The Laughing Hangman

Plays will never be suppressed, while her Majesty’s unfledged minions flaunt it in silks and satins.…Even in her Majesty’s chapel do these pretty upstart youths profane the Lord’s day by the lascivious writhing of their tender limbs and gorgeous decking of their apparel, in feigning bawdy fables gathered from the idolatrous heathen poets.

— ANONYMOUS, The Children of the Chapel Stripped and Whipped (1569)