Voss—Regulations of the University of Wittenberg , 1546. 403 
dinner and four for supper. One can only conjecture what had 
been the fashionable thing in Wittenberg university circles, if 
these four, five or six course affairs are supposed to be a return 
to the simple life. 
Guests to these celebrations must have had an inconvenient 
way of staying on to make merry at the host’s expense, for the 
next paragraph looks after them. 
If the wedding begins in the evening, the ordinance reads, 
guests from town shall not be invited to more than three meals. 
(They certainly were royal entertainers.) If the wedding oc¬ 
curs in the forenoon, invitations shall be limited to two meals 
served on the day of the celebration, and guests are not to be 
asked for the day following. Strangers, however, who have* 
journeyed from their homes to help honor such festivals are en¬ 
titled to breakfast on the second or even the third day, if they 
find it inconvenient to get away. 
ISTow follows a most essential and strenuous warning to hosts 
and guests alike. 
In the printed ordinance of our gracious lord, the Prince 
Elector, it is especially set forth, we read, that propriety and 
seemingly conduct shall be observed at all times in dancing. 
Sudden turning from right to left, pushing, leaping, and other 
motions which are violent or unbecoming, must be avoided if the 
participants do not wish to come into the displeasure of those in 
authority. All those wishing to have dances in the evening must 
arrange for them in the City Hall, the Rathaus. Evening 
dances in private houses are no longer permitted. 
The University Senate also indorses in detail all that is said 
in the ducal ordinance in regard to pay for the musicians, cost 
of gifts, outside dining, baptismal feasts, other feasts and cele¬ 
brations, drinking bouts at night, order in the streets after such 
festivals, etc. 
In conclusion every one in any way connected with the uni¬ 
versity is admonished most strenuously to take careful heed 
to every requirement of the Ordinance, seeing to it that it is 
obeyed to the letter, and bearing in mind the fines mentioned 
in every case for those giving offense. 
