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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

vaine at best Wha● are they but meere miscelanies of over-studied well-expressed vanities Their subiect their action their circumstances what else are they but vanitie of vanities but ridiculous follies or frensies in the highest degree unworthy of a wise-mans sight much lesse his approbation Their Actors their ordinary Spectators what are they but ridiculous foolish vaine fantasticke persons who delight in nothing more then toyes and vanities Their very fruits their ends what are they else but either the nourishing or the increase of sinne and vanitie If we survay the good the profit which accrues from Stage-playes we shall find that they are good for naught that they bring no glory at all to God no benefit no comfort unto men therefore they must needs be vaine If we respect Gods glory where shall we finde God more dishonoured more provoked then in Stage-playes which had the Divell himselfe for their author subject and composer who proves sometimes their Actor too Where are Gods Name his Word his Attributes his Ministers his Saints his Substitutes his Children his Wor●hip his Graces more blasphemed prophaned traduced or derided then in Stage-playes Where is God more offended more affronted with swarmes of crying sinnes then in the Play-house And how can it bee otherwise We know it was the received opinion of the ancient Pagans that their Devill-Idols to whose solemne honour and worship all Stage-playes were at first devoted were so well pleased with these Theatricall Enterludes that if they did but honour and adore them with them they would forthwith pardon yea forget their sinnes against them and of enemies become propitious kinde and friendly to them And can any Christian then conceive such base conceits of God or so farre derogate from his Majestie his purity his Deitie as to deeme him honoured or delighted not grieved not offended with such Stage-playes wherewith Devill-Idols were attoned Doubtlesse that which the Devill himselfe hath invented appropriated to his owne honour and advantage can never bring any praise or glory unto God therefore our Stage-playes cannot doe it If we reflect upon the good they bring to men alas what is it Where doe they sucke in more poyson more corruption where doe they mere blunt their virtues or make greater shipwracke of all their Christian graces then a● Stage-playes the grand-empoysoners of mens soules I have knowne heard and read of thousands who have wrackt their credits their estates their virtues yea their very bodies and soules at Playes at Play-houses but never could I yet heare or read of any who have beene meliorated or reclaimed by them I have read of sundry pestiserous ●ff●cts and sinfull fruits of Stage-playes of which you shall heare at large heereafter but never could I finde in all the Fathers in any mod●rne Writers so much as any one necessary virtue grace or reall benefit that hath resulted from them I have read of divers Republicks Emperours Magistrates and Authors of all sorts who have suppressed Stage-playes as intollerable evils in a Christian or well-ordered Common-weale they being the Seminaries of all kinde of vices the chiefe corrupters of mens minds and manners But never could I meet with any who affirmed them to be good or use●ull in a State Since therefore it is evide●t by all the premises that Stage-playes in their best condition are but meere Nugatorie ridiculous superf●uous van ties which lead● to serious evils and bring no glory at all to God nor good to men we may conclude them to be not onely incongruous but unlawfull unto Christians who must not cast their eyes upon the vanities of this wicked world since Christ himselfe hath crucified them in his flesh that we for ever might abandon them You have seene now Christian Readers the common stile and subject matter of popular Stage-playes and I dare confidently averre that there is scarce one Stage-play this day acted our moderne Playes being farre more lewd then those of former times whose subiect parts and pass●ges are not reducible to all to some or one at least of these recited particulars therfore we must needs passe sentence of condemnation against them even in this respect ACTVS 4. SCENA PRIMA FOurthly as Stage playes are sinfull and utterly unlawfull unto Christians in regard of their stile and subiect matter so likewise are they in respect both of their Actors and Spectators If we seriously survay the lives the practises the conditions of our common Stage-players we may truely write of them as William of Malmesbury doth of Edricke that they are the very dregs of men the shame the blemish of our English Nation ungracious helluoes craf●y shifting companions who purchase money not by their generositie but by their tongues and impudency they being wise to dissemble apt to counterfeit prone to dive into the secrets both of King State as faithfull subjects and more ready to divulge them on the Stage as notorious-Traitors What Tully records of Catiline that there was never so great a faculty of corrupting youth in any man