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Th'overthrow of stage-plays, by the way of controversy betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes…Th'overthrow of stage-playes, by the way of controversie betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes…
Th'overthrow of stage-plays, by the way of controversy betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes wherein all the reasons that can be made for them are notably refuted; th'objections answered, and the case so cleared and resolved, as that the judgement of any man, that is not froward and perverse, may easily be satisfied. Wherein is manifestly proved, that it is not only unlawful to be an actor, but a beholder of those vanities. Whereunto are added also and annexed in th'end certain latin letters betwixt the said Master Rainoldes, and D. Gentiles, reader of the civill law in Oxford, concerning the same matter.Th'overthrow of stage-playes, by the way of controversie betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes wherein all the reasons that can be made for them are notably refuted; th'objections aunswered, and the case so cleared and resolved, as that the iudgement of any man, that is not froward and perverse, may easelie be satisfied. Wherein is manifestly proved, that it is not onely vnlawfull to bee an actor, but a beholder of those vanities. Wherevnto are added also and annexed in th'end certeine latine letters betwixt the sayed Maister Rainoldes, and D. Gentiles, reader of the civill law in Oxford, concerning the same matter.
Middelburg: printed by Richard Schilders, 1599
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For having alleged 6the very same that Aristotle, how Momus carped Nature, the Creator of all things, that is, God, I trow, the most wise and skilful framer of the best and perfectest works: you add, that 7after this sort, Momus (whom you bring in) though doing nought him self, yet carpeth at the best; and hath with these and these taunts declaimed against your plays. So, whereas your reason, that you never took your selves or your plays to be such, should import that you brought him not in at all in that sense; and then had I affirmed amiss, that you rehearsed the tale to such purpose: your ground thereof allayed with the terms, so much, implieth that you grant, that the thing it self, which I affirmed, is true, and that you were disposed to play by this conveyance a juggling trick of fast and loose. Again, whereas I noted that you called our reasons, attributed to Momus, rascal reproaches, using the English words to express your Latin, probra arrepta ex triviis: first you wish I had not so translated it, for that the words in Latin naturally sound not so hardly; yet afterward you grant that you know the words may be so properly translated. Whereof in the later how manifestly you cast up that which you swallowed in the former, appeareth by your labouring to confirm the former, what with eAlciat's saying, that ⟨p. 52⟩words must be generally taken so far forth as their propriety may bear; what with your own denying that *probra arrepta ex triviis doe most properly and principally signify rascal reproaches. Most properly, and principally; a like feat in adding to the word properly, most, and principally, as before in thrusting in the terms, so much: sith neither in the clause, which answereth to this, you join most with naturally; nor say out of Alciat, that words must be taken as their most principal propriety may bear (though by an 8other note of his, 9