commoditye and profite commeth to him thereby: we must then conclude,
that this is a kind of theft: which although it be not playnly
expressed in the holye scripture, yet neuertheles it ought to bee
referred to the eight commaundement, in which it is sayd, Thou shalt
not steale.

The like is of daunses which wee may put in the first & second row or
order. For although wee haue not any playne and expresse forbidding,
where it should be sayd, Thou shalt not daunse, yet we haue a formall
and plaine commaundement, Thou shalt not commit adultery, or
whoredome: to which the daunses ought to be referred. [Sidenote: A
definition of daunses.] Now if one would aske me what daunses were: I
wil answeare, that considering the sway which they haue at this day
amongest us Cristians, they bee nothing else but impudent, shameles,
and dissolute gestures, by which the lust of the flesh is awaked,
stirred by, and inflamed, as wel in men as in women. [Sidenote:
Deut. 22. Titus. 2.] Bat if honesty, modesty, and sobernes, be
required in apparaile, & adorning of mens selues, as we see that it is
commended and commaunded in Deuteronomie, & seing that S. Paule also
in his epistle to Titus, willeth that there should be among us a sober
and holy countenaunce, singularly and specially in women, which
ordinarily be very curious in their garmentes, it is certayne and
sure, that there is some poyson or venym hidden under the
grasse. [Sidenote: I. Pet. 3.] And because it is so, S. Peter in his
first canonicall or generall epistle, forbiddeth that women should
appeare, shew, and sett out themselues by theyr apparayle and
neatnes. Add that in many other places of the sayd holy scripture, the
diuersity and difference in attire and garmentes, is condemned, as
prouoking to whoredome, and slipperines, by more stronge reason the
dissolute and lewde gestures, which be practised by the proper and