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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

Bishop of Halberstat Comment in Isaiam cap 56 Coloniae 1531 pag 473. Comment in Ephes 5 v 3. The 59. is Remigius Bishop of Rheemes Explanatio in Epist ad Galatas c. 5 v 19 Bibl. Patrum Tom. 5 p. 756 G in Ephes 5 v. 3 p 970 A B. The 60. is Bruno Bishop of Herbipolis Expositio in Psal 118 v 37. Bibl. Patrum Tom. 11 p. 221 B. The 61. is Theophylact Archbishop of the Bulgarians Enarrat in Marc cap 6 in his Workes Basiliae 1570 p 89. Enar in Ephes c 5 p. 509 in 1 Tim 2 p 573 584. The 62. is Iuo Carnotensis Episcopus Decreta● Lovanij 1561 pars 1 c 207 pars 2 c 31 pars● c 77 pars 4 cap 8 162 166 167. pars 5 cap 370. pars 7 cap 110. pars 11 cap 7 16 64 76 to 85. The 63. is Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury Comment in Epist ad Ephe●●os l. 5 v 3● Tom 2. Operum Coloniae Agrip. 1612 p 285 C D. in Epist ad Philip c. 4 p 306 A. in 1 Tim c 3● p 356 C. The 64. is Honorius Augustodunensis De Antiquo ritu Missarum lib 3 cap 58. Bibl. Patrum Tom 12 pars 1 p 1069 E. where he stiles dancing and Stage-playes the very pompes of the Divell which we renounce in Baptisme The 65. is elegant St. Bernard Abbot of Clarevale Oratio ad Milites Templi cap 4. Opera Antwerpiae 1616 Col 832 L M. Epist 87 Col 1477 A. The 66. is Ranulphus Cirstrensis in his Polychronicon London 1527. Booke 3 cap 34 fol 131. The 67. is our famous Countrey-man Iohn Saresbery Episcopus Carnotensis in France De Nugis Curialiū l. 1 c. 4 5 7 8. l. 8 c 6 7. Bibl. Patr. Tō 15 p. 358 463 466. The 68. is Petrus Blesensis Archdeacon of Bathe Ep 14. Bibl. Patr. Tom 12. pars 2 p 714 B. Epist 76 p 761 E. Epist 85 p 769 E. The 69. is AElredus Abbot of Rivaulx in Yorkeshire Anno 1160. in his Speculum Charitatis lib 1 cap 26 p 95 G. lib. 2 c. 23 p 111 G H. l 3 c 12 p 118 A. and his Fragmentum conteining the memorable exhortation of King Edgar to his Bishops and Abbots Ibidem p. 144 A. The 70. is Gratian. Distinctio 33 34 48● 86. Edit● Parisijs 1531 fol● 56 58 78 130 139 140. Causa 4 Quaest 1 f. 260. de Consecratione Distinctio 2 fol 663. The 71. is Pope Innocent the 3. Decretal Constitutionum lib. 3 Tit. 1 Constit. 3. Operum Coloniae Agrip. 1606 Tom. 2 p 713 714. These 7● eminent ancient Fathers and Writers in these their recited works to which I might adde Iustinian that famous Christian Emperour in his forequoted ●awes and workes have constantly even from our Saviours death till the yeare 1200. abundantly oppugned censured and condemned not onely Sword-playes Cirque-playes and Amphitheatricall bloudy Spectacles but even Stage-playes themselves as diabolicall heathenish sinfull lewd ungodly Spectacles not sufferable among Christians condemning withall not onely the acting but even the beholding of such lascivious filthy and contagious Enterludes the seminaries of all those prodigious execrable wicked effects which I have more fully anatomized in the p●ecedent Acts. And if all these worthy ancient Fathers did thus abominate oppugne the Stag●-playes Actors and Play-haunters of their times ô how would they censure and abhorre the scurrilous obscene blasphemous impious Playes and Players of our age which are farre more execrable prophane and lewd than the very worst in former dayes From these authorities therefore thus recited I shall frame this 49. invincible Argument against Stage playes That which 71 severall Fathers and eminent ancient Writers of the Church have constantly professedly condemned as sinfull and abominable in these their recited workes must certainly be desperately sinfull unseemely unlawfull unto Christians intollerable in any Christian Commonweale But these 71 severall Fathers and eminent ancient Writers of the Church have thus constantly● professedly condemned Stage-playes and Stage-Players in these their recited workes Therefore they must certainly be desperately sinfull unseemely unlawfull unto Christians intollerable in any Christian Commonweale The Minor is evident by the premises the Major I dare challenge the most impudent Player or Play-patron to denie For what man what Christian is there so peremptorily audacious so unchristianly immodest so erroniously schismaticall as to controll and quite reject the unanimous resolutions of so many reverend pious incomparably learned Fathers whose Play-condemning censures seconded by the definitive sentence of the whole primitive Church both under the Law and Gospell not onely challenge our reverend respect but our subscription too We are all exceeding ready in matters of faith to give credit to Councels to the renowned Fathers and ancient Writers especially where all or many of them concurre and shall we then reject and undervalue them here in the case of Stage-playes in which they all accord without the least dissent Never I dare positively affirme it did Fathers Councels and Writers of all sorts all ages more plentifully more unanimously accord in passing sentence against any abuse or wickednesse whatsoever then in censuring in condemning Stage-playes as the precedent and subsequent