The Players Scourge, Index · Part m

The Players Scourge · Index · Part m

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Macarius AEgyptius his censure of Playes and Players. p. 45. m. f. 556. p. 670.

Macrobius his censure of Dancing and Play-acting. p. 245.246, 129, 704, 860, 861. his testimony of the Saturnalian Feasts. p 751.752.

Macro his advice to Caligula. p. 741.

Magicke Bookes censured p. 917.

Magistrates ought to suppresse Players, Playes, and Play-houses, and have anciently done so. p. 448. to 495.787.

Mahomet his censure of Dice-play. p 665.

Manners and mindes of people corrupted by Playes. p. 329. to 501.

Marriages; Dancing and Playes at them prohibited, condemned by Fathers and Councels. See Dancing: & Saint Chrysostom. Hom. 12. in Colos. 2. Tom. 4. Col. 1210. to 1214. Hom. 20. in Ephes. 5. Tom. 4. Col. 1009. where hee writes thus. In matrimonio omnia oportet esse plena temperantia & modestia, gravitate & ho…esta…. Contrarium autem video, saltantes tanquam camelos, tanquam mulos. Quid facis ô homo? quid ludibria illa, quid monstra in…ucis? Omnino turpe est & indecorū, viros molles & saltantes & omnem pompam Satanicam domum introducore. Quando unguentum componitis nihil malè olens sinitis appropinquare. Matrimonium est unguentum; cur caeni faetorem inducis in compositionem unguenti? Quid dicis? s…ltar virgo, & nō eam pudet suae aequalis? oport… enim ipsam hac …sse honestiorem & graviorem, ex ulna enim egressa est, non ex palaestra, &c. Ne transuehas & in pompam ducas virginitatem. An non sunt haec probrum & dedecus? Sunt. Probrum enim & dedocus est se indecore gerere etiamsi sit Regis filia, etiamsi serva si… virgo, &c. The …rum enim non est matrimonium, est mysterium, seu sacramentum, & rei magnae typus. Sacramentum inquit, hoc magnum est, ego au…em dico in Christo & Ecclesia. Ecclesiae est typus & Christi, & saltatri…es introducis? Si ergo, inquis, n… ̄ que v…rgines saltant, neque quae nupserunt, quis saltabit? Nullus. Saltationis enim quaenam est necessitas? In mysterijs Graecorum sunt saltationes: in nostris autem, silentium, honesta gravitas, pudor & modestia. Magnum peragitur mysterium, foras meretrices saltatrices, foras prophani, &c. Haec vobis non temere dicta sunt, sed ut vos nec nuptijs, nec saltationibus, nec choris adsitis Satanicis. Vide enim quid invenerit Diabolus. Nam quoniam a scena & ijs quae illic sunt turpia & indecora, ipsa natura abduxit mulieres, quae sunt theatri abduxit in gynaecium, molles inquam, se… pathicos & meretrices. Hanc pestem invexit lex nuptialis, imo vero non lex nuptialis, absit, sed lex nostrae mollitiei. Quid ergo dico oportere? Omnia tu…pia cantica quae sunt Satanica, inhonestas cantilenas, immundorū juvenum circuitiones auferre à matrimonio,, & haec poterant castigare sponsam & modestam reddere; statim n. apud se considerabit, Papae; qualis est hi… vir! est philosophus; hanc vitam nihili ducit, ad procreandos liberos & educandos me domi duxit, & ad domum custodier d…m. Ex his ipsis ostendit mentem suam, nullo horum delecta…i, ne que unquam concessurum ut siant saltationes & can…ntur impudica cantica. Sed haec sponsae sunt injucunda ad primum us que & secundum diem, non autem deinceps; sed & maxima… …apiet voluptatem se ab omni suspicione liberans. Nam qui neque tibias neque saltantes, nequ… fractos …antus sustinuerit, idque … nuptiarum, vix ipse in animum induxerit ut turpe aliquid unquam aut faciat aut dicat. Sed videntur res quidem in…ifferens quae fiunt circa matrimonium. Sunt autem causae magnorum malorum. Omnia sunt plena iniqui…ate. Turpitudo & stultiloquium & scurrile verbum, inquit, exore vestro non exeat. Omnia autem