The Players Scourge, Part 1 · Act 5 · Scene 8

The Players Scourge · Part 1 · Act 5 · Scene 8

p. 220SCENA OCTAVA.

THe fourth thing considerable in the manner of acting Stage-playes, is the adjuncts, the Cōcomitants which usually attend it, the first whereof, is, lascivious mixt, effeminate Dancing on the Stage, not men with women onelyonly, or rather with Whores or persons more infamous, (for such are all those females in ttNunc autem saltat virgo in cōmuni theatro iuvenum impudicorū, & non tibi magis videtur infamis quā Meretrix? Chrysost. Hom 12. in 1 Cor. 4. Tom. 4. Col. 358. C.1 Cor 4Saint Chrysostomes iudgement, who dare dance publikely on a Theater;) but even men with boyes in womans attire, representing the persons of lewde notorious Strumpets: whence I assume this 23. Argument against our publike Enterludes.Argument 23.

Those Playes which are commonly attended and set p. 221forth with lascivious, mixt, effeminate, amorous dancing; either of men with women, or youthes in womens apparell, are undoubtedly sinfull, yea utterly unlawfull unto Christians.

But all our popular Stage-playes are commonly thus attended and set forth.

Therefore they are undoubtedly sinfull, yea utterly unlawfull unto Christians.

The Major is irrefragable, because all mixt effeminate, lascivious, amorous dancing, (uuSee D. Reinolds Overthrow of Stage-playes. p. 12. to 16.136 accordingly. especially with beautifull women, or boyes most exquisitely adorned in an inescating womanish Dresse on the open Stage, where are swarmes of lustfull Spectators, whose unchaste unruly lusts are apt to be enflamed with every wanton gesture, smile or pace, xxSi fortuiti occursus ijs qui obiter mulierculum inspexerunt tantum pariunt periculi, quāto magis fuerit cum de industria congrediuntur; cùm dedi…a opera mulieres in ebrierate atque convivio, omni lascivo gestu, saltatione, cantu impudico invenes effraenes invitantes spectantur? Basil. De Ebrietate & Luxu Sermo. Tom. 1 p. 336. An quidquam est tam pronum ad libidines quàm inconditis motibus ea quae vel natura abscondit, vel disciplina velavit, membrorum operta nudare, ludere oculis, rotare cervicem, comam spargere? Merito inde iniuriam divinitatis proceditur. Quid enim verecundiae ibi potest esse, ubi saltatur strepitur, concrepatur? Ambros. De Virginibus, l. 3. Tom. 4. p. 227. B. See Chrysost. Hom. 38. in Matth. & Hom. 12 in 1 Cor. 4. accordingly.1 Cor 4much more with amorous daunces;) is utterly unlawfull unto Christians, to chaste and sober persons; as sundry Councels, Fathers, moderne Christian, with ancient Pagan Authors and Nations have resolved; though it bee now so much in use, in fashion and request among us, that many spend more houres (more dayes and nights) in dancing, then in praying, I might adde working too. If we survey the severall Councels of former ages, we shall finde, Concil. Laodicenum. Can. 53. Aphricanum. Can. 27. Agathense Can. 39. Arelatense 3. apud Surium. Concil. Tom. 1. pag. 727. Veneticum. cap. 11. Ilerdense Can. ult. Toletanum. 3. Can 23. Antisidorense. Can. 9.40. Cabilonense 1. Can. 19. Constantinopolitanum 6. in Trullo. Can. 51.62.65. Basiliense Sessio 21. Surius. Tom. 4. pag 62. & Appendix Concil. Basil. Ibid. pag. 223. Concil. Senonense, cap. 25. Ibid. pag. 742.743. Coloniense. Anno Dom. 1535. pars 2. cap. 25. & pars 9. cap. 10. Ibid. pag. 786. Synodus Moguntina. Anno Dom. 1540. cap. 60.61. Ibid. p. 870. p. 222Concil. Bituriense, 1584. & T…ronicum 1583. Synodus Carnotensis … 1526. & Lingonensis, 1404. Concilium Burdigense, 1582. Apud Bochellum. Decreta Ecclesiae Gallicanae. lib. 6. Tit. 19. & Titulus, 10. cap. 6.7. & 19. We shall finde, I say, these 19. Councels, expresly censuring under the penalty of excommunication, all mixt, effeminate, lascivious, amorous dancing; xxSee here pag. 22. & 36. accordingly.especially at Mariages, (at which they are now most frequent, though not in former times, as yyVidisti cum quāta olim honestate nuptias egerint? Audite qui satanicas pompas admiramini & statim ab initio nuptiarū honestatē dedecore afficitis Num tunc tibiae? nū tunc cymbala? nū …uncchorcae Diabolicae? Quare enim dic mihi tantum damnū statim ab initio inducis domū tuā, & eos qui in scenis & orchestris operā locant vocas, ut cū intēpestivo sumptu virginis laedas cōtinentiam, & iuvenē impudentiorē facias? Satis enim arduū erat abs que illis su…iationibus illā aetatē posse ferre moderate tēpestatem affectionū: cum autē & haec accedūt, tam quae videntur, quam quae audiuntur, maius que accenditur incendiū, & fornax concupiscentiarū magis inflāmatur, quomodo non pessum it adolescētis anima? Hinc enim omnia per…ūt & corrūpuntur, quiaab initio castitas oppugnatur eorū qui inter se conventuri sunt, & saepe primo die iuvenis oculis videns incontinentibus, telo diabolico in animo vulneratur, & puella per ea quae audit & videt captiva fit: & ab eo die posteà crescūt vulnera, maius que …it malū, &c. Hom. 56 in Gen. 29. Tom. 1. Col. 267. A.B.Gen 29Chrysostome well observeth;) or on Lords-dayes, and Holy-dayes, especially in Church-yards streets, or publike places; (a daemnable custome taken from the Pagans, as Saint zzIst… omnes infaelices & miseri qui saltationes ante ipsas etiā sanctorū basilicas & in sancto…ū ipsorū festivitatibus choros ducūt. Quare unde debuerunt Deum Laudare & mereri, inde sibi damnationē acquirū … & sicuti Christiani ad Ecclesiā veniūt, ut Pagani tamen de Ecclesia revertātur. Sermo… 33. T. 5. p. 23. D.Ambrose writes:) from the very beholding of which dancing all Clergie-men (who are now too frequent Spectators of, and sometimes Actors in such dances) are inhibited by these Councels under paine of suspention, lest they should pollute their eyes, and glut their soules with lust, and so unfit them for all holy duties. If wee peruse the Fathers, (who are all ranke Puritans in this point of Playes and Dancing;) we shall finde, not onelyonly Philo Iudaeus, De Agricultura. lib. p. 271. & De Vita Contemplativa. lib. p. 1215.1216. but likewise Ignatius, Epist. 6. ad Magnesianos. Bibl. Patrum. Tom. 1. pag. 81. D. Iustin Martyr Explic. Qu…st. à Gentibus Christianis positarum. Quaest. 107. Clemens Alexandrinus Paedagogi. l. 2. c 4.5. & l. 3. c. 11. Tertullian De Spectaculis. lib. Tatianus Cont. Graecos Oratio. Bibl, Patrum. Tom. 2. pag. 180. G. Cyprianus De Spectaculis. lib. Arnobius advers. Gentes. aaIdcirco animas misit, ut res sancti at que augustissimi nominis symphonicas agerent & fistulatorias hic artes, &c… Ibid.lib. 2. p. 75. lib. 4. p. 223p. 149.150. l. 7. p. 230. to 242. Lactantius De Vero Cultu. l. 6. c. 20. & Div…narum Instit. Epitome. c. 20. Basil. Hexaëmeron. Hom. 1. T. 1. p. 27. & Hom. 4. p. 45. De Ieiunio. Sermo. 2. p. 329. De Ebr…etate & Lux… Sermo. p. 332.336. Comment. in Isaiam. cap. 5. Tom. 3. p. 419 420, 421. &, c. 14. p. 468.469. Nazienzen Oratio. 48. p. 796.797. Oratio. 38. p. 583. & Nicet as Ibid. Oratio. adversus Mulieres. p. 994. & ad Selucum, De Recta Educatione. p. 1063. Ambrose De Paenitentia. lib. 2. c. 6. De Virginibus. lib. 3. Tom. 4. p. 226.227. De Elia & Ieiunio. **Mulieres in plateis inverecundas sub conspe…tu adolescentulorum intemperantium choros ducunt, iactantes comam, tr… hentes tunicas, scissae amictus, nudae lacer…os, plaudentes manibus, saltantes pedibus, personantes vocibus, irritantes in se iuvenum libidines motu Histrionico, petulanti oculo, dedecoroso ludibrio. Spectat corona adolescentulū, & sit miserabile Theatrum. Inter saltantium ruinas, & spectantium lapsus, caelum impuro contamin…tur aspectu, terra turpi saltatione polluitur, quae obscaenis cantibus verberatur. Quomodo patienter loquar, piè praeteriam, convenienter de…leam? Ibidem.c. 18. Epistolarum, lib. 4. Epist. 30. Sermo 33. & Comment. l. 6. in Luc. 7 v. 32. Tom. 3. p. 47. F. Cyrillus Hierusolomitanus Chatechesis Mystagogica 1. Eusebius Pamphilus, De Praeparatione Evangel. l. 2. c. 2. p. 32. & apud Damascenum. Parallel. l. 3. c. 47. S. Asterij Oratio in Festum Kalendarum. Bibl. Patrum. Tom. 4. pag. 706. Hierom. Epist. 10.c. 4. & Comment. l. 2. in Matth. 14. Tom. 6. p. 28 Epiphanius Contr. Haereses. l. 3. Tom. 2. Compendiaria Doctrina: &c… Ecclesiae Catholicae. Col. 922. E. Chrysostome Hom. 56. in Geneseos. c. 29. Tom. 1. Col. 367. A.B. Hom. in Psal. 41. Hom. 49. & 74. in Matth. Hom. 12. in 1 Cor. 4. Hom… 42. in Acta. Hom. 10. in Coloss. Hom. 8. in 1 Tim. 2.9. & Hom. 62. ad Pop…lum Antiochiae. Augustine Enarratio in Psal. 32. De Rectitudine Catholicae Conversationis Tractatus, & Contra Parmenianum. **Notum est omnibus nugaces & turpes saltationes ab Episcopis solere comp…sci. Quis unquam meminit ab hominibus, quosin auxilium Episcopi petierunt, cum Episcopis esse saltatum? Ibidem.lib. 3. c. 6. Tom. 7. pars 1. p. 88.89. Cyrillus Alexandrinus in Hesaiam. l. 1. c. 4. Tom. 1. p. 134. D. & in Ioannis Evang. l. 8. c. 5. p. 595. A.B. Theodoret, Adversus Graecos I…fideles. lib. 7. Tom. 2. p. 382.383. Socrates Eccles. Historiae. l. 7. c. 13. Gaudentius Brixiae Episc. De Lection… Evangelij. Sermo 8. Bibl. P. Tom. 4. p. 8.13. Remigius Explanatio in 1 Cor. 10.7. Bibl. P. Tom. 5. pars 3. p. 833. C. Fulgentius, Super Audivit Herodes Tetrarcha, &c. Bibl. Patrum. Tom. 6. pars 1. p. 148. Salvian p. 224De Gubernatione Dei. l. 6. Olympiodorus Enar… in Ecclesiast. c. 3. Bibl. Patrum. Tom. …1. p. 401. Gregorius Magnus Moralium. l. 13. c. 18. f…l. 78. D. Chrysologus bbOrgana tragaediā personāt secul…ē, intra… besti…, non puella, quaerit amputare, non saltare; discurrit fera, nō …aemina, sp…rgit …ubas per c…rvicem, non c… pillos, &c V…ū epu…is nostri… intersit Christus, in facie prandeatur auctoris, honestate convivij natu…a ipsa, quae nos producit, honoretur, familia vestra innocētiae tripudiet disciplina, luxus absistat, fugetur effusio; saltatricū pestis, lenocinia cantorū, voluptatū fomenta, naufragia menti… ̄, cū Herodiadis convivijs abscindantur; ut praesens gaudiū vestrū, ad laetitiam perveniat sempiternū. Ibid.Sermo 127. Isiodor Hispalensis Originum. lib. 18. c. 48.50. Beda lib. 1. in Marci Evang. c. 25. Tom. 5. Col. 133.134. & lib. 2. in Lucae Evangelium. c. 7. Tom. 5. Col. 300. Damascen Paralellorum. lib. 1. c. 76. & lib. 3. c. 47. Christianus Druthmarus Expositio in Matth…um. c. 35. Bibl. Pat…um. Tom. 9. pars 1. p. 901. F. H. Theophylactus. Enarrat. in Matth. 14. pag 34. & in Marc. 6. pag. 89. Bernardus, Parabola de Nup…ijs Filij Regis. Col. 1725. A. Edmundus Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis Speculum Ecclesiae, c. 11. Bibl. Patrum. Tom. 13. p. 359. E. Hippolitus Martyr, De Consumm…tione Mundi & Anti-Christo Oratio. Bibl. Patrum. Tom. 3. pag. 17. A. B. Paschaetius R…t…ertus in Matthaei Evangelium. l. 7. Bibl. Patrum. Tom. 9. pars 2. pag. 1070. C.D.G. Victor Antiochenus, in Evang. Marci. c. 6. Bibl. Patrum. Tom. 4. pag. 308. E. Anselmus, Enarrat. in Matth. c. 14. Tom. 1. p. 67 H. Raban…s Maurus, Exposit. in Matth. l. 5. c. 14. Operum. Tom. 5. p. 87. F. H. We shall finde, I say, these 40. Fathers, and ancient Writers, in these their severall Workes, inhibiting, condemning, all amorous, mixt, effeminate, lascivious lust-exciting Dancing, be it of men, or women, either on the Stage or elsewhere; as a ccCaue solū, ut non derelinquas fidem, ut à fornicationibus fugias, jam fidelis effectus. Hoc autē custodire ita demū poteris, si ebrietatē devitetis & convivia inhonesta, ubi turpiū faeminarū colubrini gestus concupiscentiam movent illicitā, ubi lyra sonat & tibia, ubi omnia postremò genera musicorū inter cymbala saltantiū concrepant. Infaelices illae domus sunt, quae nihil discrepant à Theatris. Auferantur quaeso universa ista de medio: sit domus baptizati & Christiani hominis immunis à choro Diaboli, sit plane humana, sit hospitalis, orationibus sanctificetur assiduis; Psalmis, hymnis, canticis que spiritualibus frequentetur, &c. Gaudentius. Brix. qua supra. Bibli. P. Tom. 4. p. 813. Chorus petulans, insanae saltationes. Faeminae lascivae Dei timoris oblitae, ignis aeterni minas nihil pendentes, abjecto servituris Christi iugo, pedibus gestientes, ac oculo petulco, risu …ascivo, ad saltationē insanientes, iuventutis intēperantiam in se provocantes; in locis sacris pro maenibus civitatis choros constituentes, ea profanaverunt ac omnium probriorum officinas reddiderunt. AErem insuper meretriceis cantibus, terram verò lascivè saltando contaminavêre, instar theatri cuiusdam adolescentium catervas sibi circumsistentes, &c. E… talibus itaque malis viri ac faeminae communes constitu…ntes choros maloque Dae…oni miseras tra…entes animas, sese invic…m libidinum telis confodiun… atque lacerant. Risus inter se histrionicos, cantus probrosos, meretricios gestus ad libidinem invitantes exercent… Rides, di… mihi, & gaudes inepta stolida que laetitia, cum lachrymas fundere ac dolere, ob ea quae admisisti fas est? Moves pedes, & insan…s saltas? Choreas duces imprudens cum genua ad Dei & Domini nostri Iesu Christi cul…um flectere oportear? Quas ego fleam? puellasne coniugij expertes, an vi…is coniunctas? Hae quidē amissa virginitate reversae sunt, illae vero pudicitiam viris minime servaverunt, &c. Prosaltatione ita que genu Deo flectatur, pro tripudio pectus pulsetur. Basil De Ebri…tate & Luxu Sermo… Tom. 1. p. 327.332, 336.dangerous ince…iary p. 225of lust; an ordinary occasion off, a preparative to much … me, adultery, wanto…nes, and such effeminate lewdnesse: a Diabolicall, at least a Pagan practice, misbeseeming all chaste, all sober Christians, especially in their Christian Festivals and Solemnities; from which the Primitive Christians (as ddNec domus limina sertis coronemus, nec oculum pascamus, nec aurem cantu demulceamus nec choreas agi…emus, &c. Verū haec prophanis, at que ethnicis festis, solennitatibus que relinquimus. Oratio 38. p. 583.584, 585. vide Ibid. Ac primum quidem fratres laetemur, non corporis splendore, non vestium permutationibus at magnificentijs, non commessationibus & ebrietatibus, quarum fructum impudicitias & cubilia, esse di licistis; nec floribus plateas coronemus, nec vnguentorum turpitudine mensas, nec vestibula ornemus, nec visibili lumine splendesc…nt domus, nec tibicinum concentu plausibus que personent; hic enim Gentilitiae festorum celebrationis mos est. Nos vero ne his rebus Deum honoremus, hymnos pro tympanis assumamus; psalmodi…m pro turpibus & flagitiosis cantibus, plausum gra…iarum actionis, ac canorā manuum …ctionem pro plausibus theatricis, gravitatem pro risu, prudentem sermonem pro ebrietate, decus & honestarem pro delicijs. Quod s… etiam te ut festum animo laeto celebrantem tripudiare convenit, tripudia …u quidem, sed non obscenae Herodiadis tripudium, ex quo Baptistae mors secuta est; verum Davidis ob arcae requietem saltitantis: quo quidem itineris sancti, ac Deo granti agilitatem, volubilitatemque mistice designari existimo. Nazienzen Orotio 48. pag. 796.797. vid. Ibidem.Gregory Nazienzen at large informes vsus) did wholy abandon, not onelyonly Drunkennesse, Luxury, Playes, and ribaldry Songs; but even Fidlers and Dancing too; as being fit for none but Ethnicke Festivals, and Herodian Banq…ets: which I would our English Nation would now at last consider: who for the most part spend the Christmas season, with other solemne Festivals, in amorous, mixt, voluptuous, unchristian, that I say not, **See Calvin, Marlorat, Aqui…as, & Lyra … in 1 Cor. 10.7.1 Cor 10:7Pagan dancing, to Gods… to Christs dishonour, Religions scandall, Chastities shipwracke, Sinnes advantage, and the eternall ruine of many pretious soules, who like those wicked ones, Iob 21.11, p. 22612, 13. doe spend their daies in pleasure, musicke, mirt…, and dancing, and in a moment goe downe to Hell, to dance with Deuils, with infernall frisking **Saltantes Satyros imitabitur Alphisebaeus. Virgil. E…loga …. pag. 14.Satyrs, in eternall flames. If we will once againe turne over the Divines and Christian Authors of p…ier times, we shall discover Alexander Alensis, Summa Theologiae. pars 4. Quaest. 