IDENTILIN$$ F107DT1|EpEliz|Trinity College Dublin 877|ff.53-54v./P:T-LP,EWStrans,12Jun91 107.DT1.HE1 Epithalamium.| 107.DT1.HE2om 107.DT1.HE3om 107.DT1.001 Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is, 107.DT1.002 All the Aire is thy Diocys 107.DT1.003 And all the chirping Queristers 107.DT1.004 And other Birds, are thy Parishioners. 107.DT1.005 Thou marriest every yeare 107.DT1.006 The Lyrick Lark, & the Graue whispering Dove, 107.DT1.007 The Sparrowe, y%5t%6 neglects his life for Loue 107.DT1.008 The houshold Bird, w%5th%6 the Red Stomacher; 107.DT1.009 Thou mak'st the Black-bird speed as soone 107.DT1.010 As doth the Goldfinch, or the Halcion: 107.DT1.011 The Husband-Cock looks out, and straight is sped, 107.DT1.012 And meets his wife, w%5ch%6 brings her fetherbed. 107.DT1.013 This day more cheerfully then euer shine: 107.DT1.014 This day, w%5ch%6 might enflame thy self, old valentine 107.DT1.015 Till nowe, thou warm'st, w%5th%6 multiplieng loues, 107.DT1.016 Twoe Larks, twoe Sparrowes, or twoe Doues; 107.DT1.017 All that, is nothing vnto this, 107.DT1.018 ffor thou this day couplest twoe Phoe%Lnixes 107.DT1.019 Thou mak'st a Taper see 107.DT1.020 What the Sun neuer sawe, and what the Arck 107.DT1.021 (W%5ch%6 was of fowles, and Beasts the Cage, & Parke) 107.DT1.022 Did not containe; one bed containes through thee 107.DT1.023 Twoe Phoe%Lnixes; whose ioyned breasts 107.DT1.024 Are vnto one another mutuall neasts. 107.DT1.025 Where motion kindles such fires, as shall giue 107.DT1.026 Yong Phoe%Lnixes, and yet the old shall liue. 107.DT1.027 Whose loue, and courage neuer shall decline 107.DT1.028 But make y%5e%6 whole yeare through thy day, O%C Valentine. 107.DT1.029 Vpp then faire Phoe%Lnix Bride, frustrate the Sun; 107.DT1.030 Thy self from thine affection 107.DT1.031 Tak'st warmth enough, and from thine eye, 107.DT1.032 All lesser Birds will take their Iollity. [CW:Vpp] 107.DT1.033 Vpp, vp faire Bride, and call [86] 107.DT1.034 Thy Starrs from out their seuerall boxes; take 107.DT1.035 Thy Rubies, Pearles, & Diamonds out, and make 107.DT1.036 Thy self a Constellation of them all. 107.DT1.037 And by this blazeing signifie, 107.DT1.038 That a great Princess falls, but doth not dye. 107.DT1.039 Bee thou a newe starre, y%5t%6 to vs portends 107.DT1.040 Ends of much wonder, and bee thou those ends. 107.DT1.041 since thou dost this day in newe glorie shine, 107.DT1.042 May all men date records, from this thy Valentine 107.DT1.043 Come forth, come forth, & as one glorious flame 107.DT1.044 meeting another growes the same: 107.DT1.045 soe meete thy ffrederique, and soe 107.DT1.046 To an inseperable vnion growe. 107.DT1.047 since separation 107.DT1.048 ffalls not on such things as are infinite, 107.DT1.049 Nor things w%5ch%6 are but one can disvnite. 107.DT1.050 You are twice in seperable, Great, and one. 107.DT1.051 Goe then to where the Bishopp stayes 107.DT1.052 To make you one; his way, w%5ch%6 divers wayes 107.DT1.053 must bee effected; and when all is past, 107.DT1.054 And that you'are one by Hearts, & hands made fast, 107.DT1.055 You twoe have one way more, yo%5r%6 selues t'entwine 107.DT1.056 Besides this Bishopps knott, or Bishopp Valentine. 