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under the title of _Histrio-Mastix_ (1633), which is absolutely unreadable by reason of the vast mass of authorities gathered from every century and every nation, to prove the wickedness of play-acting. Carlyle refers to the _Histrio-Mastix_ as
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Noy calls it an index, but Prynne himself describes it as
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A Table (with some brief additions) of the chiefest passages in this treatise.
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Actors of popular or private enterludes for gaine or pleasure, infamous, unlawfull and that as well in Princes, Noblemen, Gentlemen, Schollers, Divines or Common Actors.
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Æschylus, one of the first inventors of Tragedies--his strange and sudden death.
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Christ wept oft, but never laughed--a puritan--dishonoured and offended with Stage playes.
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Crossing of the face when men go to plays shuts in the Devil.
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Devils, inventors and fomentors of stage plays and dancing. Have stage plays in hell every Lord's day night.
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Heaven--no stage plays there.
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Herod Agrippa smitten in theater by an angel and so died.
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Herod the great, the first erecter of a theater among the Jews who thereupon conspire his death.
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King James his statute against prophaning scripture and God's name in Playes--his Statutes make Players rogues and Playes unlawfull pastimes.
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Kings--infamous for them to act or frequent Playes or favour Players.
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Plagues occasioned by stage plays. All the Roman actors consumed by a plague.
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Play-bookes see Bookes.
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Players infamous ... ---- many of them Papists and most desperate wicked wretches.
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Play haunters the worst and lewdest persons for the most part....
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Play haunting unlawfull....
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Play-houses stiled by the Fathers and others, the Devil's temples, Chappels and synagogues....
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Play-poets examples of God's judgements on the chiefest of them....
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Puritans, condemners of Stage-playes and other corruptions stiled so--The very best and holiest Christians called so....--Christ, his prophets, apostles, the Fathers and Primitive christians Puritans as men now judged--hated and condemned onely for their grace yea holinesse of life--Accused of hypocrisie and sedition, and why.
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Puritan, an honourable nickname of Christianity and grace.
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Theaters overturned by tempests.