Storia do Mogor 281.18.3

281.18.3

After stating some home truths, the actors, who were Malabar Christians, declaimed against these gods and against those men [56] who acknowledge and adore them as such. I admit this was done from zeal, but it was indiscreet and out of place. This can be soon seen, and that easily enough, from the lamentable and unhappy consequences. For they [the Hindus] plucked out the performers' beards and kicked them, following this up, after more ill-treatment and buffeting, by knocking them down and pitching them under the stage into a sort of fire intended to represent hell.