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A57291	The stage condemn'd, and the encouragement given to the immoralities and profaneness of the theatre, by the English schools, universities and pulpits, censur'd King Charles I Sundays mask and declaration for sports and pastimes on the Sabbath, largely related and animadverted upon : the arguments of all the authors that have writ in defence of the stage against Mr. Collier, consider'd, and the sense of the fathers, councils, antient philosophers and poets, and of the Greek and Roman States, and of the first Christian Emperours concerning drama, faithfully deliver'd : together with the censure of the English state and of the several antient and modern divines of the Church of England upon the stage, and remarks on diverse late plays : as also on those presented by the two universities to King Charles I.	Ridpath, George, d. 1726.	1698 (1698)	Wing R1468; ESTC R17141	128,520	226

Girls thus The Syracusian entred like Bacchus with Pipe before him playing a rioting Tune The● Entred Ariadne gorgeously apparrel'd like a Brid● and sat down before the Company She 〈◊〉 not go to meet Bacchus as a dancing nor ro●● from her Seat but made such Signs as discover'd he might have an easie Conquest Whe● Bacchus beheld her he expressed his Passion as much as possible in his Dance and drawing near her fell down on his Knees embraced an● kissed her she tho' with some faint resemblance of Coyness and Modesty embraced him again At this the Spectators gave shouts of Applause Then Bacchus rose up and taking Ariadne with him there was nothing to be seen but Hugging and Kissing The Spectators perceiving that both of them were Handsom and that they kissed and embraced in good Earnest they be held them with great Attention and hearing Bacchus ask her If she lov'd him and she affirming with an Oath that she did The whole Audience swore That the Boy and the Girl lov'd one another in Reality for they did not Act like those who had been taught only to persona●● those Gestures but like such as had a mind to perform that which they had of a long time earnestly desir'd At last when the Company perceived that they were clasped in one anothers Arms. Those that had no Wives swore they would Marry and those that were Married took Horse and went Home to their Wives immediately CAP. X. The English State against the STAGE THE Author of The Defence of Dramamatick Poetry endeavours in the next place to ward of the Blow given to the Stage by English Statutes and alledges that the 〈◊〉 of Ia●● was but a Temporary Act to hold in ●orce but that Sessions of Parliament Which by 〈◊〉 leave is a mistake the Words being That it ●●ould continue to the end of the next Parliament And it was afterwards continued again by the 3d of Car. Cap. 4. to the end of the 1st Session of the ●ext Parliament And I must also here take leave to tell him that Mr. Prin who it 's suppos'd understood the ●aw as well as he was of Opinion that the Stage-Players might have been punished in the Year 1633. by Vertue of that Act which was many Years after the 1st of Iames. But be that how it will thus much we have ●●n'd at least That Stage-Players were declared ●o be Rogues and Vagabonds by the three Estates of England met in Parliament and ordered to be ●ent to the House of Correction to be Imprisoned 〈◊〉 on the Stocks and Whip'd and if they continued 〈◊〉 Play notwithstanding that they should be burnt 〈◊〉 an Hot Iron of the breadth of an English S●●lling with a great Roman R in the le●t Shoul●er which should there remain as a perpetual Mark of a Rogue If they still continued Obstinate they were to be Banished and if they return'd ag●● and continued incorrigible they were to be exe●●ted as Felons This is the more remarkable that by this Act the Licenses allowed to be giv'n by Peers 〈◊〉 Players of Interludes by the 39th of Eliz. were taken away and no reserve made for any Play●●● whatever and the occasion of the making this Act was the doubts that arose upon the 39th 〈◊〉 Eliz. and that former Statutes were not so e●●●●tual for suppressing those Plays and Interludes ●s was expected Our Author in the next place seems to call 〈◊〉 Question the Truth of that Petition of the Lo●doners to Q. Elizabeth about 1580 for suppressing the Playhouses Makes some Raileries upo● Mr. Collier for Rawlidge his Author because 〈◊〉 known to the Booksellers in St. Paul's Church Yard or Little-Brittain makes himself Spo●● with the Godly Citizens that were the Petitioners quotes Stow to prove that Queen Elizabeth e●couraged the Darlings of the Stage allowed the● Liveries and Wages as Grooms of the Chamber and insinuates that the Playhouses mentioned i● the Petition were only Gaming-Houses I answer That Mr. Prin from whom I suppose Mr. Collier had the Account of this Petition quotes as his Author Mr. Richard Rawlidge 〈◊〉 Monster lately found out Printed in London 1628. p. 2 3 4. Which though it may perhaps 〈◊〉 hard to be met with it does not therefore arg●● that there never was any such Author an● because Mr. Collier has been somewhat desecti●● in his Quotation here our Author may be ple●sed to know that Rawlidge says in the same place That all the Play-houses within the City we●e Pull'd down by Order of Her Majesty and Co●●cil upon this Petition viz. One in Grace-Churc● Street one in Bishops-Gate-Street one near Pauls one on Ludgate-Hill and one in White-Friers As to the Favour shew'd afterwards to some of the Stage Players by Queen Elizabeth it argues only a Change at Court but says nothing for the Lawful●ess of the Stage K. Charles ● who there 's no doubt our Author reckons nothing Inferiour to Queen Elizabeth in Piety made a Law in the first year of his Reign condemning Stage-Plays and yet afte●wards set up Enterludes at Whitehall on the Sabbath Day which I suppose there 's very few will commend him for If Queen Elizabeth design'd to Reform the Stage as she had done the Church as our Author would seem to insinuate p. 11. The Event hath prov'd that the Success was not alike There 's few that read Plays or frequent the Play-House but must own if they will speak Truth that the Reformation there goes Retrograde which verifies an Observation of them that I have heard often That when you have Reformed the Stage all you can it will be good for nothing But as one says of Cucumbers after you have added Oil Vinegar and Pepper they are fitter to be thrown to the Dunghill than taken into the Body Upon the whole however our Author may please himself with his Raileries this will appear uncontrovertibly true that the Laws of England have many times restrained and some times totally discharged the Stage whereas he cannot bring one Statute that ever Commanded or Commended it By the 4th of Hen. 4. Cap. 27. All Players Minstrels and Vagabonds were Banished out of Wales because they had occasioned Mischiefs there They were forbid by the 12th of Richard 2. C. 6 11. By the 17th of Edward 4. C. 3. By the 11th and 19th of Hen 7. Cap. 12. And by the 33d of Hen. 8. C. 9. Together with Dicing Houses and other unlawful Games hecause of Seditions Conspiracies Robberies and other Misdemeanours that had ensued upon them By the 3d of Henry 8. C. 9. All Mummers or Persons disguising themselves with Visors or otherwise should be seiz'd and punished as Vagabonds upon which Polydor Virgil who wrote about 10 years after says That the English who in this are wiser than other Nations have made it Capital for any Person to put on a Visor or a Players Habit. It is evident likewise that the Stage was restrained by the 14th and 39th of Eliz. That it