counter, where he remayned three days, and from thence to Brydewell, where before the maister[179] he had his dysgysed aparell put vpon hym, which was monstrous to beholde, And after stode in Chepesyde with the same apparil on a scafold.[180]
- [178] Instead of “the same,” the 1573 ed. reads that
- [179] maisters. B.
- [180] This paragraph is omitted in the ed. of 1573; but see note, ante, p. [56].
[Headnote: HARMON. THE STOCKES.]
[leaf 30]
A Stockes to staye sure, and safely detayne, Lasy lewd Leutterers, that lawes do offend, Impudent persons, thus punished with payne, Hardlye for all this, do meane to amende.
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