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A86316	The actors vindication, containing, three brief treatises, viz. I. Their antiquity. II. Their antient dignity, III. The true use of their quality. Written by Thomas Heywood.; Apology for actors	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.; Cartwright, William, 1611-1643.	1658 (1658)	Wing H1777; Thomason E948_4; ESTC R6819	34,648	62

extremely overcome with wine and then call their children to view their nasty loathsome behaviour making them hate that sin in themselves which shewed so gross and abominable in others The like use may be gathered of the Drunkards so naturally imitated in our Playes to the applause of the Actor content of the Auditory and reproving of the Vice Art thou covetous go no further than Plautus his Comedy called Euclio Dum fallax servus durus pater improba lena Vixerit meretrix blanda Menandros erit While there 's false servant or obdurate sire Sly baud smooth whore Menandros wee 'l admire To end in a word Art thou addicted to prodigality envy cruelty perjury flattery or rage our Scenes afford thee store of men to shape your lives by who be frugall loving gentle trusty without soothing and in all things temperate Wouldst thou be honourable just friendly moderate devout merciful and loving concord thou mayest see many of their fates and ruines who have been dishonourable unjust fals gluttenous sacrilegious bloudy-minded and brochers of dissention Women likewise that are chaste are by us extolled encouraged in their vertues being instanced by Diana Belpheby Matilda Lucrece and the Countess of Salisbury The unchaste are by us shewed their errors in the persons of Phrinc Lais Thais Flora and amongst us Rosamond and Mistress Shore What can sooner print modesty in the souls of the wanton than by discovering unto them the monstrousnes of their sin It followes that we prove these exercises to have been the discoverers of many notorious murders long concealed from the eyes of the world To omit all far-fetcht instances we will prove it by a domestick home born truth which within these few years happened At Lin in Norfolk A strange accident happenning at a play the then Earle of Sussex Players acting the old History of Fryer Francis presenting a woman who insatiately doting on a young gentleman had the more securely to enjoy his affection mischievously and secretly murdered her husband whose ghost haunted her and at diverse times in her most solitary and private contemplations in most horrid and fearful shapes appeared and stood before her As this was acted a towns-woman till then of good estimation and report finding her conscience at this presentment extreamly troubled suddenly skreeked cry'd out Oh my husband my husband I see the ghost of my husband fiercely theatning and me●racing me At which shril and unexpected out-cry the people about her mov'd to a strang amazement inquired the reason of her clamor when presently unurged she told them that seven years ago she to be possest of such a Gentleman meaning him had poisoned her husband whose fearfull image persona●ed it self in the shape of that ghost whereupon the murdress was apprehended before the Justices further examined and by her voluntary confession after condemned That this is true as well by the report of the Actors as the records of the Town there are many ey-witnesses of this accident of late years living who did confirm it As strange an accident happened to a company of the same quality 60. years ago or thereabout who playing A strange accident happenning at a play late in the night at a place called Peri● in Cornwal certain Spainards were landed the same night unsuspected and undiscovered with intent to take in the Town spoil and burn it when suddenly even upon their entrance the players ignorant as the towns men of any such attempt presenting a battle on the stage with their drum and trumpets strook up a loud alarum which the enemy hearing and fearing they were discovered amazedly retired made some few idle shot in a bravado and so in a hurly-burly fled disorderly to their boats At the report of this tumult the towns men were immediately armed and pursued them to the sea praysing God for their happy deliverance from so great a danger who by his providence made these strangers the instrument and secondary means of their escape from such imminent mischief and the tyranny of so remorselesse an enemy Another of the like wonder happened at Amsterdam in Holland a Company of our English Comedians well A strange accicident happenning at a play known travelling those Countries as they were before the Burgers and other the chief inhabitants acting the last part of the 4 sons of Amon towards the last act of the history where penitent Renaldo like a common labourer lived in disguise vowing as his last pennance to labor carry burdens to the structure of a goodly Church there to be erected whose diligence the labourers envying since by reason of his stature and strength he did usually perfect more work in a day than a dozen of the best he working for his conscience they for their