11. Memb. 2. Artic. 11. sect 4. Quaest. 8. pag. 392.393. Ioaennis De Burgo, Pupilla Oculi. pars 10. c. 5. X. Alexander Fabritius, Destructorium Vitiorum. pars 4. c. 23. Angelus De Clavasio, Summa Angelica. fol. 44. b. Tit. Chorea-Bonaventure, in lib. 4. Sentent. Distinctio 16. N. 13. Astexanus De Casibus, lib. 2. Tit. 53. Ioannis Langhecrucius De Vita & Honestate Clericorum lib. 2. c. 21.22. Maffaeus Vegius, eeSaltationes nullo modo probamus, quod multorū malorū fomes & origo sint proterviores que efficiant adolescētes, & corruptiores. Ibid.De Educatione Liberorum. l. 1. c. 14. & l. 3. c. 7.12. Petrarcha De Remedio utriusque Fortunae. l. 1 Dialog. 24. Ludovicus Vives, De Eruditione Christianae Mulieris. c. 13.14. Erasmus, De Contemptu Mundi. lib. c. 7. Agrippa De Vanitate Scientiarum. c. 18.63, 64, 71. Polidor Virgil. De Inventoribus Rerum. lib. 5. c. 2. AEneas Syluius. Epist. l. 1. Epist. 166. p. 727. M. Calvin. Sermo 70.79, & 80. in Iob. Peter Martyr, Locorum Communium Classis. 2. c. 11. sect. 63. to 68. & Comment. in Iudicum. lib. c. 21. Flaccus Illyricus, with the other Century Writers. Centuria 5. Col. 724. M. Gualther in Marc 6. Homil. 51. fol. 74.75. & Hom. 186. in Math fol. 349.350. Martin Bucer, De Regno Christi Sempiterno. l. 2 c. 54. B…da, Victor Antiochenus, Glossa Ordinaris, Lyra, Calvin, Pellicanus, Bullinger, Musculus & Marlorat. Exposit. in Matth. c. 11. ver. 17. &, c. 14. v… 6.7 & on Marc. 6. v. 22. Hiperius De Ferijs Bacchanalibus, Aretius Problematum. Theolog. Tom. 1. Locus. 14. Puteani Comus, Piscator in Matth. 11. Observatio 20. pag. 120. Polanus Syntagma Theologiae Genevae. 1617. l. 10. c. 25.26. p. 665. & l. 9. c. 35. pag. 646. Simlerus in Exodus. lib. cap. …2. The Waldenses and Albigenses in France, Hungary, and Bohemia, whose censure of dancing is recorded in Lydij Waldensia. pars 2. ffAmores praetereainhonesti, choreae, impudici & libid… nosi tactus & amplexus, …udi etiam cartarum, taxilorum, & id genus alia, unde infinita ac horrenda mala peccata que iam in Deum, iam etiā in proximu prosi…iunt, prohibē …ur… sed & vestium illa multiformis ac monst…osa varietas, non admi…titur. Ibid.p. 358. and in the History of the Waldenses and Albigenses, London 1624. part 3. Booke 2. chap. 9. p. 63.64, 65, 66. To whom I shall adde these ensuing English Authors. p. 227Sebastian Brant, his **Fol. 114… 115Navis Stultifer…, or Ship of Fooles. Christopher Fetherston, his Dialogue against light, lewde, and lascivious Dancing. printed by Thomas Dawson 1582. An Anonymous Treatise of Dances, printed 1581. shewing that they are as it were accessories or appendaxis, or things annexed unto whoredome. Thomas Lovell, his Dialogue betweene Custome and Verity, concer…ing the use and Abuse of Dancing, in verse. The Church of evill men and women whereof Lucifer is the head, printed by Richard Pinso…. M. Iohn Northbrooke, his Treatise against Vaine-playes, Enterludes, and Danceing. fol. 55. to 72. M. Stephen Gosson, his School… of Abuses, M. Stubs, his Anatomy of Abuses… pag. 133. to 138. (in all which, the unlawfulnesse of Dancing is both copiously, learnedly, and purposely debated; which Treatises our English Dancers may doe well to reade, for their fuller satisfaction in this point.) D. Humfryes in his 2. Booke of Nobility, against excesse and overmuch magnificence. D. Reinolds, his Overthrow of Stage-playes. pag. 13.14… 17, 130. to 139. Reverend Bishop Babington, M. Perkins, M. Elton, M. Dod, M. Downham, M. Osmund Lake, M. Brinsly, Bishop Andrewes, D. Griffith VVilliams, and others on the 7. Commandement. M. Iohn Downeham, his Christian VVarfare, l. 3. c. 21. sect. 5. and on the 7. Commandement, in his Summe of Divinity; D. Ames, De Iure Conscie…t. l. 5. c. 39. p. 270.271. All these, with **Robertus Flolk…t, Le…tio 17…. fol. 133. Nicolaus De Clemangis. D… Novis Celebritatibus non Instituendis, pag. 145. 146, &c. M. Dik… of the Deceitfulnesse of the heart, c. 16. p. 183. M. T…mas B…ard … in his Theatre o… Gods Iudgements. Book 2. c. 36. M. Rob…rt Bolton, in his Directions …or our Comfortable W…lking with God. pag. 200. Onus Ecclesiae. c. …7. sect. 16.17. &c. 28. sect. 6. Philippus Gluverius, Germaniae Antiquae. Lugd. Bat. 16…6. lib. 1. cap. …0 p. 181.182. Antonini Chro…con. pars. 3. Tit. 18. cap. 5. sect. 4. M. Samuel Byrd, his Treatise of the use of the pleasures of this present life. cap. 4. …ol. 38.39. Thomas Beacon, his Catechism…. fol. 341.sundry others, unanimously condemne all mixt, effeminate, lasc…vious, amorous dancing, (the epidemicall pastime of our dancing, loytring age) as sinfull, hurtfull, unlawfull to all chaste, all sober Christians, as the reasons they alleage against it will more plainely evidence. For first, (say ggCalvin, Martyr, Gualt…er, Nor…hbrooke, Stubs, with others in their fore quoted places.they) as there is no allowance, no approved example of any such dancing in the Scriptures, the Primitive p. 228Church, the Fathers, or in the lives and practice of the Saints of God in former ages, (who as appeares by the fore-quoted Councels and Fathers have alwayes censured and exploded Dancing:) so the 7. Commandement (as all the now recited Expositors of it ioyntly suffragate) together with Exod. 32.18, 19. Iudg. 21.21, 23. 1 Sam. 30.16. Iob. 21.11, 12. &c. 31. Isa. 3.16. c. 5.12. c. 13.21. Ier. 31.13. Zeph. 1.9. Eccles. 9.4, 8, 9. Math. 14.6.7. Mark 6.12. Rom. 13.12, 13. 1 Cor. 6.9, 10… 11. c. 10.7, 3…, 32. Gal. 5.19, 21. Ephes. 2.2, 3. c. 4.17, 18, 19. c. 5.3, 4, 11. Phil 4.5, 8. Hebr. 11.24, 25. Iam. 1.13, 14, 15, 27. c. 4.9. c. 5.13… Col. 2.20, 21, 22. &c. 3.5, 6, 17. 1 Thes. 5.15, 22, 23. 1 Tim. 2.9 c. 5…6, 13… 2 Tim. 3.5, 6. Tit. 2.4, 5, 6. c. 3.3. 1 Pet. 1.14, 15, 16, 17, 18. c. 2.9, 11, 12. c. 3.16. c. 4.2, 3, 4. 2 Pet. 2.13, 14, 18, 19. 1 Ioh. 2.6, 15, 16, 17. Iude 3.7, 12, 13, 16, 23. & Revel. 18.7. doe either absolutely in expresse tearmes, or else by way of necessary consequence, condemne such dancing as Idolatrous, Heathenish, carnall, worldy, sensuall, and misbeseeming Christians. Secondly, the very Devill himselfe (write they) who danced in the Daughter of Herodias. Math. 14.6.7 (as hhO cōvivium Diabolicū! ô Satanae Spectaculū! ô iniquū tripudium! in Herodiadis filia Diabolus tripudiavit: ille enim effecit ut ipsa saltans placeret. Hom. 49. in Matth.Chrysostome, iiDiabolo procurante ludens caepit delectari puella, ad hoc solum ut possit occidere prophetā, &c Su…r audivit Herodes Tetrarcha, &c. Sermo. Bibl. Patrum. Tom 6. pars 1. pag 148… D.Fulgentius, kk…altat per puellā Diabolus. Enar. in Marc. 6. pag. 89.Mark 6Theophylact. and others write) was the llNullus ibi Diabolica ca… mina praesumat cātare, nec loca, nec saltationes facere; quae Pagani docente Diabolo ad invenerunt. Concil Arelatense 3. Surius. Tom. 1. p. 727. See Chrysost. Hom. 6… & 49. in Matth. Sebastianus Bra…t, his Navis Stultifera. Agrip…a De Vanitate Scient c. 18. M. Northbrooke against Vaine-playes & Dancing fol. 56. with sundry others.originall Author of this dancing, mmVbi saltus lasciuus, ibi Diabolus cerrè ad est. His tripudijs Diabolus saltat, his a Dremonum ministris homines decipiuntur, &c. Chrysost. Hom. 49. in Matth. Tom. 2. Col. 356. C. 358. C. Qui mimos & saltatores, & mulieres meretrices introducunt in convivia, Daemones & Diabolum illic vocant, & domos suos implent bellis innumerabilibus. Chrysost. Hom. in Psal. 4…. Tom. 1. Col. 735… C. Whence Hom. 56. in Gen. Tom. 1. Col. 367. …. & Hom. 9 in Colos. Tom. 4. Col. 11 91. …he stiles Dances, Choreae Diabolicae; Sattanicae saltationes.Ps 4the onelyonly instrument who excites men to it; the onelyonly person that is present at it, that is honored, pleased, and delighted with it; (he being ever-more present and president where such dancing is) as Chrysostome, nnComment. in Isaiam. cap. 14.Basil, with the other Marginall Authors have plentifully recorded. The Waldenses and Albigenses in their ooIn the History of the Waldenses & Albigenses. part 3. Book. …. c. 9. p… 63. to 68.Censure of Dancing, p. 229have unanimo…sly professed and published this truth to all the World; whose words because they are notable and punctuall to this purpose, I shall here transcribe at large, quoting some sayings of the Fathers in the Margent, to backe and evidence what they write. A Dance (as I finde their words in their Treatise against Dancing) is the Devils procession, and be that entreth into a Dance, entreth into his possession. The **Vbi salta…io, ibi Diabolus. Holk…. Lect. 17… in Lib. Sapient. vid. Ibidem.Devill is the guide, the middle, and end of the Dance. As many paces as a man maketh in Dancing, so many paces doth he make to Hell. A man sinneth in Dancing divers wayes; as in his pace, for all his steps are numbred: in his touch, in his ornaments, in his hearing, sight, speech, and other vanities. And therefore we will prove, first, by the Scripture, and afterwards by divers other Reasons, how wicked a thing it is to Dance. The first testimony we will produce, is that we reade in the Gospell, Marke 6. ppParatum est convivale theatrū: producitur lasciva carnifex faemina, quae prophetam non gladio, sed saltatione prosternat. Molli puella gressu procedit in med…ū, homici diū petitura, ut adul…e…o placitura: ali…nū in pedrbus portās sanguinē, & sceleris postulatura mercedem. Sic sal…at …t placeat sic placet ut occidat… Prônefas! ut luxir corporis sui mulier peric… lum petar, capitis alieni. Fulgentius … qua.It pleased Herod so well, that it cost Iohn Baptist his life. iiSupra. Bibl. P. Tom. 6. pars 1. p. 148. D. See Chrysologus. Ser. 127.The second is in Exodus 32. When Moses comming neere to the Congregation saw the Calfe, he cast the Tables from him, and brake them at the foote of the Mountaine, and afterwards… it cost three and twenty thousand their lives. Besides, the ornaments which women weare, are as crownes for many victories which the Devill hath gotten against the Children of God. For the Devill hath not onelyonly one sword in the Dance, but as many as there are qqForma castis dāno moribus ess… solet. Multos forma fecit adulteros, cast… ̄ nullū. Petrarch. De Remed. utrius que Fortun… l. 1. Dial. 2. & 65. l. 2. Dial. 1. See my Vnlovelinesse of Love-locks. p. 56, 57beautifull and well-adorned persons in the Dance. For the words of a woman are a glittering sword. And therefore that place is much to be feared, wherein the enemy hath so many swords, since that one onelyonly sword of his may be feared. Againe, the Devill in this place strikes with a sharpned sword: for the women come not willingly to the Dance, if they be not painted and adorned: the which painting and ornament, is as a Grindstone upon which the Devill sharpneth his sword. **See Tertullian, De Cultu Faeminaru & Cyprian De habitu Virginū, & My Love-lockes. p. 56… 57. &c.They that decke and adorne their Daughters, are like those who put dry wood to the fire, to the end it may burne the better: for such p. 230women kindle the fire of luxury in the hearts of men: as Samsons Foxes fired the Philistins corne; so these ssSi tu te sumptuosius comes, & per publicū notabiliter incedas oculos in te iuventutis i… licias, suspiria… adolescentum post te trahas, concupiscendi libidinē nutrias, peccandi fomenta, succendas, ut & ipsa non pereas, alios tamē perdas, & velut gladiū te & venenū videntibus praebeas: excusari nō potes quasi mente casta sis ac pudica. Cypr. De Habitu Virginū. Ipse enim vel… aspectus mulieris totum est veneno lerati litum. Vt primū vulnus affixit animae, ac miserae sauciavit impressione sagittae, quanto diuturniorē conficit moram, tanto periculosiorem putrilaginem in ea operatur, &c. S. Antiochus. Homil. 17. Bibl. Patrum. Tom. 7 p. 167. See Hom 18.19 & 20. accordingly.women have fire in their faces, in their gestures and actions, their glances and wanton words, by which they consume the goods of men. Againe, the Devill in the Dance useth the strongest armor that he hath, for his ttHaec est mulieris Antiqua malitia, quae …i…cit Adam de Paradisi delicijs: haec coelestes homines fecit esse terrenos: haec humanum genus misit in infernum. Haec vitam abstulit mundo propter unius arboris pomum: hoc malū homines ducit ad mortem. Hoc malum fugit Elias Propheta: Haec occidit Ioannem Baptistā: deijcit pueritiam, perdit inuentutem, illicet & inquietat emortuam …enecturem. Chrysologus Sermo 127. O malum summum & acuti …simū … Diaboli telum, mulier! Per mulierem Adam in Paradiso prostravit, &c. Chrysos… Hom. 15. & 17. ex varijs Matthiae locis Tom. 2. Col. 1003.1009. See there excellently to this purpose. & Anciochi. Hom. 17.18, 19, 20 Bibl Patr. Tom. 7. p. 167.168, 169.most powerfull armes are women; which is made plaine unto us, in that the Devill made choyce of the woman to dec…ve the first man. So did Balaam that the Children of Israel might be reiected. By a woman he made Samson, David and Salomon to sinne. The Devill tempteth men by women three manner of wayes; that is to say, by the touch, by the eye, by the eare. By these three meanes, he tempteth foolish men to Dancings, by touching their hands, beholding their beauty, hearing their songs and musicke. Againe, they that dance, breake that promise and agreement, which they have made to God in Baptisme, when their God-fathers promise for them, that they shall renounce the Devill and all his pompe; for uuDiaboli pompa cymbala, tibiae, choreae & cantica plena scortationum, & adulteriorum. Chrysost. Hom. 42. in Acta Apost. Tom. 3. Col. 6 11. C.dancing is the pompe of the Devill, and he that danceth, maintaineth his pompe, and singeth his Masse. For the woman that singeth in the dance is the Prioresse of the Devill, and those that a…swer are Clerkes, and the beholders are the Parishioners, and the musicke are the Bells, and the Fidlers, the Ministers of the Devill. For as when Hogs are strayed, if the Hog heard call one, all assemble themselves together. So the Devill causeth one woman to sing in the dance, or to play on some instrument, and presently all the Dancers gather p. 231together. Againe, in a dance a man breakes the ten Commandemen…s of God. As first, tho… shalt have to other gods but me, &c. For in dancing a man serves that person whom he most d…sires to serve; and therefore saith S. Hierom, xxPro Deo habet quisque quod colit. Comment. l. 3. in Oscae c. 14.Every mans god is that he serves and loves best. He sinnes against the second Commandement, when he make an Idoll of that he loves. Against the third, in that oathes are frequent amongst Dancers. Against the fourth, yySextum malū ludos praedictos cōcomitans, est violatio Sabb…ti: namin dominicis diebus & caeteris solemnitatibus praecipue huiusmodi lusores cōmittant praedicta peccata & mult… …li…. Alexander Fa…ritius. Destructoriū Vitierum. pars 4. cap. 23. Observa diem Sabbati, non carnaliter non Iudaicis delicijs qui ocio abutuntur ad nequitiam. Melius enim uti que tota die foderent quàm tota die salt…rent. August. En… in Psal. 3.2. Ser. 1. Tom. 8. pars 1. p. 242. De De…em Chord. lib. c. 3… Tom. 9… pars 1. p. 1149. Sed unu…quis que nostrum Sabbatizet spiritualiter, meditatione legis gaudeus… non corpo…is refocillatione & remissione, opificium Dei admirans, non saltationibus plavsibus que stupidis gaudens. Ignatius. Epist. 