6 For euery where he wantonly must range,
'And turne, and wind, with vnexpected change.

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'Yet is there one, the most delightfull kind, 'A loftie iumping, or a leaping round ;6

'Where arme in arme two dauncers are entwind

'And whirle themselues with strict embracements bound, ' And still their feet an anapest do sound';

'An anapest is all their musick's song,

'Whose first two feet are short, and third is long.

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'As the victorious twinnes of Læda and Ioue

'That taught the Spartans dauncing on the sands
'Of swift Eurotas, daunce in heaun aboue,
'Knit and vnited with eternall hands;

'Among the starres their double image stands,
'Where both are carried with an equall pace,

'Together iumping in their turning race.

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'This is the net wherein the Sunn's bright eye 'Venus and Mars entangled did behold;

6 Margin-Note here, 'Lavoltaes.' G.

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For in this daunce, their armes they so imply 'As each doth seeme the other to enfold;

'What if lewd wits another tale haue told

'Of iealous Vulcan, and of yron chaynes?

'Yet this true sence that forgèd lye containes.

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'These various formes of dauncing, Loue did frame 'And beside these, a hundred millions moe;

'And as he did inuent, he taught the same,
'With goodly iesture, and with comly show,
'Now keeping state, now humbly honoring low:
'And euer for the persons and the place

'He taught most fit and best according grace.8

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'For Loue, within his fertile working braine
'Did9 then conceiue those gracious Virgins three;

6 Whose ciuell moderation does maintaine

'All decent order and conueniencie,

'And faire respect, and seemlie modestie ;

7 There is a misprint of 'employ' in Thomas Davies' edition, as before.

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s Margin-Note here 'Grace in dauncing.' G.

9 In the errata of 1622 edition 'doo' is substituted for 'did,' itself a misprint, perhaps, for 'does.' G.

'And then he thought it fit they should be borne, 'That their sweet presence dauncing might adorne.

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'Hence is it that these Graces painted are

'With hand in hand dauncing an endlesse round;
'And with regarding eyes, that still beware
'That there be no disgrace amongst them found;
'With equall foote they beate the flowry ground,
'Laughing, or singing, as their passions will:
'Yet nothing that they doe becomes them ill.

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'Thus Loue taught men, and men thus learnd of Loue 'Sweet Musick's sound with feet to counterfaite ; 'Which was long time before high thundering Ioue 'Was lifted vp to Heauen's imperiall seat;

'For though by birth he were the Prince of Creete,

'Nor Creet, nor Heau'n should the yong Prince haue

seen,

'If dancers with their timbrels had not been.

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'Since when all ceremonious misteries,

'All sacred orgies and religious rights,1

1 'Rites.' G.

'All pomps, and triumphs, and solemnities,

'All funerals, nuptials, and like publike sights,
'All Parliaments of peace, and warlike fights,
'All learnèd arts, and euery great affaire

'A liuely shape of dauncing seemes to beare.2

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'For what did he who with his ten-tong'd lute
'Gaue beasts and blocks an vnderstanding eare?
'Or rather into bestiall minds and brute

'Shed and infus'd the beames of reason cleare?
'Doubtlesse for men that rude and sauage were
'A ciuill forme of dauncing he deuis'd,
'Wherewith vnto their gods they sacrifiz'd.

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'So did Musæus, so Amphion did,

'And Linus with his sweet enchanting song;
'And he whose hand the Earth of monsters rid,
'And had men's eares fast chaynèd to his tongue
'And Theseus to his wood-borne slaues among,
'Vs'd dauncing as the finest policie

'To plant religion and societie.

2 Margin-Note here, 'The use and formes of dauncing in sundry affaires of man's life.' G.

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'And therefore now the Thracian Orpheus lire 'And Hercules him selfe are stellified ;3

'And in high heau'n amidst the starry quire, 'Dauncing their parts continually doe slide; 'So on the Zodiake Ganimed doth ride,

'And so is Hebe with the Muses nine

'For pleasing Ioue with dauncing, made diuine.

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'Wherefore was Proteus sayd himselfe to change 'Into a streame, a lyon, and a tree;

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And many other formes fantastique, strange,

As in his fickle thought he wisht to be? 'But that he daunc'd with such facilitie, 'As like a lyon he could pace with pride, 'Ply like a plant, and like a riuer slide.

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'And how was Caneus 4 made at first a man, 'And then a woman, then a man againe,

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'et juvenis quondam, nunc femina, Cænis, Rursus et in veterem fato revoluta figuram.' He is mentioned again in Homer, Iliad 1. 264. G.

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