lucres Whereupon by reason his industry had so much disparaged their living conspired among themselves to kill him waiting some opportunity to finde him asleep which they might easily do since the sorest labours are the soundest sleepers industry is the best preparative to rest Having spi'd their opportunity they drave a nail into his temples of which wound immediatly he died As the Actors handled this the audience might on a suddain understand an out-cry and loud shreek in a remote galery pressing about the place they might perceive a woman of great gravity strangely amazed who with a distracted and troubled brain ost sigh'd out these words Oh my husband my husband The play without further interruption proceeded the woman was to her own house conducted without any apparant suspition every one conjecturing as their fancies led them In this ago ●y she some of these few dayes languished and on a time as certain of her well disposed neighbours came to comfort her one amongst the rest being Church-warden to him the S●xt●n posts to tell him of a strange thing happening him in the ripping up of a grave see here quoth he what I have found and shews them a fare skull with a great nail pierc'd quite through the braine-pan but we cannot conjecture to whom it should belong nor how long ●t hath lain in the earth the grave being confused and the flesh consumed At the report of this accident the woman out of the trouble of her afflicted conscience discovered a former murther For 12. years ago by driving that naile into that skull being the head of her husband she hath trecherously slain him This being publick y confest she was arraigned condemned adjudged and burned But I draw my subject to greater length than I purposed these therefore out of other infinities I have collected both for their familiarness and latenesse of memory Thus our antiquity we have brought from the Grecians in the time of Hercules from the Macedonians in the age of Alexander from the Romans long before Julius Caesar and since him through the reigns of 23. Emperours succeeding even to Marcus Aurelius after him they wore supported by the Mantuans Venetians Valencians Neopolitans the Florentines and others since by the German Princes the Palsgrave the Landsgrave the Dukes of Saxony of Brownswick c. The Cardinal of Bruxels hath at this time in pay a company of our English Comedians The Cardinall Alsensus French King allows certain companies in Paris Orleans besides other Cities so doth the King of Spain in Civill Madrill and other Provinces But in no Country they are of that eminencie that ours are so our most royall and ever renowned Soveraigns licenced us in London so did his predecessor the ●●rice vertuous Virgin Queen Elizabeth and before her her sistes Queen Mary Edward the sixth and their Father Hen●● the eighth And before these in the tenth yea● of the reign of Edward the fourth Anno 1490 John S●ow an ancient grave Chronicles ●e●ords amongst other 〈…〉 to the like effect that a Play was acted at a place called Skinners-well fastly Clerken-well which continued eight dayes and was of matter from Adam and Eve the first creation of the world the spectators were no worse than the Royal●y of England And among other commendable exercises in this place the Company of the Skinners of London held certain yearly solemn Playes In place whereof now in these latter days the w●astling and such other pastimes have been kept and is still held about Bartholomew-tide Also in the year 1390. the 14. year of the reign of Richard the second the 18 of July were the like Enterludes recorded of at the same place which continued 3 days together the King and Queen and Nobility being there present Moreover of late years in divers places of England here were Towns that held the priviledge of their Fairs and other Charters by yearly Stage-plays as at Manningtree in Suffolk Kendall in the North and others To let these passe as things familiarly known to all men Now to speak of some abuse lately crept into the quality as an inveighing against the State the Court the Law the City and their governments with the particularizing of private mens humors Noble-men and others I know it distastes many neither do I any way approve it nor dare I by any means excuse it The liberty which some arrogate to themselves committing their bitterness and liberall invectives against all estates to the mouths of Children supposing their juniority to be a priviledge for any rayling be it never so violent I could advise all such to curbe and limit this presumed liberty within the bands of discretion and government But wise and judicial Censurers before whom such complaints shall at any time hereafter come will not I hope impute these abuses to any transgression in us who have ever been carefull and provident to shun the like I surcease to prosecute this any further lest my good meaning be by some misconstrued and fearing likewise left with tediousness I tire the patience of the favourable Reader here though abruptly I conclude my third and last Treatise Stultitiam patiuntur opes mihi parvula res est FINIS