The good did hate al sinne for vertues love, The bad for feare of shame did sin remove. Yea would God our realme could light uppon a _Lucillius_, then should the wicked bee poynted out from the good, a harlot woulde seeke no harbor at stage plais, lest she shold here her owne name growe in question: and the discourse of her honesty cause her to bee hated of the godly. As for you I am sure of this one thing, he would paint you in your players orname[n]ts, for they best becam you. But as these sharpe corrections were disanulde in Rome when they grewe to more licenciousnes: so I fear me if we shold practise it in our dayes, the same intertainmente would followe. But in illreformed Rome what comedies now? A poets wit can correct, yet not offend. _Philemon_ will mitigate the corrections of sinne, by reproving them covertly in shadowes. _Menandar_ dare not offend ye Senate openly, yet wants he not a parasite to touch them prively. _Terence_ wyl not report the abuse of harlots under there proper stile, but he can finely girde the[m] under the person of _Thais_. Hee dare not openly tell the Rich of theyr covetousnesse and severity towards their children, but he can controle them under the person of _Durus Demeas_. He must not shew the abuse of noble yong gentilmen under theyr owne title, but he wyll warne them in the person of _Pamphilus_. Wil you learne to know a parasite? Looke upon his _Dauus_. Wyl you seke the abuse of courtly flatterers? Behold _Gnato_: and if we had some Satericall Poetes nowe a dayes to penn our commedies, that might be admitted of zeale to discypher the abuses of the worlde in the person of notorious offenders. I know we should wisely ryd our assemblyes of many of your brotherhod, but because you may have a full scope to reprehende, I will ryp up a rableme[n]t of playmakers, whose wrightinges I would wishe you overlooke, and seeke out theyr abuses. Can you mislike of _Cecillius_? or dispise _Plinius_? or amend _Neuius_? or find fault with _Licinius_? Wherein offended _Actilius_? I am sure you can not but wonder at _Terrence_? Wil it please you to like of _Turpelius_? or alow of _Trabea_? You muste needs make much of _Ennius_ for overloke al thes, and you shal find ther volums ful of wit if you examine the[m]: so yt if you had no other masters, you might deserve to be a doctor, wher now you are but a folishe scholemaister. But I wyll deale wyth you verye freendlye, I wil resolve everi doubt that you find. Those instrumentes which you mislike in playes grow of auncient custome, for when _Rossius_ was an Actor, be sure that as with his tears he moved affections, so the Musitian in the Theater before the entrance, did mornefully record it in melody (as Servius reporteth). The actors in Rome had also gay clothing and every ma[n]s aparel was apliable to his part and person. The old men in white, ye rich men in purple, the parasite disguisedly, the yong men in gorgeous coulours, ther wanted no devise nor good