. 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. i, 1 4 c I« 8> tsmtummodo Uni et horn Hi hmtncim civittteeflcnt, ueci* re fw bumtw Ludifcenui eft dehujfin*. ^ L ONDON, Printed by £.e^.and IV- /.for CMichae
. 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. i, 1 4 c I« 8> tsmtummodo Uni et horn Hi hmtncim civittteeflcnt, ueci* re fw bumtw Ludifcenui eft dehujfin*. ^ L ONDON, Printed by £.e^.and IV- /.for CMichael Sparks,and arc to be foldat the Blue Biblcy n Greene ATbour,in little Old Bayly. 163 $* TO HIS MVGH HONOVRED FRIENDS, THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL MASTERS OF THE Binchof the Honourable flourifliing Law-Society of Lincolnes-Inne. IGHT WORFvll,The due refpcft 1 owe un-to your famous Nurferteboth of Law and Piety, asmy laft Nurfwg CMother,? and to your Worfhips in(^MT^riSy^ particular, as my efpeciallgood Friends j hath at this time imboldened meto commend this Histrio-Mastix toyourworthy Patronage^ which being wholly compi-led within your Walls, implores no other San-ctuary but your benigne ProteSiion^ of whichyour former Play-oppugning Anions promifeit good affurance. For whereas other Inncs ofCourt (I know not by vi\idi(a)eviHcufiomeyznd(b) mrfe example) admit of common A&orsand Entcrludes upon their * wo grand Fejlivals, * to. (4)Maluiufusabolendus. Lii* 2.(^)Pluscxcm-plo quam pcc«cato nocent;quod non fb-lumvitia coa-cipiunt ipfijfodea infunduutin civitatcixjjncquc Ibiumobfunt, ,/ed eti-am quod «»**Ve ** Viz. AH-SaintSjSc Can*dlcmaffcday. The Epiftle Dedicatory. (c)ziH to recreatetluniifelveswithall,notwithftandingiz the Statutes of our Kmgdome (of which Lawyers x9iac!c. 7?sec of a11 others flvulld bc moft obfervant) (c)bavehere , to branded all profeffed Stage-players for infamous4W- Rogues,
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