Choris.
Caps all, O Caps all, appeare at Ecchoes call,
Six great, six small.
Eccho.
Here, here we rise at Ecchoes call.
Choris.
When you the Viols heare, brave Sprights appeare.
Eccho.
Sound Viols sound, for at your sound we'l venter.
Roome, roome for Caps, by six and six we enter.
The first Dance, consisting of the six Gram∣maticall Persons.
1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. |
I. | Thou. | He. | We. | Ye. | They. |
After the Dance they impeach each other De furto Pilei. I puts it off to Thou, Thou to He, so the rest alternative; but neither I, Thou, nor He, We, Ye, nor They: Ergo tandem Nemo, Nemo is the man, No body has it.
Morally alluding to the depraved nature of children; accusing and excusing; peevish lyars: the Tutors taske to cure.
And also implies, that men themselves act the Childrens Scean; Instead of vindicating, often recriminating, waspish, serpentine, childish, saying, unsaying, gain-saying. Quis enim non ab Ovo mendax?
And thirdly, it alludes to the Academians contradictory hu∣mour, Affirmo, Nego.
The second Dance consisted of six Gipsies, Cap-men, of severall Colours.
THe intent of this, was like the other, but in a higher way. Suggere jam Quintiliane Colorem; every man hath some co∣lour for what he sayes, or does; in a severall cast of naturall Rhetorick.
But by these colours is primely intended the principles and depth of mysticall Philosophie: in which the idle Scholars Cap is seldome found.