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Show - o5 g ‘\nf""‘l ly Hiftory of ‘Dancing And 'tWG_‘\lJDO! "Wy Q ) 100Ci , i b ot y Dot bewaf 0l ; 6ifth e et kin 108 e s it forn, e, 't Dochiney th e i fict 1 g i, e was gof he Galden Calfy 1 to g it b el 'L fi i {l ,?.f m r an Senators to confult about weighty Mat ters, and then began a Dance. - An himfelf ; and one Night fummon'd th if Plato refusd to Dance before Dyo-myftus ata Banquet, AriffsppusthePhi lofopher was a better Courtier T O Dance too exquifitely, 1s, I muf own, too laborious a Vanity; and t be totally ignorant of it, and of tha Carriage, Behaviour, Fathion and Ad drefs, gain'd by learning it; thews (o the otherhand) aManeither Stoical,o but meanly bred, or not vs'dtoConver {ation. The beft therefore is a kind o Artful Carelefsnefs, as if it were a na tural Motion, without a too curious an painful practifing THAT there have been feveral Enormities occafion'd by it, isnot afufficient Argument againftit; for I have rea and heard, that even at Sermons Scene of Debauchery have beencontrivid; an Churches, as well as Dancing Schools have been made ufe of as a Rendezvou for Intreaguing and Lafcivious Aflignations. But if ‘Dancing conduces to th fathioning and improvement of Behavioury and the comely Carriage of a Ma among Strangers3 if it be an Innocen a |
