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A09809 The liues of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, and of Octauius Cæsar Augustus: collected out of good authors. Also the liues of nine excellent chieftaines of warre, taken out of Latine from Emylius Probus, by S.G. S. By whom also are added the liues of Plutarch and of Seneca: gathered together, disposed, and enriched as the others. And now translated into English by Sir Thomas North Knight Nepos, Cornelius. Vitae excellentium imperatorum. English. Selections.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.; North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601? 1602 (1602) STC 20071; ESTC S111836 1,193,680 142

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sanguinis molestijs caret neque ab affectu naturae materialis abscedit ut à lectione libelli hujus eorumque quae in eo dicentur penitus temperet Aiunt enim observari etiā apud Hebraeos quod nisi quis ad aetatem perfectam maturamque pervenerit libellum hunc ne quidem in manibus tenere permittatur If Children yong men and carnall persons then upon this ground are thus advised to refraine the reading of this sacred canonicall Booke of Spirituall love expressions betweene Christ and his beloved Church Ne sub recordatione sanctarum faeminarum c. qu● ibi nominantur noxiae titulationis stimulus excitaretur c. How much more then ought they to forbeare the reading of lascivious amorous scurrilous Play-bookes Histories and Arcadiaes there being no women no youthes so exactly chaste which may not easily be corrupted by them and even inflamed unto fury with strange and monstrous lusts since there is no stronger engine to assault and vanquish the chastity of ●ny Maetron Girle or Widdow of any male or female whatsoever then these amo●o●s Play-poets Poems and Histories as Agrippa in his discourse of Bawdery hath truely informed us Atque tamen writes hee quae in his libris plurimum edocta puella est quaeque horum s●it jacere dicteria ex horum disciplina cum procis in multas horas facunde confabulari haec demum est probè aulica Hence Clemens Romanus Constit. Apostol lib. 1. cap. 8. Carolus Bovius in his Scholia upon the same place Ib. p. 125. Nazianzen de Recta Educatione ad Selucum pag. 1063. Basil de Legendis libris Gentilium Oratio Tertullian De Idololatria lib. cap. 18. to 20. Ambrose in Evangelium Lucae lib. 1. vers 1. Hierom. Epist. 22. cap 13. Epist. 146. to Damasus Lactantius de Falsa Religioue cap. 12.15 Augustine De Civit. Dei lib. 2. cap. 1.8 Confessionum lib. 1. cap. 15.16 Isiodor Hispalensis De Summo bono lib. 3. cap. 13. Prosper Aquittanicus De Vita Contemplativa c. 6. Theodoret in Cant. Cantic Tom. 1. pag 215. Isiodor Pelusiota Epist. lib. 1. Epist. 62.63 Gregory the first Epist. l. 9. Epist. 48. Iuo Carnotensis Decret pars 4. cap. 160. to 169. Gratian Distin●tio 86. The 4. Councell of Carthage C●n. 16. The Councell of Colen under Adolphus Anno● 1549. Synodus Mechlinienses apud Ioannem Langhecrucium De Vita Honestate Ecclesiast● lib. 2. cap. 22. pag. 321. De Institutione Iuventutis Can. 3. The Councell of Triers Anno● 1540. Cap. De Sc●olis Surius Tom. 4. Concil pag. 838.890 The Synod of Towres Anno 1583. The Councell of Burdeaux 1582. The Synod of Rothomagium An. 1581. Franciscus Z●phyrus in his Epistle to Simon and Nicholas prefixed to Tertullians Apologie G●orgius Fabritius his Epistle to the Duke of Saxony Agrippa De Vanitate Scientiarum lib. cap. 64. 71. Lodovicus Vives De Tradendis Disciplinis lib. 3. pag. 288.289 Episcopus Chemnensis Onus Ecclesiae cap. 18. sect 8.9 10 11. Osorius De Regum Instit. lib. 4. pag. 120.121 Mapheus Vegius De Educatione Liberorum lib. 2. cap. 18. lib. 3● cap. 1.2 De Perseverantia Religionis lib. 5. Bibl. Patrum Tom. 15. pag. 929.930 D. Humphries of true Nobility Booke 2. D. Rainolds Overthrow of Stage-playes pag. 122.123 Thomas Beacon BB. Babington BB. Hooper Ioannis Nyder M. Perkins Dod Elton Lake Downeham Williams and all other Expositors on the 7. Commandement together with most Commentators on Ephes. 