Or for that after death, our spirits and ghosts shall have the moone under them?
Or rather, because this was a marke or badge proper unto those who were reputed most ancient, as were the Arcadians descended from Evander, who upon this occasion were called Proseleni, as one would say, borne before the moone?
Or, because this custome as many others, admonisheth those who are lifted up too high, and take so great pride in themselves, of the incertitude and instabilitie of this life, and of humane affaires, even by the example of the moone,
Who at the first doth new and yoong appeere,
Where as before she made no shew at all;
And so her light increaseth faire and cleere,
Untill her face be round and full withall:
But then anon she doth begin to fall,
And backward wane from all this beautie gay,
Untill againe she vanish cleane away.