'_Dauncing_[189] (bright Lady) then began to bee, 'When the first seeds whereof the World did spring, 'The fire, ayre, earth, and water--did agree, 'By Loue's perswasion,--Nature's mighty King,-- 'To leaue their first disordred combating; 'And in a daunce such measure to obserue, 'As all the world their motion should preserue. [Footnote 189: Margin-Note here 'The antiquitie of dancing.' G.] 18. 'Since when, they still are carried in a round, 'And changing, come one in another's place; 'Yet doe they neither mingle nor confound, 'But euery one doth keepe the bounded space 'Wherein the Daunce doth bid it turne or trace; 'This wondrous myracle did Loue deuise, 'For Dauncing is Love's proper exercise. 19. 'Like this, he fram'd the gods' eternall Bower, 'And of a shapelesse and confusèd masse, 'By his through-piercing and digesting power, 'The turning vault of heauen formèd was; 'Whose starry wheeles he hath so made to passe, 'As that their moouings do a musicke frame, 'And they themselues still daunce vnto the same. 20. 'Or if this All which round about we see, '(As idle _Morpheus_ some sicke braines hath taught) 'Of vndeuided _motes_ compacted bee: 'How was this goodly Architecture wrought? 'Or by what meanes were they together brought? 'They erre that say they did concurre by chance: 'Loue made them meet in a well-ordered daunce. 21. 'As when _Amphion_ with his charming lire 'Begot so sweet a syren of the ayre; 'That with her Rethorike made the stones conspire 'The ruines of a citie to repaire: '(A worke of wit and reason's wise affaire) 'So Loue's smooth tongue, the _motes_ such measure taught 'That they ioyn'd hands; and so the world was wrought. 22. 'How iustly then is Dauncing tearmèd new, 'Which with the World in point of time begun? 'Yea Time it selfe, (whose birth _Ioue_ neuer knew, 'And which indeed is elder then the sun)[190] 'Had not one moment of his age outrunne, 'When out leapt Dauncing from the heap of things, 'And lightly rode vpon his nimble wings. 23. 'Reason hath both their pictures in her treasure, 'Where _Time the measure of all mouing is_, 'And Dauncing is a moouing all in measure; 'Now if you doe resemble that to this, 'And thinke both one, I thinke you thinke amis: 'But if you iudge them twins, together got, 'And Time first borne, your iudgement erreth not. 24. 'Thus doth it equall age with age inioy, 'And yet in lustie youth for euer flowers; 'Like loue his sire, whom Paynters make a boy, 'Yet is the eldest of the heau'nly powers; 'Or like his brother Time, whose wingèd howers 'Going and comming will not let him dye, 'But still preserve him in his infancie.' [Footnote 190: In first edition reads: 'And which is far more ancient then the sun.' G.]