foolish, and to bee laughed at amonge nations & peoples, on this side of them:  And if that women should take tabourets in their handes, as we read that the women of Israel haue done:  would not men thinke that they were out of their witt:  which notwihstanding was not found in thought straung among the Israelites, because this was the custome of the nation and people.  It is true, that a man may also referr the tabourets & other instrumentes of musicke to the ceremonies of Moyses law:  which ceremonies haue bene abolished at the comming of Jesus Christ, in so much that at this day where we are under the Gospell, wee must use the same more soberly, and sparingly, & with greater modesty:  but all that, hath nothinge common with the daunses of this present time or age.

These three poyntes being dispatched we fynd and see cleerely, what affinity & agreement there is, betweene these twoo maners of daunses. [Sidenote:  2.  Sam. 6.] Our daunsers do yet further alledge an other parcel or peece of the scripture written in the booke of the Kinges, where it is said, that Dauid leaped and daunsed before the Arke of the Lord. [Sidenote:  Mark this you that folowe daunsing scholes.] But so far of is it, that this serueth them to mayntayne their daunses, that I would not wish to haue a more proper, fitt, playne, and agreeable place to confute them.  For if Dauid hath had a like affection in his daunse, as they haue in theirs, that is to say, to please the gentlewoman and Ladies, as our daunsers endeuor, studye & deuise to please their minions and flattering dames, Michol his wife, had neuer mocked him.  He might then haue daunsed more pleasantly, and after a fashion more agreeable to the flesh:  and for trueth, hee might haue done it beyng light or nimble by nature, and able or meete to do al thinges.

But the answeare which he made his wife Michol, very well declareth, that hee pretended or purposed no other thinge but to set out by outward gestures, the greatnes of the ioy which he had conceaued in his harte, because of the presence of God.  This was (sayd he) before the Lord which I haue done in this behalfe:  it appeareth by this aunsweare, that his affection was not in or on the world, and that he cared not much for the iudgement of Michol, and of all other worldlings, because he would not please them, nor satisfy or feede their fine and goodly eyes, by his daunsing.  Wherfore we must conclude that Dauid condemneth the worldlines of his wife, and such other as shee:  yea in that that shee was punished by barrennes, which followed theruppon.  It is an evident argument, that God approued or allowed the doing and saying of the Prophet.