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HErtes affusked of you folysshe dauncers / * 1.1 approche you nere myne instrument / and ye maye lerne another daunce. For I haue an instrumente swete & melodyous. These dauncers as well yonge as olde / ben repu∣ted furyous / and folysshe. They haue grete payne and laboure by insacyable dauncynge after the sowne of the folysshe mynstrelles. Echone of them taketh a wyfe by grete dyssolucyon. They be consonaunt to the Druydes whan theyr grete instrumentes sowneth / and holdeth theyr furour for to daunce. As the preestes of the tem∣ple of Mars that dyde theyr voluptuous sacryfyses so / O poore foole that remeueth thy fete so often in ye daun * 1.2 ces without ony cessȳge. Tell me what prouffyte / what guerdon / or what auayll mayst thou haue therby. Whā I aduertein my remembraunce the dysportes & playes of daūcers men and women / for all conclusyons I can * 1.3 not se by no maner of waye / but that the ende is ryghte myserable and vnhappye. And all comprehended well / there procedeth from them many inconuenyentes and dolours / as I haue redde in exody of the chydren of Is∣rahell that were tryumphaunt in the loue of god in de∣serte / the whiche daunced Joyously in skyppynge and lepynge aboute a calfe that was reysed vp vpon a hygh pyller. And euen so as god had maunded / they were pu nysshed secretely. Alas and all was for that cursed daū∣cynge. * 1.4 For whan folkes be replete with mete and dryn∣ke ye shall se them daunce and skyppe in makynge gre∣te gambades by inly talente as wel men as women / for whan they be full of fatte morselles / and of good wyne they fynde women the whiche is pleasaunt / and with ye darte of loue they be smyten / and swalowed in a pytte /
pryde ensueth it & vycyousnes / for they ben comen but * 1.5 for loue vnto suche personages. Euery body loueth and serueth Uenus as moche as they maye in commyttyng many euylles / and lybydynous playes in kyssynge and clyppynge / and is neyther marchynge / nor demarchyn∣ge but that they thynke theron. There is nothynge that maketh the soule of man dymynysshe more / and descen∣de vnto dampnacyon. This contamyneth the spyrytes organykes / and the stomackes of the dauncers. They be alwayes in noyses / and dothe but crye / in constray∣nynge theyr voyces / castynge theyr voluptuous regar∣des vpon the wyues or maydens. And for to dysporte them the more they goo in to euery place / soo that with grete payne the temples is excepte. And for these vnhap¦py daunces cometh grete myscheues / and inconuenyen¦tes. Not alonely to the laye people / but also vnto ye cler∣kes / and them of the chirche / for they daunce also / how well that theyr thoughtes be vertuous / yet they be be∣ten downe with mondanytees / and ben sene reygne in maladyccyon. Osyuyte holdeth euery daye chyldren / & yonge maydens be nothynge endoctryned as they we∣re in tyme paste / they can no more vertuousnes nowe / nor honour / nor amyable speche / in the worlde is nothin¦ge but synne. All men as wel on werke dayes / as on ho∣lydayes daunceth / ye and they that be so auncyent that they maye scarsely susteyne themselfe / enrageth for to daunce. In many and dyuers wayes it is but vycyous∣nes * 1.6 / in mouynge theyr corporall bodyes after the melo∣dyous armony of the instrument. More than a thousan¦de myllyons of euylles is done at the daunces / for a no∣table man shal fynde with his doughter / or with his wy¦fe a grete sorte of galauntes / spekynge many dyssolate
wordes / kyndelynge the fyre of loue. And after they be so ardaunt in loue / that all theyr bodyes is tormented therwith. Amonge you yonge maydens that putteth all your curyosyte therin / yf ye wyll lyue without vyce / flee that thynge.
Exodi. xxxii. ••s. xi.
Orgia. 〈…〉〈…〉∣chi.
Druyde de quibus Juli{us} cesar in cōmē Selii de 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Uirg. ii. geor.
Exodi. xxxii. i. corin. x. vide nota g••. in cle. i. de cel misi.
Inde attēd••¦tes de sta. rel. de vi. et ho. cl cū decorem. {pro}uer. ii.
〈…〉〈…〉g. ii. geor. Judith. ii.