IDENTILIN$$ F107H06|EpEliz|Harvard Eng 966.5(O'Flahertie)|ff.160-62,pp.317-21. /P:T-LP/o/20Mar91 107.H06.HE1 P. Epithalamions [section heading, followed by horizontal rule] 107.H06.HE2 Vpon ffrederick Count Palatine /and the Lady Elizabeth 107.H06.HE3 /marryed on S.%5t6 /Valentines day [160] 107.H06.001 Hayle Bishop Valentine whose day this is 107.H06.002 All the Ayre is thy Diocesse 107.H06.003 And all the chirping Queristers 107.H06.004 And other birds ar thy parishioners 107.H06.005 Thou marryest every yeare 107.H06.006 The Lyrick Larke and the graue whispering Doue 107.H06.007 The Sparrow that neglects his life for Loue 107.H06.008 The houshold bird with the redd Stomacher 107.H06.009 Thou makst the Blackbird speede as soone 107.H06.010 As doth the Goldfinch or the Halcyon 107.H06.011 The Husband Cock lookes out and soone is spedd 107.H06.012 And meetes his wife w.%5ch%6 brings her feather bedd. 107.H06.013 This day more cheerefully then ever shine 107.H06.014 This day w%5ch%6 might inflame thy selfe old Valentine. [CW:Till--] 107.H06.015 Till now thou warmdst with multiplying Loues [160v] 107.H06.016 Two Larkes, two Sparrows, or two Doues 107.H06.017 All that is nothing vnto this 107.H06.018 ffor thou this day couplest two Phae%Lnixes 107.H06.019 Thou makst a Taper see 107.H06.020 What the Sunne never sawe, and what the Arke 107.H06.021 (W%5ch%6 was of fowles and beasts the cage and parke) 107.H06.022 Did not contayne, one bedd contaynes, through thee 107.H06.023 Two Phae%Lnixes whose ioyned brests 107.H06.024 Are vnto on another mutuall nests 107.H06.025 Wh%Jose%K[var:%5>ere<%6] motion kindles such fires as shall giue 107.H06.026 Young Phae%Lnixes and yet the old shall liue 107.H06.027 Where Love and Courage never shall decline 107.H06.028 But make the whole yeare through thy day o%C Valentine 107.H06.029 Vp then fayre Phae%Lnix-Bride, frustrate the Sunne 107.H06.030 Thy selfe from thine Affection 107.H06.031 Tak'st warmth enough, and from thine eye 107.H06.032 All lesser birds will take theyr Iollity. 107.H06.033 Vp vp, fayre %Jbird%K[RM:>Bride<], and call 107.H06.034 Thy Starrs from out theyr severall boxes, Take 107.H06.035 Thy Rubyes Pearles and Dyamonds forth and make 107.H06.036 Thyselfe a Constellacon%M of them all 107.H06.037 And by theyr blazing signify 107.H06.038 That a Greate Princesse falls but doth not dye 107.H06.039 Bee thou a new Starre that to vs p%5r%6tends 107.H06.040 Ends of much wonder, And bee thou those ends. 107.H06.041 Since thou dost this day in new glory shine 107.H06.042 May all men date Records from this thy Valentine [CW:Come--] 107.H06.043 Come forth, come forth, And as one glorious flame [161] 107.H06.044 Meeting another, growes the same 107.H06.045 So meete thy Frederick, and so 107.H06.046 To an vnseperable vnion growe 107.H06.047 Since separation 107.H06.048 ffalls not on such things as ar infinite 107.H06.049 Nor things w.%5ch%6 are but one can disunite 107.H06.050 Yo%5u%6 are twice vnseperable, Greate, and one 107.H06.051 Goe then %JTwo%K[var:%5>to<%6] where the Bishop stayes 107.H06.052 To make yo%5u%6 one, his way, w.