IDENTILIN$$  F107B46|BL Stowe 961|ff.43v-45v./P:GAS,BL,3-30-90,o/C:T-LP,11Jun91
107.B46.HE1  An Epithelamion or mariadge /Songe, 
107.B46.HE2  on the Ladie Elisabeth and /Fredericke Count Palat: 
107.B46.HE3  being /maried on S%5t%6 Valentines Day: [cluster of grapes].
107.B46.001  Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is
107.B46.002  All the Aire is thy Dioces
107.B46.003  And all the Chirping Quiristers
107.B46.004  And other Birds are thy Parishioners
107.B46.005  Thou mariest euery yeare
107.B46.006  The Lyrique Larke, and graue whispering Doue
107.B46.007  The Sparrowe that neglects his life for Loue
107.B46.008  The houshold Birde with the red stomacher.
107.B46.009  Thou makst the Black bird Speede as sone
107.B46.010  As doth the Goldfinch or the Halcyon
107.B46.011  The husband Co|r|ke lookes out and sone is Sped
107.B46.012  And meets his wife which bringes hir featherbed.
107.B46.013  This Day, more cheerfully, then euer, shine
107.B46.014  This Day which might inflame thy selfe, olde Valentine.
107.B46.015  Till now, thou warm'dst with multiplyinge Loues
107.B46.016  Two Larkes two Sparrowes, or two Doues,
107.B46.017  All that is nothinge vnto this
107.B46.018  For thou this Day, couplest two Phoe%Lnixes
107.B46.019  Thou mak'st a Taper See
107.B46.020  What the Sun neuer Sawe and what the Arke
107.B46.021  (Which was of Fowles and Beasts the Cage and Parke)
107.B46.022  Did not containe one Bed containes, throughe thee
107.B46.023  Two Phoe%Lnixes, whose ioyned Brests
107.B46.024  Are vnto one another mutuall nests
107.B46.025  Whose motion Kindles such fires as shall giue[44]
107.B46.026  Yonge Phoe%Lnixes; and yet the olde shall Liue
107.B46.027  Whose Loue and Courage, neuer shall decline
107.B46.028  But make the whole yeare through, thy Day, o, Valentine.
107.B46.029  Vp then faire Phoe%Lnix Bride frustrate the Sunne
107.B46.030  Thy Selfe, from thy affection
107.B46.031  Takst wamthe enoughe: and from thine eye
107.B46.032  All lesser Birds will take theire Jollity.
107.B46.033  Vp vp faire Bride, and call
107.B46.034  Thy starrs from out theire Seuerall Boxes, take
107.B46.035  Thy Rubies, Pearles, and Diamonds forth, and make
107.B46.036  Thy Selfe a Constellation of them all.
107.B46.037  And by theire Blasinge, Signifie
107.B46.038  That a Great Princesse falls, yet doth not dye.
107.B46.039  Be thou a new starr, that to us portends
107.B46.040  Ends of much wonder, and be thou those ends
107.B46.041  Since thou dost this Day, in new glory shine
107.B46.042  May all men date Records from this thy Valentine 
107.B46.043  Come forthe, Come forth, and as one glorious flame
107.B46.044  Metinge another, growes the Same
107.B46.045  So meete thy Fredericke, and Soe
107.B46.046  To an Vnseparable Vnion growe
107.B46.047  Since Separation
107.B46.048  Falls not on such things as are infinite
107.B46.049  Not things which are but one, can disvnite
107.B46.050  You are twise Vnseparable, Great, an One [44v]
107.B46.051  Loe where the Bishop stayes
107.B46.052  To make you one his way, which diuers wayes
107.B46.053  Must be effected. And when all is past
107.B46.054  And that y'are one by hands, and harts b->made fast
107.B46.055  You two haue one way left, your Selues t'intwine
107.B46.056  Besides this Bishops knott, or Bishop Valentine
107.B46.057  But oh, what ayles the Sun that here he stayes
107.B46.058  Longer to Day then other Dayes
107.B46.059  Stayes he new light from these to gett
107.B46.060  And findinge here such store is loath to Sett.
107.B46.061  And why doe you two goe->>walke<
107.B46.062  So slowly pac'd in this Procession?
107.B46.063  Is all your Care but to be look't vpon
107.B46.064  And to be others Spectacle, and talke
107.B46.065  The feast with Gluttonous Delayes
107.B46.066  Is eaten, and too longe theire meat they praise
107.B46.067  The Masquers come too late, *I thincke will stay
107.B46.068  Like Faeries till the Cocke crowe them away
107.B46.069  Alas! did not Antiquity assigne
107.B46.070  A night, as well as Day to thee. O Valentine.
107.B46.071  They did, and night is come, and yet we See
107.B46.072  Formalities retardinge thee
107.B46.073  What meane these Ladies, which as thoughe
107.B46.074  They were to take a Clocke in peeces, goe [45]
107.B46.075  soe nicely about the Bride
107.B46.076  A Bride before a Goodnight coulde be saide
107.B46.077  Should vanish from hir Cloathes into hir Bed.
107.B46.078  As Soules from Bodies steale and are not spide
107.B46.079  But now she's laide what though she bee
107.B46.080  Yet there are more Delayes for where is hee
107.B46.081  He comes, and passes through Spheare after Spheare
107.B46.082  First hir sheets, then hir Armes, then any where
107.B46.083  O Let not this Day, but this night be thine
107.B46.084  This Day was but the Eue to this O Valentine
107.B46.085  Here lies a shee-Sun, and an hee-moone there
107.B46.086  she giues the best light to his Spheare
107.B46.087  Or each is both, and all, and Soe
107.B46.088  They vnto one another nothinge owe
107.B46.089  And yet they doe, but are
107.B46.090  So iust and rich in that Coyne which they pay
107.B46.091  That nether needs or woulde, forbeare or stay
107.B46.092  Nether desires to be Spar'd nor to Spare
107.B46.093  They guicklie pay theire debt, and then
107.B46.094  Take no acquittance, but pay quicke agen
107.B46.095  They pay, they giue, they lend, and so let fall 
107.B46.096  No such occasion to be liberall.
107.B46.097  More truthe, more Courage in these two do shine
107.B46.098  Then all thy Turtles haue, and Sparrowes Valentine.
107.B46.099  Now by this Act of these two Phoe%Lnixes [45v]
107.B46.100  Nature againe restored is
107.B46.101  For since these two are two, no more,
107.B46.102  There is byt one Phoe%Lnix as before
107.B46.103  Rest now at last, and, wee
107.B46.104  As Satirs watch te Suns vprise will staye
107.B46.105  Waitinge when your eyes opened let out Day
107.B46.106  Onely desir'd because your face we see.
107.B46.107  Others neere you, shall whispringe Speake
107.B46.108  And wagers lay at which Side Day will Breake
107.B46.109  And win, by obseruinge then, whose hand it is
107.B46.110  That opens first a Curtaine, hers, or his,
107.B46.111  This wilbe tride to morrowe after Nine
107.B46.112  Till which houre all thy Day inlarge O Valentine.
107.B46.0SS  Finis [+ 3 clusters of grapes in inverted triangle pattern]
107.B46.0$$  Lines 2, 3, 5, 9 of each st ind; sts not numbered.