All pomps, and triumphs, and solemnities,

All funerals, nuptials, and like public sights,

All parliaments of peace, and warlike fights,

All learned arts, and every great affair,

A lively shape of Dancing seems to bear.

78.

For what did he, who, with his ten-tongued Lute,

Gave beasts and blocks an understanding ear;

Or rather into bestial minds and brutes

Shed and infused the beams of Reason clear?