Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the abuses in England in Shakspere's youth, A.D. 1583 / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

  • Stubbs, Philip, active 1581-1593.
Date:
1877-1882
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Credit: Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the abuses in England in Shakspere's youth, A.D. 1583 / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE broke (71-3). Doublets and yerkins like men’s : a curse on them for it (73). Gowns, Capes, Petticoats (74); Kirtles (75). Women are bundles of Clouts. Poor men’s daughters’ love of Finery (75), makes them Whores (76). Stockings oi all colours (76), Corkt Shoes and Slippers; Perftimes (77); Nosegays in their Bosoms : Scents, &c., allurements to vice (78). Women’s Mincing, Tripping (78), Rings, Armlets, scented Gloves, Looking-Glasses (Devil’s Bellows), Silk Scarfs (79), Visors, Masks (80). Inventors of new Fashions denounct (80-1). Heathen women, German women, &c., despise fine Dress (81-2), so did Christian Women (83). God’s punishments of Pride (84-6). Englishmen dress to please their Harlots (86-7).—{^Added in znd editio/i] How EnglishWomenspend their days in idleness and sin (87). The Gardens they meet their Paramours in (88), are little better than Brothels (89). CHAPTER V. The horryble vice of Whordome in Ailgna (England) ... 90-102 The justifiers of whoredom denounc’t (90), Marriage alone lawful (91). Heathens (92), and the Bible (93-5) against whoredom. Bodily evils of it (95-6). Every Englishman has bastards (96). Marriages of mere infants. Every boy huggles his pretty pussy, and runs-up a cottage (97). Early marriage should be restraind (97), and whoredom punisht (98) by branding with a hot iron (99). Judgments on W. Brustar and his whore (too). Wives are whores, and Hus- bands keep whores (loi). CHAPTER VI. Gluttonie and Drunkennesse in Ailgna (England) ... ... 102-114 The English given to too many dishes and sauces (102). In Stubbes’s father’s time, and earlier, men livd plainlier : We’re weaker folk^ (i°3)' The Bible against Gluttony (104). Small relief of the poor now; 3 cankers of the Commonwealth, ‘daintie Fare, gorgious Buildings, and sumptuous Apparel’ (105). Food and health of the Poor ; dainties and diseases of the Rich (106). Drunkenness of the Maltworms in Alehouses ^(107). The evils of Drunken- ness (108). The Bible against it (109-10). Judgments on * Cp. Harrison’s oken men, &c., Pt. I. p. viii, 337-8. ’ See the E.\eter Regulations about Alehouses m Mr. A. S. Hamilton’s Quarter Sessions.