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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

juvenes mancipia pantomimorum remember that holy covenant which you not long since made to God in baptisme to forsake the Devill and all his workes the pompes the vanities of this wicked world with all the sinfull lusts of the flesh of which Stage-playes as the Fathers teach you are the chiefe O perjure perjure not your selves renounce not your christianity your faith your vow your baptisme by frequenting Playes in your youth your child-hood bequeath not your selves so soone unto the Devill after your solemne consecration unto God in Christ let not him gaine possession of your persons your service in your youth that so hee may command and challenge them in your age Non enim obtin●bis ut desinat si incipere permiseris ergo intranti resistamus c. But as you have given up your soules and bodies as an holy living sacrifice unto God in baptisme to serve him with them in holinesse and righteousnesse before him all the dayes of your lives so be yee sure to make good your promise by remembring by serving your Creator in the dayes of your youth your strength your health and life who will then crowne you with glory and immortality at your death Pitty it is to see how many ingenious Youthes and Girles how many young that I say not old Gentlemen and Gentlewomen of birth and quality as if they were borne for no other purpose but to consume their youth their lives in lascivious dalliances Playes and pastimes or in pampering in adorning those idolized living carcases of theirs which will turne to earth to dung to rottennesse and wormes-meat ere be long and to condemne their poore neglected soules casting by all honest studies callings imployments all care of Heaven of salvation of their owne immortall soules of that God who made them that Saviour who redeemed them that Spirit who should sanctifie them and that Common-weale that fosters them doe in this idle age of ours like those Epicures of old most prodigally most sinfully riot away the very creame and flower of their yeeres their dayes in Play-houses in Dancing-schooles Tavernes Ale-houses Dice-houses Tobacco-shops Bowling-allies and such infamous places upon those life-devouring time-exhausting Playes and pastimes that I say not sinnes beside as is a shame for Pagans much more for Christians to approve O that men endued with reason ennobled with religion with immortall soules fit onely for the noblest heavenliest sublimest and divinest actions should ever bee so desperately besotted as to wast their precious time upon such vaine such childish base ignoble pleasures which can no way profit soule or body Church or State nor yet advance their temporall much lesse their spirituall and eternall good which they should ever seeke You therefore deare Christian Brethren who are who have beene peccant in this kinde for Gods sake for Christs sake for the holy Ghosts sake for Religions sake which now extremely suffers by this your folly for the Church and Common-weales sake for your owne soules sake which you so much neglect repent of what is past recalling and for the future time resolve through Gods assistance never to cast away your time your money your estates your good names your lives your salvation upon these unprofitable spectacles of vanity lewdnesse lasciviousnesse or these delights of sinne of which you must necessarily repent and be ashamed or else be condemned for them at the last passing all the time of your pilgrimage here in feare and imploying all the remainder of your short inconstant lives in those honest studies callings● and pious Christian duties which have their fruit unto holinesse and the end everlasting life And because we have now many wanton females of all sorts resorting daily by troopes unto our Playes our Play-houses to see and to be seene as they did in Ovids age I shall only desire them if not their Parents and Husbands to consider that it hath evermore beene the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots to ramble abroad to Playes to Play-houses whether no honest chast or sober Girles or Women but only branded Whores infamous Adulteresses did usually resort in ancient times the Theater being then made a common Brothell And that all ages all places have constantly suspected the chastity yea branded the honesty of those females who have beene so immodest as to resort to Theaters to Stage-playes which either finde or make them Harlots inhibiting all married Wives and Virgins to resort to Playes and Theaters as I have here amply proved● Since therefore Saint Paul expresly enjoynes all women especially those of the younger sort to be sober chaste keepers at home yea therefore keepers at home that they may be chaste and sober as ancient and moderne Commentators glosse it that the Word of God be not blasphemed where as the dissolutenesse of our lascivious impudent rattle-pated gadding females now is such that as if they had purposely studied to appropriate to themselves King Solomons memorable character of an whorish woman with an impudent face a subtile heart and the attire of an Harlot they are lowde and stubborne their feet abide not in their houses now they are without now in the streets and lie in wait at every corner being never well pleased nor contented but when they are wandring abroad to Playes to Play-houses Dancing-matches Masques and publike Shewes from which nature it selfe if we believe S. Chrysostome hath sequestred all women or to such suspicious places under pretence of businesse or some idle visits where they oft-times leave their modesty their chastity behinde them to their eternall infamy Let me now beseech all female Play-haunters as they regard this Apostolicall precept which enjoynes them to be sober chast keepers at home or good carefull House-wives as som● have rendred it adorning themselves in modest apparell with shamefastnesse and sobriety which now are out of fashion not with broidered cut or borrowed plaited haire or gold or pearles or costly array the onely fashions of our age but which becommeth women professing godlinesse with good workes As they tender their owne honesty fame or reputation both with God and men the honour of their sex the prayse of that Christian Religion which they professe the glory of their God their Saviour and their soules salvation to abandon Playes and Play-houses as most pernicious Pests where all females wrecke their credits most their chastity some their fortunes not a few their soules and to say unto them as the Philosopher did unto his wealth which he cast into the Sea Abite in profundum malae cupiditates ego vos mergam ne ipse mergar à vobis CATASTROPHE I Have now deare Christian Readers through Gods assistance compleatly finished this my Histrio-Mastix wherein I have represented both to your view and censures to as well as my poore ability and other