6. ad Magnesianos.Ps 3:2for by dancing the Sabbath day is prophaned. Against the fift, for… in the dance, the Parents are oft-times disho…ored, when many bargaines are made without their counsell. Against …h… …ixt. A man kils in dancing; for every one that standeth to please another, he kils the soule as oft as he perswadeth unto lust. Against the zzPlacuit & salta…rix. Sed quid mirum s…inter dapes largas & poculorum frequentes procellas puella lasciviens mulceat sensus, inclinet affectus? Vinum & saltatio duplex incendium voluptatis. Fulgentius. Super Audivit Herodes Tetrarcha. Se…mo… Bi… Patrum Tom. 6. par… 1. p. 148.seventh, for… the party that danceth, be he male or female committeth adultery with the party they lust after; aaMath. 5.28…Matt 5:28For he that looketh on a woman, and lusteth after her, hath already committed adultery in his heart. Against the eight Commandement, a man sinnes in dancing, when he with-draweth the heart of another from God. Against the ninth, wh…n in dancing he speakes falsly against the truth… Against the tenth, when women affect the ornaments of others, and men covet the wives, daughters, and servants of their neighbours. Againe, a man may prove how great an evill dancing is, by the multitude of sinnes that accompany those that dance… for they dance without measure or number. And therefore faith S. Augustine, the miserable Dancer knowes not, that as many paces as hee makes in dancing, so many leapes he makes to Hell. They sinne in their or…aments after a five-fold manner. First, bbFastus inest pulchris, sequitur que superbi… formam. Ovid Fastor…m l. 1. Nil non permittit mulier …ibi, turpe putat nil, Cum virides gemmas collo circumdedit, & cum Auribus extensis magnos commisit Elenchos. Iuvenal. Sa…yr. 6 p. 58.in being p. 232proud thereof. Secondly, by i…flaming the hearts of those who behold them. Thirdly, when they make those ashamed tha… have not the like ornaments giving them occasion to cov… the like. Fourthly, by making women importunate, in demanding the like ornaments of their Husbands. And fiftly, wh… they cannot obtaine them of their Husbands, they seeke to get them elsewhere by sinne. They sinne by singing and playing o… instruments, for their ccSee Antiochus. Hom. 17. Bibl. P. Tom. 7. p 167. accordingly.songs bewitch the hearts of those that heare them, with temporall delight; forgetting God, uttering nothing in their songs but lye… and vanities. And the very motion of the body which is used in dancing, g…ves testimony e…ough of evill. Thus you see, that dancing is the Devils procession, and he that entreth into a dance, entreth into the Devils possession. Of dancing the Devill is the guide, the middle, the end, and he that entreth a good and wise man into the dance, commeth forth a corrupt and wicked man. Sarah, that holy woman was none of these. Thus farre the Waldenses and Albigenses, whose words I would the dancing, wanton, (that I say ddColores vero pa…ietibus relinquamus i… que mulierculis quae …aeno suo iuvenes inrabiem agunt. Illae sane & impudē ter saltant & rideant. Greg. Nazienz…n Adversus Mulieres, &c. p. 994. C. Est mēretticia haec professio at que extremae abominationis argumentū. Nam ubipedum strepitus cum carminibus numerosis cōsentit, ibi videlicet omnino & ma… ̄ ipsarum plausus resonat, & omne genus faeditatis, & invitantur spectatores ad turpitudinē: Cyrillus Alexand in Hesaiam… l. 1. c. 3. Tom. 1. p. 1…34. D.not whorish) Herodiasses, the effeminate sinqua-pace Caranto-frisquing Gallants of our age, together with our rustique hobling Satyrs, Nymphes, and dancing Fairies, who spend their strength, **Iob 21.12, 13.Job 21:12Job 21:13their time, (especially, the Easter, Whitson, Midsommer, and Christmas season) in lewde lascivious dancing, would now seriously consider. And this would teach them, not onelyonly to abandon all such dancing themselves, but likewise to withdraw their children, especially their daughters, from the Dancing-schoole, (as S. ffQuid dicitis vos sanctae faeminae …videtis quid docere, quid etiam dedocere filias debeatis? Salter, sed adulterae filia… Quae vero pudica, quae casta est, filias suas religionem doceat, non saltationē. Ibi enim intuta verecundia, illecebra suspecta est, ubi comes deliciarū est extrema saltatio. Ab hac virgines Dei procul esse desidero. Nemo enim ut dixit quidam seculariū doctor… saltat sobrius nisi insaniat. Quod si iuxta sapientiam secul…rem, saltationis aut temulentia auctor est, aut dementia; quid divinarū Scr…pturarum cautum pu…amus exemplis, cum Ioannis praenuncius Christi saltatricis optione iugulatus, exemplo sit, plus nocuisse saltationis illecebram, qùam sacrilegi fu…oris amentiā. Ambros. De Virginibus. lib. 3. Tom. 4. p. 226.227.Ambrose long since advised all holy women, all godly p. 233Parents for to doe; admonishing them, to teach their daughters religion, not dancing, (as now **Hodie autem virgines non in virtutibus docentur, sed imbuūtur superbire, choreas ducere, inter l…scivos masculos conversare, à quibus palpari & amplecti non verecundantur, &c. Episcopus Chem…ensis Onus Ecclesia, c. 27. sect. 16.alas too many doe) that so they might keep… them chaste and honest; leaving ggSee Ecclus. 9.4… 8, 9. Feminae in plateis sub conspectu adolescen…ulorum intemperantium choros inverecundos ducunt, iactantes comam, trahentes tunicas, plaudentes manibus, saltantes pedibus, personantes vocibus, irritantes inse iuvenum libidines motu histrionico, petulanti oculo, dedecoroso ludibrio. Spectat corona adolescentulum, & fit miserabile theatrum, &c. Ambrose… De …lia & …eiunio c. 18.Sir 9:4lust-provoking dancing unto Adulteresses and their Daughters onelyonly, as well beseeming none but such: in whose roundes the Devill for the most part leades, continues, ends the Dance, as the Waldenses, and fore-quoted Fathers largely write. Thirdly, they condemne all dancing, as being, not onelyonly a common recreation of lascivious drunken Pagans & Idolaters, in their Festivals and times of publike mirth, as hhEt ducunt posito duras cratere choreas. Culta que diffusis saltat amica comis. Fastorum. l. 3. p. 51. Faemineos thyrso concitat ille choros Ib. p. 57. Ebrius incinctis philyra conuiua capillis sal…at. Ebrius ad durum formosae limen amicae Cantat, habens un…tae molli… serta comae. Idem Fastorū. l. 5. p. 89. Hiludunt, hos somnus habet, pars brachia nectit, & viridem celeri ter pede pulsat humum. Fastorū. l. 6. p. 106.Ovid, iiNec dulces amores sperne puer, neque tu choreas. Carm. l. 1. Ode 9. Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus. Ode 37. p. 39. Cressa ne careat pulchra dies nota: Neu morem in Salium fit requies pedum. Ibid. Ode 36. Quam nec ferre pedem dedecuit choris. Carm. l. 2. Ode 12. Illic bis pueri di… Numen cum teneris virginibus tuum laudantes, pede candido. In morem Salium, ter quatiens humum. Carm. l. 4. Ode 1. p. …08. Nec meretrix tibicina, cuius Ad strepitum salias terrae. Epist. l. 1 Epist. 4. p. 260. Et f…stis matrona moveri iussa diebus… De Arte Po…t. p. 304.Horace, kkForsitan expectes ut Gaditana can…ro Incipiat prurire choro, &c. Satyr. 11. p. 110. Inde virorum saltatus nigro tibicine. Satyr. 15. p. 138.Iuvenall, llTe lustrare choro sacrum tibi pascere crinem. AE…dos. l. 7. p. …57. L…etiti… ludis que viae, plausu que fremebant. Omnibus in templis matrū chorus, omnibus arae… Idem l… 8. p. 292. Vobis picta croco, & fulgentī mu…ice vestes. Desidiae cordi: iuvat indulgere choreis. Idem l. 9. p. 312. Et pedibus plaudunt choreas & carmina ducunt. Ibid. lib. 6. See Bulingerus, D… Theatro. l. …. c. 52.Virg…ll, mmVbi cymbalûm sonat vox, ubi tympana reboant. Tibicen ubi canit Pryx curvo grave calamo. Vbi capita Maenades, ubi ia…iunt haedari…erae. Vbi facra sancta acutis ululatibus agitant. Vbi suevi… illa divae volitare vaga cohors. Quo nos decet citatis celerare tripudijs. Simul haec comitibus Atys cecinit nova mulier. Leve tympanum remugit, cava cymbala recrepant, viridem citus adit Idam properante pede chorus, &c. l. 1. Carm. 63. p. 34.35.Catullus, nnAgricola assiduo primū satiatus aratro, Can…avit certo rust…a verba pede. Agricola & nimio su…usus Baccho rubēti Primus inexperta duxit ab arte choros. Vos celeb…ē cantate Deum; nā turba iocosa Obs…repit, & Phrygio tibia curva sono… Ludite…am no… iungit equos, &c. Eleg. l. 2. Eleg. 1. p. 83.84.Tibullos, p. 234ooNec minus assiduis Edonis fessa choreis, &c. Eleg. lib. 1. Eleg. 3. p. 115.Propertius, Homer, Odysseae. lib. 1. pag. 8. lib. 8. p. 214. Iliados. l. 18. p. 694.700. Dionys. H…lli…ar. Antiqu. Rom. l. 7. sect. 9. & others cited by Bulingerus, De Theatro l. 1. c. 52. together with He…iodi Ascraei, Scutum. pag. 62.64. Arnobius adversus Gentes. lib. 2. pag. 75. & l. 4. p. 147 Chrysostome, Hom. 6.49. & 74. in Matth. Concilium Arelatense. 3. Surius. Tom. 1. p 727. Concil. Aphricanum, Canon 27. Concil. Constantinop. 6. Can. 62.65. Isiodor. Hisp. Originum. l. 18. c. 50. Polydor Virgil. De Inventoribus rerum. l. 5. c. 2. Agrippa De Vanitate Scientiarum, c. 18. and infinite **See Mat. 14.6 Mark. 6.22.Matt 14:6Mark 6:22others testifie: but likewise a part of that solemne worship wherewith they courted and honored their Devill-Idols, whose Festivals and Solemnities, were for the most part spent in Playes and Dancing, as our ppSee Concil. Toletanum 3. Can. 23. & Cabilonense 1. Can. 19 Agrippa De Van. Scien. c. 54. De festis. & Polidor, Virgil, De Invent. rerum. l. 5. c. 2. accordingly.Christian Holy-dayes o…t-times are. Witnesse, Exod. 32.6.19. 1 Sam. 30.16. Iob 21.11. Isay 13.21. Mat. 14.6. Mar. 6.22. Concil. Aphricanum. Can. 27. Concil. Arelatense 3. Surius Tom. 1. p. 727. Concil. Constant. 6. Can. 62. 65. Augustine, De Civit. Dei. lib. 2. c. 20. Theophylact. Enarrat. in Marc. 6. Christianus Grammaticus Expositio in Matth. c. 35. Bibl. Patr. Tom. 9. pars 1. pag. 901. F.G.H. Sebastianus Brant, in his Navis Stutifera, Calvin and Marlorat, in 1 Cor. 10. v. 7. together with Horace, Iuvenal, Ovid, Vergil, Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Bulinger, Arnobius, Chrysostome, Polydor Virgil, Agrippa, with others, in their for…-named places, and qqArchadae Philoxeni & Timothaei disciplina instructi, cū cantibus & choreis annuos ludos Libero patri faciunt; pueri quidem quos pu… riles vocant: iuvenes, quos viriles. Omnis deni que eorū vita in… huiusmodi cantionibus versatur. Postremo spectacula ac …udos in theatris cū cātibus & choreis singulis quibus que annis publicis sumptibus adolescentes civibus praebent. Ibidem.Polybius, Historiae. l. 4. p. 340. Homer Odysseae, l. 8. p. 214. who all testifie as much. Witnesse their rrPlutarchi, Numa, Dionysius, Hallicarnas. Antiqu. Rom. lib. 2. sect. 8. & lib. 7. sect. 9. Athaeneus Dipnos. l. 14. c. 11.12. Livie, Hist. Rom. l. 1. sect. 10. Virgil. AEneid. l. 4. p. 173.174. Caelius Rhod. Antiq. Lect. l. 5, c. 3. Alexander ab Alex. Genial. Dierum. l. 4. c. 17. Agrippa De Vanit. Scient. c. 12. Plato Legum. Dial. 7. p. 881. Euripedes, Bacchae, Strabo Geogr. l. 10. B…emus, De Moribus Gen…ium. l. 3. c. 18. l. 6. c. 27. Godwins Roman Antiquities. lib… 2. sect. 2. c. 10.14.Corybantes, Curetes, Salij, and such like dancing Priests, who on the solemne festivall dayes of Cybele, Bacchus, Mars, and other Pagan-deities, danced about the streets and Mark…t place with Cymbales in their hands, in nature of our Morric…-dances, (which were derived from them) th… p. 235whole multitude accompanying them in these their dancing Morrices, with which they honoured these their Devill-Idols. Yea, witnesse the common practise of most Idolatrous Pagans, who never honoured, saluted, or offred any publike sacrifice to their Idols but with musicke, songs, and dances; dancing about their Temples and Altars, to their honour; as ssOmnis quám chorus & socij comitētur ovā tes. Et Cererem clamo…e vocent in …ecta: neque ante Falcē maturìs quisquam supponat aristis, Quam Cereri torta redimitus tempora quercu Det motus incōpositos, & carmina dicat. lib 1. Georg…. p. 39.40. Nec non Ausonij Troi ag…ns missa coloni, Versibus incomptis ludunt risu que soluto, Ora que corticibus sumunt horrenda cavatis. Et te Bacche vocant per carmina laeta tibique Oscilla ex alta suspendunt mollia pinu. Georg. l. 2. p. 56.57. Aut ante or… Deûm pingues spaciatur ad Aras, Instaurat que diem donis. AEneidos. l. 4 p. 170. Instaurat que choros misti que Altaria circum Cretes que , Dryopes que fremunt, picti que Agathyrsi. Ibid. p. 177. Euae Bacche fremens, solum te virgine dignum Vociferans; etenim molles tibi sumere thyrsos, Te Iustrare choro. AEneid l. 7. p. 257. Pandite… nunc Helicona deae, cantus que movete. Ibid. p. …65. Dona ferunt, cumulant que oneratis lancibus Aras. Tum Salij ad cantus, incensa Altaria circum Populcis adsunt incincti tempora ramis. Hic iuvenum chorus, ille senum, qui carmine laudes Herculeas, & facta ferunt. AEneid. l. 8. p. 280. Laetitia, Iudis que viae, plausu que fremebant. Omnibus in templis matrum chorus; omnibus Arae. Ante Aras terram caesi stravêre iuvenci. Ibid p. 292. See ^l before.Virgil, ttArdua iam dudum rosonat tinnitibus Ida, &c. Hoc Curetes habent, hoc Corybantes opus. Cymbala progaleis, pro scutis tympana pulsant. Tibia dat Phrygios ut dedit ante modos. Fastorum l. 4. p. 64. Nos quo que tangit honos; festis gaudemus & aris. Turba que caelestes ambitiosa sumus. Ebrius incinctis philyra conviva capillis saltat, &c. Fastorum. lib. 5. p. 88.89. Cantabat fanis, cantabat tibia …udis, &c. Quaeritur in scena cava tibia; quaeritur aris. Fastorum. l. 6. p. 114. See p. 207. See ^h before.Ovid, uuOmnis saltatio, & omnes consentus consecrentur constitutis primum festivitatibus, supputatione facta in annum quod singulis temporibus & singulis Dijs ac ipsorum filijs & daemonibus fieri convenit. Posteà verò constituatur, qu…m cantilenam in singulis Deorum sacrificijs canere oporteat, & quibus choreis sacrificium quod tunc fit, honorare. Et primū quidem aliquas constituere oportet: quae vero constituta… fuerint, parcis & alijs omnibus dijs sacrificio f…cto, in communi omnes cives libando consecrare singulas cantilenas singulis dijs & alijs. Si vero pra…ter has ipsas, quis al…os Deorum Hymnos aut choreas adducat, sacerdotes utrius que sexus, una cum legum custodibus, sanctè & secundum legem cohibe…nt, &c. In nostris locis & ferè in omnibus, ut in summa dicam civitatibus, hoc fi…ri solet. Quum enim Magistratus aliquis publicè sacrificat, postea choreis non unus, sed chororum multitudo venit, & non procul ab Aris, sed aliqu…ndo iuxta ipsas, omnibus convitijs sacra perfundun…, & verbis, & rythmis, & luctuosissimis harmonijs, audientium animos exasperantes: & qui civitat…m quae sacrificavit ad lachrymas maxim… concitare potest is victoriae praemia fert. Legum. Dial. 7. p. 874.875. vid. Ibid.Plato, xxGeogr. l 10. Tom. 2. p. 19. & p. 48. to 62.74, 75, 76.Strabo, yyDe Expeditione Cyri Hist. l. 6. p. 370.371.Zenophon, zzCarm. l. 1 Ode 57. & l. 4. Ode 1. p. 108. See ⁱ before.Horace, aaSatyr. 6. p. 63. to 67. & Satyr. 15. p. 138.Iuvenal, bbLib. 1. Carm. Nuptiale. 63. p. 34.35.Catullus, p. 236ccEl…giarum. l. 2. Eleg. 1. p. 82.83.…bullus, ddPoliticorū l. 7. c. 17. p 501.502 & l. 8. c. 6.7.Aristotle, eeDipnosoph. l. 14 c. 11.12.Ath…naeus, Alexander ab Alexandro. Genialium. Dierum. l. 4. c. 13. Caelius Rhodiginus Antiqu Lectionum l. 5. c. 3. Agrippa De Vanitate Scientiarum. cap. 18. Purchas Pilgr. Booke 5. chap. 1. Bulingerus De Theatro. lib. 1. cap. 52. Euripidis Bacchae, thorowout, and sundry others testifie: from which practice, ffSee Concil. Ar…latense 3. Surius Tom. 1. pag. 727. Concil. Aphircanum. Can. 25.27. Tol…tanū 3. Can. 23. Cabilonense 1. Can. 19. Constantinop. 