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get them elsewhere by sinne. They sinne by singing, and playing on instruments, for their songs bewitch the hearts of those that heare them with temporall delight, forgetting God, uttering nothing in their songs but lies and vanities. And the very motion of the body which is used in dancing, gives testimony enough of evill.
"Thus you see that dancing is the Devill's procession, and he that entreth into a dance, enters into the Devil's possession. Of dancing the Devil is the guide, the middle and the end; and hee that entreth a good and a wise man into the dance, comneth foorth a corrupt and a wicked man."
History of the Waldenses and Albigenses, with their doctrine and discipline; by Jean Paul. Perrin. tr. by Samson Lennard. Part 3, P. 63.
A great part of this Bill of Indictment against Dancing has been copied as authority against it by no less a man