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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

premised reasons and Authorities against Stage-playes together with those severall soule-condemning wickednesses sinnes yea fearefull judgements in which they frequently involue their Actors and Spectators to remember that they are the very Devils snares his workes his pompes which they most solemnely renounced in their baptisme that they are the greatest the most pernicious corruptions both of their Actors their Spectators mindes and manners the onely Canker-wormes of their graces their vertues the chiefest incendiaries of their carnall lusts● the common occasions of much actuall lewdnesse sinne and wickednesse the principall obstacles of their sincere repentance the grand empoysoners of their soules and if we believe S. Augustine the mortiferous broad beaten way to Hell it selfe and everlasting death in which whole troopes of men run daily on unto destruction O then let all these all other fore-alleaged flexanimous considerations divorce you now from Stage-playes from Theaters which else will seperate you from your God and so engage your hearts your judgements your consciences against them as never to frequent them more upon any occasion or perswasion whatsoever You have heard and seene at large what Censures what Verdicts the Primitive Church both before and under the Law and Gospell the ancientest Christians Councels Fathers the best Ch●istian the best Pagan Nations Emperours Princes States Magistrates Writers both ancient and moderne have constantly have unanimously passed upon Stage-playes Theaters Players Play-haunters against whom Tertullian Cyprian Chrysostome Augustine Salvian and other Fathers with sundry moderne Authors have professedly written ample Volumes You have seene all ages all places all qualities and degrees of men Iewes and Gentiles Greekes and Barbarians Christians and Pagans Protestants and Papists yea Popes and Iesuits to concurring in their just damnation Be not O be not yee therefore wiser nay worser then all then any of these Play-condemning Worthies who have gone before you whose harmonious Play-confounding resolutions agreeable with the Scripture if Saint Bernard may be credited must binde you to renounce all Stage-playes in the very selfesame manner as if God himselfe had expresly commanded you to abandon them frequent not Playes which they abominated pleade not for Enterludes which they so seriously so abundantly condemned Let not that censure of holy Bernard be verified of you that you have now not onely lost the power of the ancient Christian Religion but even the very shew and outside to but as you are Christians in name in profession so bee you such in truth in practise And since it was the most notorious character of Christians heretofore to abominate to abandon Players Playes and Play-houses let it bee your honour your piety your practicall badge of Christianity to forsake them now that so imitating the Primitive Play-renouncing Christians in their holinesse you may at last participate with them in their eternall blisse And so much the rather let me admonish you to withdraw your selves from Playes and Play-houses because no ordinance of God can doe you any good or clense you from your sinnes whiles you resort to Theaters as I have largely proved heare but Saint Chrysostome once more to this purpose where speaking against mens and womens parling laughing and gazing about in Churches which hee severely censures he writes thus Nunquid theatrica sunt haec quae hîc geruntur opinor autem quod id Theatris debeamus Inobedientes enim multos nobis constituunt ineptos quae enim hîc extruuntur illic subvertuntur non hoc solum sed alias immunditias necesse est Theatri studiosis adhaerere Et perinde fit ac si quis campum velit purgare in quem fons lut● fluens ins●uat quantum enim purgaris tantum influit Hoc hîc fit quando enim purgamus à Theatro huc venientes immundiciam afferentes dum illuc iterum abeunt majorem contrahunt immundiciam quasi dedita opera sic vivant ut nobis negocium faciant iterum veniunt multo luto sordidati in moribus in gestibus in verbis in risu i● desidia Deinde iterum nos fodimus quasi dedita opera in hoc fodientes ut puros illos dimissos iterum videamus luto ac caeno inquinari You then who have beene constant Play-haunters besmeared with their filth and dung for divers yeeres together you who have spent your youth your manhood your best and chiefest dayes which you should have dedicated to God your honest callings and farre better things on Playes on Play-houses and such lascivious sports you who have cast away your money your estates on Players Playes Play-houses the very factors pompes and synagogues of the Devill wherewith you should have cherished Christs poore needy members You who have beene ancient Patriots Supporters of Actors or their Enterludes either by your purses or your presence drawing thereby upon your soules the guilt of many a fearefull unlamented sinne remember O remember that it is now more then time for you to clense your selves from these Augaean Stables with which you have beene too long defiled to renounce these cursed pompes of Satan which you have too long served to redeeme the short remainder of that most sacred time which you have too prodigally too sinfully consumed to take some speedy serious course for the mortifying of those soule-slaying ●leshly lusts which you have over-long fomented for the adorning the saving of those immortall soules which you have over-much neglected for the attoning of that holy God that blessed Saviour that sanctifying Spirit of grace which you have too highly too long provoked crucified grieved which you can never doe whiles you resort to Stage-playes And since the world the flesh the Devill have had your youth and strength let God be sure to enjoy your age whom you have sacrilegiously robbed of all the rest Alas all the time that you have already past in Play-haunting and such delights of sinne hath beene but a time of spirituall death wherein you have beene worse then nought in Gods account Ab eo enim tempore censemur ex quo in Christo renascimur as Saint Hierom truely writes and what other profit have you reaped from Playes or Play-houses Nisi quod senes magis onusti peccatorum fasce proficiscimini as the same Father speaks O therefore now at last before it be too late before death hath wounded you Heaven excluded you Hell devoured you repent of all your former Play-haunting with many a sob and teare abandoning all Playes all Play-houses for the future ut sic correcti atque in meliu● reformati qui admirati fuerant prius in Spectaculis insaniam nunc admirentur in moribus disciplinam You who are but young and newly entred into this dangerous course of Play-haunting you of whom I may say as Seneca once did of the Roman gentry Ostendam nobilissimos