Scenes will evidence and shall we then desert them where they all concord Could Players Play-haunters or lewd lascivious persons finde out but one Councell one Father or two to countenance Stage-playes dancing dicing Health-quaffing face-painting Love-lockes or their strange fantastique habits and disguises they would so hugge it so adore it that neither the lawes of God or man the authorities of Christ his Prophets and Apostles the concurring resolutions of all other Fathers Councels or Writers to the contrary should be able to convince them that these things are evill so pertinaciously doe men adhere not onely to their opinions but their errors too who justifie or foment their vices in the least degree And shall not then the uncontrolled authority of all the precedent Christian Councels and Fathers be much more prevalent to withdraw them from pernicious Stage-playes with other oft condemned vanities which have not so much as one Father one Councell to defend them shall men beleeve yea sometimes preferre the Fathers before the Scriptures where they seeme to give any countenance to their errours or superstitions and yet reject them where they all unanimously condemne their sinfull pleasures O let us not so farre undervalue these their pious judicious unanimous resolutions against Stageplayes and Actors as still to magnifie frequent or patronize them in despite of all these their determinations but let us joyne hearts and hands and pens and judgements yea and our practise with them passing the very selfesame doome on Players on Stage-playes as they all have done before us for feare their pious resolutions prove so many unavoidable endictments of condemnation against us at the last We

this dissolute and vnruly age For first the Scriptures doe positiuely informe vs that Righteousnesse● hath no fellowship with Vnrighteousnesse nor Light with Darkenesse that Christ hath no co●cord with Belial that he that beleeueth hath no part nor portion with an Infidell that the Temple of God hath no agreement wi●h Id●les and that we cannot drinke the cup of the Lord and the cup of De●ils nor be partakers of the Lords table and of the table of Deuils If then Christ if Christians and Infidels haue no communion great reason is it that they should not intercommon in these Heathenish Spectacles and delights of sinne Secondly all Christians haue vowed in their Baptisme to forsake the Deuill and all his workes the Pompes and Vaniti●s of this wicked world and all the sinfull lustes of the flesh and haue they any reason then to harbour or retaine the Ceremonies of Worldlings or Enterludes of Pagans which they haue thus seriously renounced Thirdly all true and reall Christians are Redeemed by the red and precious blood of Iesus Christ from the ordinances rudiments and customes of the world from their vaine conuersation receiued by tradition from their Fathers they are purchased from off the earth and from among the sonnes of men they are ransomed and taken out of this World and made m●n of another world that so they might haue their whole conuersation with God in Heauen and walke on in all holy conuersation and godlinesse seruing God in holinesse and true Righteousnesse all the dayes of their liues Christ Iesus himselfe hath bought them at the dearest rate for this very end that they should no longer liue to the world or to the will and lusts of men but vnto him alone that they should cast off the workes of Darkenesse and put on the armor of Light that they should not hencefoorth walke as other Gentiles in the vanitie of their mindes following the desires of the flesh and of the minde giuing themselues ouer to Lasciuiousnesse and vncleannesse that the time past of their liues might suffice them to haue wrought the will of the Gentiles when as they walked in Lasciuiousnesse Lusts Reuellings Banquetings and abominable idolatries that they should now denie vngodlinesse and worldly lusts and walke soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for the blessed comming and appearance of their Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ that they should not hencefoorth walke according to the course of this world according to the power of the Prince of the ayre which now worketh in the children of disobedience but that they should be pure and vndefiled before God keeping themselues vnspotted from the World Since therefore Ie●us Christ ha●h thus Redeemed all Christians from the World and all i●s Pagan customes pleasures ceremonies and delights of sinne that so they might be holy and blamelesse before him in loue and become a peculiar people to him Zealous of good workes great reason is there that they should abominate all Pagan practises Enterludes and Ceremonies as vnlawfull and misbeseeming Christians else they should but euacuate and make voyde vnto themselues the death of Christ yea trample vnder feete his precious blood and put him vnto open shame And would any Christian be so ingratefull so dispitefull to his blessed Sauiour whose bleeding wounds doe preach Saluation to his fiercest enemies as thus to wrong and