performe towards God how many graces and degrees of grace we want how many daily sinnes and lusts we have to lament and mortifie how many offices of piety of charity of courtesie duty and civility wee have to exercise towards our selves our friends our neighbours our families our enemies as we are men or Christians in all those severall relations wherein wee stand to others considering withall what time we ought to spend upon our lawfull callings upon the care and culture of our soules which are then most neglected when as our bodies are most pampered most adorned all which are su●ficient to monopolize even all our idle dayes more And if we would adde to this these strict commands of God Exod. 20.9 Sixe dayes shalt thou labour and doe all thy worke Gen. 3.19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eate bread till thou returne unto the ground a curse a precept layd on all mankinde Ephes. 5.15 16. See that yee walke circumspectly not as fooles but as wise redeeming the time because the dayes are evill 2. Thes. 3.10 11 12 13 14. For even when we were with you this we commanded you that if any would not worke neither should he eate For we heare there are some and O that we did not now heare of many ●uch among us which walke among you disorderly not working at all but are buste-bodies Now them that are such we● command and exhort by our Lord Iesus that with quie●nesse they worke and eate their owne bread not being weary in well doing And if any obey not our Word by this Epistle note that man and have no communion with him that he may be ashamed Did we I say consider all this or did we remember how narrow steepe and difficult the way is unto Heaven and what paines all those must take who meane to climbe up thither We should then speedily discover how little cause men have to run to Stage-playes to passe away their idle houres which flie away so speedily of themselves But suppose there are any such as alas our idle age hath too too many who though they are loath to die as all men should be willing to depart who have finished or survived their worke or else want good imployments yet they have so much idle time that they know not how to spend standing all the day idle like those lazy Loyterers Matth. 20.1 to 8. even for want of worke or loytring abroad like our common Vagrant Sturdy-beggers not so much because they cannot but because they will not worke let all such idle Bees know that Christ Iesus their Lord and Master hath a Vineyard in which they may and ought to spend their time he hath store of imployments for them though themselves have none even enough to take up all the vacant houres of their lives When therefore any Play-haunters or others have so much idle time that they know not how to bestow it let them presently step into the Lords Vineyard let them repaire to Sermons and such other publike exercises of Religion calling upon one another and saying Come and let us goe up to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the God of Iacob and hee will teach us his wayes and we will walke in his pathes or else betake themselves to their owne private prayers and devotions Let them read the Scriptures or some other pious Bookes which may instruct them in the wayes of godlinesse or sing Psalmes● and Hymnes and spirituall Songs to God● let them seriously examine their owne consciences hearts and lives by the sacred Touch-stone of Gods Word let them bewayle their owne originall corruption with all their actuall transgressions and sue earnestly to God for pardon for them let them labour after all the graces and degrees of grace which yet they want and bee ever adding to those graces which they have let them renew their vowes and covenants with God and walke more closely more exactly with him every day let them muse and meditate on God on all his great and glorious workes and attributes on Christ and all his suffrings on the holy Ghost and all his graces on the Word of God and all its precepts promises threatnings on Heaven and everlasting happinesse on Hell and all its torments on sinne and all the miseries that attend it on their owne frailty and mortality on the vanity of all earthly things on the day of death and judgement which should be alwayes in their thoughts and on a thousand such like particulars on which they should imploy their mindes and vacant houres If men will but thus improve their idle time which now they waste on Playes and such like vanities which onely treasure up wrath unto their soules against the day of wrath and plunge them deeper into Hell at last what benefit what comfort might they reape their idle vacant seasons would then prove the comfortablest the profitablest of all others and bring them in a large returne of grace here of glory hereafter Let us therefore henceforth labour to improve our cast our leisure times to our eternall advantage ab hoc exiguo● caduco temporis transitu in illa nos toto demus animo quae immensa quae aeterna sunt quae cum melioribus communia Haec nobis dabunt ad aeternitatem iter nos in illum locum ex quo nemo eijciet sublenabunt haec una ratio est extendendae mortalitatis imo in immortalitatem vertendae and then we need not run to Masques to Playes or Play-houses to passe away our time Lastly I answer That men cannot be worse imployed then in hearing or beholding Stage-playes Nihil enim tam damnosum bonis moribus quàm in aliquo Spectaculo desidere tunc enim per voluptatem facilius vitia surrepunt It was Seneca his resolution to his friend Lucilius when he requested his advice what thing hee would have him principally to avoyd and it may be a satisfactory answer to this Objection For how can men be worse imployed then in hearing seeing learning all kinde of vice of villany and lewdnesse whatsoever then in depraving both their mindes and manners and treasuring up damnation to their soules This is the onely good imployment that our Play-haunters have at Playes which is the worst of any This Objection therefore is but idle The 3. Objection which Play-frequenters make for the seeing of Playes is this That the frequenting of Stage-playes as their owne experience witnesseth doth men no hurt at all it neither indisposeth them to holy duties nor inticeth them to lust or lewdnesse therefore it is not ill An Objection made in Chrysostomes time as well as now To this I answer first that Play-haunters are no meete judges in this case because most of them being yet in the state of sinne and death are altogether sencelesse of the growth and progresse