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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

be left to the iudgement of godly and well learned persons Wee doe not adde to this place the historie contained in the sixt chap. of the second booke of Samuel which saith That the Prophet Dauid danced before the Arke of God because a doubt may rise thereupon whether that motion of Dauid was a dance or not For as in the 82. Psalme and in other doctrines of the holy Bible Princes and Magistrates are called Gods because in a manner they bee like vnto God so that motion of Dauid might be taken in the number of dances because it had some likenesse with them What is that which compelleth vs to argue in this sort I pray you hearken a little Dances are motions composed with measure but that motion of Dauid was without measure as it is not difficult to be comprehended in that he discouered himselfe before his maids whereupon hee was mocked of his wife Michal What might haue beene the cause of such a motion in him His minde was transported and carried away through the great vehemencie of the burning zeale wherewith hee was altogither inflamed Of the Vnlawfull Dances which are commonly called prophane AS touching prophane Dances that Dance which the Apostle Saint Matthew in the 14. Chapter of his Gospell writeth to haue beene danced before Herod by the daughter of Herodias may be a sufficient testimoniall There it clearely appeareth to all persons endued with some discretion that in her Dance she had no regard vnto God but onely vnto Herod that she might most excellently please the said Herod to the intent that he should make her some extraordinarie high promise whereby she might purchase to her selfe the head of Saint Iohn Baptist for to carrie it to her mother Herodias which did hate that good Prophet with a deadly hatred And wee conclude thereupon that euery dancer and danceresse which in their dances haue no remembrance of God are greatly culpable before the eyes of God himselfe although they seeme to be without fault in the sight of men Wee do not bring hither the dancing mentioned in the 23. Chap. of Exodus because those stubborn and stiffehearted Israelites which danced about the molten Calfe were become Idolaters For it might be in that consideration that such dances were part of their religion Of such Dances as by reason are estemed to be indifferent BVt for the indifferencie of Dances wee haue the 15. Chapter of the Euangelist S. Luke where our Sauiour Iesus Christ speaking of the Prodigall Sonne which had wasted abroad all his portion of Goods and afterward was returned to his Father with humble confession of his offence sayth in good part in the narration of a godly deed that they made great mirth for his sake in the house with Bankers Melodie and Dances And there that indifferencie of Dancing is to be more plainely seene in these wordes Let vs eate and be merrie King Salomon among many indifferent thinges which he setteth down for our instruction in the 3. Chapter of his Ecclesiastes doeth also teach vs this That as there is a time to mourne so there is a time to Dance And such a thing may also serue vs heere for the proofe of the indifferencie of Dances concluding besides that by the last example and doctrine now deduced that it is not any action displeasant vnto God to vse Dances for an honest recreation in the ioyfull meetings of faythfull friendes or deare kinsfolkes and in all other occasions like vnto that same Wee do not vse heere that comparison of the little Children inuiting other little Children to Dance comprehended in the 7. Chap. of the Gospell according to S. Luke which comparison the Lord Iesus vttered for himselfe and for the Prophet S. Iohn Baptist against the Pharises and Expounders of the Law For it is well knowen euery where that many thinges are to be tollerated in Children which are not to be tollerated in other persons as the ryding vpon Stickes and the playing with Babies with such other foolish pastimes What sort of Dancing is more conuenient for the health AMong the indifferent Dances those Dances as we thinke must be numbred which are practised for the exercise of the body that thereby the bodily health may be better preserued Wherfore in regarding the druersitie of dispositions which is founde at all times in the humaine kinde it will not bee amisse to set downe one worde in this purpose to declare what sort of Dancing is more conuenient for these and what for those Such Dances as doe strongly stirre the body ought to be chosen of them which haue some obstructions in the wayes of the Vrine or some other like impediment And the contrarie must be vsed of such persons as doe perceiue their owne Braines to be weake or the like infirmitie to be in some other part But to the others that Dancing is fitter which exerciseth the bodie in a meane measure of agitation Therefore let all those persons which doe ordinarily exercise them selues in Dances carefully obserue and regard the constitutions of their bodyes to the intent that they should not vse any kind of Dancing which by repugnancie might be hurtfull to their complxions Remembring assidually within them selues and so much the more in this matter to acknowledge God to be the Author of all good thinges because the Apostle S. Paul in the 4. Chap. of his first Epistle to Timotheus doth condemne the bodily exercise when it is not accompanied with godlines Of the ordinarie Dances vsed cuerie where in these dayes NOw that we haue handled the Dances of the old Age shall wee make euident in few lines what wee thinke of the Dances of our dayes These Dances I speake of the greater part of them doe seeme vnto our iudgement to be partly vaine and partly prophane Vaine because neither men nor women are able to attaine vnto the knowledge and practise of the art of such Dancing without vexation of the Spirit and losse of time Prophane because in the old age the women Danced to this intent that thereby their spirituall Songes and Diuine prayses should waxe more feruent and consequently become more acceptable vnto GOD wheras now very often in a great many places among the Christians them-selues not onely the Women but also the Men doe Dance to please the world Notwithstanding God alone is hee which seeth their heartes and intentions and without difficultie it may be that our coniectures are not sufficiently iudicious The vexation of the Spirit is so much spoken against by that wise Salomon in his Booke of Eccesiastes that it is a wonderfull thing to see so many so many againe that neuer keepe them selues from the tearing clawes of that monster And the losse of Time might be better auoyded if men would but note the admonition of the Apostle S. Paul in the 5. Chap. of his Epistle to the Ephesians where hee biddeth them Redeeme the time when hee admonisheth them To walke circumspectly not as Fooles but