25. This said; the Queene with her sweet lips diuine, Gently began to moue the subtile ayre, Which gladly yeelding, did itselfe incline To take a shape betweene those rubies fayre; And being formèd, softly did repayre With twenty doublings in the emptie way, Vnto _Antinous_ eares, and thus did say: 26. 'What eye doth see the heau'n, but doth admire 'When it the moouings of the heau'ns doth see? 'My selfe, if I to heau'n may once aspire, 'If that be dauncing, will a Dauncer be; 'But as for this your frantick iollitie 'How it began, or whence you did it learne, 'I neuer could with Reason's eye discerne. 27. Antinous answered: 'Iewell of the Earth, 'Worthy you are that heau'nly daunce to leade; 'But for you thinke our dauncing base of birth, 'And newly-borne but of a braine-sicke head, 'I will foorthwith his antique gentry read; 'And for I loue him, will his herault[191] be, 'And blaze his Armes, and draw his petigree.[192] 28. 'When Loue had shapt this World,--_this great faire wight_, 'That all wights else in this wide womb containes; 'And had instructed it to daunce aright,[193] 'A thousand measures with a thousand straines, 'Which it should practise with delightfull paines,[194] 'Vntill that fatall instant should reuolue, 'When all to nothing should againe resolue: 29. 'The comely order and proportion faire 'On euery side, did please his wandring eye: 'Till glauncing through the thin transparent ayre, 'A rude disordered rout he did espie 'Of men and women, that most spightfully 'Did one another throng, and crowd so sore, 'That his kind eye in pitty wept therefore. [Footnote 191: Herald. G.] [Footnote 192: Pedigree. G.] [Footnote 193: Margin-Note here 'The original of dancing.' G.] [Footnote 194: 'Painstaking.' G.] 30. 'And swifter then the lightning downe he came, 'Another shapelesse Chaos to digest; 'He will begin another world to frame, '(For Loue till all be well will neuer rest) 'Then with such words as cannot be exprest, 'He cutts the troups, that all asunder fling, 'And ere they wist, he casts them in a ring. 31. 'Then did he rarifie the element, 'And in the center of the ring appeare; 'The beams that from his forehead spreading[195] went, 'Begot an horrour, and religious feare 'In all the soules that round about him weare; 'Which in their eares attentiueness procures, 'While he, with such like sounds, their minds allures. 32. 'How doth Confusion's mother, headlong Chance,[196] 'Put Reason's noble squadron to the rout? 'Or how should you that haue the gouernance 'Of Nature's children, Heauen and Earth throughout, 'Prescribe them rules, and liue your selues without? 'Why should your fellowship a trouble be, 'Since man's chiefe pleasure is societie?