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 from him, and brake them at the foote of the mountaine, and afterwards it cost three and twenty thousand their lives. Besides the ornaments which women weare in their dances are as crownes for many victories which the Devill hath gotten against the children of God; for the Devill hath not onely one sword in the dance, but as many as there are beautifull and well-adorned persons in the dance; for the words of a woman are a glittering sword, and therefore that place is much to be feared wherein the enemy hath so many swords, since that one onely sword of his may be feared. Againe, the Devill in this place strikes with a sharpened sword, for the women come not willingly to the dance, if they be not painted and adorned, the which painting and ornament is as a grindstone upon which the Devil sharpeneth his sword. They that decke and adorne their daughters are like those that put dry wood to the fire to the end it may