IDENTILIN$$  F10600G/EpLin/1669/Sigs. I1v-I3 pp. 114-117 (CtY,L)/P&C:MEL/(TxAM)/1-16-07
106.00G.HE   %X%1Epithalamion made at Lincolns Inne.%2 [I1v]
106.00G.001  T%+He Sun-beams in the East are spred,
106.00G.002  Leave, leave, fair Bride, your solitary bed,
106.00G.003  [notind]No more shall you return to it alone,
106.00G.004  It nurseth sadness; and your bodies print,
106.00G.005  Like to a grave, the yielding down doth dint;
106.00G.006  You and your other You meet there anon,
106.00G.007  Put forth, put forth, that warm balm-breathing thigh,
106.00G.008  Which when next time you in these sheets will smother,
106.00G.009  There it must meet another,
106.00G.010  Which never was, but must be, oft, more nigh; [CW:Come]
106.00G.011  Come glad from thence, go gladder than you came,
106.00G.012  %1To day put on perfection, and a womans name.%2
106.00G.013  Daughters of %1London%2, you which be
106.00G.014  Our Golden Mines, and furnish'd Treasurie.
106.00G.015  You which are Angels, yet still bring with you
106.00G.016  Thousands of Angels on your marriage dayes,
106.00G.017  Help with your presence, and devise to praise
106.00G.018  These rites, which also unto you grow due;
106.00G.019  [notind]Conceitedly dress her, and be assign'd
106.00G.020  By you fit place for every flower and jewel,
106.00G.021  Make her for love fit fuel
106.00G.022  As gay as %1Flora%2, and as rich as %1Indie%2;
106.00G.023  So may she fair and rich, in nothing lame,
106.00G.024  %1To day put on perfection, and a womans name.%2  
106.00G.025  And you frolique Patricians,
106.00G.026  Sons of those Senatours, wealths deep oceans,
106.00G.027  Ye painted Courtiers, barrels of others wits,
106.00G.028  Ye Country men, who but your beasts love none,
106.00G.029  Ye of those Fellowships, whereof he's one,
106.00G.030  Of study and play made strange Hermaphrodits,
106.00G.031  Here shine; this bridegroom to the Temple bring,
106.00G.032  Loe, in yon path which store of strow'd flowers graceth,
106.00G.033  The sober virgin paceth;
106.00G.034  Except my sight fail, 'tis no other thing.
106.00G.035  Weep not, nor blush, here is no grief nor shame,
106.00G.036  %1To day put on perfection, and a womans name.%2
106.00G.037  Thy two-leav'd gates faire Temple unfold,
106.00G.038  And these two in thy sacred bosome hold,
106.00G.039  Till mystically joyn'd but one they be;
106.00G.040  Then may thy lean and hunger-starved womb
106.00G.041  Long time expect their bodies, and their tomb, [CW:Long]
106.00G.042  Long after their own parents fatten thee. [I2v]
106.00G.043  All elder claims, and all cold barrenness,
106.00G.044  All yielding to new loves be farre for ever,
106.00G.045  Which might these two dissever,
106.00G.046  Alwayes, all th' other may each one possess;
106.00G.047  For, the best Bride, best worthy of praise and fame,
106.00G.048  %1To day puts on perfection, and a womans name.%2
106.00G.049  Winter dayes bring much delight,
106.00G.050  Nor for themselves, but for they soon bring night;
106.00G.051  Other sweets wait thee then these diverse meats,
106.00G.052  Other disports then dancing jollities,
106.00G.053  Other love tricks then glancing with the eyes,
106.00G.054  But that the Sun still in our half sphear sweats;
106.00G.055  He flies in winter, but he now stands still,
106.00G.056  Yet shadows turn; Noon point he hath attain'd,
106.00G.057  [notind]His Steeds will be restrain'd,
106.00G.058  [notind]But gallop lively down the Western hill,
106.00G.059  Thou shalt, when he hath run the Heavens half frame,
106.00G.060  %1To night put on perfection, and a womans name.%2
106.00G.061  The Amorous evening starre is rose,
106.00G.062  Why then should not our amorous starre inclose
106.00G.063  Her self in her wish'd bed? Release your strings
106.00G.064  Musitians, and dancers take some truce
106.00G.065  With these your pleasing labours, for great use
106.00G.066  As much weariness as perfection brings.
106.00G.067  [ind5sp]You, and not only you, but all toyl'd beasts
106.00G.068  Rest duly; at night all their toyles are dispenced;
106.00G.069  [notind]But in their beds commenced
106.00G.070  Are other labours, and more dainty feasts.
106.00G.071  She goes a maid, who, lest she turn the same,
106.00G.072  %1To night put on perfection, and a womans name.%2 [CW:Thy]
106.00G.073  Thy virgins girdle now vntie, [I3]
106.00G.074  And in thy nuptial bed [loves altar] lie
106.00G.075  A pleasing sacrifice; now dispossess
106.00G.076  Thee of these chains and robes, which were put on
106.00G.077  T'adorne the day, not thee; for thou, alone,
106.00G.078  [notind]Like virtue, and truth, are best in nakedness;
106.00G.079  [notind]This bed is only to virginitie
106.00G.080  A grave, but to a better state, a cradle.
106.00G.081  [notind]Till now, thou wast but able
106.00G.082  To be what now thou art; then that by thee
106.00G.083  No more be said, %1I may be%2, but %1I am%2,
106.00G.084  %1To night put on perfection, and a womans name.%2
106.00G.085  Even like a faithfull man content,
106.00G.086  That this life for a better should be spent:
106.00G.087  So she a mothers rich stile doth preferre,
106.00G.088  And at the Bridegrooms wish't approach doth lie,
106.00G.089  Like an appointed Lamb, when tenderly
106.00G.090  The Priest comes on his knees, t'imbowel her.
106.00G.091  [ind5sp]Now sleep or watch with more joy; and oh light
106.00G.092  Of heaven, to morrow rise thou hot, and early,
106.00G.093  [notind]This Sun will love so dearly
106.00G.094  Her rest, that long, long we shall want her sight.
106.00G.095  Wonders are wrought, for she which had no name,
106.00G.096  %1To night puts on perfection, and a womans name.%2
106.00G.0SS   %1The end of the Epithalamions, or /Marriage Songs.%2 [CW:SATYRES.]
106.00G.0$$  Divieded into 8 12-line stanzas; lines 3,6,7,9 of each st. ind. 3sp. and l. 10 ind. 5sp., except as noted; line 12 in italics.