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A10187	Histrio-mastix The players scourge, or, actors tragædie, divided into two parts. Wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers arguments, by the concurring authorities and resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture ... That popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions; condemned in all ages, as intolerable mischiefes to churches, to republickes, to the manners, mindes, and soules of men. And that the profession of play-poets, of stage-players; together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of stage-playes, are unlawfull, infamous and misbeseeming Christians. All pretences to the contrary are here likewise fully answered; and the unlawfulnes of acting, of beholding academicall enterludes, briefly discussed; besides sundry other particulars concerning dancing, dicing, health-drinking, &c. of which the table will informe you. By William Prynne, an vtter-barrester of Lincolnes Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1633 (1633)	STC 20464A; ESTC S115316	1,193,680	1,258

HISTRIO-MASTIX THE PLAYERS SCOVRGE OR ACTORS TRAGAEDIE Divided into Two Parts Wherein it is largely evidenced by divers Arguments by the concurring Authorities and Resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture of the whole Primitive Church both under the Law and Gospell of 55 Synodes and Councels of 71 Fathers and Christian Writers before the yeare of our Lord 1200 of above 150 foraigne and domestique Protestant and Popish Authors since of 40 Heathen Philosophers Historians Poets of many Heathen many Christian Nations Republiques Emperors Princes Magistrates of sundry Apostolicall Canonicall Imperiall Constitutions and of our owne English Statutes Magistrates Vniversities Writers Preachers That popular Stage-playes the very Pompes of the Divell which we renounce in Baptisme if we beleeve the Fathers are sinfull heathenish lewde ungodly Spectacles and most pernicious Corruptions condemned in all ages as intolerable Mischiefes to Churches to Republickes to the manners mindes and soules of men And that the Profession of Play-poets of Stage-players together with the penning acting and frequenting of Stage-playes are unlawfull infamous and misbeseeming Christians All pretences to the contrary are here likewise fully answered and the unlawfulnes of acting of beholding Academicall Enterludes briefly discussed besides sundry other particulars concerning Dancing Dicing Health-drinking c. of which the Table will informe you By WILLIAM PRYNNE an Vtter-Barrester of Lincolnes Inne Cyprian De Spectaculis lib p 244. Fugienda sunt ista Christianis fidelibus ut tàm frequenter diximus tàm vana tàm perniciosa tàm sacrilega Spectacula ●quae essi non haberent crimen habent in se et maximam et parum congruentē fidelibus vanitatē Lactantius de Verò Cultu cap. 20. Vit●●da ergo Spectaculo ●●●xia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ne quid vitiorum pectoribus i●side et c. sed ne cuius nos voluptatis consuetudo delineat atque à Deo et à b●ri● operibus ●ve●tat Chrysost. Hom. 38. in Matth. Tom. 2. Col. 299. B Hom. 8 De Poenitentia Tom. 5. Col 750. ●mmo vero ●is Theatralibus ludis eversis non leges sed iniquitatem evertetis ac emnem civitatis pestem extinguetis ●Etenim Theatrum communis luxuriae officina publicum incontinentiae gymnasium cathedra pestilentia pess●●us locus plurimer●mone mo●herum plena Babylonica fornax c. Augustinus De Civit. Dei l. 4 c. 1. Si tontummodo boni et honesti homines in civitate essent nec in rebus humanis Ludi scenici esse debuissent LONDON Printed by E.A. and W.I. for Michael Sparke and are to be sold at the Blue Bible in Greene Arbour in little Old Bayly 1633. TO HIS MVCH HONOVRED FRIENDS THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL MASTERS OF THE BENCH of the Honourable flourishing LAVV-SOCIETY of LINCOLNES-INNE RIGHT WORFVLL The due respect I owe unto your famous Nurserie both of Law and Piety as my last Nursing Mother and to your Worships in particular as my especiall good Friends hath at this time imboldened me to commend this HISTRIO-MASTIX to your worthy Patronage which being wholly compiled within your Walls implores no other Sanctuary but your benigne Protection of which your former Play-oppugning Actions promise it good assurance For whereas other Innes of Court I know not by what evill custome and worse example admit of common Actors and Enterludes upon their two grand Festivals to recreate themselves withall notwithstanding the Statutes of our Kingdome of which Lawyers of all others should be most observant have branded all professed Stage-players for infamous Rogues and Stage-playes for unlawfull pastimes especially on Lords-dayes and other solemne Holy-dayes on which these Grand-dayes ever fall yet such hath beene your pious tender care not only of this Societies honour but also of the young Students good for the advancing of whose piety and studies you have of late erected a