IDENTILIN$$ 10700G|EpEliz|1669(CtY,L,TxLT)|sigs.H2v-H4v,pp.100-104. /P:T-LP/11Jun91/P&C:MEL/(TxAM)/1-16-07 107.00G.HE1 %1An Epithamion 107.00G.HE2 on%2 Frederick %1Count Palatine /of the%2 Rhene, %1and the Lady%2 Elizabeth, 107.00G.HE3 %1being mar-/ried on St.%2 Valentines %1day%2. [H2v] 107.00G.001 %XI./H%+Ail Bishop Valentine, whose day this is, 107.00G.002 All the Air is thy Diocis, 107.00G.003 And all the chirping Choristers, 107.00G.004 And other birds are thy Parishioners, 107.00G.005 Thou marryest every year 107.00G.006 The Lyrique Larke, and the grave whispering Dove, 107.00G.007 The Sparrow that neglects his life for love, 107.00G.008 The houshold Bird, with the red stomacher; 107.00G.009 Thou mak'st the Black-bird speed as soon, 107.00G.010 As doth the Goldfinch, or the Halcion; 107.00G.011 The husband cock looks out, and straight is sped, 107.00G.012 And meets his wife, which brings her feather-bed. 107.00G.013 This day, more cheerfully than ever shine. 107.00G.014 This day, which might inflame thy self, old Valentine. [CW:II.] 107.00G.015 II.[H3]/Till now, Thou warmd'st with multiplying loves 107.00G.016 Two Larks, two Sparrows, or two Doves, 107.00G.017 All that is nothing unto this, 107.00G.018 For thou this day couplest two Phoe%Lnixes. 107.00G.019 Thou mak'st a Taper see 107.00G.020 What the Sun never saw, and what the Ark 107.00G.021 (Which was of fowl, and beasts the cage and park,) 107.00G.022 Did not contain, one bed contains, through Thee, 107.00G.023 Two Phoe%Lnixes, whose joyned brests 107.00G.024 Are unto one another mutual nests. 107.00G.025 Where motion kindles such fires, as shall give 107.00G.026 Young Phoe%Lnixes, and yet the old shall live. 107.00G.027 Whose love and courage never shall decline, 107.00G.028 But make the whole year through, thy day, O Valentine. 107.00G.029 %XIII./Up then fair Phoe%Lnix Bride, frustrate the Sun; 107.00G.030 Thy self from thine affection 107.00G.031 Tak'st warmth enongh, and from thine eye 107.00G.032 All lessers birds will take their jollity. 107.00G.033 Up, up, fair Bride, and call 107.00G.034 Thy stars from out their several boxes, take 107.00G.035 Thy Rubies, Pearls, and diamonds forth, and make 107.00G.036 Thy self a Constellation of them All. 107.00G.037 And by their blasing signifie, 107.00G.038 That a great Princess falls, but doth not die; 107.00G.039 Be thou a new star that to us portends 107.00G.040 Ends of much wonder; And be thou those ends. 107.00G.041 Since thou dost this day in new glory shine, 107.00G.042 May all men date Records from this day Valentine. [CW:IV.] 107.00G.043 %XIV.[H3v]/Come forth, come forth, and as one glorious flame 107.00G.044 Meeting another, grows the same: 107.00G.045 So meet thy %1Frederick%2, and so 107.00G.046 To an unseparable union go, 107.00G.047 Since separation 107.00G.048 Falls not on such things as are infinite, 107.00G.049 Nor things which are but one, can dis-unite. 107.00G.050 You are 'twice inseparable, great, and one. 107.00G.051 Go then to where the Bishop stays, 107.00G.052 To make you one, his way, which divers wayes 107.00G.053 Must be effected; and when all is past, 107.00G.054 And that y' are one, by hearts and hands made fast, 107.00G.055 You two have one way left, your selves t' entwine, 107.00G.056 Besides this Bishops knot of Bishop Valentine. 107.00G.057 %XV./But oh, what ayles the Sun, that here he staies, 107.00G.058 Longer to day, than other daies? 107.00G.059 Stayes he new light from these to get? 107.00G.060 And finding here such stars, is loath to set? 107.00G.061 And why do you two walk, 107.00G.062 So slowly pac'd in this procession? 107.00G.063 Is all your care but to be look'd upon, 107.00G.064 And be to others spectacle and talk? 107.00G.065 The feast with gluttonous delays 107.00G.066 Is eaten, and too long their meat they praise. 107.00G.067 The Masquers come late, and, I think will stay, 107.00G.068 Like Faries, till the Cock crow them away. 107.00G.069 Alas did not Antiquitie assign 107.00G.070 A night as well as day, to thee, old Valentine? [CW:VI.] 107.00G.071 %XVI.[H4]/They did, and night is come: and yet we see 107.00G.072 Formalities retarding thee. 107.00G.073 What mean these Ladies, which (as though 107.00G.074 They were to take a clock in peeces) go 107.00G.075 So nicely about the Bride? 107.00G.076 A bride before a Good night could be said, 107.00G.077 Should vanish ftom her clothes, into her bed, 107.00G.078 As souls from bodies steal, and are not spy'd. 107.00G.079 But now she is laid: What though she be? 107.00G.080 Yet there are more delayes; For where is he? 107.00G.081 He comes and passeth through Sphear after Sphear: 107.00G.082 First her sheets, then her Armes, then any where. 107.00G.083 Let not this day, then, but this night be thine, 107.00G.084 Thy day was but the eve to this, O valentine. 107.00G.085 %XVII./Here lies a she Sun, and a he Moon there, 107.00G.086 She gives the best light to his Sphear, 107.00G.087 Or each is both, and all, and so 107.00G.088 They unto one another nothing owe, 107.00G.089 And yet they do, but are 107.00G.090 So just and rich in that coin which they pay, 107.00G.091 That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay, 107.00G.092 Neither desires to be spar'd, nor to spare. 107.00G.093 They quickly pay their debt, and then 107.00G.094 Take no acquittances, but pay again; 107.00G.095 They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall 107.00G.096 No occasion to be liberal. 107.00G.097 More truth, more courage in these two do shine, 107.00G.098 Than all thy turtles have, and sparrows, Valentine. [CW:VIII.] 107.00G.099 %XVIII.[H4v]/And by this act of these two Phoe%Lnixes 107.00G.100 Nature again restored is, 107.00G.101 For since these two are two no more, 107.00G.102 There's but one Phoe%Lnix still, as was before. 107.00G.103 Rest now at last, and we 107.00G.104 (as Satyrs watch the Suns uprise) will stay 107.00G.105 Waiting when your eyes opened, let out day, 107.00G.106 Only desir'd because your face we see; 107.00G.107 Others near you shall whispering speak, 107.00G.108 And wagers lay, at which side day will break, 107.00G.109 And win by observing, then, whose hand it is 107.00G.110 That opens first a curtain, hers or his; 107.00G.111 This will be tryed to morrow after nine, 107.00G.112 Till which hour, we thy day enlarge, O Valentine. [CW:EC-] 107.00G.0SS om 107.00G.0$$ Lines 2, 3, 5, 9 of each st ind (irregular nos. of spaces); sts numbered in roman numerals.