PRIOR (MATTHEW

The Hind and the Panther TransversM To the Story of the Country Mouse and the City-Mouse. Much Malice mingled with a little Wit. Hind. Pan, Nec vult Panthera domari. Quae Genus. London ; Printed for W' Davis, MDCLXXXVII, 4^ [En collaboration avec Charles Montague.] (British Muséum : 11626. e.)

To the King, An Ode on His Majesty*s Arrivai in Holland, 1695. By Mr. Prior.

Quis desiderio sit pv4or aut Modus Tarn Chari capitis? Hor.

London, Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judge's Head near the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet. 1695. folio.

(British Muséum : 643. 1. 24./9.)

An English Ballad : In Answer to Mr. Despreaux's Pindarique Ode On the Taking of Namure. Dulce est desipere in loco. London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's Head near the Inner -Temple Gâte in Fleetstreet. ^ MDCXGV, folio, (British Muséum : 643. l. 24./11.)

Poems on Several Occasions. London : Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespeafs Head, over against Katharine-Street in the Strand, and John Barber, upon Lambeth-Hill. MDGGXVIII. folio.

(British Muséum : 643. m. 6.) PRYNNE ^William).

HistriorMastix. 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 uader the Law and Gos-

pell ; of 55 Synodes and Councels ; of 71 Fathers and Christian Writers, before the yeare of our Lord 1200; and above 150 foraigne and domestique Protestant and Popish Authors, since; of 40 Heathen PhilosopherSt HistorianSy Poets ; of many Heathen, many Christian Nations, Républiques^ Emperors, Princes, Magistrales; of sundry Apostolicall, Canonicall, imperiall Constitutions ; and of our owne English Statutes, Magistrates, Universities, Writers, Preachers. That popular Stage-playes (the very Pompes of the Divell which we renounce in Baptisme, if wc beleeve the Fathers) are sinfull, heatlienish, leivde, ungodly Spectacles , and most pemidous Corruptions; condemned in ail âges, as intolérable Mischiefes to Churches, to Republicités, to the manners, mindes, and souks of men. And Ihai the Profession of Play-poets, of Stage-players ; together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of Stage-playes, are unlawfuU, infamous and misbeseeming Christians. Ali pretences to the eontrary are hère like- Avise fuUy answered; and the unlawfulness of acting, ot beholding Academicall Enterludes, briefly disciissed ; besides sandry other particulars concerning Dancing, Dicing, Health-^rinking, etc., of which the Table will informe you. By William Prynnc, an Utter^Barrester of Lincolnes Inné. Cyprian. De Spectaculis lib. p. t4A. Fugienda sunt isfa Christianis fidelibus, ut iam fréquenter diximus, tàm vana, tàm pemiciosa, tàm sacrilega Spectacula : quœ, et si non haberent crimen, habent in se et maœimam et parum congruentem fidelibus vanitatem, Lactantius de Vero Cultu cap. xx. Vitanda ergo Spectacula omnia, non solum ne quid vitiorum pectoribus insideat, etc* sed ne cuius nos voluptatis consuetudo detineat, atque à Deo et à bonis operibus avertat. Chrysost. Hom. 38. in Matth. Tom. 2. Col. 299. B et Hom. 8. De Pœnitentia, Tom. 5. Col. 750. Immo vero, his Theatraiibus ludis eversis, non leges, sed iniquitatem evertetis, ac onmem civitatis pestem extinguetis : Etenim Theatrum, communis luxuriœ officina, publicum incontinentiœ gymnasium, cathedra pestilentiœ; pessimus locus; plurimorumque morborum plena Babylonica for» nax, etc, Augustinus De Civit. Dei. 1. 4. c. i. Si tantummodo boni et honesti homines in civitate essent, noc in rébus humams Ludi scenid esse debuisserU, London, Printed for E. A. and W. /. for Jftc^«/ Sparke^ and are to be sold at the Blue Bible, in Greene Arbour, in litUe Old Bayly. 1633. i\ {British Muséum : 82. c. 23.)

Pulpit.

The Immdrality of the English Pulpit, as Justly Subjected to the Notice of the English Stage, as The Imraorality of the Stage is, to that of the Pulpit. In a Letter to Mr. Collier. Occasion^ by the Third Chaptcr of his Book, Entitrd, A Short View ofthe Immorality of the English Stage, etc. Lomdon : Printed in the Year MDCXCVIII. 4».

{British Muséum : 116. b. 47).

PULTON (Andrew).

A True and Full Account of a Conférence Held about Religion, Between Dr. Tho. Tenison and A. Pulton one of the Masters in the Savoi. Published by Authority. London, Printed by Nathaniel Thompson at the Entrance of Old-Spring-Garden, near Charing-Cross. 1687. 4\

(British Muséum : T. 1878./1.)