ANTINOUS answered, _Jewel of the earth! Worthy you are, that heavenly Dance to lead; But for you think our Dancing base of birth, And newly born but of a brain-sick head, I will forthwith his antique gentry read, And (for I love him) will his herald be, And blaze his arms, and draw his pedigree._ 28. _When LOVE had shaped this world, this great fair wight,_ (_That all wights else in this wide womb contains_), _And had instructed it to dance aright A thousand measures, with a thousand strains, Which it should practise with delightful pains, Until that fatal instant should revolve, When all to nothing should again resolve:_ 29. _The comely Order and Proportion fair On every side did please his wand'ring eye; Till, glancing through the thin transparent air, A rude disordered rout he did espy Of men and women, that most spitefully Did one another throng and crowd so sore That his kind eye, in pity, wept therefore._ 30. _And swifter than the lightning down he came, Another shapeless chaos to digest. He will begin another world to frame_ (_For LOVE, till all be well, will never rest_). _Then with such words as cannot be expresst, He cuts the troops, that all asunder fling, And ere they wist, he casts them in a ring._ 31. _Then did he rarify the Element, And in the centre of the ring appear; The beams that from his forehead shining went Begot a horror and religious fear In all the souls that round about him were, Which in their ears attentiveness procures, While he, with such like sounds, their minds allures._ 32. "_How doth Confusions's Mother, headlong Chance, Put Reason's noble squadron to the rout? Or how should you, that have the governance Of Nature's children, heaven and earth throughout, Prescribe them rules, and live yourselves without? Why should your fellowship a trouble be, Since Man's chief pleasure is Society?_ 33. "_If Sense hath not yet taught you, learn of me A comely moderation and discreet; That your assemblies may well ordered be, When my uniting power shall make you meet, With heavenly tunes it shall be tempered sweet; And be the model of the world's great frame, And you, Earth's children, Dancing shall it name._ 34. "_Behold the world, how it is whirlèd round! And for it is so whirlèd, is namèd so: In whose large volume, many rules are found Of this new Art, which it doth fairly show. For your quick eyes in wandering to and fro, From East to West, on no one thing can glance; But (if you mark it well) it seems to dance._ 35.