From Locorum communium a Joanne Manlio collectorum, Tom. II. (Basileae 1563. 8.), p. 207, in De Wette-Seidemann, vol. VI, p. 435. Another relation is found in G. Loesche, Analecta Lutherana et Melanthoniana, p. 81, no. 63.
Judgement of D. Martin Luther on the export of line dances.
Line dances are used and permitted so that polite behavior may be learned among a large crowd, and so that young men may learn to honor the female sex, and friendship may be established between young men and respectable girls.
1) Walch: "always".
The pope condemned line dances because he was opposed to legitimate marriages. The pope has condemned the line dances, because he was an opponent of legitimate marriages. Therefore, at the same time, some respectable women and men are invited to the weddings, who are spectators, so that everything is done properly. But there is one thing that I dislike about the performance of the line dances, and I wanted it to be publicly forbidden by the authorities: that the young men should not swing the girls around in circles, especially publicly, since many are watching.
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