IDENTILIN$$  F106O21|EpLin|Bodleian Eng.poet.f.9(Phillipps)|pp. 26-29. /P:EWS,o,16Mar91/C:T-LP,23Jul91
106.O21.0HE  Epithal: of y%5e%6 La: Eli: [p.26]
106.O21.001  The sunn beames in the East ar spread
106.O21.002  Leaue (fair bride) y%5r%6 solitary bed
106.O21.003  om om om om om om om om
106.O21.004  It nurseth sadnes and y%5r%6 bodyes print:
106.O21.005  (Like to a graue) y%5e%6 yeelding ground doth dint
106.O21.006  You and y%5r%6 other you meet there anone
106.O21.007  put forth, put forth y%5t%6 warme balme-brething thygh
106.O21.008  w%5c%6 when next time you in these sheets wil smoth%5er%6
106.O21.009  There it must meet another
106.O21.010  w%5c%6 neuer was but must be oft more nigh
106.O21.011  Come glad from thence go gladder then y%5u%6 came
106.O21.012  to night put on perfection & a womans name
106.O21.013  Daughters of London y%5u%6 w%5c%6 bee
106.O21.014  or->>o%5r%6< golden mines and furnisht treasury
106.O21.015  y%5u%6 w%5c%6 ar angels yet still bringe w%5th%6 you
106.O21.016  thousands of angels on y%5r%6 mariage dayes
106.O21.017  helpe w%5th%6 y%5r%6 presence and deuise to prayse
106.O21.018  these rights w%5c%6 also vnto you grow due.
106.O21.019  conceiptedly dresse her; and be assign'd
106.O21.020  by y%5u%6 fit place for euery flower and Iewel
106.O21.O21  make %YHer%Z Her for loue fit fuell. 
106.O21.022  As gay as flora & as rich as Inde,
106.O21.023  So may she fair, rich, & in nothing lame
106.O21.024  to day put on perfectio%M & a womans name.
106.O21.025  And you froliq%Q Patricians [p.27]
106.O21.026  Sum%Mo%M the Senat%5rs%6 wealths deepe Oceans
106.O21.027  Yee painted Courtiers barrels of others wits
106.O21.028  y%5u%6 Cuntrymen who but y%5r%6 beasts loue none.
106.O21.029  yee of those fellowships wherof he is one
106.O21.030  of study and play made strang Hermophrodites
106.O21.031  here shine, this bridgrome to the Temple bring
106.O21.032  Loe in yon path, w%5c%6 store of strew'd flowers graceth
106.O21.033  The sober virgin paceth
106.O21.034  Except my sight fayle me tis no other thinge
106.O21.035  weepe not nor blush; here is no greefe nor shame.
106.O21.036  To day put on Perfection & a womans name.
106.O21.037  Thy two leau'd gate fair Temple now vnfold.
106.O21.038  & these two in thy sacred bosome holds->>hold<.
106.O21.039  till mistically ioined both one they bee.
106.O21.040  Then may thy leane & hungerstarued wombe
106.O21.041  Long time expest their bodyes; & their tombe.
106.O21.042  om om om om om om om
106.O21.043  all elder claimes & all cold barrennesse.
106.O21.044  all yeelding to new loues bee farr foreuer.
106.O21.045  w%5c%6 might these two disseuer
106.O21.046  Alwayes, al the other may each one possesse.
106.O21.047  for y%5e%6 best bride best worthy of %Yf%Zprayse & fame
106.O21.048  To day puts on p%Pfectio%M & a womans name.
106.O21.049  O winter dayes bring much delight:
106.O21.050  Not for themselues but for y%5e%6 soone bring night: 
106.O21.051  other sweets wayte thee; then these diuerse meats.
106.O21.052  other disports then dancing Iollitys [p.28]
106.O21.053  other loue-trickes then glancing w%5t%6 the Eyes.
106.O21.054  But if the sunnne still in O%5r%6 halfe sphere sweats
106.O21.055  he flyes in winter but now he stands still
106.O21.056  yet shadowes turn'd %Ynowne%Z#->>noone< point hee hath obtain'd
106.O21.057  his steeds wilbee restrain'd
106.O21.058  but gallop liuely downe y%5e%6 westerne hill
106.O21.059  Thou shalt when hee hath runne y%5e%6 worlds half fra%Me
106.O21.060  to night put on p%Pfectio%M and a woma%Ms name.
106.O21.061  The amorous Euening Star is rose
106.O21.062  why should not then o%5r%6 amorous starr enclose
106.O21.063  her selfe in her wish'd bed, release y%r%6 strings
106.O21.064  Musitians, and dauncers, take some truce 
106.O21.065  w%5t%6 these y%5r%6 pleasing labours; for great vse
106.O21.066  as much werines as p%Pfection brings
106.O21.067  y%5u%6 & not onely you, but all toyld beasts
106.O21.068  rest dayly; at night all their toyles ar despenc'd
106.O21.069  but in their bed commenc'd
106.O21.070  are other labours; & more dainty feasts
106.O21.071  she goes amayd who least she turne y%5e%6 same
106.O21.072  to night put on p%Pfection & a womans name.
106.O21.073  Thy virgin girdle now vnty
106.O21.074  & in thy nuptiall bed loues altar lye 
106.O21.075  a pleasing sacrifize now dispossesse
106.O21.076  thee, of those chaines & robes w%5c%6 were put on
106.O21.077  to adorne the day not thee, for thou alone,
106.O21.078  like vertue and trueth are best in nakednesse [p.29]
106.O21.079  this bed is onely to virginity
106.O21.080  a graue, but to a better state a cradle
106.O21.081  til now thou wast but able
106.O21.082  to bee what now thou arte, Then y%5t%6 bee->>bye< thee
106.O21.083  no more bee sayd; I may bee: but I am
106.O21.084  to night put on p%Pfection and a womans name
106.O21.085  Euen like a man content
106.O21.086  That this life for a better should bee spent.
106.O21.087  so shee a mothers rich stile doth preferre
106.O21.088  & at the bridgromes, wish'd approach doth ly
106.O21.089  like an appointed lambe; when tenderly
106.O21.090  y%5e%6 priest comes on his knees to embowell her
106.O21.091  now sleep or watch, w%5t%6 more Ioy, and a light
106.O21.092  of heauen to morrow; rise thou hot & early
106.O21.093  this sunne will loue so dearely
106.O21.094  her rest, that long, long, wee shal want her sight 
106.O21.095  wonders ar wrought, for she w%5c%6 had no*->>no< name 
106.O21.096  to night puts on p%Pfection & a womans name.
106.O21.0SS  finis.
106.O21.0$$  First lines of each sts. indented 4 sp.; sts. numbered in Arabic numerals in LM.