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LETTER to WILLIAM. 
| Profeſſor of Both-Sw 
„ City of Edinburgh, | 


ACHRIE, 
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Profeſſor of Capering; and Maſter 
1 of the Rerells, at Falinb. h, 3 


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„ing, with a great deal of — 
'{-FaQtion :7 The Honour that 


havegained by it, hath encourage — | 
to put Pen to mos n the Noble 


Art of Dancing: Peſide we are ſure | 
now to live in dne Moutff of Fame, ſince 


our Werthy Eriend Dector George Mac- 


kepzie Records with Honour Scots Au- 
thots and their Mritingnss. 

Hoy Ndble will it be to he ſhining 
in, that wortliy, Author's: Books, the 
ames Webſter, Mr. Wil. 
r. Nobert Htpbunn, and 
the Immortal Mr. William Melain. © * 

Vet ſure Lam, T ſhall be preferred 
to you, becauſe Lam — the Phi- 


loſopher, and ou more of the Warrier. 
DoRor Mackenzie is of Cicero's Mind, 


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tient Herefies: Your! 'Efag: "wilt 
after Ages: be Noted: as bre of theo 


off. all arch Bon Mak N fu | 
and gives à great deal af Activy to. 


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Crdent arma Toge. Whay is a Soldier? ? 
hay a General? but a Porter and a But- 
cher. It requires no Hee to cheat and. 
Defeat an Enemy ;” bir A great deal 

to Compendize Ariotles Philolophy, 
and to give an Abſtract of all the An- 


dangerous Hereſies ever way broxch 
* World; wien the” Doctor ſhall 

Rank me with een But a 1% 

come to my 7 1 
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mouts 


brings good Compan 


their Bodies and Souls. Grain 
Writers the Pedigree of K derived + 
from Heaven, the Stars in *their Me: 


tion ſeem to ke al Harmonical G. 
der, and to Imitate a kind of Tay 


Motion, Wich they! degan 


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e apering is bochine 
but uſing rhe - Feet gentilely to lis 
Time of Muſick, and anſwering 


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ly the Eidles, it dae atk ah Spirit; BY 


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and? (on ant 5 J. 
ehe World was Created: By the kelp 
ol this, Bacthus is ſaid to have Ci 
cvilized tlie Indiuns and Hadians, who 
afterwards made Uſe of it, in 
theilt Religious Rites, The — 
| Nb, commanded theCorribants inPhrx ö 
N, and the Curetes in Crete, to BY= 7 
*reile this Nobls Art. In Delos thete 
was no Sacred Ceremony d 
without Dancing. The Brag mais alſo 
among the Iudiius, Morning and Even- 
. ing, worſhiped the Beams of the Sun, | 
| Aancing all the time. And likewiſethe f 
I _ Aithioprans, 'Thractans, and Scythians, per- 4 
Z form their Relig Jous ; Ceremonies dance 
ing, which Order was inſtituted by Or-. 
WM pbeus and Miſews, Among the Romans, 4 
. the Salian Prieſts Danc'd in Honour of ß 


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| Mars. © The Lacedomians, the Braveſt 
; People of Greece, learned the Cuſtom 

of Dancing: in all their Feaſts and pub- 
1 lick Ceremonies, from Caſtor and Pol- 
lux. And in T. beſſaly, Dancing washad 


I in ſuch Veneration, that the Princes 


of the Country were Honoured wal 1 
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ng. in the Worlds Leatnd c 
ance, hen he as far ſtricken in 
ars, andihighly Extolled' that der 


Art, reckoniag it among t 
ous parts; Educatian, Peſervin MF, 
Eſteem of both Men and Gods. 1 


"neu and MarewcCeline, Men in Confular 
Dignity, at Rowe, are Commended in 


e Pen 5 Dangers. As alſo Lemm 
Morena. And that org i kar 


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aper hot we Randi 1 S 
en b a da nod before is 


Ut that K 
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haye ſo fa Approved «Hf the Ancients 
Opinion © of anging, that: now there 


Ino Gentleman but Learns; it: andno 


Are for to it, all Arts: and Sciences 


owe their beginning. Dancing In. 
e Mulick, which.che- Grectans 


We ** cke . -4riftoxenus, 
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Judged the wiſeſt Man, then ILiv- N 


