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death_n	cup_n	drink_v	eat_v	8,062	5	7.8137	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01953	The schoole of abuse conteining a plesaunt [sic] inuectiue against poets, pipers, plaiers, iesters, and such like caterpillers of a co[m]monwelth; setting vp the hagge of defiance to their mischieuous exercise, [and] ouerthrowing their bulwarkes, by prophane writers, naturall reason, and common experience: a discourse as pleasaunt for gentlemen that fauour learning, as profitable for all that wyll follow virtue. By Stephan Gosson. Stud. Oxon.	Gosson, Stephen, 1554-1624.	1579 (1579)	STC 12097.5; ESTC S103345	29,663	88

table they had nigh burst their guts with ouer feeding For if the body bee ouercharged it may bee holpe but the surfite of the soule is hardly cured Here I doubt not but some Archplayer or other that hath read alitle or stumbled by chance vpon Plautus comedies wil cast me abone or ii to pick saying that whatsoeuer these ancient writers haue spokē against plaies is to bee applied too the abuses in olde Comedies where Gods are broughte in as Prisoners too beautie rauishers of Uirgins and seruantes by loue too earthly creatures But the Comedies that are exercised in oure daies are better sifted They shewe no such branne The first smelte of Plautus these tast of Menāder the lewdenes of Gods is altred and chaunged to the loue of young men force to friendshippe rapes too mariage wooing allowed by assurance of wedding priuie meetinges of bachelours and maidens on the stage not as murderers that deuour the good name ech of other in their mindes but as those that desire to bee made one in hearte Nowe are the abuses of the worlde reuealed euery man in a play may see his owne faultes and learne by this glasse to amende his manners Curculio may chatte til his heart ake ere any be offended with his gyrdes Deformities are checked in ieast and mated in earnest The sweetenesse of musicke and pleasure of sportes temper the bitternesse of rebukes and mittigate the tartenesse of euery taunt according to this Omne vafer vitiū ridenti Flaccus amico Narrat admissus circū p̄cordia ludit Flaccus among his friends with fauning Muse Doth nip him necre that fostreth foule abuse Therefore they are either so blinde that they cannot or so blunt that they will not see why this exercise shoulde not be suffered as a profitable recreation For my parte I am neither so fonde a Phisition nor so bad a Cooke but I can allowe my patient a cup of wine to meales although it be hotte and pleasaunt sauces to driue downe his meate if his stomake hee queasie Notwithstanding if people will bee instructed God be thanked wee haue Diuines enough to discharge that and moe by a great many then are well harkened to yet sith these abuses are growne too head and sinne so rype the number is lesse then I would it were Euripides holdes not him onely a foole that beeing well at home wil gad abrode that hath a Conduite within doore and fetcheth water without but all suche beside as haue sufficient in them selues to make them selues merry with pleasaunte talke tending too good and mixed with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Grecians glee yet will they seeke when they neede not to bee sported abrode at playes and Pageauntes Plutarch likeneth the recreation that is gotte by conference too a pleasaunt banquet the sweet pappe of the one sustaineth the body the sauery doctrine of the other doth nourish the minde and as in banquetting the wayter standes ready too fill the Cuppe So in all our recreations we shoulde haue an instructer at our elbowes to feede the soule If wee gather Grapes among thistles or seeke for this foode at Theaters wee shall haue a harde pyttaunce and come to shorte commons I cannot thinke that Cittie to be safe that strikes downe her Percollices rammes vp her gates and suffereth the enimie to enter the posterne Neyther wil I be perswaded that he is any way likely to conquer affection which breaketh his instrumentes burneth all his Poets abandons his haunt mufleth his eyes as he passeth the streate and resortes too Theaters too bee assaulted Cookes did neuer shewe more crafte in their iunckets to vanquish the taste nor Painters in shadowes to allure the eye then Poets in Theaters to wounde the conscience There setchey abroche straunge consortes of melody to tickle the eare costly apparel to flatter the sight effeminate gesture to rauish the sence and wanton speache to whet desire too inordinate lust Therefore of both barrelles I iudge Cookes and Painters the better hearing for the one extendeth his arte no farther then to the tongue palate and nose the other to the eye and both are ended in outwarde sense which is common too vs with bruite beasts But these by the priuie entries of the eare slip downe into the hart with gunshotte of affection gaule the minde where reason and vertue should rule the roste These people in Rome were as pleasant as Nectar at the first beginning cast out for lees when their abuses were knowen They whome Caesar vpheld were driuen out by Octauian whom Caligula reclaimed were cast of by Nero whom Neruä exalted were throwne downe by Traian whom Anthony admitted were expelled againe pestred in Gallies sent into Hellespōt by Marcus Aurelius But when the whole rabble of Poets Pipers Players Jugglers Jesters daūcers were receiued againe Rome was reported to bee fuller of fooles then of wise men Domitian suffered playing dauncing so long in Theaters that Paris led the shaking of sheetes with Domitia and Mnester the Trenchmour with Messalina Caligula made so muche of Players and Dauncers that hee suffered them openly to kysse his lyppes when the Senators might scarce haue a lick at his feete He gaue Dauncers great stipends for selling their hopps placed Apelles the player by his own sweete side Besides that you may see what excellent graue men were euer about him he loued Prasinus the Cochman so wel that for good wil to the master he bid his horsetosupper gaue him wine to drink in cups of estate set barly graines of golde before him to eate and swore by no bugs that hee would make him a Consul which thing saith Dion had bin performed had hee not bin preuented by suddain death For as his life was abhominable so was his end miserable Comming from dancing playing he was slaine by Chaerea a iust rewarde and a fit Catastrophe I haue heard some Players vaunt of the credit they had in Rome but they are as foolish in that as Vibius Rufus which bosted himself to be an Emperor because hee had sit in Caesars chaire a perfect Orator because hee was marryed to Tullies widowe Better might they say them selues to be murderers because they haue represented the persons of Thyestes and Atreus Achilles Hector or perfect Limme lifters for teaching the trickes of euery Strumpet Such are the abuses that I reade of in Rome such are the Caterpillers that haue deuouted and blasted the fruite of Aegypt Such are the Dragons that are hurtful in Affricke Such are the Adders that sting with pleasure and kil with paine and such are the Basiliskes of the world that poyson as well with the beame of their sighte as with the breath of their mouth Consider with thy selfe gentle Reader the olde discipline of Englande mark what we were before what we are now Leaue Rome a while and cast thine eye backe to thy Predecessors and tell mee howe woonderfully wee haue beene chaunged since