But this plain truth that falsèd fable gave,
That she did dance with sliding easiness,
Pliant and quick in wandering passages.
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And merry Bacchus practised dancing too,
And to the Lydian numbers Rounds did make.
The like he did in th' Eastern India do,
And taught them all, when Phœbus did awake,
And when at night he did his coach forsake,
To honour heaven, and heaven's great rolling eye,