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 those People have once begun to dance, if their Strength did not fail them, they would never leave off. Besides, they call themselves a Ball, from a Custom which they have of forming a Circle with their Bodies, as Horses do about a Pond, when many go to drink at once. I could not but be griev'd, to see People applaud each other for their Imitation of Beasts, since every Motion of theirs was designed to imitate some Creature which they despised. The Creatures which they chiefly imitated, were Ducks, Horses, and a Pack of Dogs playing after a plentiful Meal: Their Imitation of Ducks, which was slow, and waddling, they called Drptxye; it may be render'd, without much Straining, a Minuet: Their Imitation of a Trooper's Horse, when he is exercising, may be render'd Jiggs: And their Imitation of Dogs, Country-Dances. Their Jiggs were called Csdmno, and their Country-Dances Glghdne. There were some who attempted to imitate the Flying of Birds; but those that could raise themselves highest from the Ground, were most hurted in their Fall. It is but trifling to urge, that by Dancing we learn a graceful Carriage and genteel Behaviour, since those Beasts which we imitate are void of both; and Reason alone should direct us in acquiring them, tho' Custom is now the universal Director: But still the Difficulty is to account, for this Propensity to imitate Brutes. Philosophers divide the Appetite into rational and sensitive; the former is peculiar to Men, the latter we have in common with Beasts: When the Rational governs, all Things are well, and we live as we ought to do: But, from the Moment that the sensitive gets the upper Hand, we commence Brutes. Now the Soul is suppos'd to have its rational End uppermost, when Men do the ordinary Offices of Life, which they are obliged to: But this is a grand Mistake; for the Generality of