It should be known that it is customary not for rich only but for poor mothers also, to educate their daughters so chastely, that they are scarce so much as seen by strangers. But this unchaste woman had so brought up her daughter after the same manner, that she had taught her not chastity but dancing. Nor is Herod to be less blamed who forgot that his was a royal palace, but this woman made it a theatre; “And it pleased Herod, so that he swore with an oath that he would give her whatsoever she should ask of him.”
Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).