V. _Marston and 'Orchestra.'_ But if Harrington and Davies of Hereford praised, there were others who had their jeers at Orchestra, e.g. John Marston in his 11th Satire of his Scourge of Villanie, in ridiculing the gallant who thinks of nothing but dancing, as he afterwards does Luscus, who talks of nothing but Plays, and vents only play-scraps, says (1599). "Who ever heard spruce skipping Curio Ere prate of ought but of the whirle on toe. * * * * * Praise but Orchestra, and the skipping art, You shall command him, faith you have his hart Even capring in your fist." Then there follows (_meo judicio_) a reminiscence or two of the poem itself, and a laugh at the "worthy poet." Thus in 'Orchestra,' st. 59, we have "According to the musicke of the spheres," and st. 60, "And imitate the starres cælestiall." and st. 71, speaking of Castor and Pollux: "Where both are carried with an equall pace Together iumping in their turning race," and where, though 'iumping' is of course used in the sense not of our 'jumping' (leaping) but in that of equal or agreeing, as in "jump where may find Cassio," or as where the folio (I. 1) has "just as this same hour" the 4^{o} Hamlet has "jump at this dead hour"; yet it has for the context an unlucky sound and association. Hence Marston wickedly and waggishly continues: "A hall, a hall Roome for the spheres, the orbs celestiall Will daunce Kemps jigge; they'le revel with neate jumps; A worthy poet hath put on their pumps. O wits quick traverse but _sance ceo's_ slowe, Good faith 'tis hard for nimble Curio. Ye gracious orbes, keepe the old measuring All's spoilde if once yee fall to capering." VI. _Hymnes to Astræa._ I adhere to Sir John Davies' own form of Astraea in the collective edition of 1621. Doubtless he and the Printer meant it for "æ' not '[oe]' inasmuch as besides Astraea's mythological reign in the golden age over a people that became too wicked for her, she became the constellation Virgo, as celebrated, among others, by Barnfield in his _Cynthia_.[54] The whole of Hy. I. shows this, where the flattery was specially apt to the subject on account of making Astraea the daughter of Aurora: and so Hy. V. of the Lark: and Hy. XXI. A. B. G. [Footnote 54: See my edition of his Complete Poems for the Roxburghe Club.] THE COMPLETE POEMS OF SIR JOHN DAVIES: I. NOSCE TEIPSUM. NOTE. 'Nosce Teipsum' was originally published in 1599 (4to). The following is its title-page and collation: Nosce teipsum _This Oracle expounded in two Elegies_ 1. Of Humane knowledge. 2. Of the Soule of Man, and the immortalitie thereof. [Wood-engraving of an anchor within a border and the motto Anchora Spei.] London, Printed by _Richard Field_ for _Iohn Standish_, 1599. [4to.]