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.

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• Damascen his censure of Playes & Dan∣cing, specially on the Lords Day. pag. 260.349. f. 533.544. p. 683. of making the Picture of God. p. 899 m.
• Damnation, oft occasioned by Stage-playes. f. 565. to 569. p. 910. oft to bee thought on. Ibidem.
• Dancing at marriages, condemned. p. 20. 22, 36,, 222, 278, 555, 573, 602, 603. See Marriage: the Devils procession and invention. p. 228.229, 232, one of the Devils pomps which we renounce in baptisme. p. 225.228, 229, 232, 236, 238•• 257, 562, 565. an occasion of the breach of all the 10. Cōmandements. p. 231.232. an offence against all the Sacraments. p. 257.258. derived from Pagans who spent their Festivals in dancing, and courted their Idols with it. p. 225.233, 234, 235, 236, 251, 575, 576, 584, 704, 751. to 763, 771, 779. Infamous among Pagans, and con∣demned by them. pag. 245. to 252. & 709. to 711.849. to 864.884, 854, 855, 801. a concomitant of Stage-playes. p. 220.221, 259, 260. condem∣ned by the Waldenses and French Protestants. p. 226. to 233.636, 637. Christians ought not to teach their Children, especially their Daughters, to dance. p. 232.233, 236, 636, 637. Delight & skil in Dancing, a badge of lewde lascivious women & strumpets. pag. 232.236, 237, 238, 240, 245, 248, 249.250.258. The Devill danceth in dancing women. p. 228.229, 232, 257, 258, 260. effeminate, mixt, lascivious dancing condemned by Scriptures, Councels, Fathers, Pagan and mo∣derne Christian Authors of all sorts, as an occasion of much sin and lewd∣nes, &c. p. 22.56, 220. to 262.271, 272. f. 534.575, 576, 599, 584, 600.636, 637, 652, 666, 693, 799, 698, 704, to 711.729, 765, 770, 771, 772, 479. Pro∣hibited and condemned upon Lords-dayes, and Holi-dayes as a sinfull, un∣se••mely, and unlawfull pastime, by Councels, Fathers, Imperiall and Ca∣nonicall Constitutions, Christian

• Writers of all sorrs by our owne En∣glish Canons and Homilies, and by the Statutes of 1. Car. c. 1. & 5, & 6. E. 6. c. 3. p. 231. m. 220.222, 240. to 245. 257, 258, 260, ••71, 272, 530. to 540. p. 575, 576, 580, 605. to 609.615, 620, 621, 622, 625, 627. to 636.664, 715, 716, 717, 770, 771, to 779, 780, 781, 913, 693, 419. All Clergie-men prohibited to dance, or to behold o∣thers dancing, or to reward or encou∣rage Dancers. p. 573. to 678. Sparsim. See Prudentius contr. Symmachum. lib. 1. Bibl. Patrū. Tom. 4. p 910. D Greg. Nyssen de Resurrect Christi. Oratio. 3. p. 160•• Va∣leri••n. Hom. 1. De bono pudicitiae. Bibl. Pa∣trum. Tom. 5. pars 3. p. 477. C.D. Arias Montanus in lib. Iudicum. c. 16. p. 568. to 573. Ioannis Munster De Saltationibus. lib. Gulielmus St••cki••s Antiqu. Convivalium. l. 3. cap•• 21.22. Zeghedini Lo••i Communes. Tit. Chorea & Saltatio. Gulielmus Peral∣dus Summa Virtutum ac Vitiorum. Tom. 2. Tit. De Luxuria c. 3. p. 68. M. Deering his 10. Lecture on the Hebr••wes. Francis Salis his Introduction to a devout life. part 3. c. 32.33. p. 648.649. Vincentius Belua∣censis Speculum Morale l. 3. pars 9. Distinct. 6. p. 251.252. & Summula Raymundi. fol. 93. where a Dance is thus defined. Chorea est circulus ca••henatus cujus cen∣trum est Diabolus. with sundry others here omitted, against Dancing.
• David his Royall resolution. p. 737. cen∣sured for feining himselfe mad. p. 894. 160. his dancing before the Arke no justification of our lascivious dan∣cing. p. 552. to 555.729, 773, 729.
• Day of Iudgement at hand, and ever to be meditated on•• p. 56.59.976. to 979.
• Dice-play, and Dice-houses censured, con∣demned, by Councels, Fathers, all sorts of Writers both Christian and Pagan, by Mahomet in his Alcoran, by Imperiall Edicts, and Princes Lawes, and by the Statutes of ou•• Kingdome Epistle Dedicatory. 1.2. p. 471.492, 494, 495, 618, 626, 627, 655 to 666.693, 700, 795. Ministers and Clergie-men prohibited to play at Dice or Tables, to stand by or looke upon Dicers, or to suffer any Dicing, Carding, or Gaming in their houses. p. 573. to 668. Sparsim.
• Dicers excommunicated and kept from the Sacrament in the Primitive Church. p. 618.926.
• Did••cus de Tapia, his censure of Players, Playes, and Theaters. pag. 481.482, 483, 766.
• Diodorus Siculus his testimony of the ori∣ginall of Playes: & censure of them. p. 510.704.
• Diogenes Cinnic••s his censure of Musicke. p. 287.
• Diogenes La••rti••s his censure of Stage-playes. p. 707.
• Dion Cassius, his censure of Dancing, Playes, & Caligula his acting of them. p. 707. to 710.
• Dionysius Halicarnasseus his censure of Playes, their originall and use. p. 704.
• Devils and Devill-Idols the inventors, the fomenters of Stage-playes, and Dan∣cing which were appropriated to their solemne honour and worship, their Festivals being spent in Playes and Dancing, which they exacted from their worshippers. p. 9. to 50.96, 131, 164, 165, 177, ••25, 228, 229, ••32, 236, 238, 257, 403, 404, 430, 47••, 479, 509, 510, 522, 523, 524, 550, 551, 561, to 567, 576, 584, 658, 684, 692, 704, 726, to 734, 751, to 763, 766, 772, 773, 779, 780, 786, 793. have Stage-playes in Hell every Lords-day night. p. 12.13. The inventors of no good things, and the enemies of mankinde. pag. 9.14, 15, 16, &c. Claime Playes, Play-haunters, and Play-houses as

• their owne. p. 10.11, 483. f. 523, 524, 555. honoured oft-times in stead of Christ. p. 744.745, 759. The onely gainers by Stage-playes. p. 44. to 48.
• Divinations and charmes unlawfull. pag. 20.21, 583.
• Divorce; women who resort to Playes & Play-houses, may be divorced from their Husbands by the ancient Ro∣manes and Iustinian his Lawe••. p. 391.661, 662.
• S. Dominicke, a story of his going to Hell. p. 12, 13.
• Domitian banished Players and suppressed Playes. p. 461.714.
• Domna censured for putting on mans ap∣parell. p. 204.
• Drunkennesse, occasioned by Stage-playes p. 508. to 512.731, 732. a great and scandalous sinne, especially in Clergy men. p. 508.509, 591. to 636. Sparsim. 780. m.