magnificent Chappell and since that a Library that as you have prohibited by late publike Orders all disorderly Bacchanalian Grand-Christmasses more fit for Pagans thā Christians for the deboisest Roarers than grave civill Students who should be patternes of sobriety unto others together with all publike Dice-play in the Hall a most pern●cious infamous game condemned in all ages all places not onely by Councels Fathers Divines Civilians Canonists Politicians and other Christian Writers by divers Pagan Authors of all sorts and by Mahomet himselfe but likewise by sundry Heathen yea Christian Magistrates Edicts and by the Statutes of our Kingdome as the occasions of much idlenesse prodigality cursing swearing forswearing lying cheating mispence of money and time theft rapine usurie malice envie fretting d●scontents quarrels duels murthers● covetousnes acquaintance with ill company povertie ruine of many young G●ntlemens yea Tradesmens fortunes and estates with a world of such like mischiefes which as they proclaime all publike Dice-play unsufferable in a Republike so much more in an innes of Court which cannot more dishonour it selfe than in turning a professed Christmas Dice-house or publike receptacle of all sorts of Dicers of purpose to enrich the Butlers or to defray their Christmas expences as if Innes of Court Gentlemen were so beggerly that they could neither maintaine their Officers nor Christmas Commons without the infamous Almes or turpe lucrum of their Dice-boxes which empty many a young Students trades-mans apprentices unfortunate gamesters purse and bring divers unhappy Dicers yearely to the Goale if not the Gallowes whiles they seeke to repaire their losses by robbery cheating and unlawfull meanes leaving the guilt of all their sinnes with many a bitter execration upon those Societies where they have lost their money All which your Worships have piously prevented to your deserved honour by suppressing Dice-play So likewise in imitation of the ancient Lacedemonians and Massilienses or rather of the primitive zealous Christians you have alwayes from my first admission into your Society and long before excluded all Common Players with their lewd ungodly Enterludes from all your solemne Festivals not suffering them so much as once to enter within your gates for feare they should corrupt the mindes the manners the vertuous education of those young hopefull vertuous Gentlemen committed to your care by drawing them on to idlenesse luxurie incontinencie prophanesse and those other dangerous vices which Playes and Play-houses oft occasion they being no other as the Fathers phrase them but the very plagues and poysons of mens mindes and soules Which praise-worthy imitable act of yours assures me of your kinde entertainment of this my last-borne Issue which though by reason of some intervenient subjects diverting my studies into another channell it be ultimus in executione yet it was primus in intentione of all my printed Treatises as some scattered passages against Stage-playes in my former Impressions evidence For having upon my first arrivall here in London heard and seene in foure severall Playes to which the pressing importunity of some ill acquaintance

so seriously serve the world the flesh the Devill in Dancing Dicing Masques and Stage-playes in the night beginning perchance the Lords-day like the foolish Galathians in the spirit but ending it in the flesh as alas too many carnall Christians doe Theodoricus a Christian King of Italy whose prayses E●nodius Ticinensis hath proclaimed to the world in his Epistle to Faustus transmitted to posterity by Marcus Aurelius Cassiodorus hath-passed this Censure upon Stage-playes and Cirque-playes that they expell the gravest manners invite the most triviall contentions that they are the exhausters of honesty the ever-running fountaine of brawles and quarrels which antiquity verily reputed sacred but contentious posterity hath made them a meere ludibrium Which passage he thus seconds in his Epistle to Speciosius Who can expect grave manners in Stage-playes Catoes know not how to meete together at Play-houses Whatsoever is there spoken to the reioycing people is not deemed an iniury It is a place which defends excesse In another Epistle of his to the Roman Senate he thus informes them what great mischiefes these Stage-playes had procured to the people who were brought into extreme dangers by th●m Animum nostrum Patres Conscripti Reipub curis calentem pulsavit saepius querela populorum orta quidem ex causis levibus sed graves eructavit excessus Deplorat enim pro spectaculorum voluptate ad discrimina se ultima pervenisse c. And in his Epistle to Maximus of the divers sorts of Spectacles which the Consuls exhibited to the people out of a preposterous custome to their great expence against the severall wickednesses of which Enterludes hee there much declaimes he closeth up that Epistle with this patheticall Epilogue Heu mundi error ●olendus si esset ullus aequitatis intuitus tantae divitiae