5.2 3 4. have expresly condemned and prohibited Christians to pen to print to sell to read or Schoole-masters and others to teach any amorous wanton Play-bookes Histories or Heathen Authors especially Ovids wanton Epistles and Bookes of love Catullus Tibullus Propertius Martiall the Comedies of Plautus Terence and other such amorous Bookes savoring either of Pagan Gods of ethnicke rites and ceremonies or of scurrility amorousnesse prophanesse as their alleaged places will most amply testifie to such who shall peruse them at their leisure the reason of which is thus expressed by Isiodor Hispalensis Iuo Carnotensis Gratian Ideo prohibetur Christianis legere figmenta poetarum quia per oblectamenta fabularum mentem nimis excitent ad incentiva libidinum Non enim thura solum offerendo daemonibus immolatur sed etiam eorum dicta libentius capiendo The penning and reading of all amorous Bookes was so execrable in the Primitive times how ever they are much admired now that Heli●dorus Bishop of Trica was deprived of his Bishopricke by a Provinciall Synod for those wanton amorous Bookes he had written in his youth his bookes being likewis● awarded to the fire to be burnt though they are yet applauded and read by many amorous persons quia lectione eorum juvenes multi in periculū conijcerentur because divers yong men by reading of them might bee corrupted and entised unto lewdnesse answerable to which memorable pious act are these Constitutions of the Councell of Burdeaux An. 1582. and of the Synod of Towres Anno 1583. well worth our observation Quia multi à vera fide aberrantes contra professionem etiam consultò gravius peccant c. Prohibet haec Synodus ne libri magicae artis vel ad lasciviam luxum provocantes imprimantur vendantur legantur aut retineantur omnino jubetque sicut repertifu●rint comburantur sub ejusdem Anathematis paena quam ipso facto incurrunt qui minime paruerint Moneantur etiam saepissime fideles Christiani à suis Parochis confessarijs ut fugiant tanquam virus mortiferum lectionem librorum quorumcumque qui vel ad artes magicas pertinent vel obscaenas impias narrationes continent eosque ut olim tempore Apostolorum factum legimus comburant Yea Ignatius Loyola the Father of the Iesuits was so precise in this particular That hee forbade the reading of Terence in Schooles to Children and Youthes before his obscenities were expunged lest he should more corrupt their manners by his wantonnesse then by his Latine helpe their wits And AEneas Sylvius afterwards Pope Pius the second in his Tractat● De Liberorum Educatione Dedicated to L●dislaus King of Hungary and Bohemia discoursing what Authors and Poets are to be red to Children resolves it thus Ovidius ubique tristis ubique dulcis est in plerisque tamen locis nimium lascivus Horatius sive fuit multae eloquentiae c. sunt tamen in eo quaedam quae tibi nec legere voluerim nec interpraetari Martialis perniciosus quamvis floridus ornatus ita tamen spinis densus est ut legi rosas absque punctione non sinat Elegiam qui scribunt omnes puero negari debent nimium enim sunt molles Tibullus Propertius Ca●ullus quae translata est apud nos Sapho raro namque non amatoria scribunt desertosque conqueruntur amores Amoveantur igitur c. Animadvertere etiam praeceptorem op●rtet dum tibi comaedos
him that is a Pretor ought to refraine from lucre of money but also th● eyes to bee continent from wanton lookes The Athenians provided very well for the integrity of their Iudges that it should not be lawfull for any of the Areopagites to write any Comedy or Play and Epicharmus suffred punishment at the hands of Hiero for the rehearsall of certaine unchaste verses But I speake it with sorrow of heart to our vicious Ballad-makers and indictors of lewde Songs and Playes no revengment but rewards are largely payd and given Gerardas a very ancient man of Lacedemonia being demanded of his Hoste what paine adulterers suffred at Sparta made this answer O mine Hoste there is no adulterer among us neither can there be prey marke the reason For this was the manner among them that they were never present ●t any Comedy nor any other Playes fearing lest they should heare and see those things which were repugnant to their lawes But to revert to our purpose Wanton Bookes