Young—William Gager's Defence of Academic Stage . 627 
patience, wisdome, and secrecye, of Vlysses and Telemachus his 
sonne? lastly whoe was not glad to see Vlysses restored to his wife, 
and his goods, and his mortall enemyes overthrowne, and punsihed? 
In Riuales, what Cato might not be delyted to see the fonde be¬ 
haviour of cuntrye wooinge, expressed by cyvill men, or the 
vanytye of a bragginge soldier? by the spectacle of the drunken 
mariners, if there were any drunkard there, why might he not the 
rather detest drunkennes, by seeinge the deformytye of drunken 
actions represented? possible it was not, that any man should be 
provoked to drunkennes therby. the Lacedaemonians are com¬ 
mended for causinge their slaves, beinge drunke in deed, to be 
brought before their children, that thay seeinge the beastly vsage 
of suche men, myght the more lothe that vyce; but we muche 
better expressinge the same intent,' not with drunken, but with 
sober men, counterfettinge suche vnseemly manners, are the lesse 
therfor to be reprehended. In Hippolytus , what younge man did 
not wisshe hym selfe to be as chast as Hippolytus, if he weare 
not so allreadye? whoe did not detest the love of Phaedra ? who dide 
not approve the grave counsayle of the Nurse to her in secrett? 
or whoe coulde be the worse for her wooinge Hippolytus, in so 
generall termes? the drifte wherof, if it had byn to procure an 
honest honorable marriage, as it was covertly to allure hym to 
inceste, he might very well have listned to it. whoe wisshethe 
not that Theseus had not byn so credulus? whoe was not sorrye 
for the crwelldeathe of Hippolytus ? thes and suche <^p. 58> like, 
weare the passions that weare, or might be moved, in owre Playes, 
withowte hurte, at the leste, to any man. as in other Tragedyes; 
whoe dothe not hate the furye of Medea, the revenge of Atreus , 
the treason of Clytemnestra and VEgistus, and the crueltye of 
Nerol contraryewise, whoe dothe not pittye the rage, and the 
deathe of Hercules , the calamytye of Hecuba and her children, the 
infortunate valure of Oedipus, the murder of Agamemnon, the 
bannishment of Odauia, and suche like? and yet no man is to be 
reproched, for eyther affection. Wherfor as the younge men of 
owre house, are suche in deede, as I commended them for; so for 
me, or for any thinge donne on the Stage, by the grace of God 
thay may so remayne and continwe, and I hope shall ever be so 
reputed. And to shutt upp this poynte; as your Athenian boye 
was a wanton for prickinge owte quayles eyes withowte cause, 
yet me thinkes the sentence of the Areopagitse was toe harde and 
cruell, to iudge hym worthy of deathe for it 1 ; so thoughe evne owre 
1 The grave Athenian Iudges, Areopagitse did never punish any (I trow) for 
killing quailes to supply his want. But, when a lewd boy did picke out quailes 
eyes of a wanton humor, they iudged him worthy of death for it. [ Overthrow, 
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