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SCENA QVINTA.
THE fifth Squadron of Play-oppugning Authorities, [ 5] is the resolution of sundry Chri••tian Authours,* 1.1 as well Papists as Protestants, from the yeare of our Lord 1200, to this present time, a Catalogue of whose names and workes I shall here present unto you, according to their severall antiquities, together with the Impressions which I follow. The 1.1 1.2 of them is Guillermus Altisio∣dorensis; Summa Aurea in lib. Sententiarum, Parisijs 1500, 1: 3, Tractat: 7, Quaest: 3, fol: 163. where he con∣cludes thus. Qui dat histrionibus immolat daemonibus &c. The 2.2 1.3 is Saxo Grammaticus, Historiae Danicae l. 6. Francofurti 1576, p. 103. The 3.3 1.4 is Willielmus Malmes∣buriensis, De Gestis Regum Anglorum, l. 2, c. 10, Fran∣cofurti 16••1, p. 67, 68. The 4.4 1.5 is Gulielmus Parisiensis, De Legibus, c. 13, Opera Venetijs 1591, p. 42, 43. & De Vitijs et Virtutibus, lib. c. 6, p. 262. The 5.5 1.6 is Alexan∣der Alensis, the famous English Schooleman, Summa Theologiae, Coloniae Agrip. 1622, pars 4, Quaest. 11, Ar∣tic. 2, sect. 4, p. 391, 392, 393. The 6.6 1.7 is Edmundus Can∣tuariensis, Archbishop of Canterbury, Speculum Ec∣clesiae, cap. 11. Bibl. Patrum Tom. 13, p. 359, E. The 7.7 1.8 is Vincentius Beluacensis, Speculum Doctrinale, Venetijs 1591, lib. 11, c. 93, to 98, fol. 194 &c. Speculum Morale l. 3, pars 8, Distinctio 4, & pars 9, Distinctio 6, fol. 244, 251, 252, & Speculum Historiale Venetijs 1494, l. 29, c. 41, fol. 367, where he hath excellent large Discourses, both against dicing, dancing, Cirque-playes and Stage-playes, well worth the Readers observation. The 8.8 1.9 is Matthaeus Parisiensis, our famous English Historian, Hist. Angliae, Tiguri 1589, p. 209, 210, 803, 823. The 9.9 1.10