The horrible vice of pefitferous dauncing!
"Dauncing, as it is used or rather abused in these daies, is an introduction to whordom, a preparative to wantonnes, a provocative to uncleanes, and an introite to al kind of lewdenes."
"It is all (this time with two L's, I like their spelling!!!) without doubte, a provocation to luft and venery, and the fire of luft once conceived by fome irruption or other, burfteth foorthe into open action of whoredom and fornication. And therefore a certain father said wel, 'Omnis Faltus in chorea, eft faltus in profundum inferni'. Every leap, or skip in dance, is a leap toward hel."
The Anatomy of Abuses, (1583)
"It is all (this time with two L's, I like their spelling!!!) without doubte, a provocation to luft and venery, and the fire of luft once conceived by fome irruption or other, burfteth foorthe into open action of whoredom and fornication. And therefore a certain father said wel, 'Omnis Faltus in chorea, eft faltus in profundum inferni'. Every leap, or skip in dance, is a leap toward hel."
The Anatomy of Abuses, (1583)