Author: Jennifer ForsythNot Peer Reviewed
 Early Modern Culture
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            Early Modern Culture
            
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                    Early Modern Culture
                
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                    1. Excerpt fromA World of Wonders, by Henri Estienne (1607--the English translation)
                
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                    2. "The Necessity of Hanging," The Praise and Virtue of a Jail and Jailers, by John Taylor (1623)
                
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                    3. Excerpt from "The Order for the Burial of the Dead," The Book of Common Prayer(1552)
                
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                    4. Excerpt from "Colin Clout," by John Skelton (1545)
                
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                    5. Excerpt fromA Flourish upon Fancy, by Nicholas Breton (1577)
                
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                    6. Excerpt from "High Treason," The Country Justice, by Michael Dalton (1619)
                
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                    7. Excerpt from The Game of Chess, by Jacobus de Cessolis, trans. William Caxton (1474)
                
 
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