Note 76 — CHAP. VII.
John Ernest Galliard translation
Furlana. A sort of Country Dance, or Cheshire-Round.
It is reported, that the Church-Musick in Italy, far from keeping that Majesty it ought, is vastly abused the other way; and some Singers have had the Impudence to have other Words put to favourite Opera Airs and sung them in Churches. This Abuse is not new, for St. Augustine complains of it; and Palestrina prevented in his Time Musick from being banished the Churches.