IDENTILIN$$  F107B26|EpEliz|BL Harley MS 3511|ff.20v-22v./P:GAS,3-27-90,o/C:T-LP,11Jun91
107.B26.HE1  Epithalamion 
107.B26.HE2  on the Lady Elizabeth /& Count palatine 
107.B26.HE3  married on /S%5t%6 Valantine's day. [20v]
107.B26.001  Haile Bishop valentine whose day this is,
107.B26.002  All the aire is thy Diosis;
107.B26.003  And all y%5e%6 chirping Choirsters,
107.B26.004  And other birds, are thy parishoners,
107.B26.005  Thou marriest every yeare,
107.B26.006  The Lyriq%Q larke, & the grave whispring dove,
107.B26.007  The sparrow, that neglects his life for love,
107.B26.008  The houshold bird with the red stomacher,
107.B26.009  Thow->>Thou< mak'st y%5e%6 blacke bird, speed as so%5o%6ne,
107.B26.010  As doth the gold finch, or the Halcion;
107.B26.011  The husband cocke, lookes out & straight is sped;
107.B26.012  And meets his wife, which brings her feather bed,
107.B26.013  This day more cheerfully than ever shine, 
107.B26.014  This day w%5ch%6 might inflame thy selfe, old Valentine!
107.B26.015  Tell now thou warm'dst with multiplying loves, [CW:Two]
107.B26.016  Two larkes 2 sparrows or 2 doves [21]
107.B26.017  All that is nothing unto this
107.B26.018  For thou this day couplest 2 Phenixes
107.B26.019  Thou mak'st a tapour see
107.B26.020  What the sun never saw & what the arke
107.B26.021  Which was of foule & beasts the cage & parke
107.B26.022  Did not containe, one bed containes through thee
107.B26.023  Two Phenixes whose joyned brests
107.B26.024  Are unto one another mutuall nests
107.B26.025  Where motion kindles such fires as shall give
107.B26.026  Young Phenixes, & yet the old shall live
107.B26.027  Whose love & courage never shall decline
107.B26.028  But make the whole yeare through, o Valentine
107.B26.029  Up then faire Phenix Birde frustrate the sun
107.B26.030  Thy selfe from thing->>thine< affection
107.B26.031  Tak'st warmth enough, & from thine eye 
107.B26.032  All lesser birds will take theire jollity
107.B26.033  Up up faire birde & call
107.B26.034  Thy Starres, from out there severall boxes take
107.B26.035  Thy rubies pearles & diamonds forth & make
107.B26.036  Thy selfe a constellation of them all,
107.B26.037  And by theire blasing signifie
107.B26.038  That a great princesse fall but doth not dy
107.B26.039  Be thou a new star, that to us portends
107.B26.040  Ends of much wonder, & be thou those ends
107.B26.041  Since thou dost this day in new glory shine
107.B26.042  May all men date records from this thy valentine.
107.B26.043  Come forth, come forth & as one glorious flame
107.B26.044  Meeting another growes the same
107.B26.045  So meet thy Fredricke, & so
107.B26.046  To anseperable union goe
107.B26.047  Since seperation [CW:Falls]
107.B26.048  Falls not on such things as are infinite [21v]
107.B26.049  Nor things which are but one can disunite
107.B26.050  You are twise |vn|separably great & one
107.B26.051  Goe then to while the Bishop staies
107.B26.052  To make you one, his way, w%5ch%6 divers waies
107.B26.053  Must be effected & when all is past
107.B26.054  And that you are all one by hearts & hands made fast
107.B26.055  You two have one way left, your selves to intwine.
107.B26.056  Besides this Bishop Knockt o Bishop valentine.
107.B26.057  But o%C what ailes the sun that here he stayes
107.B26.058  Longer to day than other daies?
107.B26.059  Staies he new light from hence to get?
107.B26.060  And finding here such starres is loth to set?
107.B26.061  And why doe you two walke
107.B26.062  So slowly pac'd in this procession?
107.B26.063  Is all your care but to be look'd upon,
107.B26.064  And be to others spectacle & talke?
107.B26.065  The feast w%5th%6 gluttenous delaies
107.B26.066  Is eaten, & too long theire meat they praise
107.B26.067  The masquers come late, & I thinke will stay
107.B26.068  Like faries, till the cocke crow them away
107.B26.069  Alasse did not antiquity asigne
107.B26.070  A night as well as day to thee o Valentine?
107.B26.071  They did, & night is come, & yet we see,
107.B26.072  Formalities retarding thee
107.B26.073  What meane these Ladies w%5ch%6 as though
107.B26.074  They were to take a clocke in peices, goe
107.B26.075  So nicely about the bride?
107.B26.076  A bride before a good night could be said
107.B26.077  Should vanish from her cloaths into her bed
107.B26.078  As sould->>soules< from bodies steale, & are not spy'd [CW:And]
107.B26.079  And now shee's laid; what though she bee [22]
107.B26.080  Yet there are more delaies, for where is he?
107.B26.081  He comes & passes through spheare of her spheare
107.B26.082  First her sheetes then her armes then any where
107.B26.083  Let not this day then but this night be thine
107.B26.084  The day was but the eve to this o Valentine
107.B26.085  Here lies a she sun & a he moone here
107.B26.086  She gives the best light to his spheare
107.B26.087  Or each is both or all & so
107.B26.088  They unto one another nothing owe
107.B26.089  And yet they doe, but are
107.B26.090  So just & rich in that coine which they pay
107.B26.091  That neither would nor needs forbeare to->>nor< stay,
107.B26.092  Neither desires to be spair'd nor to spaire
107.B26.093  They quickely pay theire debt & then
107.B26.094  Take no acquittances, but pay againe
107.B26.095  They pay they give they lend & so let fall
107.B26.096  No such occasion to be liberall.
107.B26.097  More truth, more courage in these two doe shine
107.B26.098  Then all thy turtles have, & sparrowes, Valentine.
107.B26.099  And by this act of these two Phenixes,
107.B26.100  Nature againe restored is
107.B26.101  For since these two are two no more,
107.B26.102  There's but one Phenix still, as was before
107.B26.103  Rest now at last, & we
107.B26.104  As satyrs watch the suns uprise will stay
107.B26.105  Waiting when still our eyes opened let out day
107.B26.106  Only desire'd because our face we see
107.B26.107  Others neare you shall whispring speake
107.B26.108  And wagers lay at which side day will breake
107.B26.109  And win by observing, then whose han it is
107.B26.110  That opens first a curtaine hers, or his, [CW:This]
107.B26.111  This will be tri'd to morrow after nine [44]
107.B26.112  Till which houre we thy day inlarge o Valentine.
107.B26.0SS  om
107.B26.0$$  Lines 2, 3, 5, 9 of each st ind; sts numbered in Arabic numerals.