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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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 Et prodesse solent delectare LONDON Printed by G. E. for W. C. To the most Knowing the great Encourager of all Arts and LEARNING The Right Honourable HENRY Lord Marquesse DORCHESTER Earle of Kingston Viscount Newarke Lord Pierrepont and Manvers My Lord THe Authour of this ensuing Poem not long before his Death discovering how un deservedly our Quality lay under the envious and ignorant made our Vindication his Subject which he hath ascerted with such Arguments of Reason and Learning that the judicious will no doubt rest satisfied of the lawfulness and indeed necessity of it the gentleman was a Fellow of Peter house in Cambridge I should think it a high part of ingratitude to let so illaborate a Piece lye buried with him And therefore to pay the Duty he Ow'd your Honour to undeceive the World and to revive his memory I beseech your Lordship give me leave to pursue his Intention by the humble Dedication of this his so Genious a Work And if to fix your Name to it be not a presumption beyond the reach of Pardon I shall not dispair of your Mercy since your Candor affords it to the meanest and to me by consequence who am in heart My Lord Your most Submissive W. C. To my good Friends and Fellows the Actors of this City OVt of my busiest houres I have spared my self so much time as to touch some particulars concerning us to approve our Antiquity antient Dignity and the true use of our quality That it hath been antient we have derived it from more than two thousand years agoe successively to this Age. That it hath been esteemed by the best and greatest To omit all the noble Patrons of the former world I need alledge no more than that Royall and Princely service in which of late years we have lived That the Vse thereof is authentique I have done my endeavour to instance by History and approve by Authority To excuse my ignorance in affecting no flourish of Eloquence to set a glosse upon my Treatise I have nothing to say for my self but this A good face needs no painting and a good cause no abetting Some over-curious have too liberally taxed us and he in my thoughts is held worthy reproof whose ignorance cannot answer for it self I hold it more honest for the guiltlesse to excuse than the envious to exclaim And we may as freely out of our plainnesse answer as they out of their perversnesse object instancing my self by famous Scalliger learned Doctor Gager Doctor Gentiles and others whose opinions and approved arguments on our part I have in my brief discourse altogether omitted because I am loath to be taxed in borrowing from others and besides their works being extant to the world offer themselves freely to every mans perusall I am profest adversary to none I rather covet reconcilement than opposition nor proceeds this my labour from any envy in me but rather to shew them wherein they erre So wishing you free leave with judicial Audience honest Poets and true gatherers I commit you all to the fulness of your best wishes Yours ever T. H. To the Judicial Reader I Have undertook a subject courteous Reader not of sufficient countenance to bostler it self by his own strength and therefore have charitably reached it my hand to support it against any succeeding Adversary I could willingly have committed this work to some more able than my self for the weaker the Combatant he needeth the stronger Arms. But in extremities I hold it better to wear rusty Armour than to go naked yet if these weak habiliments of warre can but buckler it from part of the rude buffets of our Adversaries I shall hold my pains sufficiently guerdoned My Pen hath seldome appeared in Print till this occasion I have ever been too jealous of mine own weaknes willingly to thrust into the Presse nor had I at this time but that a kinde of necessity enjoyned my coming abroad to satisfie this present generation what hath been said in this businesse I have neither shewed my self over-presumptuous in skorning thy favour nor too importunate a beggar by too servily intreating it What thou art content to bestow upon my pains I am content to accept if good thoughts they are all I desire if good words they are more than I deserve if bad opinion I am sorry I have incur'd it if evil language I know not how I have merited it if any thing I am pleased if nothing I am satisfied contenting my self with this I have done no more than had I been called to account shewed what I could say in the defence of my own quality Thine T. Heywood Firma valent per se nullúmque Machaona quaerunt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In laudem nec Operis nec Authoris FAllor en haec solis non solùm grata Theatris Esse putes solis quanquam dictata Theatris Magna sed à sacro veniet tibi gratia Templo Parve Liber proles haut infitianda Parenti Plurimus hunc nactus Librum de-plebe-Sacerdos Copia Verborum cui sit non copia Rerum Materiae tantum petet hinc quantum nec in uno Promere Mense potest nec in uno for sitan Anno. 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