r him, and geue him some
duety which they did owe, they did not content themselues to do it
with the harte, and with the mouth, but by and by they added, and
ioyned there withall some outwarde gestures, to witnes that, which was
within. Euen unto this present or hetherto we haue founde very little
affinitye or agreement betweene the daunses of the auncient
patriarches, and of good and religious people, and these, which we use
at this present, or in these dayes.

It is certaine and true, that the daunsers of our tyme would very
fayne make themselues equall with them, and be in the selfe same
degree of honor: sauing notwithstanding, that they content not them
selues to haue a shameles and villanous harte, but they will also
discouer and lay open their own shame & villany, by dissolute
gestures.

The third and last poynt sheweth us the fashion of the nations or
people of the East, the outward gestures, and custome receaued among
them, contrary herein to the westerne people. The reason is because
euery nation hath alwayes some proper and particuler inclination,
which another hath not. Moreouer those which draw nigh unto the East
and South, are by reason of the heate, mor easie to moue themselues,
and consequently to make or shew gestures, then they are which be in
the East, or North who by reason of the cold be more heauy & weighty:
From whence it commeth, that the Italian in his communications or
speeches, but especially if he speake with an affection or good hart,
intermingleth and useth so many gestures, that if an English man
should see him a farre of, not hearing his words, would iudge him out
of his wit or els playing some comedy upon a scaffold.

Let a man on the other side beholde an Almain or Germain in the
Pulpit, and hee would thinke him benummed, and impotent, or lame in
all his members or partes, of his bodie.

And to confirme this, lett us beholde and call to remembraunce, how
the auncient Romains were remoued farr from the opinion and mind of
the Greks. These, that is the Greekes, esteemed daunsing verye much,
and all these which knew howe to helpe and comfort themselues with an
instrument of musicke. The other, that is the Romains made very small
account of both daunsyngs, and lesse of the daunsers themselues. Here
appeareth the difference of Climates, and of such as dwell under those
climates. From thence it commeth that the people of the East partes
did breake and rent in peeces their garmentes when t