IDENTILIN$$ F107H08|EpEliz|Harvard MS Eng.966.7|ff.10-12. /P:T-LP,21Mar91,o/C:T-LP,13Jun91 107.H08.HE1 S%5t.%6 Valentine. 107.H08.HE2om 107.H08.HE3om 107.H08.001 Haile Bishopp Valentine whose day this is 107.H08.002 All the aire is thy Diocesse 107.H08.003 And all the chirping Queristers 107.H08.004 And other birds are thy Parishoners: 107.H08.005 Thou marryest euery yeare. 107.H08.006 The Lyrick larke, & the graue whispering Doue, 107.H08.007 The Sparrow that neglects his life for loue; 107.H08.008 The houshold bird with the redd stomacher; 107.H08.009 Thou makst the Black bird speed as soone 107.H08.010 As the Gouldfinch, or the Halcyon. 107.H08.011 The husband Cock lookes out, & straight is spedd[trimmed] 107.H08.012 And meetes his wife w%5ch%6 brings her feather bedd[trimmed] 107.H08.013 This day more cheerfully then euer shine 107.H08.014 This day w%5ch%6 might inflame thy selfe old Valentine[trimmed] 107.H08.015 Till now >%^%5thou%6< warmd'st with muliplying loues 107.H08.016 Two larkes, two sparrowes, or two doues: 107.H08.017 All that is nothing vnto this 107.H08.018 for thou this day couplest two Phenixes; 107.H08.019 Thou mak'st a Taper see 107.H08.020 What the Sun neuer saw, & what the Arke 107.H08.021 (w%5ch%6 was of fowles & beastes the cage & Parke) 107.H08.022 Did not contayne; one bedd contaynes through the[trimmed] 107.H08.023 Two Phenixes whose ioyned breasts 107.H08.024 Are vnto one another mutuall nestes; 107.H08.025 Where motion kindles such fires as shall giue 107.H08.026 Yonge Phenixes, & that the old shal liue [10v] 107.H08.027 Where loue & courage neuer shall declyne 107.H08.028 But make the whole yeare through thy day Valentine. 107.H08.029 Vp then faire Phenix bride, frustrate the Sun 107.H08.030 Thy selfe from thy affection 107.H08.031 Takes warmth enough, & from thyne eye 107.H08.032 All lesser birds will take their iollity; 107.H08.033 Vp vp faire bride, & call 107.H08.034 Thy starrs from out thy seuerall boxes: Take 107.H08.035 Thy rubyes, pearles, & diamonds forth, & make 107.H08.036 Thy selfe a constellation of them all, 107.H08.037 And by this blazing signify 107.H08.038 That a great Princesse falls, but doth not dye: 107.H08.039 Be thou a new starre that to vs portends 107.H08.040 Ends of much wonder, & be thou the ends, 107.H08.041 Since thou dost this day in new glory shine 107.H08.042 May all men date recorde fro%M this thy Valentine: 107.H08.043 Come forth, come forth, & as one glorious flame 107.H08.044 Meeting another growes the same, 107.H08.045 So meete thy ffrederick, & so 107.H08.046 To an inseperable vnion growe: 107.H08.047 Since seperation 107.H08.048 falls not on such things as are infinite, 107.H08.049 Nor things w%5ch%6 are but one can disvnite. 107.H08.050 You are twice inseperable, greate & one; 107.H08.051 Goe then two where the Bishop stayes [11] 107.H08.052 To make you one his way, w%5ch%6 diuers wayes 107.H08.053 Must be effected: And when all is past 107.H08.054 And that you are one by hearts & hands made fast 107.H08.055 You two haue one way left your selues t'intwine 107.H08.056 After this Bishops knott, or Bishop Valentine. 107.H08.057 But oh what ayles the Sun%M that here he stayes 107.H08.058 Longer to day then other dayes?. 107.H08.059 Stayes he new light from them to gett; 107.H08.060 And findeing here such starrs is loath to sett? 107.H08.061 And why doe you two walke 107.H08.062 Soe slowly pac'd in this Procession? 107.H08.063 Is all your care but to be lookd vpon? 107.H08.064 And be to others spectacles & talke? 107.H08.065 The feast w%5th%6 gluttonous delayes 107.H08.066 Is eaten, & too long their meate they praise; 107.H08.067 The Maskers come late, & I thinke will stay 107.H08.068 Like ffairyes till the Cock crow them away. 107.H08.069 Alas! did not antiquity assigne 107.H08.070 A night as well as day to thee o Valentine? 107.H08.071 They did; & night is come, & yet wee see 107.H08.072 fformalityes retarding thee. 107.H08.073 What meane those Ladyes, w%5ch%6 (as though 107.H08.074 They were to take a clock in peices) goe 107.H08.075 So nicely about the Bride? 107.H08.076 A Bride before Good=night could well be sedd 107.H08.077 Should vanish from her cloathes into her bedd, [11v] 107.H08.078 As soules from bodyes steale & are not spy'de. 107.H08.079 But now she's layd: what though shee bee? 107.H08.080 Yet there are more delayes, for where is hee? 107.H08.081 He comes, & passeth through spheare after spheare, 107.H08.082 first her sheetes, then her armes, then any where: 107.H08.083 Let not then this day but this night be thyne, 107.H08.084 Thy day was but Eue to this o Valentine. 107.H08.085 Here lyes a shee Sun%M, & a hee Moone here 107.H08.086 She giues the best light to his spheare, 107.H08.087 Or each is both & all, & so 107.H08.088 They vnto one another nothing owe; 107.H08.089 And yet they doe; but are 107.H08.090 So iust & rich in that coyne w%5ch%6 they pay 107.H08.091 That neither would nor needes forbeare or stay, 107.H08.092 Neither desires to spar'de nor to spare, 107.H08.093 They quickly pay their debt, & then 107.H08.094 Take noe acquittances but pay agen, 107.H08.095 They pay, they giue, they lend, & so let fall 107.H08.096 Noe such occasion to be liberall. 107.H08.097 More truth, more courage in these two doe shine 107.H08.098 Then all they Turtles haue & Sparrowes Valentine. 107.H08.099 And by this act of these two Phenixes 107.H08.100 Nature againe restored is, 107.H08.101 for since these two are two noe more 107.H08.102 There is but one Phenix still as was before. [12] 107.H08.103 Rest now at last & wee 107.H08.104 A Satyres watch the Suns vprise will stay 107.H08.105 Watching when your eyes opened lett out day; 107.H08.106 Only desir'de because your face wee see: 107.H08.107 Others (neare you) shall whispering speake 107.H08.108 And wagers lay, At w%5ch%6 side day will breake, 107.H08.109 And win by obseruing whose hand it is 107.H08.110 That opens first a curtayne hirs, or his: 107.H08.111 This will be tryde to morrow after nyne 107.H08.112 Till w%5ch%6 hower ne're thy day enlarge o Valentine. 107.H08.0SS om 107.H08.0$$ Lines 2, 3, 5, 9 of each st ind; one final letter and possibly 3 punctuation marks may be lost to trimming on sig.10r; sts not numbered.