'Thus they who first did found a Common-weale, 'And they who first Religion did ordaine, 'By dauncing, first the peoples hearts did steale: 'Of whom we now a thousand tales doe faine; 'Yet doe we now their perfect rules retaine 'And vse them stil in such deuises new, 'As in the World, long since their withering, grew. 87. 'For after townes and kingdomes founded were, 'Betweene greate States arose well-ordered War; 'Wherein most perfect measure doth appeare, 'Whether their well-set rankes respected are 'In quadrant forme or semicircular: 'Or else the march, when all the troups aduance, 'And to the drum, in gallant order daunce. 88. 'And after Warrs, when white-wing'd Victory 'Is with a glorious tryumph beautified, 'And euery one doth _Io Io_ cry, 'Whiles all in gold the conquerour doth ride; 'The solemne pompe that fils the Citty wide 'Obserues such ranke and measure euerywhere, 'As if they altogether dauncing were. 89. 'The like iust order mourners doe obserue, '(But with vnlike affection and atire) 'When some great man that nobly did deserue, 'And whom his friends impatiently desire, 'Is brought with honour to his latest fire:[244] 'The dead corps too in that sad daunce is mou'd 'As if both dead and liuing, dauncing lou'd. [Footnote 244: Incremation. G.] 90. 'A diuers cause, but like solemnitie 'Vnto the Temple leads the bashfull bride: 'Which blusheth like the Indian iuory 'Which is with dip of Tyrian purple died; 'A golden troope doth passe on euery side, 'Of flourishing young men and virgins gay, 'Which keepe faire measure all the flowry way. 91. 'And not alone the generall multitude, 'But those choise _Nestors_ which in councell graue 'Of citties, and of kingdomes doe conclude, 'Most comly order in their sessions haue; 'Wherefore the wise Thessalians euer gaue 'The name of leader of their Countrie's daunce 'To him that had their Countrie's gouernance. 92. 'And those great masters of their liberall arts, 'In all their seurall Schooles doe Dauncing teach: 'For humble Grammer first doth set the parts 'Of congruent and well-according speach; 'Which Rethorike, whose state the clouds doth reach, 'And heau'nly Poetry, doe forward lead, 'And diuers measures diuersly doe tread. 93. 'For Rhetorick, clothing speech in rich aray 'In looser numbers teacheth her to range, 'With twenty tropes, and turnings euery way, 'And various figures and licencious change; 'But Poetry with rule and order strange, 'So curiously doth moue each single pace, 'As all is mard if she one foot misplace. 94.