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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19931	Orchestra or A poeme of dauncing Iudicially proouing the true obseruation of time and measure, in the authenticall and laudable vse of dauncing.	Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.	1596 (1596)	STC 6360; ESTC S105203	14,482	48

And about trees to cast themselues in rings As the two Beares whom the first mouer flings With a short turne about heauens Axeltree In a round daunce foreuer wheeling bee 65 But after these as men more ciuill grew He did more graue and solemne measures frame With such faire order and proportion trew And correspondence euery way the same That no fault finding eye did euer blame For euery eye was moued at the sight With sober wondring and with sweet delight 66 Not those old Students of the heauenly booke Atlas the great Promethus the wise VVhich on the Starres did all their lyfe-lyfe-time looke Could euer find such measures in the skies So full of change and rare varieties Yet all the feete whereon these measures goe Are onely Spondeis solemne graue and sloe 70 But for more diuers and more pleasing show A swift and wandring daunce she did inuent VVith passages vncertaine to and fro Yet with a certaine aunswere and consent To the quick musick of the Instrument Fiue was the number of the Musicks feete Which still the daunce did with fiue paces meetes 71 A gallant daunce that liuely doth bewray A spirit and a vertue Masculine Impatient that her house on earth should stay Since she her selfe is fierie and diuine Oft doth she make her body vpward flyne With lostie turnes and capriols in the avre Which with the lustie tunes accordeth fayre 69 VVhat shall I name those currant trauases That on a triple Dactyle foote doe run Close by the ground with slyding passages VVherein that Dauncer greatest prayse hath won VVhich with best order can all orders shun For euery where he wantonly must range And turne and wind with vnexpected change 70 Yet is there one the most delightfull kind A lofty iumping or a leaping round VVhere arme in arme two Dauncers are entwind And whirle themselues with strickt embracements bound And still their feet an Anapest do sound An Anapest is all theyr musicks song VVhose first two feet are short third is long 71 As the victorious twinns of Laeda and Ioue That taught the Spartans dauncing on the sands Of swift Eurotas daunce in Heau'n aboue Knit and vnited with eternall hands Among the Starres their double Image stands VVhere both are carried with an equall pace Together iumping in their turning race 72 Thys is the Net wherein the Sunns bright eye Venus and Mars entangled did behold For in thys Daunce their armes they so imply As each doth seeme the other to enfold VVhat if lewd wits another tale haue told Of iealous Vulcan and of yron chaynes Yet this true sence that forged lye containes 73 These various formes of dauncing Loue did frame And beside these a hundred millions mot And as he did inuent he taught the same VVith 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 74 For Loue within his fertile working braine Did then conceiue those gracious Virgins three VVhose ciuill moderation did maintaine All decent order and conueniencie And faire respect and seemlie modestie And then he thought it fit they should be borne That their sweet presence dauncing might adorne 75 Hence is it that these Graces painted are With hand in hand dauncing an endlesse round And with regarding eyes that still beware That there be no disgrace amongst them found VVith equall foote they beate the flowry ground Laughing or singing as their passions will Yet nothing that they doe becomes them ill 76 Thus Loue taught men and men thus learnd of Loue Sweet Musicks sound with feete to counterfaite VVhich was long time before high thundering Ioue VVas lifted vp to heau'ns imperiall seate For though by birth he were the Prince of Creete Nor Creete nor Heau'n should y t yong Prince haue seen If Dancers with their Timbrels had not been 77 Since when all ceremonious misteries All sacred Orgies and religious rights All pomps and tryumphs and solemnities All Funerals Nuptials and like publike sights All Parliaments of peace and warlike fights All learned Arts and euery great affaire A liuely shape of Dauncing seemes to beare 78 For what did he who with his ten-tong'd Lute Gaue Beasts and blocks an vnderstanding eare Or rather into bestiall minds and brute Shed and infus'd the beames of reason cleare Doubtlesse formen that rude and sauage were A ciuill forme of dauncing he deuis'd VVherewith vnto their Gods they sacrifiz'd 79 So did Musaem so Amphion did And Linus with his sweet enchanting song And he whose hand the earth of monsters rid And had mens cares fast chayned to his tong And Theseus to his wood-borne slaues among Vs'd dauncing as the finest pollicie To plant religion and societie 80 And therefore now the Thracian Orpheus Lire And Hercules him selfe are stellified And in high heau'n amidst the starry Quire Dauncing their parts continually doe slide So on the Zodiake Ganimede doth ride And so is Hebe with the Muses nine For pleasing Ioue with dauncing made dinine 81 VVherefore 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 Riner slide 82 And how was Caeneus made at first a man And then a woman then a man againe But in a Daunce which when he first began Hee the mans part in measure did sustaine But when he chang'd into a second straine He daunc'd the womans part another space And then return'd into his former place 83 Hence sprang the fable of Tirefias That he the pleasure of both saxes tryde For in a daunce hee man and woman was By often change of place from side to side But for the woman easily did slide And smoothly swim with cunning hidden Art Hee tooke more pleasure in a womans part 84 So to a fish Venus herselfe did change And swimming through the soft and yeelding waue VVith gentle motions did so smoothly range As none might see where she the water draue But this plaine truth that salsed fable gaue That she did daunce with slyding easines Plyant and quick in wandring passages 85 And merry Bacchus practis'd dauncing to And to the Lydian numbers rounds did make The like he did in th'Easterne India doo And taught them all when Phoebus did awake And when at night he did his Coach sorsake To honor heau'n and heau'ns great roling eie VVith turning daunces and with melodie 86 Thus they who first did found a common-weale And they who first Religion did ordaine By dauncing first the peoples harts did steale Of whom we now a thousand tales doe faine Yet doe we now their perfect rules retaine And vse them still in such deuises new As in the world long since their withering grew 87 For after Townes and Kingdomes founded were Betweene great States arose well-ordered