can bee no other thing but the fruits of wanton men who although they write any one good sentence in their Workes yet for the unwor●hinesse of the person the sentence is rejected The Sen●te of Lacedemonia would have refused a very worthy and apt saying of one Demosthenes for the unworthinesse of the Author if certaine men of authority called among them Ephori had not come betweene and caused another of the Senators to have pronounced the sentence againe as his owne saying Plutarch writeth that there was a law among the Grecians that even the good Bookes of ill men should be destroyed that the memory of the Authors also should thereby utterly be blotted out and cleane put away Gerson sometimes Chancellor of Paris speaking of a certaine Booke made by Ioannes Meldinensis the title whereof is the Romant of the Rose writeth of that Booke two things First he saith if I had the Romant of the Rose and that there were but one of them to bee had and might have for it 500. Crownes I would rather burne it then sell it Againe saith he if I did understand that Ioannes Meldinensis did not repent with true sorrow of minde for the making and setting forth of this Booke I would pray no more for him then I would for Iudas Iscariot of whose damnation I am most certaine And they also which reading this Booke doe apply it unto wicked and wanton manners are the Authors of his great paine and punishment The like Ioannes Raulius said of the Booke and Fables of one Operius Danus that hee was a most damned man unlesse he repented and acknowledged his fault for the setting forth of that Booke I would God they heard these things whom it delighteth to write or read such shamelesse and lascivious workes Let them remember the saying of Saint Paul A man shall reape that which hee hath sowen Chrysostome a great enhaunser of Pauls prayses writeth that so long shall the rewards of Paul rise more and more how long there shall remaine such which shall either by his life or doctrine be bronght unto the Lord God The same may we say of all such who while they lived have sowne ill seed either by doing saying writing or reading that unlesse they repented the more persons that are made ill by them the more sharpe and greater growth their paine as Saint Augustine wrote of Arrius God save every Christian heart from either the delighting or reading of such miserable monuments Thus concludes this reverend Bishop and so shall I this first reply Secondly admit it be lawfull to read Playes or Comedies now and then for recreation sake yet the frequent constant reading of Play-bookes of other prophane lascivious amorous Poems Histories and discourses which many now make their daily study to read more Playes then Sermons then Bookes of piety and devotion then Bookes or Chapters of the Bible then Authors that should enable men in their callings or fit them for the publike good must needs be sinfull as all the forequoted authorities witnesse because it avocates mens mindes from better and more sacred studies on which they should spend their time and fraughts them onely with empty words and vanities which corrupt them for the present and binde them over to damnation for the future The Scripture we know commands men not to delight in vanity in old wives tales in fabulous poeticall discourses or other empty studies which tend not to our spirituall goo●● Not to lay out our money for that which is not bread and our labour for that which satisfieth not but to redeeme the time because the dayes are evill Yea it commands men to be fruitfull and abundant in all good workes● to be holy in all manner of conversation to be alwayes doing and receiving good and finishing that worke which God hath given them to doe growing every day more and more in grace and in the knowledge of God and Christ laying up a good foundation against the time to come and perfecting holinesse in the feare of God giving all diligence to mak● their calling and election sure doing all they doe to the praise and glory of God Now the ordinary reading of Comedies Tragedies Arcadiaes Amorous Histories Poets and other prophane Discourses is altogether inconsistent with all and