6. Can. 62 65. accordingly.our dancing at Wakes, (a name, an abuse… derived from the ancient Vigils) or Church-a…es, and our late crouching and ducking unto new-erected Altars (a Ceremony much in use with Idolatrous ggIpse tibi ad tu… templa feram solennia dona, Et statuam ante Aras aurata frōte iuvencū C…dentem, &c. Virgil. AEneid. l. 9. pag. 313. Praesenti tibi maturos largimur honores, Iurandas que tuū per nomen ponimus a…as. Horace Epist l. 2. Epist. 1. p. 278. See Iuven…l Satyr. 12.13. p. 115.119, 12…. Alexander ab Alexan. l. 4. c. 17. Strabo Geogr l. 10. See My Appendix to Lame Giles his Haultings p. 15.16.Pagans heretofor…) have beene originally derived. Since therefore its evident by all these testimonies, that dancing had its o…iginall from …dolatry, and Idolatrous drunken Pagans, who consecrated dances to their Idols, and went dancing to their Temples, their Altars, when they sacrificed to them in their solemne Festivals… and dayes of mirth, they hence conclude them, to be unlawfull unto Christians; who must not imitate them in their Idolatrous Pagan customes, as I have here largely proved, in the first and second Act, on which you may reflect. Fourthly, dancing, write they, (yea even in hhRegina saltat; & quan…ò pulchrius salt…vit, tanto pejus Turpè enim est Reginae aliquid indecorum dextrè facere. Theophylact. Enar. … Matth. 14 p. 34. See Chrysostom. Hom. 49. in Matth.Matt 14Queenes themselves, and the very greatest persons, who are commonly most devoted to it) hath beene alwayes scandalous and of ill report, among the Saints of God; as the fore-going Councels, Fathers, and Authors plentifully evidence; who have condemned dancing, iiSee here reason 1.2. & 3.as a pompe, a vanity of this wicked world; an invention, yea, a worke of Satan; which Christian have renounced in their baptismes a recreation more fit fo… …agans, Whores, and Drunkards, then for Christians: therefore, a Christian, (who is onelyonly kkPhil. 4.8.Phil 4:8to follow things of good report, and to llRom. 12.17. c. 13.13. 1 Cor. 7.35. 2 Cor. 8.21. 1 Thes. 4.12. 1 Pet. 2.12.Rom 12:171 Cor 7:352 Cor 8:211 Thess 4:121 Pet 2:12provide things honest in the sight of all men; mm1 Cor. 10.32, 33.1 Cor 10:321 Cor 10:33not giving any offence or scandall to Gods Church or people;) may not practise it. Fif…ly, dancing, say they, p. 237is not onelyonly an nnEn…rvant animos cytharae, cātus que lyrae que . Et vox, & numeris Brachia mota suis. Ovid R…me…io Amoris. l. 2. p. 230. Vobis picta croco, & fulgē …es murice vestes: Desidiae cordi; iuvat indulgere choreis. Et tunica manicas, & habent redimicula mitrae. O verè Phygiae (neque enim Phryges) ite per al…a Dyndima, ubi assuetis bifarem dat tibia cantum. Tympana vos buxus que vocat. Berecynthia matris Idaeae; sinite arma viris, & cedite ferro. Virgil l 9. AEneid. p. 313.313…effeminate recreation, en…eebling the mindes, yea, depraving the lives and maners of men, a su…ficient argument of its unlawfulnesse: but it likewise irritates and ingenders noysome lusts, it occasions much dalliance, chambering, wantonnesse, whoredome and adultery, bo…h in the Dancers and Spectators. This daily experience; this all the fore-quoted Authors witnesse, a…d among the rest, ooDe Remedio u…r…us que Fortunae. l. 1. Dial. 24…Petrarcha, and ppDe Vanitate Scientiarū. c. 18 See M North-brookes Treatise against Vaine-Pl…yes, & Dancing. f. 65.66, 67.Agrippa have most lively expressed it. To musicke (write they) belongs the art of Dancing, very acceptable to Maidens and Lovers, which they learne with great care, and without tediousnesse doe prolo…g it untill mid-night, and with great diligence they devise to dance with fained gestures, and with measurable pac…s to the sound of the Cymball, Harpe, or Flute, and doe as they thinke very wisely and subtilly, …he fond…st thing of all other, & but little differing from madnesse; which except it were tempered with the sound of instruments, and as it is said, if vanity did not commend vanity, there should be no sight more ridiculous, nor yet more out of order th…n dancing; qqHaec laxamen petulantiae, amica sceleris, incitamen libidinis, hostis pudicitiae, ac ludus probis omnibus indignus Saep… ibi matrona, ut ait Petrarcha, diu servatū decus perdidit, saepe infaelix virguncul… ibi didicit, quod melius ignorasset, multarū ibi f…a pe…ijt pudor que . Multae inde do…ū impud…cae, plures ambiguae redier…, castior autem nulla: pudicitiā choreis saepe stratā, semper que impuls…m opp…gnatam que videmus… &c. A…rippa. Ibid. See Pauli Wan. Sermo. 4. & 5.this is a liberty to wantonnesse, a friend to wickednesse, and a provocation to …leshly lust, an enemy to chasti…y, and a pastime unworthy of all honest persons. There oftentimes a Matron hath lost her long-preserved honour: oftentimes the unhappy Maiden hath there learned that, whereof she had beene bette… to be ignorant: there the fame and honesty of infinite women is lost. Infinite from thence have returned home unch…ste, many with a doubtfull minde, but none chaste in thought and deed. And we have seene that woman-like honesty in dancing hath beene throwne downe to the ground, and alwayes vehemently provoked and assaulted. rrSee Macrob…s Satur. l. 3 c. 14. accordingly.The ancient Romanes, grave men, by reason of their wisedome and …uthority, did refuse all dancing, and no honest p. 238Matrone was commended among them for dancing. ssItaque saltationem necesse est omnium vitiorum esse postremū: ne que enim facil… dictu quae mala pariant colloquia & tactus. Saltatur inconditis gestibus, & monstroso pedum strepitu, ad molles pulsationes, ad lascivas cantilenas, ad obscaena carmina, contrectantur matronae & puel…ae impudicis manibus & basijs, meretricijs que cōplexibus; & quae abscondit natura, velavit modestia, ipsa lascivia tunc saepènudantur, ludi tegmine obducitur scelus. Exercitium profectò, non à caelis exortum, sed à malis Daemonibus excogitatum in inivriam Divinitatis. Agrippa. Ibidem.Dancing is the vilest vice of all, and truely it cannot easily be said, what mischiefes the sight and hearing doe receive thereby, which afterwards be the causes of communication & embracing. They dance with disordinate gestures, with monstrous th…mping of the feete, to pleasant sounds, to wanton songs, to dishonest verses; Maydens and Matrons are there groped with unchaste hands; yea, kissed and dishonestly embraced: the things which nature hath hidden, and modesty covered, are there oftentimes by meanes of lasciviousnesse made naked, and ribauldry under the colour of Pastime is dissembled. An exercise doubtlesse, not discended from Heaven (I may adde, not leading to Heaven, into which we must passe thorow tt-2 Tim. 3.11, 12. Acts 14.22. 1 Thes. 34. 2 Thes. 1.4. Revel. 1.7. cap. 7.14. Acts 20.19, 31. 2 Cor… 2.4. cap. 6.6. v. 11.27.2 Tim 3:112 Tim 3:12Acts 14:222 Thess 1:4Rev 1:7Acts 20:19Acts 20:312 Cor 2:4many afflictions, tribulations, prayers, teares, fastings; thorow a uuMatth. 7.13, 14.Matt 7:13Matt 7:14straite, a narrow, not broad or pleasant way, as Dancing, Stage-playes, and such Pastimes are:) but by the Devils of Hell devised, to the iniury of the Divinity, when the people of Israel erected a Calfe, in the Desert, who after they had done sacrifice, begun to eate and drinke, and afterwards rose up to sport themselves, and singing, danced in a…round. Thus they: **See Reason 3. & Calvin, Marlorat, & Lyra, in 1 Cor. 10.7. accordingly.1 Cor 10:7thus all the other fore-quoted Authors. Hence Alexander Fabritius, an ancient English Writer, stiles Dancing, xxLudus lascivae vanitatis & voluptatis cuiusmodi sunt choreae, tripudia, interludia, &c. Destructoriū Vitiorum. pars 4. cap. 23. B.A pastime of lascivious vanity and voluptuousnesse. And Iohn de Burgo, Chancellor of Cambridge in King Henry the VI. his Raigne, in his Pupilla Oculi. Partis vltimae. cap. vlt. De Peccatis mortalibus. X. De Ducentibus choreis. writes, yyQuod si hoc faci…nt causa incitandi ipsosmet, vel alios ad libidinem, peccant mortaliter: & etiam si hoc faciant ex consuetudine, sed non corrupta intention…, non audeo eos excus…re à peccato mortali cùm, immergant se periculo alios provocandi ad libidinem, & ipso facto videntur choreas approbare, & suo exemplo alijs authoritatem dare similia faciendi. Ibidem.That those who dance to incite themselves or others unto lust, yea those likewise who dance out of custome, sin mortally, though they do it not with a corrupt intent. p. 239Neither dare I (saith he) to excuse these from a mortall sinne, since by dancing they plung themselves into this …anger, of provoking others unto lust, and ipso facto seeme to approve of dancing, and by their example give authority to others to doe the like. VponUpon this very reason our moderne Writers on the Commandement…, zzSee Bp. Babington, Perkins, D…d, Downeham, Lake, Elton, Brinsly, Williams, Andrewes, & Ames, on the 7. Commandement, accordingly.make dancing a sinne against the 7. Commandement, because it is a common occasion both of actuall and mentall adultery; as their fore-mentioned Authorities at large declare, Therefore it must needs be unlawfull unto Christians, aaEphes. 5.3, 4.Eph 5:3Eph 5:4among whom adultery, fornication and uncleanesse are not so much as to be named, much lesse the manifest occasions of them entertained. Fiftly, dancing bbSee D. Ames, De Iure Conscientiae. l. 5. c. 39. p. 270.271.write they, is altogether incompatible with that universall cc1 Pet 1.14, 15, 16. 2 Pet. 3.11.1 Pet 1:141 Pet 1:151 Pet 1:162 Pet 3:11holinesse, ddEph. 5.3.4. 1 Tim. 2.9, 15. c. 3.2 Phil. 4.5.Eph 5:3Eph 5:41 Tim 2:91 Tim 2:15Phil 4:5modesty, ee1 Tim. 3.8. Tit. 2.2, 7.1 Tim 3:8Titus 2:2Titus 2:7gravity, ff1 Thes. 5.6.8 1 Tim. 2.9, 15. c. 3.2 Tit. 2.2, 6.12. 1 Pet. 1.13. c. 4.7. c. 581 Thess 5:61 Thess 5:81 Tim 2:91 Tim 2:15Titus 2:2Titus 2:6Titus 2:121 Pet 1:13temperance, and sobriety, which God requires in all chaste, all gracious Christians; it being a recreation, (as ggNemo fere saltat sobrius nisi forte insanit, ne que in solitudine ne que in convivio honesto & moderato: intempestivi convivij, amaeni loci, multarum deliciarum comes est extrema saltatio: quod necesse est omnium viciorum esse postremū. Oratio pro Muraena Operum. Tom. 1. pag. 459.Cicero, hhEbrius incinctis philyra conviva capillis, Saltat, & imprudens utitur arte meri. Fastorum. lib. 5. pag. 89. Et iactant faciles ad sua verba manus. Et ducunt posito duras cratere choreas, Culta que diffusa saltat amica coma. Cum redeunt, titubant, & sunt spectacula vulgi. Fastorum. l. 3. pag. 51.Ovid, iiEbria famosa saltat lasciva taberna, Ad cubitum, raucos excutiens calamos. Copa. p. 509.Virgil, together with kkDe Elia & Ie…nio. cap 18. De Virginibus l. 3. Tom. 4. p. 226.227.Ambrose, llDe Ebrietate & Luxu Sermo.Basil, mmHom. 49 in Matth.Chrysostome, nnDe Remed. utrius que …ortunae. lib. 1. Dial. 24.Petrarcha, ooDe Vanit. Scientiarum, cap 18.Agrippa, ppLocorum Com. Classis. 2. cap. 11. sect. 63. to 68. & Comment. in Iudicum. lib. c. 21.Peter Martyr, qqTreatise against Vaine-Playes and Dancing. fol. 67.M. Northbrooke, rrAnatomy of Abuses. pag 125.M. Stubs, and (**See Ludovicus Vives, De Eruditione Mulieris Christianae. l. 1. c. 14… & Sebastianus Brant, Navis Stutifera. sundry others fore-quoted) testifie which none but Redlams, Drunkards, Fooles, or infamous persons use, in their riotous, unseasonable voluptuous feasts and meetings; which proves it the very worst and last of all vices; it being quite excluded from all private, honest, civill banquets; yea, wholy abandoned by all temperate, chaste, and sober persons. Therefore it must needs be unseemely, unlawfull p. 240unto Christians. Sixtly, Dancing, (say they) as now it is used, ttSee Peter Maryr, Gualtber, Calvin, Agrippa, Vives, Erasmus, Petrarcha, The Waldenses, Brant, Fetherstone, Love…, Nor…hbrooke, & St…bs, in their places forequoted. p 226.227.is an occasion of much wantonnesse, lewdnesse, and lasciviousnesse; of much riot, epicurisme, effeminacy, voluptuousnesse; of much prodigall expence, much losse of time, much superfluity, costlinesse, and new-fanglednesse in apparell, much pride and haughtinesse, much impudency and immodesty, especially in the female sex; whom dancing doth of all others least beseeme. Besides, it with-drawes young Gentlemen from their Studies to the Dancing-Schoole, which ingrosseth all their time; it avocates young Gentlewomen from their Needles, and such like honest imployments, and for the most part makes them idle Huswives, **Hinc itaque apparet qualis fuerit aulae Herodis disciplina… nam etsi pleri que saltádi lice…tiam tunc …ibi permitterant, meretriciae tamen lasciviae turpis nota fuit nubilis puellae saltatio. Certe quicun que habuerunt curam honestae gravitatis, damnarūt saltationes praesertim in puella. Verum impura Herodias Solomen filiam, ne sibi dedecori esset, ad mores suos īta formaverat. Hoc igitur cō veniebat scorti filiae. Calvin & Marlorat. in Matth. 14 v. 6.Matt 14:6Whores, or Spend-thrifts ever after: It drawes men on, and traines them up to nought but idlenesse, the nursery of all other vices: it glues mens hearts to carnall pleasures and delights of sinne, and makes them carelesse of Gods service, unmindefull of their own… salvation, or of the day of death and iudg…ment, which should be alwayes fixed in their most serious meditations. ttSee Here, Act. 6. Scene 13. thorowout accordingly. & pag. 231.Acts 6More-over, it quite unfits men, and oft with-drawes them from the religious performance of holy duties, many Lords-dayes, most other Holy-dayes, (set apart for Gods peculiar worship) being oft-times grosly prophaned, if not wholy spent on lewde lascivious dancing, and such Heathenish pastimes: as the Councell of Affricke, Can. 18. the 4. Councell of Carthage, Can. 88. the 3. Councell of Toledo, Canon 23. The 6. Councell of Constantinople, Canon 66. The Provinciall Councell of Colen. Anno Dom. 1536. pars 9. cap. 9.10. The Provinciall Councell of Me…z. Anno Dom. 1549. cap. 61. Lib. 6. Capit. Caroli Magni. apud Bochelium. Decr…ta. Eccles. Gal. lib. 4. Tit. 10. cap. 6. Iustinian. Codic. l. 3. Tit. 12. De Ferijs, Lex. 10. De Fest. Ignatius Ep. 6. ad Magnesianos. Clemens Romanus. Apost. Constit. l. 2. c. 64.65. Clemens Alexandrinus. Paedagogi. lib. 3. cap. 11. Augustine Enarrat in Psal. 32. Cyrillus Alexandrinus, in Ioannis Evangelium. l. 8. c. 5. p. 595. S. Asterius in Festum Kalendarum. Oratio. Bibl. Patrum. Tom. 4. p. 705.706. Salvian, De Gubernatione Dei. lib. 6. p. 195.196. Leo. 1. Sermo in Octava Petri & Pauli. p. 241cap. 5. fol. 165. Eusebius, apud Damascenum… Parallelorum. l. 3, c. 47. Agrippa De Vanitate Scient…arum. c. 59. De Festis. Polidor Virgil De Inventoribus rerum. l. 5. c. 2. pag. 385.386. Episcopus Chemnensis, O…us Ecclesiae. c. 28. sect. 6. Bonaventure in lib. 4. Sententiarum. Distinctio 16. Numb. 13. and sundry other of the Schoolemen t…ere. Alexander Fabritius Destructorium Vitiorum. pars 3. c. 10. & 4. c. 23. The Walden…es. History of the Waldenses & Albigenses. pars 3. l. 2. c. 9. p. 64. 65, 66. Bp. Latymer in his Sermons. fol. 13. The 3. Blast of Retrait from Playes and Theaters. pag. 62. to 68. M. Brinsly in his 3. part of the true Watch. chap. 11. Abomination 30. pag. 302. Astexanus De Casibus. l. 2. Tit. 53. Alexander Alensis. Summa Theologiae pars 4. Quaest. 