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[whoſe Writings 


dd ROB. // · in. 45.64 4 5 


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2 hath tranſlateq 
into Larine, calls it the Soul of Man. 
"Plato fays in' his! firſt Book of L2w; 
that none can underſtand Muſick) 
without the Knowledge of all the 


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other Sciences: So uſefull is it, that 


Hiftaryi obſerves certain Tunes had 


ſo great Charms, that they incited the 
Litedemonians. and Crctaus to War; 


ITimothent by Muſick intited Alexander 


to Arms, and Boerhius relates that a 
Tune upon an Inſtrument, mov'd 
Tauminitiamas to Burn 2 Houſe; 
wherea certain Curtexas lay conceal'd. 
Mufick Lan keep. People Cuhaſt, 
Agamemiun when he was to go to 
the Troj n War, left a Muſician be- 
lind him to preſerve the Chaſtity of 
his; Wife Clitemneſra; by his grave 
Sponda ick Sohgs; and untill he was 
kill'd, it was impoſſible 1 to 
obtain his Deſires of her. By Muſick, 


Niſeaſes may be Cur , for Diſeaſes 
being in the Blood, a Fine Sound 
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Mufin tl o (Ghurchy — 
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Playing Chf Churches: nd 
Saints in Glory whar-tlawkey in 
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is hub a ſort of Muſick. 3 5 
and Comedies Nhat are e 
Stage dancing, "whereby i it ĩs 
that: Things conceived in w 

ſhouid he demonſtrated: by the Gs 
ſtures of the Body; and the Manners 
and 2 0 clear) y repreſented, 
that 15 znders: may underſtand the 
Player by! e Mocion of his Body, the' | on 


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de fay. not a word. 
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Geſtnrs and the Action of Hands, Eegs 


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Motions bat By eh dee _ 
| Dancing ?2Nay Dancing Ras coe ts 
uch Peftion that ĩt been x dete 
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e 2 the on that Was 
it, cou'd gel; atone” AR 


Fourty Perſons to. Repreſented ' in 
de Dame EEC ene et 0? 
Mime and Pats did all by 


and Poet, Without' making uſe of the 
Tongũe in any Sentiments or Sounds, 
which: hade Demetrius the Dynick I 
' Philoſopher r Cry out to one of them 

in the Middle of his Performance, | 

hear, my Friend, ' what you act, nor do I 


only ſte them, but mithinks you eat with 


your bands, This fame Pantom ine, v ho 
lind: in the time of __ was ſeen Bos 


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Prince anſwered, That his; Neighbokr 
Barbarians wert S., different Eanguagess 
and that it was not. eaſre to find Interpreter 


bis Geſturci, Ig Roi A $553. DAE * 
. Dancing was ſo much eſteem'd in 
Greece 5, that. Socrates being reflected 


Aigyptian Performances of that kind, 
| Reply'd, That Danginz contained all Ma- 
Rinn a ood 
+... To:Stage-Dancers Cicero owed, 
his Oratory , eſpecially Roſcius, who. 
yas: a great Comerad of Sys het 
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THINS, of what was Jung, being half Ex 
ratlan, underſtood all; being aftere 
Wards to return te his Country, and” 


thinkinp,him an Uſeleſs Compliment; 


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un on the Stage is hüt the Pi 


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Aumane Actions, the Com 


we Marne oft: of, Fearing and 
'Mannets of the Age; So that" the 
Hofipher,* Lever, Divine, 
Aeta, Or. Warrit, eu Alb id 
to a Compleat Dancing-Maſter:” An 
d. oh, moſt Noble D Doctor. you uſt 
aft" your” Cap to me; Not nl. = 
(Maſter of the Revills, © Who: 15 9 | 
your Supetior Off er, b row 'S 

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We never hear of any Perſons of 
Note in all Antiquity, that were ever 
Fencing Maſters © or Fencers, and the 
beginning of Fencing was among the 
Gladiators, who were a pack of Slaves, 
Nia ine by the Publick , for the 
People's Diverſion to Kill one another 
Are Gladtardry Dance; However you 
have other things than your Imploy- 

ment of Fencing toRe:ommend you for, 
wü have imprdven the Noble Art of 
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