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Poster: "MTR/AAHR" <wolffe@onslowonline.net>

Ahh! but I met a few fighters at Crown who *DO* dance, and dance *VERY*
well! *VBEG*
-Wolfe, Raven's Cove
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From: marybeth lavrakas <Marybeth_Lavrakas@med.unc.edu>
To: atlantia@atlantia.sca.org <atlantia@atlantia.sca.org>
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 14:53
Subject: dancing


>
>Poster: marybeth lavrakas <Marybeth_Lavrakas@med.unc.edu>
>
>In re-reading Castiglione's BOOK OF THE COURTIER today I found a
>pertinent passage.  I guess getting fighters to dance is not a modern,
>nor Atlantian, problem!  ;-)
>
>I quote:
>Yet we will not have him for all that so lusty to make bravery in words,
>and to brag that he hath wedded his harness for his wife, and to
>threaten with such grim looks, as we have seen Berto do oftentimes.  For
>unto such may well be said that a worthy Gentlewoman in a noble assembly
>spake pleasantly unto one, that shall be nameless for this time, whom
>she to show him a good countenance , desired to dance with her, and he
>refusing both that, and to hear music and many other entertainments
>offered him, always affirming such trifles not to be his profession, at
>last the Gentlewoman demanding him, "What is then your profession?"  He
>answered with a frowning look: "To fight."
>
>Then said the Gentlewoman, "Seeing you are not now at the war nor in
>place to fight, I would think it best for you to be well besmeared and
>set up in an armory with other implements of war til time were that you
>should be occupied, lest you wax more rustier than you are."
>
>(No comments about gettin' besmeared, guys!)
>
>Kathryn Rous
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