11. M. 2. Artic. 11. sect. 4. Quaest. 8. pag. 392.393. with sundry others complaine: who doe likewise all of them unanimously condemne dancing, as an unlawfull exercise and pastime, especially on **M. Northbrookes Treatise against Playes & Dancing. fol. 68. Thomas Lovel, his Dialogue against Dancing. See Iohn Field his Declaratiō of Gods Iudgment at Paris Garden. The Treatise against the use and abuse of Dancing. Anno 1581. to this purpose. Thomas Beacon, in his Catechisme. fol. 341.Lords-dayes, and Holy-dayes; which circumstance of time, (as they all conclude) makes dancing unavoydably sinfull and abominable. Which I observe the rather, to confute the gro…se mistake of some licentious Libertines; who hold dancing on Lords-dayes, to be no **Giles Widdowes, in his Sermon at Carfolkes in Oxford, Iuly the 5. 1631. on Psal. 68. v. 25. wherein he openly & purposely iustified the lawfulnesse of mixt dancing at Churchales and Maypoles, even upon the Lords-day, in the Pulpit, and then confirmed his doctrine by his practice.Ps 68:25unlawfull exercise, sport, or pastime, within the pious Statute of 1. Caroli. cap. 1. within which there is no question, but dancing is included; it being an exercise which all the fore-quoted Councels, Fathers, and Christian Authors, have unanimously condemned, as unlawfull, especially on the Sabbath, or Lords-day, as we stile it; which our owne uuOf the Time and place of Prayer. part 1. p. 124.1…5.Homelies, zzQueene Eliz. Iniunctions. Iniunct. 20. & Canon 13.and Canons enioyne us to spend, in hearing the Word of God read and taught; in private and publike prayers; in acknowledging our offences to God, and amendment of the same; in reconciling our selves charitably to our neighbours where displeasure hath beene, in oftentimes receiving the Communion of the Body and Blood of Chri…t; in visiting of the poore and sicke, using all godly and sober conversation: informing us withall; yyThe 1. part of the Serm… of the Time and place of Prayer. p. 125.126.That God hath p. 242given expresse charge to all men, that upon the Sabbath day, they should cease from all weekely and worke day labour, to the intent, that like as God himselfe wrought sixe dayes, and rested the seventh, and blessed and sanctified it, and consecrated it to quietnesse and rest from labour; even so Gods obedient people should use the Sunday holylie, and rest from their common and daily businesse, and also give themselves WHOLLY to heavenly exercises of Gods true religion and service. But alas (quoth the Homely) all these notwithstanding, it is lamentable to see the wicked boldnes of those that will be counted Gods people, who passe nothing at all of keeping and hallowing the Sunday. And these people are of two sorts. zzSee Concilium Laodicenū Can. 29. Tarraconēse. Can. 4.7. Aurelianense 3. Can. 27. Matisconense 2. Can. 1. Antisiodorense. Can. 16. Cabilonense 1. Can. 18. Constātinopolitanū 6. Can. 8. & Canones in Trullo. 89.90 Conciliū apud Palatium Vernis. Can. 14. Foro-Iuliense. Can. 13. Arelatense 4. Can. 16. Turonense 3. Can. 40. Moguntinum. Anno. 813. Can. 25.37. Synodus Rhemensis. An. 813. Can. 35. Concil. Parisiense. lib. 1. cap. 50. lib. 3. cap. 5. & 19. Synodus Aquisgranensis sub, Lud. Pio. Can. 17.21. Concil. Triburiense. Can. 35. Basiliense Sess. 19. Surius Concil. Tom. 4. pag. 57. Refo…matio Cleri Germaniae. cap. 20. Ibid. p. 714. Synodus Augustensis. An. 1548. Ibid. p. 808. Synodus Moguntina. Anno. 1549. cap. 98. Ibid. p. 879 together with Capitula Caroli Magni, Synodus Andagau. Synodus Galonis & Simonis Legator. Concilium Bituriense. An. 1584. & Synodus Paris. 1557. quoted by Bochellus. Decretorum, Ecclesiae Gallic. lib. 4. Tit. 10. p. 592. to 599. which inhibit all workes of Tillage, Husbandry, all Faires, Markets, Pleas, and other kinde of labour, together with all sports and pastimes on the Lords-day.The one sort, if there be businesse to doe, though there be no extreme need, they must not spare the Sunday: they must ride and iourny on the Sunday, &c. they must keepe Markets and Faires on the Sunday; finally, they use all dayes alike, Working-dayes and Holy-dayes are all one. The other sort is worse: For although they will not travell nor labour on the Sunday as they doe on the weeke day, yet they will not rest in holinesse, as God commandeth: but they rest in ungodlinesse and filthinesse, prancing in th…ir pride; pranking and pricking, pointing and painting themselves to be gorgeous and gay; they rest in excesse and superfluity, in gluttony and drunkennesse like Rats and Swine: they rest in brawling and rayling, in quarrelling and fighting: they rest **VnderUnder which Dancing is included: or if not, yet at least it is as unlawfull as it, or any of the particulars here specified; and therefore as much condemned by this Homely as they.in wantonnesse, in toyish talking, in filthy fleshlinesse, so that it doth too evidently appeare, that God is more dishonoured, and p. 243the Devill better served on the Sunday, then upon all the daies in the weeke besides, And I assure you the beasts which are commanded to rest on the Sunday, honour God better then this kinde of people: For they offend not God, they breake not their holy-dayes. Wherefore O ye people of God, lay your hands upon your hearts, repent and amend this grievous and dangerous wickednesse, stand in awe of the Commandement of God himselfe, be not disobedient to the godly order of Christs Church, used and kept from the Apostles time untill this day. Feare the displeasure and iust plagues of Almighty God if ye be negligent. Dancing therefore on the Lords-day (which no godly Christians in the Primitive Church did once use for ought we read,) is an unlawfull exercise, if our Homelies or Canons may be iudges; therefore an unlawfull pastime punishable by the Statute of 1. Caroli. cap. 1. which intended to suppresse dancing on the Lords-day, as well as Beare-bayting, Bull-bayting, Enterludes, and Common Playes; which were not so rife, so common as dancing, when this law was first inacted. Finally, this dancing as the aaSee hore pag. 231.Waldenses teach, doth lead men on to the breach of all the ten Commandements, and to sundry inevitable sinnes and mischiefes: In all these respects therefore, they conclude it to bee evill, and unbeseeming Christians. Seventhly, Dancing (as Peter Martyr, Vi…es, Agrippa, Erasmus, Brant, Lovell, Northbrooke, Stubs, Gualther, and others in their fore-alleaged places testifie) is for the most part attended with many amorous smiles, lascivious gestures, wanton complements, lustfull embracements, loose behaviour, **In est & in osculis inanibus dulcis voluptas. Theocrit… Caprarius. Apud Poetas minores. p. 22. See Pauli Wan. Sermo 10.unchaste kisses, meretricious scurrilous Songs and Sonnets, effeminate musicke, lust-provoking attire, obscene discourses, ridiculous Love-prankes, lewde companions; all which are as so many severall strong solicitations to whoredome and uncleanesse, and bb1 Cor …0.7.8 1 Pet. 2.11. Tit. 3.3. Ephes. 4.17.19.1 Pet 2:11Titus 3:3Eph 4:17Eph 4:19savour onelyonly of sensuallity of raging fleshly lusts, which warre against the soule. Therefore its cc1 Pet. 2.11. Ephes. 5.11. 1 Thes. 5.23.1 Pet 2:11Eph 5:111 Thess 5:23wholly to be abandoned of all good Christians. Eightly, this kkSee Petrarcha, Calvin, Martyr, Gualther, Erasmus, Vives, Brant, Lovell, Stubs, & Northbrooke, in their fore-quoted places.Dancing serves to no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all; it neither glorifies God, nor benefits men in p. 244soule, in body, in estate, or reputation: it issues onelyonly from the imbred pravity, vanity, wantonnesse, incontinency, pride, prophanesse, or madnesse of mens depraved natures; and it serves onelyonly llRom. 13.14.Rom 13:14to make provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof; whereas mmGal. 5.24. c. 6.14. Col. 3.5.Gal 5:24Col 3:5all those who are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts thereof: Therefore it must needs be unlawfull unto Christians. Ninthly, this kinde of dancing, as it was never in use among the P…imitiue Christians, nnPhil. 3.17, 18. 1 Cor. 4.16. c. 11.1. 1 Thes. 2 14. 2 Thes. 3.7 9. Heb. 6.12.Phil 3:17Phil 3:181 Cor 4:161 Thess 2:142 Thess 3:7Heb 6:12whose footsteps we should tread in: so it is quite out of the road of Christianity, and salvation. Wee never reade of any Christians that went dancing into Heaven; though we read of ooIob 21.11, 12, 13… Isay 5.12, 13, 14. Amos 6.1. to 12. See D. Beards Theatre of Gods Iudgments. part 2. c. 36. Edit. vlt. p. 431, to 436. & Froyssards Chronicle. vol. 4. ch. 193.194.Job 21:11Job 21:12Job 21:13Isa 5:12Isa 5:13Isa 5:14Amos 6:1–12sundry wicked ones who have gone dancing downe to Hell. The way to Heaven is too steepe, too narrow for men to dance in, and keepe revell rout: No way is large or smooth enough for capering Roisters, for iumping, skipping, dancing Dames, but that ppMatth. 7.13.Matt 7:13broad beaten pleasant road that leades to Hell. The gate of Heaven is to qqmatth. 7.13. Luk. 13.24.Luke 13:24strait, the way to blisse to narrow, for whole roundes, whole troopes of Dancers to march in together: Men never went as yet by multitudes, much lesse by Morrice-dancing troopes to Heaven: Alas there are rrMatth. 7.14.Matt 7:14but few who finde that narrow way; they scarce goe two together: and those few what are they? Not dancers, but ssIsay 49.11. c. 61.2, 3. Zech 12 10, 11, 12. Ioel 2.12. Amos 8.10.Isa 49:11Zech 12:10Zech 12:11Zech 12:12Joel 2:12Amos 8:10mourners: not laughers, but ttIer. 31.9, 15. Numb. 25.6. 2 Sam. 15.30. Iob 16.16. Psal. 6.8. Psal. 102.9. Ioel. 2.12. Ezra 3.12. c. 10.1. Isay 2.13. Ier. 9.1. c. 13.7.Jer 31:9Jer 31:15Num 25:62 Sam 15:30Job 16:16Ps 6:8Ps 102:9Joel 2:12Ezra 3:12Isa 2:13Jer 9:1weepers; whose tune is uuIob 16.20. Psal. 6.6. & 39.12. & 80.5. & 126.5. Isay 25.8. Ier. 9.1, 18. Lam. 2.11, 18. Luk. 7.33, 44. Acts 20.19, 31. 2 Cor. 2.4. 2 Tim. 1.4.Job 16:20Ps 6:6Ps 39:12Ps 80:5Ps 126:5Isa 25:8Jer 9:1Jer 9:18Lam 2:11Lam 2:18Luke 7:33Luke 7:44Acts 20:19Acts 20:312 Cor 2:42 Tim 1:4Lachrymae, whose musicke, xxRom. 8.23, 26. 2 Cor. 5.2, 4. Lam. 1.22.Rom 8:23Rom 8:262 Cor 5:22 Cor 5:4Lam 1:22sighes for sinne; who know no other Cinqua-pace but this to Heaven, yyIob 30.28. Psal. 38.6. Psal. 42.9. & 43.2. & 44.22.Job 30:28Ps 38:6Ps 42:9Ps 43:2Ps 44:22to goe mourning all the day long for their iniquities; to zzIsay 38.14. Psal. 119.136. Ezech. 9.4.Isa 38:14Ps 119:136Ezek 9:4mourne in secr…t like Doves, to chatter like Cranes for their owne and others sinnes. aaSee Rom. 8.35, 36. Matth. 5.10, 11, 12. Acts 14.22. 1 Cor. 4.9, 10, 11, 12, 13. … Cor. 4.9, 10, 11, 12.Rom 8:35Rom 8:36Matt 5:10Matt 5:11Matt 5:12Acts 14:221 Cor 4:91 Cor 4:101 Cor 4:111 Cor 4:121 Cor 4:13Fasting, prayers, mourning, teares, tribulations, martyrdome were the onelyonly rounds that led all the Saints to Heaven; no other dance but these sad tunes p. 245will bring men to the place of endlesse ioy. These other dances oft-times end in sinne, in hell, in horror, in Heaven never; therefore all Christians shou…d doe well bbIam. 3.9, 10. Amos 8.10.Jas 3:9Jas 3:10Amos 8:10to turne this dancing into mourning, this ioy and carnall laughter into spirituall heavinesse, as S. Iames commands them, that so ccPsal. 126.5.6.Ps 126:5Ps 126:6sowing thus in teares, they may reape an harvest of eternall ioy. Lastly, Pagans themselves have abundantly condemned 10all mixt, lascivious, accurate, amorous dancing, as misbeseeming civill, chaste, or sober persons: and shall Christians iustifie or practise that which the very Heathen censure and cry shame on? ddSaturnalium. lib. 3. cap. 14.Macrobius, eeEpaminōdas.AEmilius Probus, ffOratio pro Muraena; pro C… Plancio, & pro Rege De…orato.Cicero, ggDe Bello Catil. p. 22.23.Salust, together with hhGenial. Dierum. l. 2. c. 25.Alexander ab Alexandro: iiAntiqu Lect. l. 5. cap. 4.5.Caelius Rhodiginus, kkDe Vanit. Scient. cap. 18.Agrippa, llLocorū Communiū Classis. 2. c. 11. sect. 66.67, 68.Peter Martyr, mmHom. 51. in Mark, & Hom. 186. in Matth.Gualther, nnTreatise against Dancing pag. 67.Northbrooke, and ooAnatomy of Abuses. p. 1…5.126.Master Stubs informe us: that it was an infamous, a dishonourable thing for men or women, among the ancient Pagan Romanes, to have skill in dancing, or to dance in any feast or publike meeting. And yet many Christians now a-dayes repute this their glory; that they are accurate expert Dancers, which these ingenuous Pagans deemed their shame. Salust, a grave Roman Historian, layes this as a brand of infamy on Sempronia, **Sempronia docta fuit psallere, saltare el…gantius quam necesse est probae; quae instrumenta luxuriae sunt. Ei cariora semper omnia quam decus atque pudici…ia fuit: lubidine sicaccensa, ut saepius peteret viros quàm peteretur. Bellum Catil. pag. 22.23.that she was taught to sing and dance more elegantly, then became an honest woman: which singing and dancing (saith he) are the instruments of luxury. And what did these two two qualities (which we now so much admire) worke in this curious, wel-educated Roman Dame? the Historian tels us: All things were alwayes dearer to her then reputation and chastity: and she was so enflamed with lust, that she would o…tner seeke after men, then they after her. ppSaturnalium. lib. 3. cap. 14. pag. 458.459.Macrobius informes us: that not onelyonly Skill in dancing was reputed infaemous and a badge of dishonesty among the Romanes: but that notwithstanding it **Nobilium vero filios, & (quod dictu nefas est) filias quoque virgines, inter studiosa numerasse saltandi… meditationem, testis est Scipio Africanus. &c. Ibidem.the Sonnes p. 246of Noble-men, and (which is a shame to utter) their very Daughters also being yet Virgins, did reckon dancing among their other serious studies. Scipio Affricanus AEmilianus, is a witnesse of this, who in his Oration against the iudiciary law of Tiberius Graccus saith thus: qqDocētur praestigias in honestas: cum cinaedulis & sambuca psalterioque eunt in. laudem histrionū: discunt cantare: quae maiores nostri ingenuis probro ducier voluerūt. Eunt, inquam, in ludum saltatoriū inter cinaedos, virgines puerique ingenui. Haec cum mihi quisquam narrabat, non poteram animum inducere, ea li…beros suos nobiles homines docere: sed cum ductus sum in …udum saltatorium, plus medius fidius in eo Iudo vidi pueris virginibusque quin gentis. In his unum (quo me reipub. maxime misertum est) puerum bullatū, petitoris filiū, non minorē annis duodecim, cum crotalis saltare: quam sastationem impudicus servulus honeste saltare non posset. Vides quemad modū ingemuit Africanus, quod vidisset cum crot…lis saltantem petitoris filium, &c. Ibidem.they are taught dishonest iuggling: they goe with pretty impudent Dancers, with a dulcimer and psaltery to the praise of Stage-players: they learne to sing, which our Ancestors wished should be reputed a disgrace in Gentlemen. There goe, I say, into the Dancing-Schoole among Dancers, both Noble Girles and Youthes. When one related these things to me, I could not perswade my selfe, that Noble persons would teach their Children these things: but when I was brought into the Dancing-Schoole, I saw in good earnest in tha… Schoole above five hundred Boyes and Girles. Among those (wherein I most of all pittied the Common-weale) I saw one garnished proud Boy, the Sonne of one that sued for a great Office, no lesse then tweelve yeeres old, dancing with