IDENTILIN$$  F107VA2|EpEliz|Victoria and Albert,cat.18,(Nedham) D73 F16|ff.37v-39r. /P:GAS,5-8-90,o/C:T-LP,11Jun91
107.VA2.HE1  An Epithalamion  
107.VA2.HE2  on y%5e%6 Lady Eliz. & Count Palat:
107.VA2.HE3om
107.VA2.001  Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is
107.VA2.002  All the ayre is thy Diocese
107.VA2.003  And all the chirping Quiristers
107.VA2.004  And other birds are thy parishioners
107.VA2.005  Thou marriest euery yeare
107.VA2.006  The lirique larke, & y%5e%6 graue-whispering Doue
107.VA2.007  The Sparrow y%5t%6 neglects his life for loue.
107.VA2.008  The houshold bird with the red stomacher
107.VA2.009  [NI]Thou makest y%5e%6 blacke bird speed as soon [38]
107.VA2.010  As doth y%5e%6 Gold finch or the Halcione
107.VA2.011  The husband Cocke lookes out, & straight is sped
107.VA2.012  And meets his wife which brings her featherbed
107.VA2.013  [I3]This day more cheerfully then euer shine
107.VA2.014  [I3]This day which might enflame thy selfe (Old Valentine!)
107.VA2.015  Till now thou warm'st with multiplying loues
107.VA2.016  Two larkes, two Sparrowes & two Doues.
107.VA2.017  All y%5t%6 is nothing unto this
107.VA2.018  For thou this day couplest two Phoe%Lnixes
107.VA2.019  Thou makest a taper see
107.VA2.020  What the Sun ne're sawe, & what y%5e%6 Arke
107.VA2.021  (Which was of foules & beasts the Cage & Parke)
107.VA2.022  Did not containe, one bed conatains through thee
107.VA2.023  Two Phoe%Lnixes whose joyned breasts
107.VA2.024  [I5]Are unto one another mutuall nests.
107.VA2.025  Where motion kindles such fires as shall giue
107.VA2.026  Young Phoe%Lnixes, & yet the old shall liue
107.VA2.027  Whose loue & courage never shall decline
107.VA2.028  But make y%5e%6 whole yeare through thy day (O valentine.)
107.VA2.029  Up then faier Phoe%Lnix bird; frustrate y%5e%6 Sun,
107.VA2.030  Thy selfe from thine affection
107.VA2.031  Tak'st warmth enough, & from thine eye
107.VA2.032  All lesser birds will take their iollity
107.VA2.033  Up up, faire bird & call
107.VA2.034  The stars from out their severall boxes take
107.VA2.035  Thy rubies, pearles, & Diamonds forth & make
107.VA2.036  Thy selfe a constellation of them all
107.VA2.037  And by this blazing signify,
107.VA2.038  That a great Prince falls & doeth not dy.
107.VA2.039  [I5]Be thou a new starr y%5t%6 to us portends
107.VA2.040  Ends of much wonder & bee thou these ends
107.VA2.041  Since thou doest, this day in new glory shine
107.VA2.042  May all men date records from this day (Valentine.)
107.VA2.043  Come forth, come forthe & as one glorious flame
107.VA2.044  Meeting another growes y%5e%6 same.
107.VA2.045  So meet thy Frederique, & soe
107.VA2.046  To an unspeakeable union growe.
107.VA2.047  Since seperation
107.VA2.048  Falls not on such things as are infinite,
107.VA2.049  Nor things w%5ch%6 are but one can disunite
107.VA2.050  Y'art twice inseperable Great & One.
107.VA2.051  Go then to where y%5e%6 Bishop stayes [38v]
107.VA2.052  To make you on his way, w%5ch%6 diverse wayes
107.VA2.053  Must bee effected; & when all is past
107.VA2.054  And when y'art one by hearts & hands made fast
107.VA2.055  [I3]You two haue one way left yourselues t'entwine
107.VA2.056  Besides this bishop knot our Bishop Valentine.
107.VA2.057  But oh, what ayles y%5e%6 Sun y%5t%6 here he stayes
107.VA2.058  Longer to day then other dayes
107.VA2.059  Stayes he new light from these to get
107.VA2.060  And finding here such store is loath to set
107.VA2.061  And why do you two walke
107.VA2.062  So slowly-pac'd in this procession?
107.VA2.063  Is all your care but to bee look't upon?
107.VA2.064  And bee to others spectacle & talke?
107.VA2.065  [NI]The feast with glorious delayes
107.VA2.066  Is eaten, & to long their meate they praise
107.VA2.067  The maskers come too late, & I thinke will stay
107.VA2.068  Like Fayeries till y%5e%6 Cocke crow them away.
107.VA2.069  [I3]Alas did not Antiquity assigne
107.VA2.070  A night as well as day to thee (O Valentine!)
107.VA2.071  It did; & night is come, & yet wee see
107.VA2.072  Formalities retarding thee
107.VA2.073  What mean these Ladies w%5ch%6 as though
107.VA2.074  They were to take a clocke in pieces, go
107.VA2.075  So nicely about the Bride?
107.VA2.076  A bride before a (good night) could be sayde
107.VA2.077  Should vanish from her cloaths into her bed
107.VA2.078  As soules from bodies steale & are not spyed.
107.VA2.079  But now shee's layd; what though shee bee?
107.VA2.080  Yet there are more delayes, for where is hee?
107.VA2.081  He cometh passing through sphere after sphere
107.VA2.082  First her sheets, then her armes, then any where.
107.VA2.083  [I5]Let not then this day but this night bee thine
107.VA2.084  The day was but y%5e%6 Eue to this (O Valentine!)
107.VA2.085  Here lyes a shee Sun & a hee Moone here
107.VA2.086  Shee giues y%5e%6 best light to his sphere
107.VA2.087  Or each is both, & all, & so
107.VA2.088  They unto one another nothing owe
107.VA2.089  And yet they doe; but are
107.VA2.090  So just & rich in y%5t%6 coine w%5ch%6 they pay [39]
107.VA2.091  That neither would nor needs forbeare, or stay
107.VA2.092  Neither desires to bee spar'd nor to spare
107.VA2.093  They quickly pay the debt & then
107.VA2.094  Take no acquittances but pay againe.
107.VA2.095  They pay, they giue, they lend & so let fall
107.VA2.096  No such occasion to bee liberall.
107.VA2.097  More truthe, more courage in these two do shine
107.VA2.098  [5sp.intoLM]Then all thy Turtles haue & Sparrowes (Valentine.)
107.VA2.099  And by this act of these two Phoe%Lnixes
107.VA2.100  Nature again restored is,
107.VA2.101  For since these two are two no more
107.VA2.102  Theres but one Phoe%Lnix still as was before.
107.VA2.103  Rest now at last.  And wee
107.VA2.104  As Satyres watch y%5e%6 Suns uprise, will stay
107.VA2.105  Waiting when your eyes op'ned let out day 
107.VA2.106  Onely desird because your face wee see.
107.VA2.107  Others neer you shall whispering speake
107.VA2.108  And wagers lay at w%5ch%6 side day will breake.
107.VA2.109  And win by observing then whose hand it is
107.VA2.110  That opens first a curtain hers or his.
107.VA2.111  [I5]This will be try'd to morow after nine
107.VA2.112  Till which houre wee thy day enlarge (O Bishop Valentine.)
107.VA2.SS   I. Donn. [at end of l.112, in RM]
107.VA2.0$$  Lines 2, 3, 5, 9 of each st ind 5sp. except as noted; sts (except the lst) numbered in arabic numerals. Indentation seems to be intended to center lines on page.