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A06404	Brief conclusions of dancers and dancing Condemning the prophane vse thereof; and commending the excellencie of such persons which haue from age to age, in all solemne feasts, and victorious triumphs, vsed that (no lesse) honourable, commendable and laudable recreation: as also true physicall obseruations for the preseruation of the body in health, by the vse of the same exercise. Written by I.L. Roscio.; Conclusions upon dances, both of this age, and of the olde	Lowin, John, 1576-1659.	1609 (1609)	STC 16875; ESTC S106398	7,299	24

Brief Conclusions of Dancers and Dancing Condemning the prophane vse thereof and commending the excellencie of such Persons which haue from Age to Age in all solemne Feasts and victorious Trumphs vsed that no lesse Honourable Commendable and laudable Recreation As also true Physicall obseruations for the preseruation of the body in health by the vse of the same Exercise Written by I. L. Roscio SIC CREDE Imprinted at London for Iohn Orphinstrange and are to bee sold at his shop by the Cocke and Katherine-wheele neere Holbourne bridge 1609. THE PRINTER TO the Reader LEt mee now entreate thee courteous tractable Reader not to stay thy minde vpon the word Dances but to make thy recourse thorow the matters which are deduced vnder that title For what cause Otherwise the subiect of this purpose as I thinke shall seeme vnto thy iudgement to be vaine and friuolous whereas of it selfe it is altogether serious and of a great moment Heare mee a little The Author of this Treatise concerning Dances doth not lay the foundation of his arguments vpon his owne opinion nor vpon the fantasticall imaginations of some others but vpon the word of GOD it selfe which is comprehended in the Holy Bookes of the Olde and Newe Testaments The which thing may verie plainely be discerned by the vnion or congruitie of this small Treatise being not framed according to the pleasure of the eye but for the comfort of the heart In which comfort these holy men and women which he hath named and before our eyes heere erected magnified the most mightie Creator of all visible and inuisible creatures holding it to bee their dutie not onely priuately to laud and reioyce in him for the victories they receiued but also to stirre vp the people which they ruled by the actiuenes and agilitie of their bodies in Dances to praise and laud the immortall worker of their triumphs Therefore bee thou instructed by the doctrine heerein contained and the Lord haue thee alwaies vnder his protection Your friend IOHN ORPHINSTRANGE CONCLVSIONS VPON DANCES BOTH OF THIS AGE AND OF THE OLD Three diuers opinions of learned men concerning Dances CReat is the diuersitie of opinions about the vsage of dances euen as it is about a thousand other matters of no slender importance Some men of good vnderstanding and litterature doe affirme dances to bee holy of themselues and their chiefe allegation regardeth the sixt Chapter of the second booke of Samuel where it is written that the Prophet Dauid danced before the Arke of the Lord when it was carried from the house of Obed-Edom to the Citie of Dauid with shouting and sound of Trumpet Many others doe maintaine that such an exercise is prophane and doe principally inferre out of the 32. chapter of Exodus that the corrupted Israelites did dance in their idolatrie about the molten Calfe which they compelled Aaron to make But after the iudgement of the greater number it is a thing altogether indifferent and their highest argument doth embrace one speech of Christ in the 7. chap. of the Gospell according to Saint Luke which is this They are like vnto little children sitting in the market place and crying one to another and saying VVee haue piped vnto you and ye haue not danced wee haue mourned vnto you and you haue not wept Let the hearers and readers open their mindes vnto vs or vnto others vpon such diuersities It may easily be perceiued in marking some places of the Old and New Testaments that the holinesse prophanation and indifferencie of dances must be considered vpon the causes of dancing Wherefore wee are minded to set downe by the permission of the Almightie some instructiue obseruations touching that purpose Of the Dances vsed in the Old Age and formerly of the holy THat Dance was holy which as wee read in the 15. chap. of Exodus was effected by Miriam the Prophetesse sister of Aaron and Moses with all the other Israelitish women when God had miraculously destroyed their deadly foes the Aegyptians to wit King Pharao and his mightie hoste in ouerthrowing and drowning them all at once in the red Sea For they danced in singing prayses vnto God for their deliuerance and so the cause of their dancing was godly and consequently the dance it selfe was holy That Dance was holy likewise which the Scripture sheweth vs in the 11. chap. of Iudges when Iptah had vanquished his aduersaries the Ammonites and returned to his house which Ammonites had beene verie cruel oppressors of the Israelits eighteen years For the daughter of Iaphtah with her compapanions went out to meete her father and danced in magnifying the Lord because he had giuen him the victorie ouer his enemies Is not the like argument to be framed vpon the like subiect in the 18. chap. of the first book of Samuel We see there how that the women of Israel came out of all their Cities to honour Dauid returning from the slaughter of Goliath the Philistim and how that they danced in giuing glorie to the Almightie because hee had auenged his people Israel of their foes the Philistims which were slaundering and blaspheming idolaters And the 15. Chapter of the booke of Iudith doth confirme this matter of dancing in that it manifesteth the Dances of that most vertuous godly and valiant widow Iudith after she had saued the Citie of Bethulia and discomfited the Persians Medes and all the rest by smiting off with her heroicall hand the head of Olofernes chiefe Captaine of Nabuchodonosor King of the Assyrians Vpon what occasions in the Old Age the dances were vsed NOw euerie man may learne by those premisses that the godly women of Israell did dance publikly after some great victorie in praysing and glorifying the name of the Lord for the same and that they did not vse that kinde of exercise with any minde toward some worldly pleasure But was it onely about victories It was also about the celebration of some solemne feast consecrated vnto God as we haue the example thereof in the 21. Chap. of Iudges For the Elders of Israel hauing no wiues for two hundreth men of Beniamin had them goe to Shiloh where a feast of the Lord was celebrated euery yeare saying Goe and lye in wait in the Vineyards and when ye see the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in Dances then come yee out of the Vineyardes and catch you euery man a wife of the daughters of Shiloh and goe into the land of Beniamin So ye may clearely see that the vsage of dancing was not onely ordained for victories but also for solemne feasts and that a conclusion may be gathered out of it to be lawfull to reioyce with dances at the time of mariages and of all other holy and great occasions But it were meete and conuenient ye should alwaies remember one thing that whensoeuer the occasions of dancing are holy then the forme of dancing ought to represent holinesse as the indifferent doe require indifferencie the discerning wherof must