For here like to the silkeworme's industry, Beauty it selfe out of it selfe did weaue So rare a worke, and of such subtilty, As did all eyes entangle and deceiue, And in all mindes a strange impression leaue; In this sweet laborinth did _Cupid_ stray, And neuer had the power to passe away. 131. As when the Indians, neighbours of the morning, In honour of the cheerefull rising sunne; With pearle and painted plumes themselues adorning, A solemne stately measure haue begun; The god well pleasd with that faire honour done, Sheds foorth his beames, and doth their faces kis With that immortal glorious face of his. 132. So, &c., &c. * * * _Such is 'Orchestra' as given by the Author in 1622: but in the first edition (1596) no fewer than five omitted stanzas are found. They here follow._ 127. Away, Terpsechore, light Muse away! And come Vranie, prophetese diuine; Come, Muse of heau'n, my burning thirst allay: Euen now for want of sacred drinke I tine: In heau'nly moysture dip thys pen of mine, And let my mouth with nectar ouerflow, For I must more then mortall glory show. 128. O, that I had Homer's aboundant vaine, I would hierof another Ilias make: Or els the man of Mantua's[260] charmèd braine, In whose large throat great Joue the thunder spake. O that I could old Gefferie's[261] Muse awake, Or borrow Colin's[262] fayre heroike stile, Or smooth my rimes with Delia's servants file.[263] [Footnote 260: Virgil. G.] [Footnote 261: Chaucer. G.] [Footnote 262: Spenser. G.] [Footnote 263: Daniel: The allusion being to his 'Sonnets to Delia.' G.] 129. O, could I, sweet Companion, sing like you, Which, of a shadow, under a shadow sing;[264] Or, like _Salue's_ sad lover true, Or like the Bay, the Marigold's darling,[265] Whose suddaine verse Loue covers with his wing: O that your braines were mingled all with mine, T' inlarge my wit for this great worke diuine! [Footnote 264: Edward Guilpin calls his volume 'Skialetheia, or a _Shadowe_ of Truth in certain Epigrams and Satyres,' 1598. G.] [Footnote 265: I hazard a guess, that this may refer to _Charles Best_, an associate of DAVIES in the 'Rhapsody,' and author of certain vivid lines called 'A Sonnet of the Sun: a jewell, being a sun shining upon the _Marigold_ closed in a heart of gold, sent to his mistress, named Mary, among others. See _Nicolas's_ edition of the 'Rhapsody,' Vol. I., pp. 183, 184. G.] 130. Yet, Astrophell might one for all suffize, Whose supple Muse Camelion-like doth change Into all formes of excellent deuise: So might the Swallow,[266] whose swift Muse doth range Through rare Idæas, and inuentions strange, And euer doth enioy her ioyfull Spring, And sweeter then the Nightingale doth sing. [Footnote 266: Perhaps a play on his 'then' friend's name of Martin. G.] 131.