There's been a marked increase lately in Limbaugh's rhetoric about, of all things, class warfare.

Before you begin the Game at Picket, you must throw out of the Pack the Deuces, Treys, Fours and Fives, and play with the rest of the Cards, which are in number thirty and six.

The follest slouen ondyr heuen, / Prowde, peuiche, lyddyr, and lewde, / Malapert, medyllar, nothyng well thewde, […] The foullest sloven under heaven, / Proud, peevish, lither, and lewd, / Malapert, meddler, nothing well thewed, […]

The brilliant qualities of the Diritto and the Curvo seem to lend themselves to use with sackbutts or large mixed ensembles composed of buzzies such as shawms, racketts, and crumhorns.