MACHIAVEL: I count Religion but a childish Toy,
And hold there is no sinne but Ignorance.

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet

The Jew of Malta, Act 1, Prologue (c. 1590)
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This speech is often considered the Prologue, but differs from the Prologue at Court and the Prologue to the Stage, and in some editions is set apart from Act 1, in others simply at the beginning of it.

The character Machiavel, who only appears in this prologue, is Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), Italian author of The Prince, whose cut-throat, godless, political pragmatism were considered anathema to the English.