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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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There was also an other kind of dancing, whereby young men were exercised to warlike affairs. For they were commanded to make gestures & to leap, having upon them their armour, ye afterward they might be the more prompt to fight, when need for the public wealth should require.1 This kind of dancing was called saltacio Pyrrhica, & because it was exercised in armour, it was called [Greek or Hebrew]. Of this dancing is mention in the civil laws, namely in ye digestes de paenis, in ye law ad dannū. And sometimes young men when they had offended, were not straightway put to death, but were condemned either to hunt upon a stage, or else to dance in armour. And they were called Pirrhicarii. Also there was an other kind of dancing,2 which was instituted only for pleasure & wantonness sake, & that was called of the Grecians [Greek or Hebrew] & [Greek or Hebrew]. But of those dances which by gestures of the body, expressed the senses of the mind, writeth Lucianus in his book [Greek or Hebrew],3 & so doth Atheneus. In which kind at the length it came to the point, that when at Rome Demetrius Cynicus derided the dance called Mimica saltacio, calling it a thing vain & nothing worth, a noble dancer, which then was had in honour at Rome, desired him, that he would once only behold him dancing, & afterward to judge & speak his fancy whatsoever he would. He came unto the stage, the dancer called saltator Mimicus began by gestures to resemble the common fable of Mars, taken in adultery with Venus. In which thing he so expressed the sun which declared the fact, & Vulcanus knitting his nets, & Venus overcome with shame, & Mars humbly desiring pardon,4 that Demetrius being astonished cried out: [Greek or Hebrew]. That is, I hear O man the things that thou doest, I do not only see them, for by these thy hands thou seemeth to me to speak. About the same time by chance came to Rome the king of Pontus, & when he had seen this dancer played his gestures on the stage, being afterward bidden of Nero, to ask what thing he most desired to have given him, he desired to have the Mimus. Nero marvelled, forasmuch as he mought have asked other things of much greater price, & asked him the cause of that his request.