[Headnote: HARMON. THE COUNTERFET CRANKE.]
[†]¶ This counterfet Cranke, nowe vew and beholde, Placed in pyllory, as all maye well se: This was he, as you haue hard the tale tolde, before recorded with great suttylte, Ibused manye with his inpiete, his lothsome attyre, in most vgly manner, was through London caried with dysplayd banner.[182]
- [†] B. omits this stanza and has inserted the following lines under the cut.
- THis is the fygure of the counterfet Cranke, that is spoken of in this boke of Roges, called Nycholas Blunt other wyse Nycholas Gennyngs. His tale is in the xvii. lefe [pp. [55]–6] of this booke, which doth showe vnto all that reades it, woundrous suttell and crafty deseit donne of and by him.
- [182] This verse is omitted in the edition of 1573; also the wood-cut preceding it.
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[Headnote: HARMON. CONCLUSION.]
Thus I conclude my bolde Beggars booke, That all estates most playnely maye see, As in a glasse well pollyshed to looke, Their double demeaner in eche degree. Their lyues, their language, their names as they be, That with this warning their myndes may be warmed, To amend their mysdeedes, and so lyue vnharmed.
FINIS.
¶ Imprinted at London, in Fletestrete, at the signe of the Faulcon by Wylliam gryffith. Anno Domni. 1567.[183]
[183] B. adds ‘the eight of January’. (This would make the year 1568 according to the modern reckoning. Harman’s ‘New Yeares day last past, Anno domini 1567’, p. [86], must also be 156 78 .)