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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

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

tragaedosque legit ne quid vitij persuadere videatur And in his 359. Epi●tle pag. 869.870 Where hee repents him seriously of that amorous Treatise which he had penned in his youth he writes thus to our present purpose Tractatum de amore olim sensu pariterque aetate juvenes cum nos scripsisse recolimus paenitentia immodica pudorque ac maeror animum nostrum vehementer excruciant quippe qui sciamus quique protestati expresse fuimus duo contineri in eo libello ●pertam videlicet sed heu lasciviam nimis prurientemque amoris historiam morale quod eam consequitur edificans dogma Quorum primum fatuos atque errantes video sectari quam plurimos Alterum heu dolor pene nullos Ita impravatum est atque obfuscatum infaelix mortalium genus De amore igitur quae scripsimus olim juvenes contemnite ô mortales atque respuite sequimini quae nunc dicimus seni magi● quam juven● credite Nec privatum hominem plures facite quàm Pontificem AEneam reijcite Pium suscipite c. A passage which plainely informes us that amorous Playes and Poems though intermixed with grave Sentences and Morals are dangerous to be read or penned because more will be corrupted by their amorousnesse then instructed or edified by their Morals as daily experience too well proves If these authorities of Christians will not sufficiently convince us of the danger t●e unlawfulnesse of reading amorous Bookes and Playes the most assiduous studies of this our idle wanton age consider then that Plato a Heathen Philosopher banished all Play-poets and their Poems out of his Common-wealth that the Lacedemonians Massilienses and at last the Athenians to prohibited and suppressed all Playes and Play-poems not suffring them to bee read or acted that Aristotle Plutarch and Quintilian expresly condemned the reading of wanton amorous fabulous obscene lascivious Poems and Writers that Augustus banished Ovid for his obscene and p●nderly Bookes of love and that Ovid himselfe disswaded men very seriously from re●ding his owne or other mens wanton Bookes and Poems as being apt to inflame mens lusts and to draw them on to whoredome adultery effeminacy scurrility and all kinde of beastly lewdnesse And can Christians then approve or justifie the delightfull reading and revolving that I say not the penning studying printing and venting of such lewde amorous Bookes and Playes which these very Heathen Authors have condemned and so prove farre worse then Pagans I shall therefore cloze up this first Reply to this Objection with the words of learned reverend George Alley Bishop of Exeter in the second yeere of Queene Elizabeths Raigne against the reading writing and Printing of wanton Bookes and Playes It is to be lamented that not onely in the time of the idolatrous and superstitious Church but even in this time also lascivious impur● wanton Bookes pearce into many mens houses and hands Alas what doth such kinde of Bookes worke and bring with them Forsooth nothing else but fire even the burning flames of an unchaste minde the brands of pleasure the coles of filthinesse the fire I say that doth consume devoure and roote out all the nourishments of vertue the fire I say which is a proeme and entrance into the eternall fire of Hell What is so expedient unto a Common-wealth as not to suffer witches to live for so the Lord commanded by his servant Moses And I pray you be not they worse then an hundred Witches which take mens senses from them not with magicall delusions but with the enchantments of dame Venus and as it were to give them Circes cup to drinke of and so of men to make them beasts What punishment deserve they as either make or print such unsavory Bookes truely I would wish them the same reward wherewith Alexander Severus recompenced his very familiar Vetronius Turinus ut fumo videlicet pereant qui fumum vendunt that they perish with smoke who sell smoke And what other things doe these set forth to sale but smoke ready to breake out into flame For that certaine persons bequeath themselves wholy to the reading of such lascivious and wanton Bookes who knoweth not that thereof commeth the first preparative of the minde that when any one sparke of fire be it never so little falls into the tinder of Lady Venus suddenly it is set on fire as towe or flaxe Many doe read the verses which Lycoris the Strumpet the Paramour of Gallus the Poet did read and the verses which Corynna mentioned in Ovid and which Neaera did read It will perchance be replyed that they doe read them either for the increase of knowledge or to drive away idlenesse I answer If any doe salute Venus but a limine as they say that is a farre off as it wer● in the entrie what kindling and flames I pray you will ensue thereof when the coles bee once stirred It is to be feared that no small number of them who professe Christianity be in this respect a great deale worse then the Heathen The people called Massilienses before they knew Christ yea or heard whether there were a Christ but were very Pagans and sacrificers to Idols yet were knowne to all the world to be of such pure and unc●rrupt manners that the manners of the Massilienses as Plautus testifieth are commonly counted the best and most approoved manners of all others These among many other good orders of their well nurtured City made a severe law that there should be no Comedy played within their City for the argument for the most part of such Playes did containe the acts of dissolute and wanton love They had also within their City about 613. yeeres before the birth of Christ a Sword of execution wherewith the guilty and offenders should be slaine but the uprightnesse of their living was such that the Sword not being used was eaten with rust and nothing meet to serve that turne And alas are not almost all places in these dayes replenished with Iuglers Scoffers Iesters Players which may say and doe what they lust be it never so fleshly and filthy and yet suffred with laughing and clapping of hands Hiero Syracusanus did punish Epicharmus the Poet because he rehearsed certaine wanton verses in the presence of his wife for hee would that in his house not onely other parts of the body should be chaste but the eares also which be unto other members of the body instead of a tunnell to be kept sartas tectas that is defended and covered as the proverbe saith and to be shut from all uncomely and ribaldry talke Vnto which fact of Hiero the worthy sentence of Pericles is much consonant and agreeable Sophocles who was joynt fellow with Pericles in the Pr●torship beholding and greatly praysing the well favored beauty of a certaine Boy passing by him was rebuked of Pericles his companion after this sort Not onely the hands 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.