every of these sacred Precepts therefore it cannot bee lawfull Besides the Scripture commands men even wholy to abandon all idle words all vaine unprofitable discourses thought● and actions If then it gives us no liberty so much as to thinke a vaine thought or to utter an idle word certainely it alots us no vacant time for the reading of such vaine wanton Playes or Bookes Againe God enjoynes us that our speech should be alway●s profitable and gracious seasoned with salt that so it may administer grace to the hearers and build them up in their most holy faith Therefore our writings our studies our reading must not be unedifying amorous and prophane which ought to be as holy as serious and profitable as our disco●rses Moreover it is the expresse precept of the Apostle Paul whom many prophane ones will here taxe of Puritanisme Eph. 4.29 c. 5.3 4. But fornication and all uncleanesse or covetousnesse let it not be once named among you as becommeth Saints neither filt●inesse nor foolish talking nor jesting which are not convenient c. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouthes but that which is good to edifie profitably that it may mini●ter grace to the hearers c. And may wee then read or write these sinnes and vices which we ought not to name or study or peruse such wanton Playes and Pamplets which can administer nought but gracelesnesse lust prophanesse to the Readers Lastly wee are commanded to search the Scriptures daily to meditate in the Law of God day and night and to read therein all the dayes of
211. m. Ba●tologies in prayer prohibited p. 19. Thomas Beacon his censure of Dancing Dicing and Stage-playes pag. 626. m. 693. of lascivious Church-Musicke p. 282. to 28● Bellarmine his censure of Playes fol. 538. pag. 696.697 Beare-baiting censured and prohibited p. 583. fol. 556. S. Bernard against Stage-playes Dicing long haire and ribaldrie Songs p. 350.560.684 against Images c. p. 902.903 904. his prayse of the Scriptures fulnesse p. 928. B●za his recantation of his lascivious Poems p. 840. Bishops children prohibited to behold act or set forth Stage-playes p. 574.591 653. ought to suppresse Playes Dancing Play-haunters p. 150. ought to invite the poore to their tables and to have some part of the Scripture read at meales and then to discourse of it p. 591.653 See Gratian. Distinct. 44. not to weare costly apparell p. 621● must not play at Dice nor behold Dice-players nor keepe any Dicers or idle persons in their houses p. 657. to 661.666 Bishops parts not to be acted on the Stage p. 596.601 ought not to read Heathen or prophane Authors pag. 78.79 915 916 925 926 c. ought to preach constantly once a day in BB. Hoopers opinion fol. 521. p. 629. See Ministers Petrus Blesensis hi● character of an Officiall f● 537. m. his censure of Players and such who harbour them pag. 556.684 737. Bodine his censure of Stage-playes pag. 483.484 M. Bolton his verdict of Stage-playes pag. 16 364 365. Bonefix●s condemned by Councels and Fathers p. 21.22 580 583 585 587 588 770 772 773 f● 535 Bookes of Paganisme and Pagan Idols prohibited to be read p. 78.79 915 to 928. Prophane lascivious amorous Play-bookes Poems Histories and Arcadi●es unlawfull to be penn●d printed read especially of children and youthes pag. 103. m. 108. m. 307.453 454 831.913 to 929. Magicke and lascivious Bookes ought to bee burnt p. 916.717 919 920 922. Bowing to and before Altars derived from Pagans p. 236 See my Lame Giles his Haltings p. 36. to 39. the Appendix to it p. 15.16 Bowing and kneeling downe to Images is Idolatry p. 896. to 904. m Exod. 20.5 c. 23.24 Levit. 26.1 Num. 25.2 Deut. 5.8 9. Iosh. 23.7 16. Iudg. 2.12 17 19 1 King 19.18 2 King 5.18 c. 17.35 2 Chron. 25.14 Dan. 3.5 6 28. Rom. 11.4 Therefore bowing and cringing to Altars a thing never used by the I●wes or Primitive Church and Christians but onely by the Papists who decree thus Summa reverentia honor maximꝰ sanctis Altaribus exhibeatur maxime ●ubi sacrosanctum corpus Domini res●rvatur Missa celebratur Bochellus Decret Eccles. Gal. l. 4. Tit. 1. c. 81. p 558. must be Idolatry too If any reply that they bow and kneele not unto Images Altars or Communion Tables but before th●m I answer that as bowing kneeling praying and worshipping before God is the same in Scripture phrase with bowing kneeling● praying unto God and worshipping of God as is evident by De●t 26●6 1 Sam. 1.12 15 19. 