IDENTILIN$$ F107O21|EpEliz|Bod Eng.poet.f.9 (Phillipps)|pp. 128-32. /P:GAS,5-10-90,o/C:T-LP,12Jun91 107.O21.HE1 Vppon the mariage 107.O21.HE2 of the /Prince Palatine %Y&%Z and the Princes 107.O21.HE3 on /St Valentines Day: 107.O21.001 Haile Bishop Valentine whose day this is 107.O21.002 all the air is thy Diocesse 107.O21.003 & all y%5e%6 chirping Queristers 107.O21.004 And other birds are thy parishoners. 107.O21.005 Thou mariest euery yeare 107.O21.006 y%5e%6 Liricke Larke and y%5e%6 graue whisp'ing doue 107.O21.007 the sparrow y%5t%6 neglects his life for loue 107.O21.008 the houshold bird w%5t%6 the red stomacher 107.O21.009 Thou mak'st the blacke bird speed assoone. 107.O21.010 As doth y%5e%6 blackbird or the Halcion, [129] 107.O21.011 y%5e%6 husband Cock looks out and strayght is sped. 107.O21.012 and meets his wife who brings her feather-bed 107.O21.013 y%5is%6 day more cherefully then euer shine 107.O21.014 this day y%5t%6 might inflame thy selfe old /Valentine. 107.O21.015 Till now thou warm'st w%5th%6 multiplying loues 107.O21.016 two Larks, two, sparrows or two doues 107.O21.017 all that was nothing vnto vs 107.O21.018 for thou this day couplest two Phoe%Lnixes 107.O21.019 Thou mak'st a Tap%P see 107.O21.020 what the sunne nere saw; and what the arke 107.O21.021 w%5ch%6 was of fowles, and beasts y%5e%6 cage and parke 107.O21.022 did not conteine one bed containes through th|e|e 107.O21.023 two Phoe%Lnixes whose ioyned breasts 107.O21.024 M:>>ar vnto one another mutuall nests<< 107.O21.025 whose motions kindle such fire as shall giue 107.O21.026 yonge Phoe%Lnixes and yet the old shall liue 107.O21.027 whose loue & cowrage neuer shall decline 107.O21.028 But make the whole yeare through thy day oh /Valentine. 107.O21.029 Vp then faire Phae%Lnix birde frustrate the sunne 107.O21.030 thy selfe from thine affection 107.O21.031 tak'st warmth enough; & from thine eye 107.O21.032 all lesser birds doe take their Jollity 107.O21.033 Vp fair bride and call 107.O21.034 the Stars out their seuerall boxes, take 107.O21.035 thy Rubies, pearles and diamonds foorth; & make 107.O21.036 Thy selfe a Constellation of them all 107.O21.037 & by this blasing signify 107.O21.038 y%5t%6 a great princesse fals but doth not dye. 107.O21.039 Be thou a new star that to vs portends [130] 107.O21.040 Ends of much wonder and bee thou those ends 107.O21.041 since thou dost this day in new glory shine 107.O21.042 may' all men date records from this thy /Valentine 107.O21.043 Come forth come forth and as one glorious flame 107.O21.044 meeting another maks the same 107.O21.045 so meete thy ffredericke and soe 107.O21.046 Into an unseperable vnion grow 107.O21.047 since seperation 107.O21.048 ffalls not on such things as are infinite 107.O21.049 nor those that ar but one can disvnite 107.O21.050 Y%5u%6 are twice inseperable, great and one 107.O21.051 Go then to where the Bishop stayes 107.O21.052 to make you on his wayes, w%5ch%6 diuerse wayes 107.O21.053 must be effected; and when all is past, 107.O21.054 & y%5t%6 y%5u%6 are one by hart and hand made fast 107.O21.055 y%5u%6 haue one way left y%5r%6 selues to entwine 107.O21.056 besides this bishops knott, o%5r%6 bishop /Valentine 107.O21.057 But oh what ayles the sunne y%5t%6 heere he stayes 107.O21.058 Longer to day then other dayes 107.O21.059 stayes he from thee new light to gett 107.O21.060 or finding heere such store is loath to sett 107.O21.061 and why doe you two walke 107.O21.062 so slowely pac'd in this p%Pgression 107.O21.063 is all y%5r%6 Care but to be loek't vpo%M 107.O21.064 and bee to others spectacle and talke 107.O21.065 The feast w%5t%6 glorious delayes 107.O21.066 is eaten and too long the meate they prayse [131] 107.O21.067 The mask's come late, & I thinke will stay 107.O21.068 like ffaires till the Cocke crow y%M away 107.O21.069 alas did not antiquity assigne 107.O21.070 a night as well as day to thee oh, /Valentine 107.O21.071 Shee did and night is come & yet wee see 107.O21.072 formalitye, retarding thee 107.O21.073 w%5t%6: ment those Ladyes w%5t%6 as though 107.O21.074 they were to take a Clocke in peeces goe 107.O21.075 so nicely about the bride 107.O21.076 A bride before a good night could be sayd 107.O21.077 should vanish from her cloaths into her bedd. 107.O21.078 as soules from bodyes steale and are not spide 107.O21.079 But now shee's layd, w%5t%6 though shee bee 107.O21.080 yet there are more delayes for where is hee 107.O21.081 he comes and passes through sphere aft spheare 107.O21.082 first her sheets; then her armes y%M Euery where 107.O21.083 let not y%M this day, but this night bee thine 107.O21.084 the day was butt the Eue, to this oh /Valentine 107.O21.085 Here lyes a she sunne and a hee moone there 107.O21.086 shee giues the best light to his spheare 107.O21.087 or each is both and all and soe 107.O21.088 They %Yv%Zvnto one another nothing owe 107.O21.089 & yet they doe; but are 107.O21.090 So iust and rich in that Coine w%5ch%6 they pay 107.O21.091 y%5t%6 neyther would; nor needs forbeare or stay 107.O21.092 neyther desires to be spar'd nor spare 107.O21.093 they quickely pay their debt; & then 107.O21.094 take no acquittances, but pay agen 107.O21.095 they pay; they giue; they send; & so let fall 107.O21.096 no such occasion to bee liberall 107.O21.097 more trueth more Courage in these two doe shine 107.O21.098 then all thy Sparrowes haue & Turtles /Valentine 107.O21.099 And by this art of these two Phenixes 107.O21.100 nature againe restored is 107.O21.101 for since these two are two no more 107.O21.102 Ther's but one Phoe%Lnix still as was before 107.O21.103 rest now at last and wee 107.O21.104 As satyres watch; the sunns vprise will stay 107.O21.105 wayting when y%5r%6 eyes opening let out day. 107.O21.106 onely desir'd because y%5r%6 face weele see. 107.O21.107 others neerer you shall whispering speake 107.O21.108 & wagers lay at w%5ch%6 side day will breake 107.O21.109 & winne by observing, y%5n%6 whose hand it is 107.O21.110 y%5t%6 open'de first a Curtaine hers or his 107.O21.111 this wilbe tride to morrow after nine 107.O21.112 till w%5ch%6 houre all thy day enlarge oh /Valentine 107.O21.0SS I:D: ffinis 107.O21.0$$ Lines 2, 3, 5, 9-14 of each st ind; sts not numbered; line 24 written in M in another hand.