IDENTILIN$$ F107O35|EpEliz|Bodleian Rawl.poet.142|f.23r-v./P:GAS/o/3-9-90/C:T-LP,11Jun91 107.O35.HE1om 107.O35.HE2 [LM:]Fredirick /Elizabeth 107.O35.HE3 on /Valenti /day. 107.O35.001 Hayle Bp Valentine whose day this is 107.O35.002 All y%5e%6 Ayre is thy Diocess 107.O35.003 And all y%5e%6 chirping choristers 107.O35.004 And other birds are thy Parishoners 107.O35.005 om om om om 107.O35.006 om om om om om om om om 107.O35.007 om om om om om om om om 107.O35.008 om om om om om om om 107.O35.009 om om om om om om om om 107.O35.010 om om om om om om om 107.O35.011 The Husband, Cock looks out & strayt is sped 107.O35.012 And meets his wife who brings her Fetherbed 107.O35.013 This day more cheerfully then euee shine 107.O35.014 This day w%5ch%6 might inflame thy self old Valentine 107.O35.015 Till now thou warmdst w%5th%6 multiplyeing loues 107.O35.016 Two Larks 2 sparrows or 2 doues 107.O35.017 All y%5t%6 is nothing unto this 107.O35.018 For thou this day couplest two Phoe%Lnixes 107.O35.019 Thou makst a Taper see 107.O35.020 W%5t%6 y%5e%6 sun neuer saw & w%5t%6 y%5e%6 Arke 107.O35.021 W%5ch%6 was of fowle & beast y%5e%6 Cage & parke 107.O35.022 Did not contayne %Yy%5e%6%Z one bed contaynes by the. 107.O35.023 Two Phoe%Lnixes whose ioynd->>ioyned< brest 107.O35.024 Are unto one another mutuall nest 107.O35.025 Where motio%M kindles such fires as shall giue 107.O35.026 Young Phoe%Lnixes & yet y%5e%6 owld shall liue 107.O35.027 Whose loue & courage neuer shall decline 107.O35.028 But make y%5e%6 whole %Yda%Z#yeare through /Thy day O Valentine 107.O35.029 Vp then fayre Phoe%Lnix Bride: frustrate y%5e%6 sun 107.O35.030om 107.O35.031om 107.O35.032om 107.O35.033om 107.O35.034 Call up thy stars. & fro%M thy Boxes take 107.O35.035 Thy Rubyes Pearls & diamonds forth, & make 107.O35.036 Thy self a Constellatio%M of the%M all 107.O35.037 And by there blazing signifye 107.O35.038 That a great Princes falls but doth not dye. 107.O35.039om 107.O35.040om 107.O35.041om 107.O35.042om 107.O35.043om 107.O35.044om 107.O35.045om 107.O35.046om 107.O35.047om 107.O35.048om 107.O35.049om 107.O35.050om 107.O35.051 The Bp is here at y%5e%6 Period of y%5e%6 cherre [see0$$line] 107.O35.052om 107.O35.053om 107.O35.054om 107.O35.055om 107.O35.056om 107.O35.057om 107.O35.058om 107.O35.059om 107.O35.060om 107.O35.061om 107.O35.062om 107.O35.063om 107.O35.064om 107.O35.065om 107.O35.066om 107.O35.067 The Masquers come late, & I thinke will stay 107.O35.068 Like fayryes till y%5e%6 cock crows the%M away 107.O35.069 Alass why did not Antiquity assigne 107.O35.070 A night as well as day To y%5e%6 O Valentine 107.O35.071om 107.O35.072 But %^%5>wt<%6 formalityes retard? w%5t%6 meane these Ladyes w%5ch%6 as though 107.O35.073om 107.O35.074 They went to take a clock in peeces goe 107.O35.075 So nicely bout y%5e%6 Bride 107.O35.076 A Bride before a good night can be sayd 107.O35.077 Sd vanish fro%M her cloaths into Her bed 107.O35.078 As souls fro%M Bodyes steale and are not spyed. 107.O35.079 But now she' is layd w%5t%6 though she be? 107.O35.080 yet there are more delays: for where is He? 107.O35.081 He comes %Ythr%Z & passes through sphae%Lre 107.O35.082 First sheets, the%M Armes, then any where 107.O35.083om 107.O35.084om 107.O35.085 Here lyes a she sun. & He moone: here 107.O35.086 She giues the best light to his sphae%Lre 107.O35.087om 107.O35.088om 107.O35.089om 107.O35.090om 107.O35.091om 107.O35.092om 107.O35.093om 107.O35.094om 107.O35.095om 107.O35.096om 107.O35.097 More truth more courage in these 2 doe shine 107.O35.098 The%M all thy turtles haue, & sparrows Valentine. 107.O35.099 And by this act of these 2 Phoe%Lnixes 107.O35.100 Nature agayne restored is 107.O35.101 For since these 2 are 2 no more 107.O35.102 Theres but one Phoe%Lnix still as was before 107.O35.103om 107.O35.104om 107.O35.105om 107.O35.106om 107.O35.107om 107.O35.108om 107.O35.109om 107.O35.110 But see who first salutes, y%5e%6 Infant shine 107.O35.111 This will be tryed to morrow after nine. 107.O35.112 Till w%5ch%6 Howre wee thy day in#large O Valentine: 107.O35.SS om 107.O35.0$$ Truncated copy containing ll. 1-4,11-29,34-38,51,67-70,72,74-82,85-86,97-102,110-112 only; no ind; not divided into sts; HE in LM; notes in 2nd hand in RM. L. 35 originally read: "The Bp stayes.->>doe< make no delays"; changed to reported reading in scribal hand.