'Of all their wayes I love _Mæander's_ path, 'Which to the tunes of dying swans doth daunce;[215] 'Such winding sleights, such turns and tricks he hath, 'Such creeks, such wrenches, and such daliaunce; 'That whether it be hap or heedlesse chaunce, 'In this indented course and wriggling play 'He seemes to daunce a perfect cunning _hay_.[216] [Footnote 215: Ovid (Heroides VII. 1, 2) 'Sic ubi fata vocant, udis abjectus in herbis, Ad vada Maeandri concinit albus olor.' Cf. Sir Thomas Browne 'Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors' Book III.c.xxvii: Works by Wilkin, Vol. II. pp. 517, 518 (edition Pickering 1835.) G.] [Footnote 216: A round country dance, as before.] 54. 'But wherefore doe these streames for euer runne? 'To keepe themselues for euer sweet and cleere: 'For let their euerlasting course be donne, 'They straight corrupt and foule with mud appeare. 'O yee sweet Nymphs that beautie's losse do feare, 'Contemne the drugs that Physicke doth deuise, 'And learne of Loue this dainty exercise. 55. 'See how those flowres that have sweet beauty too, '(The onely iewels that the Earth doth weare,[217] 'When the young Sunne in brauery her doth woo): 'As oft as they the whistling wind doe heare, 'Doe waue their tender bodies here and there; 'And though their daunce no perfect measure is, 'Yet oftentimes their musicke makes them kis. [Footnote 217: Margin-Note here 'Of other things upon the earth.' G.] 56. 'What makes the vine about the elme to daunce, 'With turnings, windings, and embracements round? 'What makes the loadstone to the North aduance 'His subtile point, as if from thence he found 'His chiefe attractiue vertue to redound? 'Kind Nature first doth cause all things to loue, 'Loue makes them daunce and in iust order moue. 57. 'Harke how the birds doe sing, and marke then how 'Iumpe[218] with the modulation of their layes, 'They lightly leape, and skip from bow to bow: 'Yet doe the cranes deserue a greater prayse 'Which keepe such measure in their ayrie wayes, 'As when they all in order rankèd are, 'They make a perfect forme triangular. [Footnote 218: 'Exact': this illustrates Hamlet i., I, and Othello ii., 3. G.] 58. 'In the chiefe angle flyes the watchfull guid, 'And all the followers their heads doe lay 'On their foregoers backs, on eyther side; 'But for the captaine hath no rest to stay, 'His head forewearied with the windy way, 'He back retires, and then the next behind, 'As his lieuetenaunt leads them through the wind. 59.