'So did Musæus, so Amphion did,
'And Linus with his sweet enchanting song;
'And he whose hand the Earth of monsters rid,
'And had men's eares fast chaynèd to his tongue
'And Theseus to his wood-borne slaues among,
'Vs'd dauncing as the finest policie
'To plant religion and societie.
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'And therefore now the Thracian Orpheus lire
'And Hercules him selfe are stellified;[239]
'And in high heau'n amidst the starry quire,
'Dauncing their parts continually doe slide;
'So on the Zodiake Ganimed doth ride,
'And so is Hebe with the Muses nine
'For pleasing Ioue with dauncing, made diuine.
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'Wherefore was Proteus sayd himselfe to change
'Into a streame, a lyon, and a tree;
'And many other formes fantastique, strange,
'As in his fickle thought he wisht to be?
'But that he daunc'd with such facilitie,
'As like a lyon he could pace with pride,
'Ply like a plant, and like a riuer slide.
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'And how was Cæneus[240] made at first a man,
'And then a woman, then a man againe,
'But in a daunce? which when he first began
'Hee the man's part in measure did sustaine:
'But when he chang'd into a second straine,
'He daunc'd the woman's part another space,
'And then return'd into his former place.
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'Hence sprang the fable of Tiresias,
'That he the pleasure of both sexes tryde;
'For in a daunce he man and woman was
'By often chaunge of place from side to side;
'But for the woman easily did slide
'And smoothly swim with cunning hidden art,
'He tooke more pleasure in a woman's part.