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The Anatomie of AbusesPhilip Stubbes

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The Anatomie of Abuses

by Philip Stubbes

A Puritan pamphlet attacking what its author saw as the vices of Elizabethan England, from fashionable clothing to football, stage plays and May games. Its hostile description of maypoles and May night is one of the most quoted sources for English May Day customs.

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