The Brutal Origins of the Beautiful Game (worldhistory.substack.com)

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In 1583, a pamphleteer named Philip Stubbes railed against the growth of a violent game that was sweeping across England. He wrote about the game in his pamphlet “An Anatomie of Abuses,” calling it (in Old English, which I’ve cleaned up a bit)...

That’s not Old English or even Middle English—it’s Early Modern English.

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