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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06390	A dialogue between custom and veritie concerning the vse and abuse of dauncing and minstrelsie	Lovell, Thomas.	1581 (1581)	STC 16860; ESTC S109641	21,954	68

for all that come to play And minstrels for the dauncing dames and youths that goe so gay Yf they some larned men would haue to teach their ghestes what gaine They haue by Christ his birth and death and take them selues some paine To heare the same Christyde aright then should these men obserue And while they féed the body not suffer the soule to sterue But ah alas this séems to men agréeuous charge to be Then to procure by whome we may the light from darkenes sée To further their saluation what so men doo bestowe They count a charge but nothing déer for that which bringeth wo. Like vnto Esops cock God graunt we may not fooles remain Before the péerlesse pearle of price Stil to prefer the grain Custome Sōe think when weddinges feast is kept where many men doo méet That youthful yéers in plesant daunce may nimbly mooue their feet Veritie That feast is signe that man hath chosen 1. Cor. 7.2 a wife so to liue chaste To vnchaste and adulterous life vain dauncers other haste For this estate of mariage men should praise and thank the Lord Those fleshly wicked woorkers of them ought clene to be abhord When man and wife doo firmly ioyne and faithful promise make Oh let not vs like faithlesse whoores our husband Christe forsake Custome If daunce with sinne be so replete and vertues shine doo dim Mens wits of late are very quick and they in knowledge swim For dauncing hath béen long in vse mong men of learned skil They found no fault but thought it wel why then count you it il Veritie Gods gifts they are not tide to time nor any age of men He powers them foorth when he thinks good bothe how to whom and when Iob. 32.7 Long custome ought to be no rule Ma. 5.21 Ier. 6 1● therby our liues to frame Except it be the way of trueth then may we vse the same By multitude your argument if you doo minde to prooue Bothe God and godlynes alwaies the smaller sort doo looue Noe and his familie were few saued in pinetrée Ark When all the world beside for sinne were drownd with waters dark When iust Lot and his daughters two were sau'd from firye slame The Sodomits and many were consumed with the same Elyas séemd alone to be sinne then did so abound And to be short in number few the Godly haue béen found The way that leads to life is straight and few therin doo trace Brode is the way that leads to hell there many run their race ●●c 1.4 ●ech 20. Our Fathers steps and multitude to follow we denay ●xod 23.2 ●su 24.25 Where they from law of God haue erd Els follow them we may Though sōe which séem Clerks of great skill and others to excell with daūcing holde against Gods woord they may not beare the bell Though other all one far surpasse yet being but a man If from right way he tread a wry we may not follow than Respect of persons set aparte and iudge with vpright minde Whose proof on woord of God is ground and therto doo incline The Scribe and the proude Pharise was thought a learned wight And Christe vnlearned yet in déed Christe had the trueth and light Philosophers were counted wise and Paule a foole was thought Yet Paule said trueth and taught them Christe which hath vs déerly bought Let not the lofty countenaunce of men whom many praise Nor noble birth nor worldly welth dasle thine eyes alwaies Let woord of God the tuchstone be and not the face of men To trye who hath in this discourse the trueth set down with pen. If that the noble Berreans Acts. 17.11 or such like now did liue They rightly would discusse this cause and best to trueth would giue If by right rule of Gods good woord this cause might squared be Such trifling daunces clene abhord then shortly should we sée Custome Though this thy parte thou hast wel proou'd that it dooth firmly stand From dauncing yet I wil not yéeld nor giue thée vpper hand Though all my proof thou hast disproou'd and I no proof can bring This shift I haue say what thou wilt I wil beléeue nothing Veritie Sith thou art froward and selfwild gainst trueth and reason bent To talk with them whom reason ruleth a while is mine intent God hath with reason you indued let reason yéeld to right With equall ballance weigh this cause and in the trueth delight Of sundrie sorts of daunce we read and eke wherof it sprung But we wil talk of that which dooth to this discourse belong plato lib. 3. de legibus There is a daunce calld Choria which ioy dooth testify An other called Pyrricha which warlike feats dooth try For men in armour gestures made and leapt that so they might When néed required be more prompt for publique weal to fight An other instituted was for onely pleasures sake Which fleshly foolish is and vaine Solinu this daunce should no man make Some from Sibilles priestes affirm this dauncing first did spring Some from the Préests of Mars some from Hiero Sicil king Some say from Ethniks olde it came Polid. Viirgil de inuen ●●tam lib. 2. cap Rodolph Gualtet● in Mar. 51. ca. 6. Chrisost mat hor but Chrisostom dooth tel How that this daunce did first procéed from Sathan Prince of hel Theffects cannot be good that from such causes doo procéed Therfore I wish all godly men of this to take great héed All kinde of daunce is not misliked but men should vse it wel By gift of God in ioynts of man Agillitie dooth dwel In comely manner if he mooue apt measures if they trace With mean in time without offence it is a séemly grace As songes so daunces may be vsed to praise Gdds holy name So Dauid daunst and many mo and we may doo the same Psal 148 For as almightie God hath made all things his praise to tell So chéefly man who o'er the rest on earth as king dooth dwell For mortall man with reasons might high things to comprehend God hath indued that his good Lord to knowe he should attend What he in inward hart dooth knowe and constantly beléeue Other to tel a tung he hath but God the praise to giue As tung and voyce so members all Gods woorthy praise to sound In sundrie sort created were ●sal 15● as is in Scripture found The Princely Prophet dooth prouoke with sound of Trumpet shrill With pleasant lute and warbling harp and pipe that plaieth not il With Cimbals loud dauncing swift By all meanes that we can Our gracious God to magnify before the face of man But in this daunce this must we note that men should daunce alone And eke the women by them selues thus seperate eche one When Dauid daūced no womē daūced with him as scriptures tel No men did daunce with Miriam if thou doost mark it wel When Iephthas daughter did with daūce her Father méet