rattles, which kind… of dance a lewde foolish serving-boy could not honestly dance. Thou seest (saith he) how Africanus mourned, that he had seene the Sonne of one who sued for an Office, which the hope and reason of obtaining a Magistracy (at which time he ought to vindicate himselfe and his from all reproachfull acts) could not then restraine from doing that, which could not be reputed but dishone…t: And before he complain…s that most of the Nobility did exercise this dishonesty. Thus Scipio Africanus and Macrobius iudge of dancing. Cicero, that unparalleld Roman Orator; as he by way of scorne stiles Gabinius, Catilines Consul, a rrSaltator illic Catilinae Consul. Oratio pro C…. Plancio.Dancer: and withall accuseth Verres for his intimate acquaintance with Apronius a dissolute adulterous, lascivious Pot-companion; ssIn convivio saltabas nudus. In Verrem. lib. 3.who danced naked at a drunken feast: which crime of dancing naked he obiects to ttCū collegae tui domus, cātu & cymbalis personaret, cum que ipse nudus in convivio saltaret in quo ne tū quidē cū illū saltatoriū suū versaret orbē fortunae rotā pertimescebat. Oratio in L. Pisonem.L. Piso. So in his e…gant Oratiō for Muraena, p. 247he censures uuSaltatorē ap. pellat. L. Mu, raenam Cato maledictū est si vere obijcitur, vehementis accusatoris: sin falsò, meledici conviciatoris. Quare cum ista sis auctoritate, non debes. M. Cato, arripere maledictum ex trivijs aut ex scurrarum aliquo convitio; neque temere consulem populi Romani saltatorem vocare: sed conspicere quibus praeterea vitijs affectum esse necesse sit eum, cui vere illud obijci potest. Nemo enim ferè saltat sobrius, nisi fortè insanit, &c. Ibidem. p. 459.Cato, for stiling L. Muraena a Dancer: which if it be truely obiected (saith he) it is a reproach of a most vehement accuser: if falsly, of an ill-tongued rayler. For since thou art o… so great auth…rity, thou oughtest not, O Marcus Cato, to take up a slander out of the stre…t, or from the reproach of any R…iler, neither yet rashly to call the Consul of the Roman Nation, a Dancer, but to consider with what other vices he must necessarily be affected, to whom this may truely be obiected. For no man almost doth dance sober, unlesse peradventure he be mad, neither being alone, neither yet at a moderate and honest banquet: extreame dancing is alwayes the companion of a disorderly feast, a pleasant place, and of many voluptuous delights. Thou alleagest this against me, which must needs be the ex…reme or utmost of all vices; thou omittest those things, which being removed, this vice can never be at all: no dishonest banquet, no love, no revellings, no lust, no prodigall expence is shewed: and when these things are not to be found, which have the name of voluptuousnes and which are vitious: in whom thou canst not finde luxury it selfe; in him doest thou thinke to finde the shadow of luxury? And in his Oration, Pro Deiorato Rege, he thus labours to excuse him from the infamy of dancing. xxQuid deni que ? furcifer quo progreditur? ait, hac laetitia Deiorarū elatum, vino se obruisse, in cō vivio que nudum saltavisse. Quae crux huic fugi…tivo potest satis supplicij afferre? Deioratum saltantem quisquam aut ebrium vidit un quam? omnes sunt in illo regiae virtutes, &c. vide Ibidem.What finally? whether doth this Gallowes-bird proceed? he saith that Deioratus was so transported with mirth, and overcome with wine, that he danced naked in a feast. What Gallowes is sufficient to punish this fugitive? Who ever saw Deioratus dancing or drunken? all royall vertues are in him, &c. he therefore who whiles he was yet a childe, was so eminently glorious, that he never did any thing but most severely and gravely, hath he in this repute and age of his, thinke you, danced? Thou oughtest rather to have imitated the mann…rs and disciplin… of thy Grandfather Castor, then to slander a good and famous man, with the tongue of a fugitive. But if thou hadest had a Dancer to thy Grandfather, and not that man from whom patternes of modesty and chastity might be taken, yet this reproach would not at all be convenient against that p. 248age, which from its youth hath fensed it selfe with the study, not of dancing, but of well-managing armes and Horses, which severall passages, together with that in the third Booke of his Offices: yyAt dares hanc vim M… Crasso, ut digitorum percussione, heres posset scriptus esse, qui revera non esset heres; in fo…o (mihi crede) saltaret. At homo iustus, & quem sentimus virum bonum, nihil cuiquam quod in se transferat, detrahet, &c. Ibid.That a iust or honest man, would not dance in publike, though he might be heire to M. Crassus, though perchance a dishonest man would doe it: sufficiently testifie, that dancing was an infamous thing in men of place and note, among the Romanes: that it was a notorious reproach among them to be stiled, much more to bee a Dancer, and that no sober men, but vitious, riotous Whore-masters and Drunkards onelyonly used it, in their Cups and ebrious Feasts. It is Seneca his lamentable complaint of his times, and we may iustly take up the same of ours, zzTorpent ecce ingenia desidiosae iuventutis, nec in ullius honestae rei labore vigilatur. Somnus languor que ac somno a… languore turpior, malarum verum industria, invasit animos. Cantandi saltādi que nunc obscaena studia effaeminatos tenent: & capillū frangere, &c. nostrorum adolescentium specimen est. Emollit… enerues que quod nati sunt inuiti manent; expugnatores alienae pudicitiae, negligentes suae. Controvers. lib. 1. Proaemio. pag. 967.that the wits of slothfull youth were growne lazie, neither were they industrious in the study of any honest thing. Sleepe, and sloath, and that which was worse then either sleepe or lazinesse, the diligent pursuite of evill things, hath invaded their mindes. The obscene st…dies of singing… and dancing (pray marke his epithite) doe possesse the effeminate: and to frounce and curle the haire, to become effeminate in speech and body, is the very patterne of our youth. And now observe what followed here upon:) they are conquerers of others chastity, negligent of their owne. (Againe, in his Naturall Questions. lib. 7. cap. 32. he complaines; aaStat per successores Pyladis & Batilli domus, harum artium multi discipuli sunt multi que doctores Privatim urbe tota sonat pulpitum: In hoc viri, in hoc faeminae tripudiant. Mares inter se uxoresque contendunt, uterdet latus illis. Deinde sub persona, cum diu trita frons est, transitur at ganeam. Ibid. p. 453.that the house of Pyladis and Batillus (two Dancing-masters and Stage-players) had successors to continue it: that there were many Schollers and many Masters of these arts: These Masters teach privately, (or there is a private Dancing-Schoole) thorowout the City; where both men and women dance: Me… and their wives strive betweene themselves, which of them shall first turne the side to the Dancing-master. Afterwards, p. 249when as their modesty, and all their shame is worne quite away, they passe disguised to a Brothel-house. Loe here the end, the fruits of dancing, which this Heathen Philosopher much deplores. To passe by bbInstrumenta luxuriae, …ympana at que tripudia. Historiae. l. 30. pag 254.Iustin; who stiles musicke and dances, the instruments of Luxury: together with ccFastorum. l. … p. 51. l. 5. p. 89. De Remedio Amoris. lib 2. pag. 230.Ovid, ddAEneid. l. 9. p. 312.313. & Copa. p. 509.Virgil, eeEpist. lib. 1. Epist. 14. p. 260.Tibullus, and ^f Horace; who censure dancing, as an effeminate practice of drunken, lewde, adulterous men and women, in their luxurious …easts and meetings; and withall to omit the Story, of ggZenoph. Cō vivium. p. 893. to 900.Zenophons dancing Trull, who enamored Socrates and the other Spectators, with her dancing and Player-like action: The Poet hhCum tibia lumbos Incitat & cornu pariter, vino que feruntur Attonitae, crinē que rotant vlulante Priapo Maenades: ô quantus tunc illis mentibus ardor Concubitus? quae vox saltante libidin…, &c. Nil ibi per ludum simulabitur, omnia fient Ad verū; quibus incendi iam frigidus aevo Laomedontiades, & Nestoris hernia possit. Satyr. 6 p. 53. vid Ibid. Forsitan expectes ut Gaditana canoro Incipi…t prurire choro, plausu que probatae Ad terrā t…emulo descendant clune puellae. Spectant hoc nuptae iuxta recumbante marito, Quod pudeat narra…se aliquem praesenti…us ipsis. Irritamentū veneris languentis, & acres Divitis ur…icae, major tamen ista vo…uptas Alterius sexus, magis ille extenditur, & mox Aurib…s at que oculis concepta urina movetur, &c. Satyr. 11. p. 110. vid. Ibid.Iuvenal makes dancing, the very badge of an adulteresse, the fuell of lust, the cause of adultery and much prodigall expence; reputing him an unhappy Husband, who hath a dancing Dame to his wife. And if this be true, how many happy Husbands are there now, when there are so few un-dancing wives? iiSuetonij Caligula … sect. 45.Su…tonius records this, among other of Caligula his vices, that he was a Singer and a Dancer: that he was so transported with the pleasure of dancing and singing, that hee could not so much as refraine in publike Enterludes, but he must sing together with the Tragaedian that acted; and openly imitate the gesture of the Stage-player, either as it were praysing or correcting it. He did likewise dance (saith he) in the night sometimes: and upon a time, sending for three grave men who had beene Consuls, into his Palace, in the second watch of the night, he placed them being in a very great feare, upon a Scaffold: and then he leaped out suddenly with a great noyse of Pipes and Fidlers clad in a womans Gowne, and a long coate, and having danced out a dance, he departed. kkHistor. lib. 26. quoted by Athenaeus.Polibius and llDipnosoph. lib. 10. cap. 12. p. 694.695.Athenaeus, doe both much condemne Antiochus surnamed p. 250the Illustrious, yet stiled, the mad, by them: for that in his riotous drunken Feasts, he would sometimes play together with the Actors: and once being vailed quite over, he was brought in upon the Stage by Players, and laid upon the ground, as if he were one of them: Afterwards oportunity calling him forth, he did caper, he did dance and iest with the Players, so that all there present were ashamed: To such miserable things as these, doth that stupidity induce men, which is ingendred of drunkennesse. The same mmDipnos. l. 12. c. 13. p. 841.Athenaeus, out of Theopompus, doth cen…ure Strabo King of the Sydonians, who exceeded all men in the study of pleasure and delights; for that he made ass…mblies of Fidlers, Dancing-women, Lutanists, and sent for many. Leamons, Whores, or Mistresses out of Pelleponnesus, for many singing women out of …onia, and for many amorous Girles out of all Greece, some of which he tendred to those that danced, others of them he usually offred to his friends that sung as a reward of their combate, &c. which verefies the former position, that dancing is the occasion of much lewdenesse; and that Dancers for the most part are adulterous, lecherous people, given up to sensuality, and all kinde of vice. Which is further verified in his Dipnos. l. 4. c. 6. l. 8. c. 12.13. l. 10. c. 9.12. l. 12. c. 6.10.13. l. nnAmicas saltatrices vobis exposui. Formos…s primū nunc nobis dicere non est Florē tes saltatrices, quae genua rec…dūt Mercedi, ac rapiunt onera portantibus illam. Ibidem13. c. 6.10.31. & l. 14. c. 3.5.11.12. where he shewes, that all common prostituted whores were expert Dancers; and all Dancers whores, adulterers, or lascivious, deboist ooQuis tumultus hic? quid hae saltationes? quae petulantia in Dionysiadē irrupit tumultuosa scenae? …bid. p. 984. vid. l. 4. c. 3.17, 33, 34. l. 5. c. 3.4. l. 6. c. 6. l. 10. c. 9.11, 12. l. 11. c. 1.3, 16. l. 12. c. 2.4, 10, 15, 18. l. 13. c. 17. l. 15. cap. 1.8.Bacchanalian persons, and that so they were reputed among Pagans. Homer, Odysseae. lib. 14 p. 418. and out of him Sto…aeus, Sermo. 18. fol. 126. enumerate this among other effects of Wine and drunkennesse, ppVinum etiam impellit sapientem valdè cantare, & leniter ridere, & s…ltare impellit. Ibid. Inest vino sacra pars convivij, & splendoris. Inest etiam pars saltationis. Vinū tantae est potentiae, ut ad choreas vel senes ipsos trahet. Panyasides, & Eriphus Apud Poet. Minores. pars vlt. p. …78.264.that they make a wise man to sing and dance. Which proves, that wise men anciently never danced but when they were drunken, or frantique; which Euripides his Tragedie stiled Bacchae, and Strabo his Geograph. lib. 10. pag. 48. to 55. will most **See likewise Plato. Legum. Dialog. 7. pag. 881.plentifully evidence, p. 251to those who have leisure to peruse them. True it is that qqL…gum Dialog. 6. p. 860.861, & Dialog. 7. p, 880.881, 882, 872, 873, 874.Plato and **Politic. l. 7. c. 17 sect 77. & l. 8. c. 5.6, 7.Aristotle approve of dancing in the Festivities and Solemnities of their Idol-Gods, in which they were most in use: which dances as they were very rare, perchance ssCum cantibus & …hor…is annuos ludos Libe…o patri faciunt, &c. Poli…ius Hist lib 4. pag 340.once or twice a yeere; so they were likewise tt…lato Legum. Dial. l. 6. p. 860 & Dialog 7. p. 874.881, 882.certaine, appointed by their idolatrous Priests or by the Overseers of their dances, which dances might not be altered but by publike authority by the Priests and Magist…ates speciall direction. Neither were they such dances as Christians can approve.**Huiusmodi igi…ur studij gratia etiā lusus & choreas adolescentū & puellarum constituere oportet, ut & nudi nudas spectent, & spectenturab illis, cū ratione & aetate qu…dā suos praetextus habente, usq ad moderatum singulorum pudorem. Legum Dial. 6. p. 860. For Plato even in these sacred dances dedicated to Idol-Gods, would have Youthes and Girles to dance together naked, that so they might the better disce…e one anothers bea…ty or deformity, and so mi…ht …o… be deceived in their matches and marriages: Which custome of dancing naked, as it seemes by **In Verrem. l. 3. Oratio in L. Pisonem & Pro Rege Deiorato.Tully, yyDipnos. l. 14. c. 12.Athenaeus, zzDe Ebri. & Luxu. …er.Basil, **In his B…cchae.Euripedes, and others, was much in use in former times in drunken Feasts; in which aaAthenaeus Dip… l. …2. c. 5.7, 13. Suctonij Tib…ri…. sect. 42.43.naked whores or women oft-times attended, the more to enrage the naked Dancers and the Spectators lusts, to which they were prostitu…ed a… their pleasure. Such lascivious, beastly dances as these did these lewde Philosophers, and the bbSee AEmilij Probi Epammond s. Polibius. Hist. l. 4. p. 340. Homeri Iliad. l. 18 p. 694 700. Eu…ipidi… Bacchae. Dyonys. H…llic…r. Antiqu Rom. l. 7. sect. 9. S…rabo Geogr. l. 10. Athenaeus Dipnos. l. 14. c 12.dru…ken Greekes allow, in the Festivals of their filthy Idols. But for all oth…r private dances (such onelyonly excepted as were stiled ccPl…to. Legum. Dialog. 7. pag. 880.881, 882. Zenoph…n. De Expedit. Cyri Hist. lib. 6 pag. 370.…71. Strabo Geogr. lib. 10. Athenaeus Dipnosoph lib. 14. c. 12. Plut…rchi Symposiacum. 9 Quaest. 15. Alex. ab Alexandro l. 6, c. 19. Caelius Rhodig. Ant…qu. Lect l. 5. c. 4. & l 18. c. 26. See Buleng…rus De Theatro. lib. 1. cap. 52.Pirricall, wherein men vaulted, and danced in th…ir Armor to …ew their activity and strength;) they were evermore infamous among Pagans, as the precedent Authors and Doctor **See his Overthrow of Stage-playes. passim.Reinolds witnesse: therefore they should be much more abominable to all chaste, all modest Christians.