2 Chron. 20 18● Psal. 2● 7 Psal. 72.9 Ps. 86●9 Ps. 95.6 Ps. 96.9 15. Psal. 98.6 9. Isay 66.23 Rev. 3.9 c. 4.10 ● 5.8 cap 7.11 c. 15.4 compared with Isay 45.23 c. 49.23 c● 60.14 Rom● 14.11 Gen. 24.26.48 c. 47.31 Heb. 11.21 Exod. 4 31● c. 12.27 c. 34.8 1 Chron● 29.20 2 Chron. 7.3 c. 29.29 30. Nehem. 8.6 P● 72.9 And as bowing kneeling or fall●ng d●wne before m●n is all on● with bowing kneeling and fall●ng down to men witnesse Gen. 49.8 1 Sam. 25.23 2 Sam 14.33 cap. 24.20 1 King 1.16 23. 2 King 2.15 Prov. 14.9 compared with Genes 27.29 Exod. 11.8 1 King 2.9 1 Chron 21.21 So bowing kneeling and falling downe before Images Altars or Communion-Tables is the very same in Gods owne language and repute with bowing kneeling and falling downe unto them as the 2 Chron 25.14 L●k 4.7 Dan. 3 3.5 6. paralleld with Exo. 20.5 Levit. 26.1 Matth. 11 9● and the fore alleaged Scriptures infallibly demonstrate and the Homily against the perill of idolatry p. 44. to 75 with William Wraghton his Rep●y to the Rescuer of the Romish Fox and the Authors here quoted p. 902.903 abundantly prove Needs th●refore must it be most grosse Idolatry as our owne Homilies and Writers teach us Thomas Bradwardine his passage against Stage-playes p. 689. Bram●nes Brasilians those of Bantam punish adultery with death p. 382.383 Bribe-takers act their parts in Hell p. 13. M. Brinsley his censure of Stage-playes p. ●63 364 f● 550. Brownists censured p. 38. Bucer his opinion of academical and popular Playes p. 7.692 for two Sermons every Lords Day p. 629 m. Brissoniu● his censure of Stage playes p. 695. C. Bulengerius his censure of and Booke against Stage●playes● p. 320.358 696 697 Iohn de Burgo● his verdict● of Players Playes and Dancing p. 238.239 689 844. m. 846.847 C C. Caligula censured for favouring Players for acting and frequenting Stage-playes putting on wom●ns apparell and drinking his Horses health pag. 200.249 462 708 709 736 741 848 849. slaine at a Play f. 554. p. 849. Calvin his censure of Playes and Players p. 692.907 of Dancing p. 226.240 Candlemas and the burning of Tapers on it derived from the Pagan Februalia p. 758.760 Canticles anciently prohibited to be read of children and carnall persons p. 914.915 Cappadocia its extent and division p 678.679 its prayses p. 675. Cappadocians not alwayes infamous pag. 674. to 677. Cappadox not a proverbiall but a nationall title p. 674. to 678. Carinus censured for favouring Players and lewde persons f. 547. p. 710.857 Cassiodorus his censure of Playes and Players p. 470.471 478 682 683. Cirque-playes censured and condemned by Fathers and Emperours pag. 470. 556 685 340 729. fol. 519 523 524 525. Catiline his conditions pag. 133.149 Cato how much feared of the Romanes f. 529. his gravity p. 740. Catullus censured pag. 916. Censors appointed to correct Playes and Players p 38.478 472. Charles the Great his censure and Edicts against Stage-playes Dancing and ribaldry Songs on Lords-dayes and Holy-dayes p. 271.715.996 See the places of Bochellus quoted in the margent against Images p. 900. Charles the 6. of France his danger at a Masque f. 557.558 Charles the 9. of France his Edicts against Playes and Dancing on Lords-dayes and Holy-dayes p. 715. King Charles his pious Statute for suppressing all Playes and Enterludes and unlawfull pastimes on the Lords-day p. 241.243 495 715 716 717. Dancing upon Lords-dayes punishable by this Statute Ibidem Charondas his law against Cowards pag. 584● m. 883. Children to be kept from Playes p. 366.367 See Parents Christ wept oft but never laughed pag. 294.402 403. fol. 526. accused of sedition rebellion p. 822.823 counted a Deceiver p. 816. a Puritan pag. 799.800 801. his Nativity how to be celebrated p. 48.225 526 743 to 783 for what end he dyed and suffered and was incarnate p. 26.526 749. to 752● the onely patterne of our imitation f. 526. p. 732. dishonoured and offended with Stage-playes● p. 44.48 f.