Only ANTINOUS, when at first he viewed Her star-bright eyes, that with new honour shined, Was not dismayed; but therewithal renewed The _noblesse_ and the splendour of his mind: And, as he did fit circumstances find, Unto the throne, he boldly 'gan advance, And, with fair manners, wooed the Queen to dance. 12. _Goddess of women! sith your heavenliness Hath now vouchsafed itself to represent To our dim eyes; which though they see the less, Yet are they blest in their astonishment: Imitate heaven, whose beauties excellent Are in continual motion day and night, And move thereby more wonder and delight._ 13. _Let me the mover be, to turn about Those glorious ornaments that Youth and Love Have fixed in you, every part throughout: Which if you will in timely measure move; Not all those precious gems in heaven above Shall yield a sight more pleasing to behold With all their turns and tracings manifold._ 14. With this, the modest Princess blushed and smiled Like to a clear and rosy eventide, And softly did return this answer mild: _Fair Sir! You needs must fairly be denied, Where your demand cannot be satisfied. My feet, which only Nature taught to go, Did never yet the Art of Footing know._ 15. _But why persuade you me to this new rage? For all Disorder and Misrule is new: For such misgovernment in former Age Our old divine forefathers never knew; Who if they lived, and did the follies view, Which their fond nephews make their chief affairs, Would hate themselves, that had begot such heirs._ 16. _Sole Heir of Virtue, and of Beauty both! Whence cometh it_, ANTINOUS replies, _That your imperious Virtue is so loath To grant your Beauty her chief exercise? Or from what spring doth your opinion rise That Dancing is a Frenzy and a Rage, First known and used in this new-fangled Age?_ 17. _Dancing, bright Lady! then, began to be, When the first seeds whereof the world did spring; The Fire, Air, Earth, and Water did agree By LOVE's persuasion (Nature's mighty King) To leave their first disordered combating; And, in a dance, such Measure to observe, As all the world their motion should preserve._ 18. _Since when, they still are carried in a round; And changing come one in another's place: Yet do they neither mingle nor confound, But every one doth keep the bounded space, Wherein the Dance doth bid it turn or trace: This wondrous miracle did LOVE devise, For Dancing is LOVE's proper exercise._ 19.