107.DT1.057 But oh, what ayles the Sun, y%5t%6 here hee stayes 107.DT1.058 Longer to day then other dayes? 107.DT1.059 stayes hee newe light from thee to gett? 107.DT1.060 And finding here such store, is loath to sett? 107.DT1.061 And why doe you twoe walk 107.DT1.062 Soe slowly-pac'd in this procession? 107.DT1.063 Is all yo%5r%6 care but to bee look'd vppon? 107.DT1.064 And to bee others spectacle, and talk? 107.DT1.065 The feast, w%5th%6 gluttonous delayes [CW:Is] 107.DT1.066 Is eaten, and too long their meat they praise [54] 107.DT1.067 The Maskers come late, & I f'eare will staye 107.DT1.068 Like ffairies, till the Cock crowe them awaye. 107.DT1.069 Alass did not Antiquity assigne 107.DT1.070 A night aswell as day, to thee O%C Valentine? 107.DT1.071 They did; and night is come, and yet wee see 107.DT1.072 fformalities retarding thee; 107.DT1.073 What meane these Ladies, w%5ch%6 as though 107.DT1.074 They were to take a Clock a peices, goe 107.DT1.075 Soe nicely about the Bride? 107.DT1.076 A Bride, before a Goodnight could bee said 107.DT1.077 should vanish from her cloathes into her bed; 107.DT1.078 As soules from Bodies steales, & are not spied. 107.DT1.079 But nowe shee's laid; what though shee bee? 107.DT1.080 Yet there are more delayes, for where is hee? 107.DT1.081 Hee comes, & passes through, sphere, after sphere, 107.DT1.082 ffirst her sheets, then her armes, then any where; 107.DT1.083 Let not then this day, but this night bee thine 107.DT1.084 Thy day was but thy Eue to this, O Valentine. 107.DT1.085 Here lyes a shee-Sun, and a Hee-Moone here, 107.DT1.086 Shee giues the best light to his sphere, 107.DT1.087 Or each is both, and all, and soe 107.DT1.088 They vnto one another nothing owe. 107.DT1.089 And yet they doe, but are 107.DT1.090 Soe Iust, and ritch in y%5t%6 coigne, w%5ch%6 they paye, 107.DT1.091 That neither would, nor needs forbeare, nor stay: 107.DT1.092 Neither desires to bee spared, nor to spare, 107.DT1.093 They quickly pay their debt, and then 107.DT1.094 Take noe acquittances, but paye agen. 107.DT1.095 They pay, they lend they giue, & soe lett fall 107.DT1.096 Noe such occasion to bee deliberall. 107.DT1.097 More truth, & courage in these twoe doe shine, 107.DT1.098 Then all thy Turtles haue, & Sparrowes, Valentine. [CW:And] 107.DT1.099 And by this acte of these twoe Phoe%Lnixes, [54v] 107.DT1.100 Nature againe restored is. 107.DT1.101 ffor since these two, are two noe more 107.DT1.102 There's but one Phoe%Lnix still, as was before. 107.DT1.103 Rest nowe at last, and wee 107.DT1.104 As Satyres watch the Sunns vprise, will staye, 107.DT1.105 Wayting when yo%5r%6 eyes opened, let out day. 107.DT1.106 Only desired, because yo%5r%6 face wee see, 107.DT1.107 Others neare you shall whispering speake 107.DT1.108 And wagers lay, at w%5ch%6 syde Day will breake; 107.DT1.109 And winn by obseruing; then whose hand it is 107.DT1.110 That opens first a Curtaine, hers, or his. 107.DT1.111 This wilbee tryed to morrowe after nine, 107.DT1.112 Till w%5ch%6 hower, wee thy day enlarge, O Valentine.| 107.DT1.0SS ffinis| 107.DT1.0$$ Lines 2,3,5,and 9 of each st ind; sts not numbered.