%5ch%6 diuers wayes 107.H06.053 Must bee effected, and when All is past 107.H06.054 And that yo%5u%6 are one by /harts and hands made fast 107.H06.055 Yo%5u%6 two haue one way left yo%5r%6 selues to entwyne 107.H06.056 Besides this Bishops knott or Bishop Valentine 107.H06.057 But oh what ayles the Sunne that heere hee stayes 107.H06.058 Longer to day then other dayes! 107.H06.059 Stayes hee new light from these to get 107.H06.060 And finding heere such stares->>starrs<, is loth to sett? 107.H06.061 And why doe yo%5u%6 two walke 107.H06.062 So slowly pac'd in this Procession? 107.H06.063 Is all yo%5r%6 care but to bee lookd vpon 107.H06.064 And bee to others Spectacle and talke? 107.H06.065 The feast with gluttonous delayes 107.H06.066 Is eaten, and too long theyr meate they prayse. 107.H06.067 The Maskers come late, and, I thinke, will stay 107.H06.068 Like fayrys, till the Cock crow them away. 107.H06.069 Alas; did not Antiquity assigne 107.H06.070 A night as well as day to thee o%C Valentine? [CW:They#did] 107.H06.071 They did, and night is come, and yet wee see [161v] 107.H06.072 fformalitys retarding thee. 107.H06.073 What meane these Ladyes, w%5ch%6, as though 107.H06.074 They were to take a Clock in peeces, goe 107.H06.075 So nicely about the Bride? 107.H06.076 A Bride, before %5>a<%6 Good night could bee say'd, 107.H06.077 Should vanish from her clothes into her bedd 107.H06.078 As Soules from bodyes steale, and are not spy'd. 107.H06.079 But now Shee's layd; What though Shee bee? 107.H06.080 Yet there are more delayes, for, where is hee? 107.H06.081 Hee comes, and passes through Spheare after Spheare 107.H06.082 ffirst her Sheetes, then her Armes, then any where. 107.H06.083 Oh let not this day but this night bee thine. 107.H06.084 Thy day was but the Eue to this o%C Valentine 107.H06.085 Heere lyes a Shee-Sunne, and a Hee-moone there 107.H06.086 Shee giues the best light to his Spheare 107.H06.087 Or each is both, and all, and so 107.H06.088 They vnto one another nothing owe 107.H06.089 And yet they doe; but are 107.H06.090 So iust and rich in that coyne w.%5ch%6 they pay 107.H06.091 That neyther would nor needs forbeare or stay 107.H06.092 Neyther desires to bee spar'd, nor to spare 107.H06.093 They quickly pay theyr debt, and then 107.H06.094 Take no Acquittances, but pay agen. 107.H06.095 They pay, they giue, they lend, and so let fall 107.H06.096 No such ocasion to bee liberall. 107.H06.097 More Truth, more Courage, in these two doe shine 107.H06.098 Then all thy Turtles haue, and Sparrows Valentine [CW:Now--] 107.H06.099 Now by this Act of these two Phae%Lnixes [162] 107.H06.100 Nature agayne restored is 107.H06.101 ffor since these two are two no more 107.H06.102 Theres but one Phae%Lnix still as was before 107.H06.103 Rest now at last, and wee 107.H06.104 As Satyres watch the Sunns vp-rise, will stay 107.H06.105 Wayting when yo%5r%6 eyes opened let out day 107.H06.106 Onely desird because yo%5r%6 face wee see 107.H06.107 Others, neere yo%5u%6, shall whispring speake 107.H06.108 And wagers lay at w.%5ch%6 side day will breake 107.H06.109 And win by obseruing >%^%5then%6< whose hand it is 107.H06.110 That opens first a Curtayne, Hers, or His 107.H06.111 This will bee try'd to morrow after Nyne 107.H06.112 Till w.%5ch%6 hower wee thy day enlarge o%C Valentine 107.H06.SS om 107.H06.0$$ Lines 2, 3, 5, 9 of each st ind 3 sp; sts not numbered; l.54 added in tiny script above l. 55.