[Footnote 2: The passage is thus rendered by Jasper Mayne (_Part of Lucian, made English ... in the year 1638_):--'Nor were it amiss, having passed through India and Aethiopia, to draw our discourse down to their neighbouring Aegypt. Where the ancient fiction which goes of Proteus, methinks, signifies him only to be a certain dancer and mimic; who could transform and change himself into all shapes, sometimes acting the fluidness of water, sometimes the sharpness of fire, occasioned by the quickness of its aspiring motion, sometimes the fierceness of a lion, and fury of a libbard, and waving of an oak, and whatever he liked.'] [Footnote 3: Cf. also Arnold's "Obermann once more":-- '"Poor World," she cried, "so deep accurst, That runn'st from pole to pole To seek a draught to quench thy thirst, Go seek it in thy soul."' ] [Footnote 4: The poems of Barnfield were not in the original _Garner_ and are now incorporated for the first time.] [Footnote 5: Prince in his _Worthies of Devon_(1701) quotes this couplet as an epitaph, by an anonymous writer, on Drake.] [Footnote 6: There is a better epitaph on Drake in _Wit's Recreations_(1640):-- 'Sir Drake, whom well the world's end knew, Which thou didst compasse round. And whom both Poles of Heaven once saw, Which North and South do bound: The Stars above would make thee known If men here silent were: The Sun himselfe cannot forget His fellow-passenger.' ] [Footnote 7: On March 31, 1605, Captain George Weymouth started from the Downs with a crew of twenty-nine to discover a North-West Passage to the East Indies. On May 14 he 'descries land in 41° 30' N. in the midst of dangerous rocks and shoals. Upon which he puts to sea, the wind blowing south-south-west and west-south-west many days' (Prince's _New England Chronology ap._ Garner, ii. 356). Drayton advises the Virginian voyagers to keep the west-by-south course and so avoid misadventures. He had not reckoned on the Spanish fleet.] [Footnote 8: Several of Drayton's works have been reprinted by the Spenser Society, and an excellent Introduction to them has been written by Professor Oliver Elton (1895).] _ORCHESTRA_, or, A Poem of Dancing. Judicially proving the true observation of Time and Measure, in the authentical and laudable use of Dancing. OVID, _Art. Aman._ lib. I. _Si vox est, canta: si mollia brachia, salta: Et quacunque potes dote placere, place._ _At London_, Printed by J. ROBARTS for N. LING. 1596. [The following entries at Stationers' Hall prove that this Poem, composed in fifteen days, was written not later than June, 1594; though it did not come to the press till November, 1596. 25 Junif [1594].