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“This song was followed by others.

“After which songs they danced galliards and corantos; and with those excellent graces, that the music appointed to celebrate them, showed it could be silent no longer; but, by the first tenor, admired them thus:

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“Had those that dwelt in error foul,

And held that women have no soul,

But seen these move; they would have then

Said, women were the souls of men;

So they do move each heart and eye

With the world’s soul, true harmony.

“Here they danced a third most elegant and curious dance, and not to be described again by any art but that of their own footing, which ending in the figure that was to produce the fourth, January from his state saluted them thus:

“Janu. Your Grace is great, as is your Beauty, dames;

Enough my feasts have proved your thankful flames

Now use your seat; that seat which was, before,

Though straying, uncertain, floating to each shore,

And to whose having every clime laid claim,

Each land and nation urgéd as the aim

Of their ambition, Beauty’s perfect throne,