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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- 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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- Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
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- London :: Printed by E[dward] A[llde, Augustine Mathewes, Thomas Cotes] and W[illiam] I[ones] for Michael Sparke, and are to be sold at the Blue Bible, in Greene Arbour, in little Old Bayly,
- 1633.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10187.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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Autor ad Opus suum.
SI mihi credideris, linguam cohibebis, et aulae, Limina non intret pes tuus, esto domi. Aspectus hominum cautus vitare memento, Et tibi commissas claude libelle notas. Omnia sint suspecta tibi, quia publicus hostis Et maiestatis diceris esse reus. Ignis edax, gladius{que} ferox tibi forte parantur, Aut te polluta subruet hostis aqua. Cum tamen exieris faciem velabit amictus, Deforment{que} tuam pulvis et aura cutem. Sit gradus et cultus habitus peregrinus eunti, Non nisi barbariem barbara lingua sonet. De Pictavorum dices te gente creatum, Nam licet his lingua liberiori loqui. Nusquam divertas, ne quis te laedat cuntem, Nugarum{que} luat garrula lingua notas. Omnia si nescis, loca sunt plenissima nugis, Quarum tota cohors est inimica tibi. Ecclesia nugae regnant, et principis aula; In claustro regnant, Pontificis{que} domo. In nugis clerus, in nugis militis usus; In nugis i••venes, tota{que} turba senum. Rusticus in nugis; in nugis sexus uterque: S••rvus et ingenuus, dives, egenus in his. Accelera gressus, cauto diplomate perges; Vt valeas, esto sobrius, esto gravis. Gens penetranda tibi perlarga, bibax{que} loquax{que}, Et cui ni morem gesseris, hostis eris. I ci••us atque redi; ne quorum carpere nugas Aususes, infligant tela, necemque parent. Hospiti••que fidem quaeres super, omnia, quo sii•• Tutus ab insidiis, quas tibi quisque parat. Stultos, prudentes nimium, pravosque cave••is, Et quos insignes garrula lingua facit. Si quis amat verum, tibi sit gratissimus hospes, Et quem delectat gloria vana, cave. Iuie patronatus illum cole, qui velit esse, Et sciat, et possit tutor ubique, tuus. Sperne malos, venerare bonos, ignos••e volenti Laedere; nulla bonis ultio grata magis. Et nisi festinus fugeres, te plura monerem, Vix pateris dici pauca, vel ista tene.Notes
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Ex Ioanne Sa∣resberiensi, ad Opus suum de Nugis Curiali∣um. Bibl. Pa••rum Tom. 15. p. 339, 340.