shame him Fourthly mans nature is exceeding prone to Paganisme and Heathenish superstition as is euident not onely by the frequent Apostasies of the Israelites to grosse Idolatrie recorded in the Scriptures but likewise by that generall deluge of Heathenisme Mahometisme and hideous Idolatrie which now and alwayes heretofore hath ouerspred the greatest part of all the world God therefore out of his Fatherly care and compassi●n ●o his Children to anticipate all occasions which might withdraw them from him to Idolatrie doeth oft times prohibit them to imitate the Fashions Customes Vanities Habites Rites or Ceremonies of Infidels and Heathen Gentiles for feare lest one thing should draw on another by degrees till they were quite Ap●statized to Idolatrie and seduced from the Faith Whereupon Saint Augustine exh●rts all Christians to prohibit the vse of all diabolicall Enterludes Vacillations and songs of the Gentiles and that no Christian should exercise any of these because by this he is made a Pagan Since therefore the imitation of Pagan customes pleasures and delights are but so many ingredients and allectiues to Paganisme and grosse Idolatrie and since they alienate or at least in some degree disioyne our affections from God and heauenly things there is ground and cause enough that Christians should reiect them as sinfull and pernicious So that vpon all these authorities and reasons the force of which no pious heart is euer able to withstand I may safely conclude this second Scaene with this short Corollary That Stage-Playes are sinfull vnseemely pernicious and vnlawfull at least wise vnto Christians because they were the inuentions ceremonies and pastimes of Idolatrous Infidels and the most Licentious Heathens who were no other but the Deuils Purueyers whom Christians must not imitate ACTVS SECVNDVS SEcondly as Stage-Playes are thus sinfull vnseemely pernicious and vnlawfull vnto Christians in regard of their originall and primitiue Inuentors so likewise are they such in respect of those Idolatrous vnwarrantable and Vnchristian ends to which they were destinated and designed at the first The chiefe and primarie end of inuenting instituting or personating Stage-Playes was the superstitious worship or at least wise the pacification or attonement of Iupiter Bacchus Neptune the Muses Flora Apollo Diana Venus Victoria or some such Deuill-gods or Goddesses which the Idolatrous Pagans did adore to whose honour names and memories these Playes which were alwayes Acted and celebrated heretofore as the insuing Authours testifie on those Festiuall and Solemne dayes which were dedicated to the speciall seruice and commemoration of these Idoles were at first deuoted That Stage-Playes yea and Theaters or Play-houses too were primarily inuented for the honour and Dedicated to the seruice or at least-wise oft times Celebrated in times of Pestilence to appease the anger of these Idole-Gods whose Images and Pictures were carried about and represented in them wee haue the expresse authorities not onely of Plutarch in the life O● Romulus and Romanae Quaest. Quaest. 107. of Dionysius Hallicarnasseus Antiq. Roman lib. 2. cap. 3.5 lib. 7. cap. 9. Of Valerius Maximus lib. 2. cap. 4. Of Thucidides Hist. lib. 3. Of Liuie Rom. Hist. lib. 2. Sect. 36. l. 1. Sect. 9.20 l. 7. Sect. 2.3 l. 26. Sect. 23. lib. 5. Sect. 1. lib. 42. Sect. 20. Of Demosthenes Orat. aduersus Midi●m Of Horace De Arte Poetica lib. Of Athenaeus Dipnos lib. 2. cap. 1. Diodorus Siculus Histor. lib. 17. Sect. 16. with sundry other Pagan Authors but likewise of Tatianus Oratio aduersus

of their Husbands and Husbands of their Wives so that every way from foure of the clocke in the afternoone till nine at night especially over London-bridge many were carried in chaires and led betwixt their friends and so brought home to their houses with sorrowfull heavy hearts like lame Cripples A just though terrible judgement of God upon these Play-haunters and prophaners of his holy day the originall relator of which doth thus conclude And therefore for a conclusion I beseech all Magistrates by the mercies of God in Iesus Christ that by this occasion and example they take good heed to looke to the people committed to their charge that they take order especially on the Sabbath dayes that no Citizen or Citizens servants have liberty to repaire to any of those abused places and that they keepe their stragling wantons in that they may be better occupied And as they have with good commendation so farre prevailed that upon Sabbath dayes these Heathenish Enterludes and Playes are banished so it will please them to follow the matter still that they may be utterly rid and taken away For surely it is to be feared besides the destruction of body and soule that many are brought unto by frequenting the Theater and Curtin● that one day these places will likewise bee cast downe by God himselfe and draw with them an huge heape of such contemners and prophane persons to be killed and spoyled in their bodies Neither was he a false prophet altogether For in the yeere of our Lord 1607. at a Towne