as in him he bearing a most lewd affection to other mens wives himselfe and serving likewise as a most wicked Pand●r to the unchaste desires of others promising to some the fruite of their lusts to others the death of their Parents not onely by instigating but likewise by assisting them Or what a grave historian reports of Vortiger a British King that he was prone to the enticements of the flesh and a bond-slave almost to every vice c. May be truely verefied of most common Actors who are usually the very filth and off-scouring the very lewdest basest worst and most perniciou●ly vitious of the sonnes of men as all times all Authors have reputed them The ancient Pagan Romans as histories as Fathers both relate accounted Stage-players such infamous vitious base vnworthy persons as they did by publicke Edicts not o●ely deprive them of all honour and preferment in the Common-weale but likewise disfranchise and remove them from their tribe as degenerating from that Roman stocke and noble parentage from which they were descended The ancient Councels Fathers and Christians in the Primitive Church did ipso facto excommunicate all Stage-players till they had utterly renounced relinquished their diabolicall profession reputing them the very pollution● shame and blemish of the Church The very depravers and destroyers of youth the very instruments of sinne and Satan yea such accursed miscreants as were altogether unworthy both of the Society of Christians and of th●se blessed Sacraments those holy Ordinances of the Lord which are not to be given to such unholy dogs nor cast before such filthy swine as they Plato Aristotle the Massillienses with sundry Christian yea Pagan States and Emperours as I shall prove hereafter exiled all professed Stage-players out of their Common-weales as the Iewes and Primitive Christians excluded them from the Church Needs

upon their gates that so they might meditate and discourse of them day and night upon all occasions But alas our Stage-playes incorporate themselves so firmely and sinke so deepe into our Actors and Play-h●●nters mindes that they quite invert these sacred precepts suppressing those heavenly Christian conferences which they command reviving and advancing those vaine lascivious discourses which they prohibite This the fore-quoted Authors this present experience testifie Wherefore I shall end this Scene with this short Syllogisme being a 37. Argument against Stage-playes Those things which banish all holy conferences all pious discourses out of their Actors and Spectators mouthes and furnish them with all variety of idle vaine unprofitable lascivious scurrilous prophane atheisticall irreligious phrases Play-house conferences and Stage-discourses must questionlesse bee unlawfull yea abominable unto Christians as the alleadged Scriptures testifie But this doe Stage-playes as the premises and experience manifest Therefore they must questionlesse bee unlawfull yea abominable unto Christians SCENA DVODECIMA THe twelfe effect of Stage-playes is this That they wholy indispose their Actors and Spectators to all religious duties that they withdraw and keepe them from Gods service that they bring the Word the worship yea all the ordinances of God into contempt making them vaine and ineffectuall to their soules First I say that Stage-playes in●ispose men to the acceptable performance of every religious duty be it prayer hearing and reading of Gods Word receiving the Sacraments and the like This sundry Fathers fully testifie and I would to God all Christians would well weigh their words which much concerne their soules in the very maine of Christianity to wit Gods worship and their vow in baptisme Tertullian informes us That Stage-playes defile the eyes the ●ares the soule● of the Spectators and make them to appeare polluted in Gods sight That none of the things deputed unto Stage-playes are pleasing unto God or beseeming the servants of God because they were all instituted for the D●vill and furnished out of the De●ils treasury● for every thing that is not of God or displeasing unto God is of the Devill Stage-playes they are the pompe of the Devill against which we have protested in the seale of our faith That therefore which we renounce we ought not to participate of neither in deed nor word nor sight now view And doe we not then reno●nce and teare off the seale againe in cutting off the testimoniall of it Shall we then desire an answer from the very Heathens themselves Shall they resolve us whether it be lawfull for Christians to use Stage-playes But verily they most of all discerne a man to be a Christian even from this renouncing of Stage-playes he therefore doth manifestly deny himselfe to be a Christian who takes away this badge by which he should be knowne to be a Christian. Now what hope is there remaining in such a one No man hath revolted unto the enemies Tents unlesse he first cast away his armes unlesse he hath first forsaken the colours and allegeance of his Princ● unlesse he hath covenanted to perish together with them Will ●e thinke earnestly of God at that time who is placed where there is nothing at all of God