Note 1058 — XI THE ACTOR'S ECONOMICS
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Cuthbert Conny-Catcher, The Defence of Conny-Catching (1592, Greene, Works, xi. 75), 'What if I should prove you a Conny-Catcher, Maister R. G. would it not make you blush at the matter?... Aske the Queens Players, if you sold them not Orlando Furioso for twenty Nobles, and when they were in the country sold the same Play to the Lord Admirals men for as much more. Was not this plaine Conny-Catching, Maister R. G.?... But I hear, when this was objected, you made this excuse; that there was no more faith to be held with players than with them that valued faith at the price of a feather; for as they were comedians to act, so the actions of their lives were Camelion-like; that they were uncertain, variable, time-pleasers, men that measured honesty by profit, and that regarded their authors not by desert, but by necessity of time.'