Classic Poem

Come on, come on; and where you go,
so interweave the curious knot,
As ev'n th'observer scarce may know
which lines are Pleasures, and which not:
First figure out the doubtfull way,
at which a while all youth should stay,
Where she and Vertue did contend,
which should have Hercules to friend .
Then as all actions of mankinde,
are but a laborinth, or maze:
So let your Dances be entwin'd,
yet not perplex men unto gaze;
But measur'd, and so numerous too,
as men may read each act they doe;
And when they see the graces meet,
admire the wisedome of your feet:
For dancing is an exercise,
not onely showes the movers wit,
But maketh the beholders wise,
as he hath power to rise to it.
The first Dance
After which Dedalus againe