pro vita mortalium deberent dari quantae in mortes hominum videntur effundi Such was his Royall Censure of these pestiferous Stage-playes which bred so many mischiefes and discords in the world It it registred of Henry the third Emperour of that name whom they stiled blacke and godly that when as a great company of Stage-players and Actors flocked together to Ingelheim to his marriage about the yeere 1044. he thrust them all out of the Court and Citty and comm●nded that the money which should have beene spent in maintaining rewarding and adorning them should be distributed among the poore An example writes Master Gualther who relates it truely worthy of eternall prayse which if Princes and Magistrates of Common-weales would this day imitate there would be lesse place left to filthy and sloathfull idlenesse then which there is nothing more powerfull to corrupt mens manners yea wise and prudent men would be then in greater request and the poore would be better provided for who now wander about in every corner to the great scandall of Christianity It is storied of Philip Augustus the 42. King of France that he being an enemy to publike dissolutions and a friend to good order and Iustice enacted publike lawes against Players Iuglers Playes and D●cing-houses which he wholy suppressed as pornicious to his Kingdome banishing all Stage-players out of France by a publike Edict the true grounds of which worthy act of his Vincentius in his Speculum Historiale doth thus expresse Cum antem in Curijs regum vel principu● frequens histrionum turba convenire solebat ut ab eis aurum argentum equos seu vestes quas saepe principes mutare solent verba ioculatoria varij● adulationibus plena proferendo ab eis extorqueant vide●s Rex Philippus haec esse vana animae saluti contraria mente promptissima Deo promisit quod omnes vestes suas quamdiu viveret intuitu Dei pauperibus erogaret malens nudum Christum in pauperibus vestire quàm adulatoribus vestes dando peccatum incurrere quoniam histrionibus dare and I would those who spend their money at Play-houses would well consider it est Daemonibus imolare Hoc si quotidie principes attenderent nequaquam tot leccatores per mundum discurrerent Vidimus autem principes quosdam vestes diu excogitatas varijs florum picturationibus artificiosissime elaboratas vix evolutis septem di●bus proh dolor histrionibus scilicet Diaboli ministris so hee stiles them ad primam vocem dedisse pro quibus forsan .20 aut 30. vel 40. marcas argenti impenderent de quo nimirum preci● totidem pauperes per totum annum victus necessaria percipere potuissent By all these severall Acts and Testimonies of these worthy Christian Princes it is most apparant that Stage-playes insufferably corrupt mens mindes and manners and that they are no wayes tolerable in a Christian State The selfesame verity wee shall finde confirmed by the Fathers Hence Clemens Alexandrinus stiles Playes and Play-hous●s the very Chaire of Pestilence which corrupts mens mindes Hence Tertullian records that the Roman Censors oft-times demolish their re-erected Theaters to prevent the corruption of the peoples manners which they fore-saw would be much indangered and corrupted by the lasciviousnesse of Stage-playes the lewde effects of which hee at large discovers stiling the Stage the very Chaire of Pestilence and the Gallerie of the enemies of Christ. Hence Cyprian phraseth Stage-playes the Masters not of teaching but of corr●pting of destroying Yo●●h and Play-houses the very Brothels of publike chastity where all vices ar●●oth taught and learned all modesty exiled all contin●●●y wreck●d mens soules and manners most incurably corrupted to Gods dishonor a●d th● Church●s shame Hence Lactantius informes us that the v●ry hearing and beholding of Stage-playes exceedingly corrupt all Youth by depraving their manners enraging their unruly lusts and te●ching them to commit adulteri●● whiles they behold them acted Whereupon he peremptorily concludes that all Stage-playes are wholy to be aband●●ed that so not onely no vices might harbour in our brests but that the custom● of no pleasure might ever overcome us and so turne us away from God and from good workes Hence Gregory Nazianzen avers th●t Stage-playes ought to be reputed nothing else but the very plague and sicknesse of mens mindes the severall ill eff●cts of which he there reckons up at large and thereupon he thus concludes Wherefore it evidently appeares that these Stage-playes are nought else but th● very destruction of mens soules which Censure of his is fully ratified by the concurrent suffrages of Tatianus Oratio Advers Graecos Bibl. Patrum Tom. 2. pag. 180.181 Of Theophilus Antiochenus Ad Autolichum lib. 3. Ibidem pag. 170. G. H. Of Minucius Felix Octavius pag. 101.121 Of Arnobius Advers Gentes lib. 4. pag. 149.150 151. lib. 7. pag. 230. to 242. Of Basil. H●xaëmeron Hom. 4. Tom. 1. pag. 45. De Legendis Libris Gentilium Oratio pag. 308.312 Of S. Asterius in Festum Kalendarum Hom. Bibl. Patrum Tom. 4 pag. 706. Of Gaudentius