illa sunt turpitudo, & stultiloquium & scurrilitas, non leviter, sed cum intentione. Ars enim est hoc, & magnam affert laudem ijs qui eam exercent. Ars facta sunt peccata. Non leviter & tom…re ea tractamus sed adhibito studio & scientia, & de caetero Diabolus est harum rerum Dux & Imperator. Vbi n. ebrietas & lascivia, ubi lermo obscaenus & saltatio, ade…t Diabolus sua afferens. Cum his convivans dic quaeso, Christi mysterium peragis, & Diabolum invocas? Me fortè existimatis gravem & importunū. Nam hoc quos que est multae perversitatis, quod qui increpat ludibrio habetur tanquam austerus. Nonne auditis Paulum dicentem. Quicquid faciatis sive comedatis, sive bibatis, sive aliquid faciatis, omnia ad gloriam Dei facite? Vos autem ad maledicentiam & ignominiam. Non auditis Prophetam dicentem. Servite domino in timore, & exultate ei in tremore? Vos autem diffundimini & luxu diffluitis. An non vero licet etiam tutò laetari? Vis audire pulchros modos? Maximè quidem ne oporteret quidem. Sed me dimitto, & me tibi accommodo. Si velis, non audias Satanicos modos, sed spirituales. Vis videre saltantes? Vide chorum Angelorum. Et quomodo fieri potest ut videam? Si haec abegeris, veniet Christus quoque ad has nuptias. Si adsit autem Christus, adest etiam chorus Angelorum. Si velis, nunc quoque faciet miracula sicut & tunc. Faciet nunc quoque aquam vinum & multo admirabilius. Diffluentem & dissolutam convertet laetitiam & cupiditatem, & transferet ad spiritualem. Hoc est ex aqua vinum f…cere. Vbi sunt Tibicines (pray marke it) nequaquam est Christus. Sed & si fuerit ingressus, eos primum eijcit, & tunc facit miracula. Quando itaque es facturus nuptias ne domos obeas, specula & ve…tes commodato accipiens; res n. non fit ad ostentationem, neque filiam adducis ad pompam: sod ijs quae in ea sunt domum exhiler…ns, voco vicinos, amicos & cognatos. Quos nosti quidem bonos & probos, eos voca, & ut ijs quae adsunt contenti sint admone. Ex ijs qui sunt ex Orchestra, adsit nullus. Illic n. est sumptus vacuus & indecorus. Ante alios omnes voca Christum. Orna sponsum non aureis ornamentis, sed mansuetudine & pudore & consuetis vestibus. Pro quovis mundo aureo & implicaturis & intexturis, induens pudorem & verecundiam, & quod illa non quaerat. Nullus sit tumultus, nulla perturbatio. Vocetur sponsus, accipiat virginem. Prandia & caenae non sint plena ebrietatis, sed satietate cum voluptate. Videamus quam multa ex hoc sunt bona, quando viderimꝰ, ex ijs quae nunc fiunt nuptijs, si nuptiae & non potius pompae sunt dicendae, quot mala? Illic enim Christus, hic Satanas. Illic tristitia, hîc cura. Illic voluptas, hîc dolor. Illic sumptus, hic nihil tale. Illic probrum & dedecus, hîc modestia. Illic invidia, hîc nulla plane est invidia: Illic ebrietas, hîc salus, hîc temperantia. Haec autem omnia cogitantes, hactenus malum sistamus, ac cohibeamus, ut Deo placeamus, & digni habeamur qui consequamur bona quae sunt promissa ijs qui ipsum diligunt, gratia & benignitate Domini nostri Iesu Christi. The whole Homilies are worth the reading, but thus much onelyonly I thought good to insert to controll the marriage disorders of our lascivious age.

Marbachius his censure of Vizards, disguises, wanton apparell, and acting in womens apparell. p. 889.890.

Mariana the Iesuit his Book against, and censure of Stage-playes, Players, and Theaters. p. 695.996. to 1000.

Marius his censure of Dicers, of Players. p. 450.

Martiall his Poems censured. p. 792.916, 917.

Masse turned into a Stage-play, and priests oft-times into Actors. p. 112. to 116.573. to 668. Sparsim… pag. 762. to 767.877, 935, 999. Sacrilegious unto Christ and his merits. p. 759.

