'What shall I name those currant trauases,[232]
'That on a triple dactile foot doe runne
'Close by the ground with sliding passages,
'Wherein that Dauncer greatest praise hath wonne
'Which with best order can all orders shunne;
'For euery where he wantonly must range,
'And turne, and wind, with vnexpected change.
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'Yet is there one, the most delightfull kind,
'A loftie iumping, or a leaping round;[233]
'Where arme in arme two dauncers are entwind
'And whirle themselues with strict embracements bound,
'And still their feet an anapest do sound;
'An anapest is all their musick's song,
'Whose first two feet are short, and third is long.
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'As the victorious twinnes of Læda and Ioue
'That taught the Spartans dauncing on the sands
'Of swift Eurotas, daunce in heaun aboue,
'Knit and vnited with eternall hands;
'Among the starres their double image stands,
'Where both are carried with an equall pace,
'Together iumping in their turning race.
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'This is the net wherein the Sunn's bright eye
'Venus and Mars entangled did behold;
'For in this daunce, their armes they so imply[234]
'As each doth seeme the other to enfold;
'What if lewd wits another tale haue told
'Of iealous Vulcan, and of yron chaynes?
'Yet this true sence that forgèd lye containes.
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'These various formes of dauncing, Loue did frame
'And beside these, a hundred millions moe;
'And as he did inuent, he taught the same,
'With goodly iesture, and with comly show,
'Now keeping state, now humbly honoring low:
'And euer for the persons and the place
'He taught most fit and best according grace.[235]
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