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Note 392 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80] (continued 2)

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They were considered out of place in a comedy. The Catalogue of 1581 condemns todos os mais tratados onde se aplicam, vsurpam & torcem as autoridades & sentenças da sancta escriptura a sentidos profanos, graças, escarnios, fabulas, vaidades, lisonjarias, detracções, superstições, encantações & semelhantes cousas. The rules were carried out most mechanically.

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