Massilienses prohibited and condemned Playes and idlenesse. p. 65.445, 446, 480, 713, 920, 839.

May-games, and May-poles derived from the ancient prohibited Heathen Majumae. p. 253. m. 807. m. & from the Floralian Feasts and Enterludes of the Pagan Romanes, which were solemnized on the first of May. See Ovid Fastorum. lib. 4. pag. 81. Mille venit varijs florum dea nexa coronis. Scena joci morem liberioris habet. Exit & in Majas Festū Florale Kalendas. & lib. 5. pag. 86. t… 92. Mater ades florum ludis celebranda jocosis Incipis Aprili, transis in tempora Maij: Alter te fugiens, cùm venit, alter habet. Cum tua sint, cedantque tibi confinia mensùm, Convenit in laudes ille vel ille tuas. Circus in hunc exit clamata que palma Theatris, &c. Dic Dea, respondi, ludorum quae sit origo. &c. Convenêre Patres: & si bene floreat annus. Numinibus nostris annua festa vovent. Annuimus votis, Consul nunc consule ludos. Posthumio Lenas persoluêre mihi. Quaerere conabar quare l…scivia major, His foret in ludis liberiorque jocus; Sed mihi succurrit numen non esse severum, Aptaque delicijs munera ferre Deam. Tempora sutilibus cinguntur tota coronis, Et latet injecta splendida mensa rosa. Ebrius incinctis philyra conviva capillis, Saltat, & imprudens utitur arte meri… Ebrius ad durum formosae limen amicae Cantat: habens unctae mollia …erta comae. Nulla coronata peraguntur seria fronte: Nec liquidae vinctis flore bibuntur aquae, &c. Bacchus amat flores; Baccho placuis…e coronam Ex Ariadnaeo sidere nosse potes. Scena lenis decet hanc: non est, mihi credite, non est, Illa cothurnatas inter habenda Deas. Turba quidem cur hos celebret meretricia ludos, Non est de tetricis, non est de magna professis, Vult sua plebeio sacra patêre choro, &c. See Alexander ab Alexand. Genial. Dierum lib. 6. cap. 8. Godwin, his Roman Antiquities lib. 2. sect. 2. cap. 3 pag. 87. Polydor Virgil, de Invent. Rerum. lib. 4. c. 14. Bulengerus De Theatro. lib. 1. cap. 50. pag. 296. to the like purpose. He who shall but seriously consider this manner of celebrating these Floralian Festivals, and paralell them with our May-games; will soone conclude as Polydor Virgil doth in expresse tearmes (De Invent. Rerum. lib 5. cap. 2) that our May-games, Maying, and May-pole… (adorned commonly with Flowrie Garlands) had their originall from these Floralian Feastivals, or the Heathen Majumae; and that therefore Christians ought wholy to abandon them, as they are expresly enjoyned both by Imperiall Edicts, Councels and Fathers. See here, p. 807. m. 575.576, 581, 583, 584, 587, 755, 756. m. (Pope Martyns Decree) pag. 750, 770, 780, 20, 21, 22, 23. Tertullian De Corona Militis lib. Polydor Virgil. De Invent. Rerum. lib. 5. cap. 2. M. Stubs his Anatomy of Abuses. p 109.110. (who particularly condemne both May-games and May-poles:) and Francis de Croy his first Conformity… cap. 19.20. accordingly.

Menander the Com…dian his death… fol. 553.

Ministers and Clergie-men, prohibited to Dance, Card or Dice, or to behold Dancers, Carders, Dicers, in publike or private, or to suffer them in their houses, to act or behold either publike or private Enterludes: to play at any dishonest or unlawfull games: to disguise themselves: to Hauke, Hunt, or to keepe Haukes or Hounds: to haunt or keepe Tavernes or Alehouses, or to enter into them but only in case of necessity when they travell: to begin or pledge any Healths; to frequent or make any riotous Feasts; or to weare costly apparell. p. 150.469, 739.933. to 938.979, 980. fol. 528. pag. 573. to 668. Sparsim. See Vincent… Speculum. Hist. lib. 27. cap. 39. 40.47, Summa Angelica Clericus. 11. & all Canonists. De Vita & Honestate Clericorum: conclude the like. Ought to suppresse and disswade others from Dancing, Dicing, Health-drinking, or resort to Playes. Ibidem. Scurrilous Iesting, Dancing, Dicing, Play-acting, or Play-haunting Ministers to bee suspended and deprived. Ibidem. Their duties. Ibidem. Ought not to meddle with secular affaires; not to beare secular offices. Ibidem. Ought to be resident on their Cures, and to preach twice a day. fol. 531. pag. 639.623, 624. Ought to be grave in their gestures and speeches, nor Player-like. p. 933. to 938. Ought not to read lascivious Poems, or prophane Authors, not to stuffe their Sermons with them, p. 70.79, 915. to 939. No Players or Actors of Playes to bee made Ministers, or to take Orders, f. 528. p. 846.847, 934, 935.

