The unfortunate Greene turned to composing lurid accounts of Elizabethan "true crime," coining the term "cony-catching" for the conmen and conwomen who gulled their credulous victims, called conies or rabbits, which he recounted in a series of cheap pamphlets, A notable discouery of coosenage (1591), a two-part Conny-catching (1591Ð2), and A disputation between a hee conny-catcher and a shee conny-catcher (1592). The pamphlett shown here boasts this woodcut on its title page adorned with the Visiter, the Shifter and Rufflar, their Doxies, the Priggers, and the Losels all practicing their black arts upon their conies or rabbits.
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