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fathers and children,
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husbands and wives, rich and poor...
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And where there is no right order there reigneth all abuse,
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carnal liberty, enormity,
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sin and Babylonical confusion."
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well, that's the opening paragraph of the Homily on obedience;
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the Homily on Obedience, published for the first time
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in the 1540s and another neat statement
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of Tudor perceptions of the social order
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and its emphasis on hierarchy and degree;
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order, the word echoing through that opening paragraph.
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Well, put Dudley and the Homily on Obedience together