"As when a nymph arising from the land, "Leadeth a dance with her long watery train "Down to the fea, the wryes to every hand, "And every way doth crofs the fertile plain: "But when at laft the falls into the main, "Then all her traverses concluded are, "And with the fea, her courfe is circular. LXIV.

"Thus when at firft Love had them marshalled, "As erft he did the fhapelefs mafs of things, "He taught them rounds and winding hays to tread,

"And about trees to caft themselves in rings: "As the two bears whom the first mover flings "With a fhort turn about heaven's axle-tree, "In a round dance for ever wheeling be.

"But after thefe, as men more civil grew, He did more grave and folemn measures "frame,

"With fuch fair order and proportion true,

How Love taught men to dance. Rounds or Country Dances. 5 Meatures.