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> [Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-prynne/dancing-serves-no-necessary-use-no-profitable-laudable-or-pious-end/)

[William Prynne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-prynne/)

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## Other authors on Depraved

## More by William Prynne

> [A woman with cut hair is a filthy spectacle, and much like a monsterit being natural and comely to women to nourish their hair,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-prynne/a-woman-with-cut-hair-is-a-filthy-spectacle-and-much-like-a-monsterit/)

[William Prynne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-prynne/)

> [Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-prynne/dancing-serves-no-necessary-use-no-profitable-laudable-or-pious-end/)

[William Prynne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-prynne/)

> [Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-prynne/dancing-is-for-the-most-part-attended-with-many-amorous-smiles-wanton/)

[William Prynne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-prynne/)

> [The way to heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-prynne/the-way-to-heaven-is-too-steep-too-narrow-for-men-to-dance-in-and/)

[William Prynne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-prynne/)

> [It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-prynne/it-hath-evermore-been-the-notorious-badge-of-prostituted-strumpets/)

[William Prynne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-prynne/)

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