"A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors, vulgarly called vagabonds", was first published in 1566 by Thomas Harman. From early modern England, another example is Robert Greene in his coney-catching pamphlets, the titles of which included "The Defence of Conny-catching," in which he argued there were worse crimes to be found among "reputable" people. "The Beggar's Opera" is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay. "The Life and Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew" was first published in 1745. There are similar writers for many European countries in the early modern period.