p. 252Obiect. 1.If any here obiect in defence of amorous mixt lascivious dancing, (I speake not of grave single, chaste, and sober measures men with men) which is now so much 1in use and high esteeme. First, that there are many laudable examples of dancing in the Scripture: as ddExo. 15.20, 21.Exod 15:20Exod 15:21that of Miriam and the Isralitish women after the drowning of the Egyptians, and their miraculous deliverance from them: that of eeIudg. 11.39.Judg 11:39Iepthaes Daughters ff1 Sam. 18.6, 7.1 Sam 18:61 Sam 18:7of the Isralitish women after the slaughter of Goliah and the Philistins: and that gg2 Sam. 6.16. 1 Chron. 15.29.2 Sam 6:161 Chr 15:29of David, who danced before the Arke with all his might. Secondly, that God commandes us, hhPsal. 149.3. Psal. 150.4.Ps 149:3Ps 150:4to praise him with cymbals and dances: That Salomon writes; iiEccles. 3.4.Eccl 3:4there is a time to dance; and that kkPsal. 30.11. Ier. 31.4, 13. Lam. 5.15. Matth. 11.17.Ps 30:11Jer 31:4Jer 31:13Lam 5:15Matt 11:17other Scriptures seeme to allow of dancing as lawfull. Therefore it cannot be unlawfull.

Answer 1.To these, I answer first; that these Scriptures and examples warrant that kinde of dancing onelyonly which is specified, and commended by them; not our theatricall, our moderne common dancing, which llSee P…ter Martyr, Gualther, Northbrooke, Stubs, & Lovell, in their forequoted places, where these Scriptures and objections are more fully answered.differs from it in many materiall circumstances, well worth the observation. For first, these dances which we read of in the Scripture, mmSee Exod. 15.20, 21. Iudg. 11.34. c. 21.21, 23. 1 Sam. 18.6.7. 2 Sam. 6.16. Ier. 31.4. Iudith 15.12, 13. Mat. 14.6, 7. Mar. 6.22.Exod 15:20Exod 15:21Judg 11:341 Sam 18:61 Sam 18:72 Sam 6:16Jer 31:4Jdt 15:12Jdt 15:13Matt 14:6Matt 14:7Mark 6:22were all single, consisting altogether of men, or of women onelyonly: (which kinde of single measures were anciently in use among nnZenophon, De Expedit. Cyri. l. 6. p. 370.371. Athenaeus Dipnos. l. 14. c. 12.the Persians and Greecians, & are yet retained among the ooLerius De Navigatione in Brasiliam. c. 9. Purchas Pilgr. l. 1. c. 1. l. 6. c. 15. l. 8. c. 14. lib. 9. cap. 2.Brasilians and others.) Whereas our moderne dances are for the most part mixt, both men and women dancing promiscuously together by selected couples. Secondly, these dances were no artificiall curious Galliards, ligs, or Carontoes, learned with much paines and practise at a Dancing-Schoole, as ours are: ppSee Gualther. Hom. 51. in Marc. & Hom. 186. in Matth. Peter Martyr, Locorū Com. Classis. 2. c. 11. sect. 63. to 68. M. Northbrooke & Stubs, qua supra. M. Iohn Down…ams Christian Warfare. l. 3. c. 21. sect. 5. See Horace De Arte Poëtica… p. 303. Tibullus Eleg. lib. 2. Eleg. 1, & Virgil Georg, lib… 2… pag. 40.but simple, plaine, unartificiall sober motions. Thirdly, these dances were no ordinary daily recreations, practised at every feast p. 253or meeting, upon every Lords-day, Holi-day, or vacant time; and that upon no other occasion, but for mirth or laughter sake, to passe away the time, or to satiate mens unruly lusts, (the qqTolle libidinem sustuleris & choreā. Petrarcha. De Remedio…tr Fortunae. l. 1. Dial. 24.onelyonly props of dancing;) as all our moderne dances are. But they were rrSee Exod. 15.20, 21. Iudg. 11 34. c. 21.19, 21, 23, 24. 1 Sam… 18 6, 7. 2 Sam. 6.16. Iudith 15.12, 13.Exod 15:20Exod 15:21Judg 11:341 Sam 18:61 Sam 18:72 Sam 6:16Jdt 15:12Jdt 15:13publike extraordinary speciall dances, taken up by pious Christians to praise the Lord withall, after some extraordinary great deliverances from, or victories over their enemies, which scarce hapned twice in divers ages: Whereas our dances are not such. Fourthly, these dances were not made in any private House, or Hall; in any Ale-house, Taverne, or Bower neere adjoyning; much lesse at any ssSee Polydor. Virgil. De Iuvent. Rerū. l 5. c. 2. M Stubs Anatomy of Abuses. p. 109. to 114. against these May-poles and Wakes which some begin to preach for even in opē Pulpit.May-pole, Wake, or Church-ale; at any Play-house, Wedding, or Dancing-Schoole, as ours are: but in the open ttExod. 15.20, 21. Iudg. 11.34. 1 S…m. 18.6, 7. Iudith 15.12, 13Exod 15:20Exod 15:21Judg 11:34Judg 11:1Jdt 15:12Jdt 15:13field, where the victorious Generall and his Army were to passe; whom they went out to meet and welcome home with these their dances, uuExod. 15.20, 21. Iudges 5. thorowout. 1 Sam. 18.6.7. 2 S…m. 2…. thorowout. Iudith c. 15. & 16.Exod 15:20Exod 15:21Judg 51 Sam 18:61 Sam 18:71 Sam 18:2Jdt 15which sounded forth his praises in those Psalmes and heavenly Songs, which the Scripture hath recorded. Fiftly, they danced not by couples or in measure as we use to doe, xxExod. 15.20, 21. 1 Sam. 18.6, 7. Iudith 15.12, 13. compared together.Exod 15:20Exod 15:211 Sam 18:61 Sam 18:7Jdt 15:12Jdt 15:13but in one intire traine or round. Sixtly, they did not wantonly leape, caper, fling or skip about like Does or Bedlams; nor yyIsay. 3.16.Isa 3:16mincingly trip it, as our lascivious amorous Dancers doe: but they used a zzExod 15.20. 1 Sam. 18.6.7. Iudith 15.1…, 13. &c. 1.Exod 15:201 Sam 18:61 Sam 18:7Jdt 15:1Jdt 15:13modest grave and sober motion, much like to **It was like our Lincolnes Inne singing of Mirth and Solace.walking or the grave old measures; having timbrels and cymbals in their hands, and aaExod. …5.20, 21. Iudg. 5. 1 Sam. 22. Iudith 16. compared with Ephes 5.19…20. Col. 3.16. Iam. 5.13. Ier. 31.4, 13.Exod 5:20Exod 5:21Judg 51 Sam 22Jdt 16Eph 5:19Col 3:16Jas 5:13Jer 31:4Jer 31:13Psalmes (not scurrilous amorous Pastorals) in their mouthes, wherewith they did unfainedly blesse and praise the Lord for their obtained victories and deliverances, and bb1 Sam 18.6, 7.1 Sam 18:61 Sam 18:7sound forth the Victors praises. Seventhly, These dances were free from all lascivious dalliances, from all amorous gestures, gropings, kisses, complements, love-trickes, and wanton embracements; which abound in all our moderne Dances. Lastly, ccSee ^a before: & Psal 149.3. Ps. 150.4. Ps. 30.11. These dances were like the singing of Te Deum Laudamus, after victories, of which we have sundry presidents in our English Chronicles.Ps 149:3Ps 150:4Ps 30:11these dances were wholy devoted p. 254to Gods praise and glory; **See Theodoret. Hist. Eccl. l. 3. c. 22. & Cent. 4 Col. 412.Sir 50:3they were a holy religious service done to God, proceeding from the thankefulnesse of such hearts, as were ravished with Gods more speciall m…cies: Our moderne wanton dances have no such pious ends and circumstances, they proceed not from such hearts, such occasions, such extraordinary favours of God as these: they differ from them in all th…se severall circūstances: therefore these dances, these examples doe no wayes iustifie, but conde…ne all ours, which have no affinity nor cognation with them.

