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A10187 Histrio-mastix The players scourge, or, actors tragædie, divided into two parts. Wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers arguments, by the concurring authorities and resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture ... That popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions; condemned in all ages, as intolerable mischiefes to churches, to republickes, to the manners, mindes, and soules of men. And that the profession of play-poets, of stage-players; together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of stage-playes, are unlawfull, infamous and misbeseeming Christians. All pretences to the contrary are here likewise fully answered; and the unlawfulnes of acting, of beholding academicall enterludes, briefly discussed; besides sundry other particulars concerning dancing, dicing, health-drinking, &c. of which the table will informe you. By William Prynne, an vtter-barrester of Lincolnes Inne. Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1633 (1633) STC 20464A; ESTC S115316 1,193,680 1,258

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this_o profuse_a theatrical_a laughter_n b._n do_v give_v a_o public_a approbation_n to_o all_o the_o ribaldry_n and_o profaneness_n that_o be_v either_o personate_v ●r_o perpetrate_v on_o the_o stage_n and_o so_o make_v these_o laugher_n deep_o guilty_a of_o it_o six_o it_o produce_v sundry_a sinful_a con●equents_n as_o 209._o cachinnation_n clamour_n impudence_n a._n effeminacy_n incivility_n b._n voluptuousness_n looseness_n and_o lightness_n of_o spirit_n impenitency_n carnal_a security_n indisposition_n to_o every_o holy_a duty_n especial_o to_o godly_a sorrow_n for_o sin_n therefore_o it_o can_v but_o be_v evil_a peruse_v we_o but_o the_o scripture_n we_o shall_v find_v 8._o they_o much_o condemn_v this_o excessive_a carnal_a laughter_n especial_o at_o vain_a at_o sinful_a object_n as_o misbeseem_v christian_n survey_v we_o the_o father_n they_o be_v exceed_o copious_a in_o this_o subject_n witness_v clemens_n alexandrinus_n paedag._n l._n 2._o c._n 5.6_o &_o l_o 3._o c._n 11._o arnobius_n advers._fw-la gentes_fw-la l._n 4_o pag._n 149.150.151_o l._n 7._o pag._n 230._o to_o 242._o basil._n de_fw-fr ebrietate_fw-la &_o luxu_fw-la sermo_n p._n 329.332_o 236._o nazianzen_n ad_fw-la selucum_fw-la p._n 1063.1064_o sententiae_fw-la p._n 1168._o &_o 997._o ambros._n sermo_n 17._o s._n asterij_fw-la homil._n in_o festum_fw-la kalendarum_fw-la bibl._n patrum_fw-la tom_n 4._o p._n 706._o hierom._n epist._n 8._o c._n 7._o august_n de_fw-fr verbis_fw-la apostoli_fw-la sermo_n 9_o tom._n 10._o p._n 376._o confessionun_n l._n 2._o cap._n 9_o enar._n in_o psal._n 51._o tom._n 8._o pars_fw-la 1._o pag._n 605.606_o salvian_n de_fw-fr gubernat_n dei_fw-la lib._n 6._o &_o 7._o theoph●lact_fw-mi enar._n in_o luk._n 6._o p._n 135._o joannis_n climachus_n de_fw-fr discretione_fw-la gradus_fw-la c._n 31._o bibl._n patrum_fw-la tom._n 6._o pars_fw-la 2._o p._n 280._o g._n bedae_fw-la scintillae_fw-la tom._n 7._o col._n 335._o risus_fw-la antiochus_n hom._n 95._o quod_fw-la 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place_n antonius_n laurentius_n de_fw-fr risu_fw-la l._n 2._o summa_fw-la angelica_n tit._n risus_fw-la rabanus_n maurus_n com._n in_o regulam_fw-la s._n benedicti_fw-la oper._n tom._n 6._o p._n 278._o e.f._n 283._o e._n 292._o d._n alexander_n alensis_n summa_fw-la
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