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[Come on, come on; and where you go]
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;
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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.
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