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A Treatise of Daunses - Wherin It Is Shewed, That They Are as It Were Accessories And - Dependants (Or Thynges Annexed) to Whoredome, (1581) by Anonymous
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but I pray you: what can ther by there of God, of his worde, of of
honestye in such folishnes: I holde my tounge, that is, I speake
nothing of their wordes, amorous deuises, or deuises of loue, wanton
communications or speeches or markes only knowen to the Ladye, or
Gentlewoman. It is true, that a man will say to me, that he must
reioyce and be mery, which thing also I graunt, but yet not with a
worldly, dissolute, and leuse ioy.

The seconde pointe is, that euen as the people of Israell were
instructed in the seruice of God by very many cerimonies, and outward
manners or fashions, so when they would honor him, and geue him some
duety which they did owe, they did not content themselues to do it
with the harte, and with the mouth, but by and by they added, and
ioyned there withall some outwarde gestures, to witnes that, which was
within. Euen unto this present or hetherto we haue founde very little
affinitye or agreement betweene the daunses of the auncient
patriarches, and of good and religious people, and these, which we use
at this present, or in these dayes.

It is certaine and true, that the daunsers of our tyme would very
fayne make themselues equall with them, and be in the selfe same
degree of honor: sauing notwithstanding, that they content not them
selues to haue a shameles and villanous harte, but they will also
discouer and lay open their own shame & villany, by dissolute
gestures.

The third and last poynt sheweth us the fashion of the nations or
people of the East, the outward gestures, and custome receaued among
them, contrary herein to the westerne people. The reason is because
euery nation hath alwayes some proper and particuler inclination,
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