It attacked all those who celebrated the day as "ignorants, atheists, papists, drunkards, swearers, swashbucklers, maid-marians, morris dancers, maskers, mummers, May-pole stealers, health-drinkers, together with a rapscallion rout of fiddlers, fools, fighters, gamesters, lewd-women, light-women, contemnors of magistracy, affronters of ministry, disobedients to parents,
misspenders of time, and abusers of creatures".