And as men catch dotterels by putting out a leg or an arm, with those mutual glances of the eyes they first inveigle one another. [4945]_Cynthia prima suis miserum me, cepit ocellis_.  Of all eyes (by the way) black are most amiable, enticing and fairer, which the poet observes in commending of his mistress. [4946]_Spectandum nigris oculis, nigroque capillo_, which Hesiod admires in his Alemena,

[4947] “Cujus a vertice ac nigricantibus oculis,
        Tale quiddam spiral ac ab aurea Venere.”

       “From her black eyes, and from her golden face
        As if from Venus came a lovely grace.”

and [4948]Triton in his Milaene—­nigra oculos formosa mihi. [4949]Homer useth that epithet of ox-eyed, in describing Juno, because a round black eye is the best, the son of beauty, and farthest from black the worse:  which [4950]Polydore Virgil taxeth in our nation:  Angli ut plurimum caesiis oculis, we have grey eyes for the most part.  Baptisma Porta, Physiognom. lib. 3. puts grey colour upon children, they be childish eyes, dull and heavy.  Many commend on the other side Spanish ladies, and those [4951]Greek dames at this day, for the blackness of their eyes, as Porta doth his Neapolitan young wives.  Suetonius describes Julius Caesar to have been nigris vegetisque oculis micantibus, of a black quick sparkling eye:  and although Averroes in his Colliget will have such persons timorous, yet without question they are most amorous.

Now last of all, I will show you by what means beauty doth fascinate, bewitch, as some hold, and work upon the soul of a man by the eye.  For certainly I am of the poet’s mind, love doth bewitch and strangely change us.

[4952] “Ludit amor sensus, oculos perstringit, et aufert
        Libertatem animi, mira nos fascinat arte. 
        Credo aliquis daemon subiens praecordia flammam
        Concitat, et raptam tollit de cardine mentem.”

       “Love mocks our senses, curbs our liberties,
        And doth bewitch us with his art and rings,
        I think some devil gets into our entrails,
        And kindles coals, and heaves our souls from th’hinges.”

Heliodorus lib. 3. proves at large, [4953]that love is witchcraft, “it gets in at our eyes, pores, nostrils, engenders the same qualities and affections in us, as were in the party whence it came.”  The manner of the fascination, as Ficinus 10. cap. com. in Plat. declares it, is thus:  “Mortal men are then especially bewitched, when as by often gazing one on the other, they direct sight to sight, join eye to eye, and so drink and suck in love between them; for the beginning of this disease is the eye.  And therefore he that hath a clear eye, though he be otherwise deformed, by often looking upon him, will make one mad, and tie him fast to him by the eye.”  Leonard.  Varius, lib. 1. cap. 2. de fascinat. telleth us, that by this interview, [4954]"the purer