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Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity,…Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie,…
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity, in the University of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswell of the matter, as of the words: with an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1564London: printed by Iohn Day, 1564
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Chorea that is a dance, is formed (as Plato saith) of this word [Greek or Hebrew], which signifieth joy, because it is a certain testification of joy.1 And Seruius (when he interpreteth this verse of Vergil, Omnis quam chorus & socii comitantur ovantes, that is, whom all the dance and fellows followed with mirth) saith that chorus is the singing and dancing of such as be of like age.
CHorea that is a daunse, is formed (as Plato sayth) of this worde 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, whiche signifieth ioye, bycause it is a certayn testification of ioy.1 And Seruius (when he interpreteth this verse of Vergil, Omnis quam chorus & socii comitantur ouantes, that is, whō all the daunse and fellowes followed with mirth) saith that chorus is the singyng and daunsing of such as be of like age.
- 1Seruius.
But whence dances had their beginning, there at sundry opinions.1 Some think that men when they beheld the sundry motions of the wandering and fixed stars, sound out dancing, whereby the variety of motions might be represented. Other think that dances came rather of religion, because among the old Ethnics, there were in a manner no holy services wherein was not leaping or dancing. For they led their dances from the left part of the alter to the right, whereby to resemble the motion of the heaven from the East unto the West, afterward they returned from the right to the left, to express the course of the wandering stars. Which thing peradventure Vergil signified when he said:2 Instaurantque choros, mixtique altarla circum, that is, and they being mixed together renewed their dances compassing about the alters.