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Histrio-Mastix. : The players scourge, or, actors tragaedie, : divided into two parts. : Wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers arguments, by the concurring authorities and resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture; of the whole primitive church, both under the law and gospell; of 55 synodes and councels; of 71 fathers and Christian writers, before the yeare of our Lord 1200 ... : and of our owne English statues, magistrates, vniversities, writers, preachers, that popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions ... and that the professon of play-poets, of stage players; together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of stage-playes, are unlawfull, infamous and misbeseeming Christians