Answer 2.To the second Obje…tion; that Salomon saith, ddEccles. 3.4.Eccl 3:4there 1is a time to dance. I answer first, that by dancing in this, and the other eeSee Psal. 30.11. Psal. 149.3. Psal. 150.4. Ier. 31.4, 13. Lam. 5.15 Mat. 11 17. Luk. 7.31. See Ambrose, Augustine, Hierom. Beda, Calvin, Lyra, Marl…rat, Gua…ther, Ra…anus Maurus, Osiand…r, Tostatus, & other Commentators on these texts accordingly.Ps 30:11Ps 149:3Ps 150:4Jer 31:4Jer 31:13Lam 5:15Matt 11:17Luke 7:31obiected Sc…iptures, is not meant any corporall dancing, or artificiall moving of the feet in measure: but either an inward cheerefulnesse of heart, and readines of spirit in Gods service: or else a spirituall exultation of the soule in the apprehension of some speciall favour of God unto it, expressed in an abundant praysing of God in psalmes, in hymnes and spirituall songs. This and no other is the dancing intended by Salomon, and commanded in the Scripture, as ffIn Eccles…. 3.Olympi…dorus, ggHom. 3…. & 49. in Matth.Chrysostome, hhDe Paenitentia. l 2. c. 6. Ep. l. 4. Epist. 30. Comment… l. 6. in Luc. 7. Tom. 3… pag. 47.Luke 7Ambrose, iiIn Psal. 149. & 150.Ps 149Glossa Ordinaris, Lyra, kkIn Ps. 30. v. 11.Ps 30:11Calvin, and llPeter Martyr… Gualther, Northbrooke, Stubs, Lovel, Downham, & others, qua suprasundry others teach us. Secondly, admit this text be meant of corporall dancing, yet it intends no other but religious holy dances, in which either men or women mmEphes. 5.19, …0 Col. 3.16. Iam. 5.13. Psal. 30.11. Psal. 149.3. Psal. 150.4. compared with this text of Salomon.Eph 5:19Col 3:16Jas 5:13Ps 30:11Ps 149:3Ps 150:4praise the Lord, with Hymnes and godly Psalmes, singing with a grace in their hearts to him, who hath given them so great an occasion of much holy ioy: it allowes no other dances but such, in which the heart is more active then the feet; in which Gods glory (not carnall iollity) is the utmost end. It gives no tolleration therefore for our common dances, which have neither holinesse for their quallity, nor piety for their end. Lastly, Salomon saith onelyonly, that there is a time to dance: and this time, I am sure, is neither nnSee p. 231.240… to 244.Lords-dayes, p. 255nor any other solemne …estivals devoted to Gods service, as the fore-quoted Councels, Fathers, and moderne Authors testifie: these are not times of dancing, but of **See p. 241.242, 243.praying, hearing, reading, meditating, and such like holy duties. All dancing therefore on such times as these (which are now made the chiefest dancing seasons) are out of Salomons dispensation. Againe, the time of working, of following our vocations, of performing private familie duties of religion; the times of sleepe and rest (I meane the night,**See Sen…ca, Epist. 122. & …thenaeus Dip…. l. 12. cap 6. l. 8. c. 1…. & lib. 15. cap. 1. which is more often spent in dancing then in praying, or any pious duty) is none of Salomons times for dancing: it being altogether untimely at these seasons; Therefore those who spend their working, praying, reading, studying time (ooEphes. 5.16. Col. 4.5. See Act. 6. Scene 1.Eph 5:16Col 4:5Acts 6 which God commandes them to r…deeme) in dancing, (which too many make their worke, their life, their trade) dance out of Salomons time and measure; who gives no allowance to their untimely Rounds. Againe, dancing after a man is tyred out with honest labour, is altogether unseasonable: ppEccles 5.12.Eccl 5:12sle…pe and quiet rest, are a wearied mans best, his fittest recreations: They that worke hard all day, had more need to rest, then dance, all night. And yet how many are there, who after an hard iourny or a toylsome dayes worke, will take more paines at night in dancing, then they did in labouring all the day time? & because they are quite tyred out with working, they will yet tire themselves once againe in dancing; and so disable themselves the more for the workes and duties of the ensuing day; whereas every qqSee M. Wheatlies Sermon of Times redemption, with all those who write of Recreation.recreation should helpe, not hinder men in their callings. Hard workers therefore have little time, at least but little need or reason to turne Dancers. For others, who can finde either little, or no time at all to worke, (which is the epidemicall deplorable gentile fashion rrMuch like to that of Sodom. Ezech. 16.49. or that in the 1 Cor. 10.7. Isay 5.11, 12. & Amos 6.1. to 7. See Iohn… Sar…sburie, De Nugis Curial. lib. 1. cap. 1.4, 5.Ezek 16:491 Cor 10:7Isa 5:11Isa 5:12Amos 6:1–7of our lazy age,) I am sure Salomon hath bounded them out no time to dance: Eccles. 3. hath set downe 24. severall times at least, for severall workes, and but one (if that) for dancing. Those therefore p. 256who exempt themselves from these times of working, can make no title to this dancing season. He that will not labour, ssSee 2 Thes. 3.8, 10, 11, 12. See all our English Statutes of Labourers, and against Rogues & Vagabonds: accordingly.2 Thess 3:82 Thess 3:102 Thess 3:112 Thess 3:12tis unfit he should play. He that hath no working time, tis equall he should have no dancing time. And yet how many are there now a-dayes who will needs intitle themselves to this time to dance, though they professedly disclaime all times to mourne or worke? How many are there that worke till they freeze, and yet dance till they sweat? that cannot worke or pray one houre in a day for sloath, and yet can dance nimbly day and night all the weeke long? that ttSee Ludovicus Vives, De Erudit. Mulieris Christianae. l. 1 c. 13.14. Master Northbrooks Treatise against Dancing f 64. b. & Chrysost. Hom. 7. in Matth. Tom. 2. Col. 59. A. accordingly.cannot walke twenty yards to Church on foot without the helpe of a Coach; and yet will dance 40. Galliards or Carantoes five hundred paces long? These indefatigable dancers, who would rather die then worke; and not live then live well: need onelyonly a time to worke (which I wish they may find:) not a time to dance, (which they will be sure to gaine) since they dance and play away all their time: Wherefore since neither Labourers nor Loyterers have any need of dancing, they have certainly no title, to Salomons time of dancing: and so both their dancing and arguments are out of season. Since therefore it is infallibly evident by all these premises, that our theatricall amorous mixt lascivious dancing, is sinfull and unchristian at the least, if **So Hi…rom. Eusebius, Damascene, Fulgentius, Theophy…act, Vives, Calvin, Gualther, Marlorat, Musculu…, Erasmus, Agrippa, Brant, Northbrooke, Stubs, & others stile it, together with the Waldenses, in their fore-quoted places.not Heathenish and Diabolicall; The Major of my precedent Syllogisme must be grāted: which I shal here close up with that notable passage of Alexander Fabritius, an ancient English though somewhat Popish Author, who writes thus of Dancing. **Chorearum processionibus ingressus ab ingressu caelestis processionis impediat, & nimirū nam, in diebus festis choreas ducentes faciunt contra omnia sacramenta Ecclesiae. Primò contra Baptismum, in hoc quia frangunt pactum quod inierunt cum Deo in baptismo, ubi promiserunt se abrenunciare Satanae & omnibus pompis cius: sed pomposam processionē Diaboli intrant cum choreas ducunt. Nam processio Diaboli dicitur chorea, ut dicit, Gu…ielmus Par…siensis. Alexand. Fabritius. Destructorium Vitiorum. pars 3 c. 10. D. See Hol…ot, Lect. 173. in lib. Sapientiae. cap. 15. fol. 133. accordingly.The entring into the processions of dances, hinders men from ingresse into the heavenly procession, and those who p. 257dance (especially upon Holy-dayes) offend against all the Sacraments of the Church. First, against Baptisme, in this, that they breake the Covenant which they have entred into with God in baptisme, where they have promised, that they would renounce the Devill and all his Pompes; but they enter into the pompous procession of the Devill when they dance. For **See here pag. 229.230, 232. & Chrysostom. Hom. 15.17, 18 & 23. ad Pop. Antioch. Hom. 2. de Verbis Isaiae. & Hom. in S. Iulianum. Tom. 1. Edit. Parisijs 1621. per Fronto Ducaeum. p. 613. a.b. Augustine, Epist. 202. accordingly.a dance as Gulielmus Parisiensis saith, is the Devils procession. Secondly, dances offend against the Sacrament of Order; For Clergie men who have received holy Orders, take those orders that they may conveniently celebrate divine services in the Church of God: but these vanities make divine Service to be contemned and neglected; for those who ought to be present at Mattens and Vespers, are oft-times present at these dances. Thirdly, they offend against the Sacrament of Matrimony; for oft-times in d…nces, by signes of wantonnesse, vaine songs, and unlawfull confabulations, the faith of Matrimony is violated either in consent or worke. Fourthly, they sinne against the Sacrament of Confirmation: for in the Sacrament of confirmation the signe of the Crosse is imprinted on their foreheads, as being bought with the passion of Christ: but in such dances the signe of the Crosse being cast away, they place the signe of the Devill on their heads. Fiftly, they doe against the Sacrament of Pennance: For in the Sacrament of repentance by which they were reconciled unto God, they promised that they would never hereafter offend in the like kinde: but in such vanities they plainely doe the contrary. Sixtly, they offend against the Sacrament of the Altar, For on Easter-day they receive the Sacrament of the Altar, **And doe not our Bacchanalian Christmas-keepers, who spend that sacred time in revel-rout doe the like?but immediately after they are like to Iudas the Traytor: who when he had eaten at the Lords Table, out of his owne Dish, he went out presently after, and tooke a band of Soldiers from the High-Priests and Pharises, and came against Iesus, as appeareth Iohn the 18. So these transgressing in the foresaid manner, come directly against Iesus: for when they are in a dance the procession of the Devill, they are not with Iesus, as himselfe saith, Luke 11. he that is not with me is against me. As Kings in Antumne and Summer are wont to goe forth to the Warres, that they may p. 258take that from th…ir enemies which they have gained by their labour in Winter: so the Devill the enemy of mankinde after Easter; yea, on Easter-day it selfe (we may more truely affirme it on our Christmas and Whitson Holy-dayes) gathers together an army of Dancers, that he may take from the Sonnes and Servants of Christ who are his enemies, their spirituall fruits, which they have gathered together in the Lent-time. Seventhly, they offend against the Sacrament of extreme Vnction by which those who are sicke receive spirituall health: but these wretches in their playes and dances doe often lose the heal…h both of their bodies and their soules. After this, he compares all women-dancers, (especially such as are gorgeously attired and set out with costly array, with painted faces, with false haire, shaven off from some dead womans scull; with bead-tires of Gold, of silver, Pearles, and precious Stones, contrary to the Apostles precept, **…er hoc enim quod dicit super capita eorū tanquam coronae similes auro, intelligitur vanus ornatus auri & argenti & preciosorum lapidū quibus u…untur saltatrices in capitibus suis sunt tanquam coronae quas Diabolus posuit supra capita illarum pro multiplici triumpho quem habuit ipse Diabolus per eas de filijs Dei. Vnde sicut strenui milites in torneamentis solent in capitibus equorum suorum in signum victoriae coronas de floribus ponere: sic Diabolus equitans super tales… mulieres in signum victoriae quod per eas habet contra filios Dei supra capita illarum tales vanitatis coronas imponit. Ibidem. See Pauli Wan. Sermo 10. de Custodia Tactus … accordingly.which the Devill who rides upon such women hath set upon their heads, as so many crownes of vani…y for those many triumphes over the Sonnes of God which he hath gained by them,) to those locusts and t…at smoke which ascended out of the bottomlesse pit, Apocalipse the 9. Advising all men out of Ecclesiasticus the 9. not to keepe company with a woman that is a Dancer, not yet to hearken to her voyce, lest they chance to perish by her snares: and wishing all Christians to renounce all dancing, as being thus opposite to all the Sacraments. Thus much concerning dancing, in probat of my Major, in which I have the more inlarged my discourse, both in respect of the neere affinity that is betweene Playes and Dancing; and in regard of the universality of this lewde infamous exercise, which overspreds our owne and other Nations, whose commonnesse hath purchased it: such credit such applause in this effeminate, unchaste lascivious dissolute age wherein we live; that most repute it a necessary ornament, an p. 259essentiall commendable quality or vertue, to make vp a Gentleman, a Gentlewoman, who are deemed incompleate, at leastwise rude without it: when as all the fore-quoted Councels, Fathers, Pagans, and moderne Christian Authors, with **See Samuel Byrd, his Treatise of the Pleasures of this present life. London 1580. c. 4. f. 34.35. Pauli Wan. Sermo. 5. & 7. De Custodia qui que sensuum. A French Treatise against Dancing, Dedicated by the French Ministers of the Reformed Churches to the King of Navar. Richa…d Price, his destruction of small vices. London 1581. Gulielmus Parisiensis De Vitijs & Virtutibus.infinite others, have thus branded, censured it (especially in the female sex who are now most devoted to it) as **Vbi saltatio, ibi Diabolus: in sal…ationibus exultant Daemones & laetantur Ministri Daemonum. Chrysost. Hom 49. & 74 in Math. & Holkot in lib. Sapientiae. Lectio 172.a Diabolicall, infernall, effeminate, unchristian, wicked, unchaste, immodest heathenish pastime, contrary to all Gods Commandements and Sacraments: and as the very pomps of Satan which wee renounce in Baptisme: which mee thinkes should now at last rectifie our depraved iudgements in this point of Dancing, and reforme our lives.

For the Minor, that Stage-playes are commonly attended with mixt effeminate amorous dancing; it is most apparant; not onelyonly by our owne moderne experience, but likewise by the copious testimony of sundry Pagan and Christian Writers of all sorts: as namely, of **Spectacula ac ludos in theatris, cum cantibus & …horeis, singulis quibus que annis civibus praebent. Ibid.Polibius. Historiae. lib. 4. pag. 340.yyEtenim saltatio adscira ad sodalitatem vulgari quadā Poetica, societate caelestis illius poeseos amissa, in stultis & attonitis theatris obtinet tanquā tyrannus subiugata sibi quadā exili musica: omnem au…em apud prudentes & divinos viros perdidit revera honorem. Ibid. Of Livy. Rom. Hist. lib. 7. sect. 3. Of Dionysius Hallicarnasseus. Antiqu. Lect. l. 7. sect. 9. Of Plutarch. Symposiacon. lib 9. Quaest. 15. pag. 315.316, 317. Of Athenaeus Dipnosophorum. lib. 8. c. 12. p. 695. lib. 14. c. 3… p. 980.981. c. 7. p. 990. zzNam embat…ria cum tibijs ordine que exercētes, saltationibus que studentes, cū publica & cura & sumptu singulis annis in theatris conspiciuntur, &c. Ibid.c. 11. p. 999. &c. 12. pag. aaSunt autē tres saltationes poësis scenicae, Tragica, Comica, Satyrica, &c. Ibid.1005. Of Macrobius Saturnalium. lib. 2. c. 7. Of Horace bbSaltaret ut Cyclopa rogatet, &c. Ibid.Sermonum. l. 1. Satyr. 5. p. 180. & De Arte Poetica lib. p. 303.306. Of Euripides, in his Bacchae Of Ovid, De ccAt tanti tibi sit non indulgere Theatris. Illic assiduè ficti saltantur amores, &c. Ibidem.Remedio Amoris. l. 2. p. 230. Of Plato. Legum. Dial. 7. p. 260Aristotle Poetic. l. 1. c. 1. Suetonij Caligula. c. 54.55. Claudian in Eutropium. lib. 2. Clemens Alexandrinus. Paedagogi. lib. 2. cap 4. fol. ddNe fractis quidem & enervatis his saltatoribus, qui Cynaedicā turpitudinem mutam in scenam transferūt. Ibid.50. & lib. 3. c. 11. Tertullian & eeCommovetur civitas to…a ut desaltentur fabulosae antiquitatum lubidines. Ibidem.Cyprian De Spectac. lib. Arnobius Advers. Gentes. l. 2. p. 75. & l. 4. **Amans saltatur Venus, & per affectus omnes meretriciae vilitatis impudica exprimitur imitatione bacchari. Saltatur & magna sacris compta cum infulis mater, &c. Ibid.p. 149.150. & l. 7. pag. 230. to 240. Lactantius ffHistrionici etiam impudici gestus, libidines quas saltando exprimunt docent. Ibid.Divinorum Instit. Epit. c. 6. Ambrose, De Paenitentia. lib. 2. cap. 6. Basil Hexam. Hom. 4. pag. 45. Nazienzen ad Selucum De Recta Educatione. p. 1063.1064. Chrysostome. Hom. 6.7. & 38. in Matth. ggQuid sunt ad hoc malū Mercurij furta, veneris lascivia, stupra, & turpitudines caeterorum, quae proferremus de libris, nisi quotidie cantarentur & saltarentur in theatris. IbidAugustine, De Civit. Dei. lib. 7. c. 26. Cassiodorus Variarum. l. 1. Epist. 20. Salvian De Gubernat. Dei. l. 6. Isiodor. Hisp. Originum. l. 18. c. 48.50. The 6. Councell of Constantinople. Canon 51. (which hhOmnino prohibet haec sancta & universalis Synodus eos qui dicunt…r mimos, & corum spectac…la, eas que quae in scena fiunt saltationes, &c. Surius. Concil. Tom. 2. pag. 1048.inhibits all Players, Playes, and Dancing on the Stage, under paine of excommunication:) & Eusebius apud Damascenum. Parallelorum. lib. 3. c. 47. where thus he writes. iiQuid autem cernit qui ad theatra currit? Diabolicos cantus; mulierculas saltitantes, vel ut rectius loquar, Daemonis intemperijs agitatas. Quid enim saltatrix facit? Caput quod Paulus perpetuò tegi vult impudenter aperit; collum invertit; comam huc at que illuc expandit. Haec porrò etiam ab ea fiunt quam Daemon obsessam tenet. Tale nimirū Herodis quo que convivlum erat. Herodiadis filia ingressa tripudiavit, ac Ioannis Baptistae caput amputavit, & subterranea inferni loca haereditatis loco consecuta est. Quocirca qui choreas & saltationes amant, cum ea portionem habent. Ibidem.But what doth he behold who runnes to Theaters? Diabolicall Songs; dancing Girles; or that I may speake more truely, Girles stirred hither and thither with the furies of the Devill. For what doth a Danceresse doe? She impudently uncovers her head, which Paul hath commanded to be continually vailed: she inverts her necke; she tosseth about her haire this way and that way; Even these things are likewise done by her who is possessed by the Devill. Such likewise was the feast of Herod: the Daughter of Herodias entring in, danced, and cut of the head of Iohn the Baptist; and so she obtained the subterraneous places of Hell instead of an inheritance. Wherefore, those who love rounds and p. 261dances, **See Augustin. De Tempore. Sermo. 215. Epist. 202. & De Genesi. ad Litteram. l. 12. c. 22. against Dancers.have certainely a portion with her in Hell. A terrible sentence sufficient to startle all our dancing Dames, and frisquing effeminate Gallants; who make dancing their onelyonly excellency, and supreme delight. To these I could accumulate, Polydor Virgil. De Inventoribus rerum. l. 3. c. 13. Alexander Sardis, De Inventoribus rerum. l. 1. p. 42. Caelius Rhodiginus. Antiqu. Lect. l. 5. c. 4.5. M. Gualther, Hom. 52. in Marc. Alexander ab Alexandro. Gen. Dierum. l. 6. c. 19. Agrippa De Vanit. Scient. c. 20. M. Gosson, his Playes Confuted. Action 2. D. Reinolds his Overthrow of Stage-playes. pag. 12. to 19. & 130. to 139. Godwin, his Roman Antiquities. l. 2. sect. 3. c. 11… Bulengerus De Theatro. l. 1. c. 52. with **Oratio Edgari Regis. Bibl. Patrum. Tom. 13. p. 153.154. Haec mimi cantant & saltant, &c.sundry other Authors which B…lenger there recites. All which expresly informe us;**See M. Northbrooke, & Mr. Stubs qua supra. Lucian, De Saltatione… accordingly. that dancing was alwayes heretofore, and yet continues an unseperable concomitant, if not a necessary part of Stage-playes. The premises therefore being thus confirmed, my conclusion from them against Stage-playes must be granted