Minucius Felix, his censure of Playes and Players, p. 336.337, 558, 670. of Images. p. 896.897.

Modestie and shamefastnesse banished by Playes. fol. 512. to 516. their prayse. Ibidem.

Molanus his justification of prophane sacrilegious Popish Enterludes. p. 763. 764, 765.

Monkes many of thē Sodomites, Whoremasters, Epicures. pag. 213.760, 761, 762, 880, 881. See Vincentij Speculum. Hist. lib. 27. c. 29. to 58. lib. 28. cap. 6. to 19. cap. 90. to 101. Women-Monkes. pag. 184.185, 201, 202, 203, 204, 880, 881.

Morice-dances censured. p. 20. See Dances and May-games.

Moscovites how they keepe their Christmas. pag. 782.

Moses prohibited Playes and Enterludes. why. pag. 555.

Mourning for other mens sinnes, a duty. p. 291. to 295. This life a life of mour… Ibid. & p. 967. to 973. See Chrysost. Hom. 12. in Colos. accordingly.

Multitude no argument of goodnes. pag. 787.788, 442.

Mummeries and Mummers condemned. p. 493.494. fol. 51….891. to 904.

Murthers occasioned oft by Playes. fol. 516. to 520.

Musicke, lawfull, usefull. p. 274. lascivious effeminate Musicke, unlawfull. p. 273. to 290.394.395. See Vincentij Speculū. Hist. lib. 29. cap. 144. M. Northbrooke his Treatise against vaine Playes, &c. fol. 39.40, 41. Agrippa De V…nitate Scient. cap. 64. M. Stubs his An…tomy of Abuses. p. 128.129, 130, &c. Church-musicke ought to be grave, serious, pious, not quaint, delicate, or lascivious; which abuses of it are censured. p. 276 to 288. & Reformatio Legu… Ecclesiast. ex Authoritate Regis. Hen. …. & Edw. 6. Lo…di…i 1571. Tit. De Divin…s Offi…. c. 5. …. 43. grounded on, and authorized by the Statutes of 25. H…ry 8. c. 19.27. H…y S. c. 15. &. 3. & 4. Edward 6. c. 11. which proscribos this rule in …. In divinis … recitandis & Psalmis …, ministri & clerici diligent…r Doe c…gitare …ebent, non solum …se Doum la…dari oportere, sed alios etiam hortatu & exemplo & observatione illorum, ad cundem cultu… adducendos esse. Qua propter partite voces & distincte pronuncient, & cantus sit illorum clarus & aptus, ut ad auditorum omnis fensum, & intelligentiam perveniant. Ita que vibratam i…am & operosam musicani, quae figurata dicitur, auferri placet, quae sic in multitudinis auribus tumultuatur, ut saepe linguam non possit ipsam loquent…m intelligere. (See Q. Eliz. Injunctions. Injunct. 49, accordingly.) Which kinde of quaint and delicate Church-musicke is largely censured, by Hugo Parisiensis. lib. 2. de Claustro Animae, by Vincentius Beluacensis. Speculum Histor. lib. 27 c. 45. by Iohn Bale his Image of both Churches, on Rev. c. 18 sect. 10.11 by William Wraghton his Hunting and Rescuer of the Romish Fox. fol. 12.59, 125, 126. by Gualtherus Haddon Contr. Osorium lib. 3. fol. 263.264. & M. Northbrooke against Dice-play. fol. 40.41. Musicke, when, why, and by whom brought into the Church. p. 277. to 288.