_But for more divers and more pleasing show, A swift and wandering dance She did invent; With passages uncertain, to and fro, Yet with a certain Answer and Consent To the quick music of the instrument. Five was the number of the Music's feet; Which still the Dance did with five paces meet._ 68. _A gallant Dance! that lively doth bewray A spirit and a virtue masculine; Impatient that her house on earth should stay, Since she herself is fiery and divine. Oft doth she make her body upward flyne With lofty turns and caprioles in the air, Which with the lusty tunes accordeth fair._ 69. _What shall I name those current travases, That on a triple Dactyl foot, do run Close by the ground, with sliding passages? Wherein that dancer greatest praise hath won, Which with best order can all orders shun; For everywhere he wantonly must range. And turn, and wind, with unexpected change._ 70. _Yet is there one, the most delightful kind, A lofty jumping, or a leaping round, When, arm in arm, two dancers are entwined, And whirl themselves, with strict embracements bound, And still their feet an Anapest do sound; An Anapest is all their music's song, Whose first two feet are short, and third is long._ 71. _As the victorious twins of LÆDA and JOVE, (That taught the Spartans dancing on the sands Of swift Eurotas) dance in heaven above, Knit and united with eternal bands; Among the stars their double image stands, Where both are carried with an equal pace, Together jumping in their turning race._ 72. _This is the net wherein the sun's bright eye VENUS and MARS entangled did behold; For in this dance their arms they so imply, As each doth seem the other to enfold. What if lewd wits another tale have told, Of jealous VULCAN, and of iron chains? Yet this true sense that forged lie contains._ 73. _These various forms of dancing LOVE did frame, And besides these, a hundred millions moe; And as he did invent, he taught the same: With goodly gesture, and with comely show, Now keeping state, now humbly honouring low. And ever for the persons and the place, He taught most fit, and best according grace._ 74. _For LOVE, within his fertile working brain, Did then conceive those gracious Virgins three, Whose civil moderation did maintain All decent order and conveniency, And fair respect, and seemly modesty: And then he thought it fit they should be born, That their sweet presence Dancing might adorn_. 75.