will he thorowly learne chastity who admires Stage-playes will he call to minde the exclamations● of some prophet whiles the Tragedians are crying out will he m●ditate of a Psalme who ●its amidest effeminating measures or can he be moved with compassion who is wholy intent upon the biting of Beares and the spunges of retiaries God turne away from all his so great a desire of pernicious pleasure For what a desperate wicked thing is it for a man to goe out of the Church of God into the Chappell of the Devill out of Heaven as they say into the mire and clay those hands which thou hast lifted up unto the Lord in prayer to weary afterwards in applauding a Stage-player out out of the same mouth with which thou hast uttered Amen to the holy one to give testimony to a Sword-player or to say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for ever and ever to any one but to God Christ Why then may not such become liable to the possession of D●vils c For no man can serve two Maisters What hath light to doe with darkenesse What relation hath life to death we ought to hate these assemblies of Pagans even because the Name of God is there bla●phemed and because divers temptations are sent out from thence How wilt thou doe being deprehended at unawares in that over-flowing of impious suffrages not as though thou shouldest there suffer any thing from men for no man knoweth thee to be a Christian but consider seriously what may be done concerning thee in Heaven For do●t thou do●bt but that in the very moment when as thou art in the church of the Devill all the Angels looke downe from Heaven and take speciall notice of every one there present observing who he is that speakes blasphemy who that heares i● who it is that lends his tongue his eares to the Devill against God Wilt thou not therefore flie these seates o● the enemies of Chri●t this pestilentiall chaire and that very aire which hangs over it adulterated with wicked words and sounds c Thus he whose words sufficiently testifie that Stage-playes indispose men to all religious duties because they defile their eyes their eares their hands their soules they being the pompes the inventions of the Devill which are incompatible with Christianity because they teare of the very seale and cognisance of their Christianity and wholy inthrall them to the Devils vassalage Saint Cyprian writes thus of Stage-playes to the selfesame purpose What hath the Scripture interdicted V●rily it hath prohibited that to be behold which it inhibiteth to be acted I say it hath condemned all these kindes of spectacles when as it hath taken away Idolatry the mother of all Playes from whence these Monsters of vanity and le●ity have proceeded For what spectacle is there without an Idoll what Play without a sacrifice c What doth a faithful Christian make among these if he flieth Idolatry why doth he speake it he who is now holy can he r●●p● pleasure from criminous things Why approves he super●t●tions against God which he affecteth whiles that he beholds them But let him know that all these are the inventions of Devils not of God He impudently exorcizeth Devils in the Church whose pleasures ●e applaudes in Stage-playes and when as by renouncing him once every thing of his was pared off in Baptisme whiles that after Christ I pray observe it all you Christians who resort to Stage-playes he resorteth to the spectacles of the Devill he renounceth Christ as if he were a Devill Idolatry as I have already said is the Mother of all Playes which that it may allure faithfull Christians to it flatters them with the pleasure of the eyes and eares Romulus did first

to bow head legge knee or any part of the body unto them as all those do● pray marke it that say with good conscience they may bee suffred in the Church of Christ c. Seeing th●n there is no Cōmandement in any of both Testaments to have Images but as you see the contrary and also the universall Catholike and holy Church never used Images as the writings of the Apostles and Prophets testifie it is but an Ethnike v●rity and Gentile Idolatry to say God and his Saints be honoured in them when as all Histories testifi● that in manner ●or th● space of 500. yeeres after Christs Ascention when the doctrine of the Gospell was most sincerely preached was 〈◊〉 Image used c. Therefore S. Ioh● biddeth us not onely beware of honouring of Images but of the Images themselves Thou shalt finde the originall of Images in no place of Gods Word but in the writings of the Gentiles and Infidels or in such that more followed their owne opinion and superstitious imaginations than the authority of Gods Word Herodorus saith that the AEgyptians were the first that made Images to represent their gods And as the Gentiles ●ashioned their gods with what figures they lusted so doe the Christians To declare God to be strong they made ●im in the forme of a Lion to be vigilant diligent in the forme of a Dog c. So doe they that would be accounted Christians paint God and his Saints with such pictures as they imagine in their fantasies God like an old man w●th a ●orie head as ●hough his youth were past which hath neither beginning