. 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. -h aunt ers\\Qt it bene peece of our Ecclefiaftical,if not civil difcipline,andevotion,todoethelike. And (g) fine ewe are compaf-fedabout with fo great a chud o
. 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. -h aunt ers\\Qt it bene peece of our Ecclefiaftical,if not civil difcipline,andevotion,todoethelike. And (g) fine ewe are compaf-fedabout with fo great a chud of Play-condemning Au- L *«*•thorities, let us now at (aft refolve , to lay away every•weight, and the/?#,(thefe finfull ftigmatized Stage-playeswhich doe fo eafily befet us; (h) Let us hearken to the in- * Prov# ** *•(truElion of thefe pious Fathers, and attend unto their do- *Brine: not (i) removing thofe ?lay-exiling Land-marges i Prov«iz.»S«•which they havefet us: that fo imitating them in theirpiety, wee may at laft participate with them in theirglory. Actvs 688 Hiftrio-Maflix. Part. i.! ifoModerneChriftian Wri-ters have con-demned Stage-playes. 1. Guillermus,AltifiodorenfisAnno 2. Saxo Gram-matics Anno Mal-mesburienfis, 4«GuiieJmusParifienfis ,Anno 1240. 5. AlexanderAlenfis,Anno1240. 6, EdmuniusCantuarienfis,Anno ,Anno Ufo. 8. MatthseusParifienfis,Anno ACTVS 7. SCENA QyiNTA. THe fifth Squadron of Play-oppugning Authorities,is the refolution of fur: dry Chrittian Authours, asWell Papilts as Proteftann, from the yeare of our Lord1 loo, to this prefent tirnc,a Catalogue of whole namesand workes I fhall here prcLnc un:oyou, according totheir feverall antiquities .together with the Impreflionswhich I follow* The 1. o them is Gmllermm Altifio-dorenfis y Summa Aureainlib. Sententiarum, Panfiji15oo,L*, Quaeit: 3, fol; 163. where he con-cludes thus, §hti dot kiftriombtts immolat dtmonibtts&c. The 2.
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