Note 740 — SCENE III.
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cony-catching] i. e. cheating, deceiving: the cony, or rabbit, was reckoned a simple animal. The tricks of the cony-catchers, or sharpers, with whom London used to abound, were described by R. Greene in several pamphlets: see the full titles of them in my ed. of his Dram. Works, vol. i. p. cvi.