With reference to 'Not finished' placed on the later title-page (1622), it is explained by the stanzas restored from the first edition. These shew that the Poet had intended to pursue his subject further; even the hitherto omitted stanzas reading more like a fresh 'invocation' than a 'conclusion.' Our text, as with 'Nosce Teipsum,' is from the edition of 1622: but compared throughout with above very rare, if not unique, first edition from the Bodleian. At close, by recurrence to the original edition we are able to supply the blanks of all the subsequent editions and reprints. See our Memorial-Introduction, for explanation of the omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G. [$Dedications.$] I. TO HIS VERY FRIEND, MA. RICH. MARTIN.[180] To whom shall I this dauncing Poem send, This suddaine, rash, half-capreol[181] of my wit? To you, first mouer and sole cause of it, Mine-owne-selues better halfe, my deerest frend. O, would you yet my Muse some Honny lend From your mellifluous tongue, whereon doth sit Suada in Maiestie, that I may fit These harsh beginnings with a sweeter end. You know the modest Sunne full fifteene times Blushing did rise, and blushing did descend, While I in making of these ill made rimes, My golden howers unthriftily did spend: Yet, if in friendship you these numbers prayse, I will mispend another fifteene dayes. [Footnote 180: See Memorial-Introduction concerning Martin. G.] [Footnote 181: Cf. st. 68. l. 6. G.] II. TO THE PRINCE.[182] Sir, whatsoeuer YOV are pleas'd to doo It is your special praise, that you are bent, And sadly[183] set your princely mind thereto: Which makes YOV in each thing so excellent. Hence is it that YOV came so soon to bee A man-at-armes in euery point aright; The fairest flowre of noble chiualrie; And of Saint _George_ his band, the brauest knight. And hence it is, that all your youthfull traine In actiueness and grace, YOV doe excell; When YOV doe courtly dauncings entertaine Then Dauncing's praise may be presented well To YOV, whose action adds more praise thereto, Then all the _Muses_ with their penns can doo. [Footnote 182: Query--Henry, son of James I.? He died in 1612. Or Prince Charles, afterwards Charles I.? Most probably the former. G.] [Footnote 183: = seriously. Cf. Milton: P. L. vi. 541 and Comus, 509. So in Shakespeare frequently. G.] _Orchestra_, OR A POEME OF DAUNCING. 1. Where liues the man that neuer yet did heare Of chaste _Penelope_, _Ulisses'_ Queene? Who kept her faith vnspotted twentie yeare, Till he return'd that farre away had beene, _And many men, and many townes had seen_: Ten yeare at siege of Troy he lingring lay, And ten yeare in the Mid-land-Sea did stray. 2.