Sainte-Aldegonde

Matthias to the Diet of Worms, where he made a 6ne speech and courageously denounced the Spanish tyranny [(D)], He was one of the plenipotentiaries whom the Estates sent to France in 1580 to make representations to the Due d Alen9on [(E)], He was Consul at Antwerp in 1584 when the town was besieged by the Duke of Parma. In the year 1593, he escorted to the Palatinate Princess Louise Julienne who had been betrothed to the Elector Frederick IV.  

In Melchior Adam, in Vitae jurisconsultorum [Lives of Jurists], pp. 333 et seq. 

Schoockius [Martinus Schoock], Exercitatio academica [Academic Exercise], 23, P- 317- 

Epistolae illmtriae Belgarum [Letters of Famous Belgians], letter i, vol. ii. Plane censeo. .[ 1 certainly believe not only that is there no edification in this churlish moroseness and in censorship renewed at the whim of someone s opinion, but I even think it an incredible scandal. ] Schoockius, p. 318. 

One cannot sufficiently praise the discipline of the Reformed churches when they forbade that sort of dancing and it would be foolish to imagine that the ministers condemned it merely in the sense that it was a skill in the art of stepping or skipping to rhythm. 

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You may observe if you wish that this philosopher [Schoockius] had in no way the same motives as Sainte-Aldegonde for working on his treatise on dancing. He protested that he had never in his life dreamt of dancing, and that he would not himself have been troubled if the laws of the magistrate had abolished dancing forever.Sainte-Aldegonde could hardly have spoken with any sincerity in those terms. 

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