[Footnote 256: In first edition, spelled 'pinnesse' also, = pinnace. G.] 116. 'Who sees an Armie all in ranke aduance, 'But deemes a wise Commaunder is in place, 'Which leadeth on that braue victorious daunce? 'Much more in Dauncing's Art, in Dauncing's grace, 'Blindnes it selfe may Reason's footstep trace; '_For of Loue's maze it is the curious plot, 'And of Man's fellowship the true-love knot_. 117. 'But if these eyes of yours, (load-starrs of Loue, 'Shewing the World's great daunce to your mind's eye!) 'Cannot with all their demonstrations moue 'Kinde apprehension in your fantasie, 'Of Dauncing's vertue, and nobilitie; 'How can my barbarous tongue win you there to, 'Which Heau'n and Earth's faire speech could neuer do? 118. 'O Loue my king: if all my wit and power 'Haue done you all the seruice that they can, 'O be you present in this present hower, 'And help your seruant and your true Leige-man 'End that perswasion which I earst began; 'For who in praise of Dauncing can perswade 'With such sweet force as Loue, which Dancing made? 119. Loue heard his prayer, and swifter then the wind, Like to a page, in habit, face, and speech, He came, and stood _Antinous_ behind, And many secrets to his thoughts did teach;[257] At last a christall mirrour he did reach Vnto his hands, that he with one rash view, All formes therein by Loue's reuealing knew. [Footnote 257: Margin-Note here, 'A passage to the description of dauncing in this age.' G.] 120. And humbly honouring, gaue it to the Queene With this faire speech: 'See fairest Queene (quoth he) 'The fairest sight that euer shall be seene, 'And th' onely wonder of posteritie, 'The richest worke in Nature's treasury; 'Which she disdaines to shew on this World's stage, 'And thinkes it far too good for our rude age. 121. 'But in another World diuided far: 'In the great, fortunate, triangled Ile, 'Thrise twelue degrees remou'd from the North star, 'She will this glorious workemanship compile; 'Which she hath beene conceiuing all this while 'Since the World's birth, and will bring forth at last, 'When sixe and twenty hundred yeares are past.' 122. _Penelope_, the Queene, when she had view'd The strang eye-dazeling, admirable sight, Faine would have praisd the state and pulchritude, But she was stricken dumbe with wonder quite, Yet her sweet minde retain'd her thinking might; Her rauisht minde in heaunly thoughts did dwel, But what she thought, no mortall tongue can tel. 123.