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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

Babler say May we know what this new doctrine whereof thou speakest is for thou bringest certaine strange things to our eares wee would therfore know what these things meane But if you will doe it so much honour as considerately to revolve it you shall finde it to containe nought else but resolved uniuersally receiued ancient though now forgotten truthes so farre from any suspicion of factious Novalty or puritanicall singularity that they have the concurrent testimonies the unanimous resolutions of sundry sacred texts of Scripture of the whole primitive Church and Saints of God both before and under the Law and Gospell the Canons of 55 severall oecumenicall nationall provinciall Synods and Councels of divers ages and Countries together with the canonicall the imperiall Constitutions of the Apostles themselves of Emperours Popes and other Bishops the workes of 71 Fathers and ancient Christian Writers of chiefest note from our Saviours Nativity to the yeare 1200. the suffrages of above 150 Christian Authors of all sorts from the yeare 1200 to this present the sentence of 40 Heathen Philosophers Orators Historians Poets together with the Play-condemning Lawes and Edicts of sundry Christian yea Pagan Nations Republikes Emperours Princes Magistrates in severall ages with the Statutes Magistrates Vniversities Writers and Preachers of our owne renowned Kingdome to back to second them in all particulars who all have long since passed this heavie Censure against Stage-playes that they are the very workes the pompes inventions and chiefe delights of the Divell which all Christians solemnly abjure in their baptisme the most pestilent corruptions of all mens especially young mens minds manners the chiefe fomenters of all vice and wickednesse the greatest enemies of all vertue grace and goodnesse the most mischievous plagues that can be harboured in any Church or State yea lewd infernall pastimes not tollerable among Heathens not sufferable in any well-ordered Christian Republike not once to be haunted or applauded by any civill vertuous persons who are either mindfull of their credits or of their owne salvation Which as it controlls the grosse mistake of divers voluptuous paganizing Christians in our dayes who dote on Stage-playes as the most laudable generous if not necessary recreations so it should now at last ingage all Christians for ever to abandon them as the very best of Saints of Pagans have done in former ages Alas what goodnesse what profit doe men reape from Stage-playes that should any way ingage their affection● to them Doe they not enrage their lusts adde fire and fewell to their unchast affections deprave their minds corrupt their manners cauterize their consciences obdurate their hearts multiply their heinous transgressions consume their estates mispend their time canker their graces blast all their vertues interrupt their studies indispose them to repentance and true godly sorrow for their sinnes make all Gods ordinances ineffectuall to their spirituall good draw downe the guilt of sundry Play-house abominations on their persons incorporate them into lewd ungodly company and without repentance damne their soules● Doe they not dishonour their most holy God abuse their most blessed Saviour sundry wayes blaspheame and grieve Gods holy spirit prophane the sacred Scriptures and the name of God deride and jeare religion holinesse vertue temperance grace goodnesse with all religious vertuous persons advance the Divels scepter service kingdome by sowing by cherishing the seedes of atheisme heathenisme prophanesse incontinency voluptuousnes idlenes yea of all kind of wickednes both in their Actors and Spectators hearts How many thousands have Stage-playes drawne on to sinne to lewdnesse to all sorts of vice and a● last sunke downe to hell with the weight of those prodigious evills which they had quite avoided had they not haunted Play-houses How many Novices and Youngsters have beene corrupted debauched and led away captive by the Divel by their owne outragious lusts by Panders Players Bawdes Adulteresses Whores and other lewd companions who had continued studious civill hopefull towardly and ingenious had they not resorted unto Stage-playes the originall causes of their dolefull ruine which bring no other benefit to their Actors their Spectators at the last but this to post them merrily on to hell with a greater loade of soule-condemning sinnes quasi vivendi sensum ad hoc tantum acceperant ut perirent as if they had received life for no other purpose but to worke out their owne eternall death which needes no other instruments to effect it than lewd lascivious Enterludes O therefore deare Brethren as you tender Gods honour● the publike welfare or your owne soules safety abominate these glittering gawdy pompous snares these sugered poysoned potions of the Divell by which he cunningly endeavours your destruction when as you least suspect it and if any of you have formerly frequented Stage-playes either out of childish vanity or injudicious ignorance of their oft-condemned mischievous lewd effects or through the over-pressing importunity of voluptuous carnall acquaintance or by reason of that popular erronious good opinion which our wicked times conceive of Stage-playes which humour them in their lusts or because such multitudes resort now daily to them that they carry one another headlong to these sinfull pleasures without any sense of danger or hopes of reformation be you henceforth truly penitent for what is past Quem delectaba● spectare delectet orare quem delectabant cantica nugatoria et adulterina delectet hymnum dicere Deo currere ad Ecclesiam qui primo currebat ad theatrum as St. Augustine sweetly councels and wholly abandon them for all future time And so much the rather that you may now at last falsifie that ignominious Censure which some English Writers in their printed Workes have passed upon Innes of Court Students of whom they record● That Innes of Court men were undone but for Players that they are their chiefest guests and imployment the sole busines that makes them afternoons men that this is one of the first things they learne as soone as they are admitted to see Stage-playes take smoke at a Play-house which they commonly make their Studie where they quickly learne to follow all fashions to drinke all Healths to weare favours and good cloathes to consort with ruffianly companions to sweare the biggest oaths to quarrell easily fight desperately game inordinately to spend their patrimony ere it fall to use gracefully some gestures of apish complement to talke irreligiously to dally with a Mistresse and hunt after harlots to prove altogether lawlesse in steed of Lawyers and to forget that little learning grace and vertue which they had before so that they grow at last pas● hopes of ever doing good either to the Church their Country their owne or others soules Which heavie Censure if any dissolute Play-haunters have justly occasioned heretofore to the dishonour of those famous Law-Societies wherein they live I hope