. Histrio-Mastix : The players scourge, or, Actors Tragaedie, divided into two parts : wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers Arguments ... that popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions ... 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. effing. Ever reft ing Your Worships, in all devoted Service and refpe&3 William P rynne. TO THE RIGHT CHRISTIAN,GENE- ROVS YOVNG GENTLEMEN-Students of the 4 fam
. Histrio-Mastix : The players scourge, or, Actors Tragaedie, divided into two parts : wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers Arguments ... that popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions ... 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. effing. Ever reft ing Your Worships, in all devoted Service and refpe&3 William P rynne. TO THE RIGHT CHRISTIAN,GENE- ROVS YOVNG GENTLEMEN-Students of the 4 famous Innes of Court,and efpecially thofe «/LlNCOLNBS INNE. IGHT (a) vcrtuous, fi$iu, „summapurf-andmofi Accomplished Gentle- Deum eft no-m^tbcfrefcm hope,the future JjRfegg^r^ 4## honour of our Engltjh Sola apud Dc-NAtion-tb at cor dull lonrinr de- um Ii/!)$ cft> /» /» /1 j llon icrvirc pec» fire of your temporal! and eter- &&.&«**.&nail felicity, which bath along ?]/?. ^. harboured in the very innermofi receptacles ofmjfoule,hathy as at firft provoked me topen3fo nowat la(l to pub It fh this H1 s r r i o-Ma s t i x for yourcommon good, which here lieth proftrate at your feet,imploring not onelyyour naked acceptations >but yourunprejudicatedaffeclions too-y that fo you may tho-rowly fan it with,an impart ialifcrutwie, beforeyouprepojieroujty fore-judgeit out of a miftnformedpre-judice*. The Epijlle Dedicatory. y Hommcs vi- judice. It is not Ifuppofe unkmwne to Any,(b)w)\ favour, what eftiraation Playcs and Playersbunt, ut ab. have lately purchafed in the opinions and hearts focmur^iS0 ofmoft5which l feare are fo ftrangely foreftal-nonXEoicu. led, fo defperately infatuated with their Syre-risimpulfi lux* njan enchantments,^ they mil hardly brookethe v[tsHtdcdhi feht>much le(fe the reading of this Play-fcourgingluxuriam fuam Difcourfe, whofe very title will be a fufficicnt war-inPhilofophi* rant form4nyto condemned, if not a Super Cede as linu ab
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