IDENTILIN$$  F107H05|EpEliz|Harvard fMS Eng 966.4 (Dobell)|ff. 152-53v./P:T-LP,21Mar91,o/C:T-LP,11Jun91
107.H05.HE1  Vpon the marriage 
107.H05.HE2  of the Prince /Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth 
107.H05.HE3  on /S%5t%6 Valentines day. [152]
107.H05.001  Hayle Byshop Valentine, whose day this is,
107.H05.002  all the ayre is thy Diocesse
107.H05.003  and all the chirpinge Choristers
107.H05.004  and other byrds are thy parishioners.
107.H05.005  Thou marryest euery yeare
107.H05.006  the lyriquicke Larke, and the graue whisperinge doue,
107.H05.007  the Sparrowe that neglects his life for loue,
107.H05.008  the house-hold byrd with the red stomacher,
107.H05.009  thou madst the blacke byrd speede assoone
107.H05.010  as doth the Gold-finch, or the Halcyon;
107.H05.011  The husband cocke#~~ lookes out, and soone is sped
107.H05.012  and meets his wife, w%5ch%6 bringes her feather-bed;
107.H05.013  Thy day more cheerefully then euer shine,
107.H05.014  this day, w%5ch%6 might enflame thy selfe, old Valentine.
107.H05.015  Till nowe thou warmd'st with multiplyinge loues
107.H05.016  two larkes, two sparrowes, or two Doues,
107.H05.017  all that is nothinge vnto this,
107.H05.018  for thou this day couplest two Phenixes;
107.H05.019  thou makst a Taper see
107.H05.020  what the Sunne neuer sawe; and what the Arke,
107.H05.021  (w%5ch%6 was of foules and beasts the cage and Parke,->>)<
107.H05.022  did not containe, one bed containes through thee
107.H05.023  two Phenixes, whose ioyned breasts
107.H05.024  are vnto one another mutuall nests,
107.H05.025  whose motions kindle such fire, as shall giue
107.H05.026  younge Phenixes, and yet the old shall liue;
107.H05.027  whose loue and courage neuer shall decline,
107.H05.028  but make the whole yeare through, thy day, O Valentine.
107.H05.029  vp then faire Phenix Bride; frustrate the sunne, [152v]
107.H05.030  thy selfe from thine affection
107.H05.031  takst warmth ynough, and from thine eye
107.H05.032  all lesser byrds will take theire iollity.
107.H05.033  vp, vp ffaire Bride, and call 
107.H05.034  thy starres from out theire seuerall boxes; take
107.H05.035  thy Rubyes, Pearles, and Diamonds forth, and make
107.H05.036  thy selfe a Constellation of them all,
107.H05.037  and by this blazinge signify,
107.H05.038  that a greate Princesse falls, but doth not dy.
107.H05.039  be thou a newe starre, that to vs portends
107.H05.040  ends of much wonder, and be thou those ends;
107.H05.041  since thou do'st this day in newe glory shine,
107.H05.042  may all men date Records, from this thy Valentine.
107.H05.043  Come forth; come forth; and as one glorious flame
107.H05.044  meetinge another, growes the same,
107.H05.045  soe meete thy ffredericke, and soe
107.H05.046  to an vnseparable Vnion growe,
107.H05.047  since Separation
107.H05.048  falls not on such thinges as are Infinite,
107.H05.049  nor thinges w%5ch%6 are but one, can dis=vnite,
107.H05.050  you are twice inseparable, greate and one:
107.H05.051  Goe then; Loe, whare the Byshop stayes
107.H05.052  To make you one, his way; w%5ch%6 divers wayes
107.H05.053  must be effected, and when all is past,
107.H05.054  and that you are one by by hart and handes made fast;
107.H05.055  you two haue one way left, your selues t%5o%6 vntwine
107.H05.056  besides thy Byshops knott, or Byshop Valentine.
107.H05.057  But oh! what ayles the sunne, that here he stayes [153]
107.H05.058  Longer today, then other dayes?
107.H05.059  stayes he from thee newe light to gett,
107.H05.060  and findinge here such store, is loth to sett?
107.H05.061  and why doe you two walke
107.H05.062  soe slowly pac'd in this Procession?
107.H05.063  is all your care but to be lookt' vpon?
107.H05.064  and to be others spectacle and talke?
107.H05.065  the feast with glorious delayes
107.H05.066  is eaten, and too longe theire meate they prayse;
107.H05.067  the Masques come late, and, I thinke, will stay
107.H05.068  like fairyes, till the cockes crowe them away;
107.H05.069  Alas! did not Antiquity assigne
107.H05.070  a night, as well as day to thee, O Valentine?
107.H05.071  They did, and night is come, and yet we see
107.H05.072  formalityes retardinge thee;
107.H05.073  what meane these Ladyes, w%5ch%6 as though
107.H05.074  they were to take a Clocke in pieces, goe
107.H05.075  so nicely about the Bride?
107.H05.076  A Bride, before a Good-night cold be sed,
107.H05.077  should vanish from her clothes into her bed,
107.H05.078  as Soules from bodyes steale and are not spy'de.
107.H05.079  But nowe shee's layd: what though shee be?
107.H05.080  yet there are more delayes; for where is He?
107.H05.081  He comes, and passes through spheare after spheare,
107.H05.082  first her sheetes, then her armes, then any where.
107.H05.083  Let not this day then, but this night be thine.
107.H05.084  Thy day was but the Eue to this, O Valentine.
107.H05.085  Heere lyes a shee-Sunne, and a Hee-moone heere [153v]
107.H05.086  she giues the best light to his spheare;
107.H05.087  or each is both, and all, and soe
107.H05.088  they vnto one another nothinge owe,
107.H05.089  and yet they doe, but are
107.H05.090  Soe iust and rich in that Coyne w%5ch%6 they pay
107.H05.091  that neyther would, nor needs forbeare, or stay,
107.H05.092  neyther desires to be spar'd, nor to spare
107.H05.093  they quickely pay theire debt, and then
107.H05.094  take no acquittances, but pay agen;
107.H05.095  thy pay, they giue, they lend, and soe let fall
107.H05.096  no such occasion to be liberall.
107.H05.097  more truth, more courage in these two doth shine
107.H05.098  then all thy Turtles haue, and Sparrowes, Valentine.
107.H05.099  And by thy act of these two Phenixes
107.H05.100  nature againe restored is,
107.H05.101  for since these two, are two no more,
107.H05.102  ther's but one Phenix still, as was before. 
107.H05.103  Rest nowe at last, and we
107.H05.104  (as Satyres watch the Sunnes vprise) will stay,
107.H05.105  waitinge when your eyes openinge, let out day
107.H05.106  only desird', because your face we see:
107.H05.107  others neere you shall whisperinge speake,
107.H05.108  and wagers lay, at w%5ch%6 side day will breake,
107.H05.109  and winne by observinge then, whose hand it is
107.H05.110  that opens first a Curtaine, hers, or his;
107.H05.111  this wilbe try'de to morrowe after nine,
107.H05.112  Till w%5ch%6 houre, all thy day enlarge, O Valentine.
107.H05.SS   [3 3-leaf clovers]
107.H05.0$$  Lines 2, 3, 5, 9 of each st ind; sts numbered in arabic. Folio leaves are numbered on stanza lines prior to ll. 29, 57, and 85.  ~~ in line 11 are scribal swung dashes crossed with slash marks.