in Bedford-shire called Risley the fl●ore of a chamber wherein many were gathered together to see a Stage-play on the Sabbath day fell downe by meanes whereof divers were sore hurt and some killed If these domestique examples together with that of Thales the Philosopher who was smothered and pressed to death at a Play will not move us let us cast our eyes upon some forraigne Tragedies of this nature I read in Munster his Cosmography that about the yeere of our Lord 1380. Lodovicke a Marquis of Nisina a man not very religious was made Arch-bishop of Magdeburge who thereupon invited many Gentlemen and others together with their Wives and Daughters into a Towne called Calven to feast and make merry with him who came accordingly The Bishop for their better entertainement provided the Towne-hall for them to dance in they being much addicted to dancing and singing and to act other vanities and whiles they were busily turning dancing and playing and every one danced merrily at the hands of their Ladies the house being oppressed with the great weight began to sinke giving a great cracke before The Arch-bishop taking the Lady who stood next him by the hand hastned to goe downe the staires with the first and as soone as he begun to goe downe the stony staires being loose before fell downe and miserably crusht to death the Arch-bishop and his consort with divers others It is storied by Froyssart in his Chronicle and by some others since that in the Raigne of Charles the sixt in the yeere of our Lord 1392. at a marriage made in the Kings Court at the hostle of Saint Pauls in Paris betweene Sir Yvan of Foiz Bastard Sonne to the Earle of Foiz and one of the Queene of Erance her Gentlewomen the Tuesday before Candlemas day A Squire of Normandy called Hogrymen of Gensay provided for a Play or Mummery against night● for which purpose he had devised 6. Coates made of Linnen cloth covered with Pitch and thereon cloth and flax like haire and had them ready in a Chamber The King himselfe put on one of these Coates the Earle of Iovy a yong lusty Knight another Sir Charles of Poytiers the third Sir Yvan of Foiz another the Son of the Lord Lanthorillet had on the fift and the Squire himselfe put on the sixt Being thus apparelled and sowed fast on these Coates which made them soone like wilde wode-houses the King upon the advice of Sir Yvan of Foiz commanded an Vsher of his Chamber to enioyne all the Torch-bearers in the Hall where the Ladies were dancing to stand close to the wall and not to come neere the wode-houses for feare of setting them on fire which he did accordingly Soone after the Duke of Orleance who knew nothing of the Mummery or the Kings command entred into the Hall with foure Knights and sixe Torches to behold the dancing and begun himselfe to dance Therewith the King and the fiue other Masquers came in in these their disguises fiue of them being fastned one to the other the King onely being loose who went before and led the device When they entred the Hall every one tooke so great heed to them that they forgate the Torches The King departing from his company went to the Ladies to sport with them as youth required and came to the Dutches of Berry who tooke hold of him to know what hee was but he would not shew his name The Duke of Orleance running to the other fiue to d●scover who they were put one of the Torches his servants held so neere the flax that he set one of the Coates on fire and so each of them set fire on the other so that they were all in a bright flame the fire taking hold of the living Coates their shirts began to scorch their bodies so that they began to bren and to cry out for helpe The fire was so great that none durst come neere them and those that did brent their hands by reason of the heate of the pitch One of them called Manthorillet fled into the Botry and cast himselfe into a vessell of water where they rynsed pots and so saved his life by quenching the fire but yet hee was sore hurt The Countesse o● Berry with her long loose Gowne covered the King and so saved him from the fire two of the other were burnt to death in the place the Bastard of Foiz and the Earle of Iovy were carried to their lodgings and there died within two dayes after in great paine and misery Thus was this Comedy turned into a dolefull Tragedy The King though he escaped was much distracted in minde and his servants distressed with griefe at this unhappy accident so that he could not sleepe quiet that night The next day these newes being spred abroad in the City and every man marveling at it some said how God had sent that token for an ensample and that it was wisedome for the King to regard it and to withdraw himselfe from such yong idle wantonnesse● which he had used overmuch being a King All Lords and Ladies thorow the Realme of France and elsewhere that heard of this chance had great marvai●e thereof Pope Boniface being at Rome with his Cardinals reioyced at it and said that it was a token sent from God to to the Realme of France which had taken part against him Sure I am it was a just judgement of God to teach