Facsimile reprint.

Original t.p. reads: A second and third blast of retrait from plaies and theaters: the one whereof was sounded by a reuerend Byshop dead long since; the other by a worshipful and zealous gentleman now alive; one showing the filthines of plaies in times past; the other the abhomination of theaters in the time present ... Set forth by Anglo-phile Eutheo ... Allowed by authority, 1580.

"The second blast" is a translation of Book 6 of De gubernatione Dei by Salvianus.

"The first blast" is S. Gosson's The school of abuse.

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