Crossword-Solution: MASTIX 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Terra ista est populosa valdè, et crescunt in ea species, et abundantia gingiberis, canella, gariofoli, nuces muscata, et mastix cum aromatibus multis.

Still the manners and language in Beaumont and Fletcher's plays are extremely licentious, and it is not hard to sympathize with the objections to the theater expressed by the Puritan writer, William Prynne, who, after denouncing the long hair of the cavaliers in his tract, _The Unloveliness of Lovelocks_, attacked the stage, in 1633, with _Histrio-mastix: the Player's Scourge_; an offense for which he was fined, imprisoned, pilloried, and had his ears cropped.

Mercurio-cælico Mastix; or an Anti caveat to all such as have had the misfortune to be cheated and deluded by that great and traiterous impostor, John Booker, in answer to his frivolous pamphlet, entitled, Mercurius Cælicus; or, a Caveat to the People of England, Oxon.

Others were entitled respectively _Mercurius Britannicus_--_Mercurius Anti-Britannicus_--_Mercurius Fumigosus, a Smoaking Nocturnal_--_Mercurius Pragmaticus_--_Mercurius Anti-Pragmaticus_--_Mercurius Mercuriorum Stultissimus_--_Mercurius Insanus Insanissimus_--_Mercurius Diabolicus_--_Mercurius Mastix, faithfully lashing all Scouts, Mercuries, Posts, Spyes, and others_--_Mercurius Radamanthus, the Chief Judge of Hell, his Circuits through all the Courts of Law in England_, etc., etc.

Ben Jonson, in 1601, had attacked Dekker in _The Poetaster_, where he calls himself “Horace,” and Dekker “Cris´pinus.” Next year (1602), Dekker replied with spirit to this attack, in a comedy entitled _Satiro-mastix_, where Jonson is called “Horace, junior.” =Saturday.= To the following English sovereigns from the establishment of the Tudor dynasty, Saturday has proved a fatal day:-- HENRY VII.