nor ending c. No difference at all bet●eene a Christian man and Gentile in this Idolatry saving onely the name For they thought not their Images to be God but supposed that their Gods would be honoured that wayes as the Christians doe I write these things rather in contempt and hatred of this abominable Idolatry then to learne any Eng●ishman the truth c. The third part declareth that it is no n●ed to shew God unto us by Images and proveth the same with 3. reasons First I am the Lord thy God that loveth thee helpeth thee defendeth thee is present with thee be●ieve and love m● so shalt thou have no need to seeke me and my favourable presence in any Image The second reason I am a jealous God and cannot suffer thee to love any thing but in me and for me I cannot suffer to be otherwise honoured than I have taught in my Tables and Testament The 3. reason is that God revengeth the prophanation of his Divine Majesty if it be trans●ribed to any creature or Image and that not only in him that committeth the Idolatry but also in his posterity in the third and fourth generation if they follow their Fathers Idolatry Then to avoyd the ire of God and to obtaine his favour we must use no Image to honor him with all Gods Lawes expulseth and putteth Images out of the Church then no mans lawes should bring them in All which he thus seconds in his briefe and cleare Confession of the Christian Faith in an 10● Articles according to the Order of the Creed of the Apostles London 1581. Artic. 79. 87. I believe write● he that to the Magistrate it doth appertaine not onely to have regard unto the Common-wealth but also unto Ecclesiasticall matters to take away and to overthrow all Idolatry and false serving of God and to advance the Kingdome of Christ to cause the Word of the Gospell every where to be preached and the same to maintaine unto death to chasten also and to punish the false pro●hets which leade the poore people after Idols and strange gods c. I believe also that the beginning of all Idolatry was the finding out and invention of Images which a●so were made to the great offence of the soules of men and are as snares and traps for the feete of the ignorant to make them to ●all Therefore they ought not to bee honoured served worshipped neither to be suffred in the Temples or Churches where Christian people doe meet together to heare and understand the Word of God b●t rather th● same ought utterly to bee taken away and throwne downe according to the effect of the 2. Comma●dement of God and that ought to be done ●y the common authority of the Magistrate and not by the private authority of every particular man For the wood of the Gallowes whereby justice is done is blessed of God but the Image made by mans hand is accursed of the Lord and so is he that made it And therefore we ought to beware of Images above all things This was this Godly Martyrs faith concerning Images this was the faith and doctrine of all our pious Martyrs and Prelates in King Henry the 8. King Edward the 6. Queene Maries and Queene Elizabeths Raignes this is the authorized doctrine both of the Articles and Homilies of our Church which every English Minister now subscribes to and is enjoyned for to teach the people as the undoubted truth Yea this was one of the Articles propounded by Doctor Chambers to which the reverend Bishop Iewell and all other yong Protestant Students in both our Vniversities subscribed in Edward the 6. and Queene Maries Raigne Imagines simulachra non esse in Templis habenda ●osque gloriam Dei imminuere qui vel fuderint vel fabricati fu●rint vel finxerint vel pinxerint vel fabricanda facienda locarint as Doctor Humfries De Vita Morte Iuelli pag. 43. informes us which I wish our moderne Innovators and Patrons of Images would remember Horace his censure of Playes Players p. 370.452 711 834. Hybristica sacra how solemnized p. 204. Hylas the Player whipped p. 459. Hypocrisie a necessary concomit●nt of acting Playes and a damnable sinne pag. 156. to 161. 876. 877. Christ his Apostles the primitive and moderne Christians unjustly taxed of it p. 816. to 821. Hypocrites and Players the same p. 158. 159. 876. Hypolitus his censure of Stage-playes and lascivious Songs f. 565.566 I King Iames his Statute against prophaning Scripture and Gods Name in Playes p. 109.110 his Statutes make Players Rogues and Playes unlawfull pastimes pag. 495.496 expresly condemned the making of God the Fathers Image or Picture p. 901. Iason the first introducer of Heathenish Playes among the Iewes p. 548.549 550 552 553. Ianus the author of New-yeeres gifts c. See Kalends and New-yeeres gifts Idlenesse a dangerous mischievous sinne occasioned fomented by Stage-playes p. 141.471 501 to 504.909 947 951. to 956.480 1002. Idols and Devils parts and stories unlawfull to be acted their Images shapes and representations not to be made p. 75. to 106.141 176 177 f. 550.551 552. pag. 547.865 866 890. to 904. The mentioning of their names and imprecations adjurations or exclamations by them unlawfull p. 32.33 36 77. to 89.891 925. Things originally consecrated to them unlawfull pag. 28. to 42.81 to 90. Stage-playes invented