IDENTILIN$$ F107NY1|EpEliz|NYPL,Arents(John Cave MS)|pp.67-71./P:GAS,Spring90,o/C:GL 107.NY1.HE1 An Epithalamion. 107.NY1.HE2 On the Ladye Elizab. & Count Palat. 107.NY1.HE3om 107.NY1.001 Hayle Bishope Valentine: whose day this is 107.NY1.002 All the Ayre is thy diocesse 107.NY1.003 And all the chirping Quiristers 107.NY1.004 And other birds are thy parishioners 107.NY1.005 Thou marriest euery yeare 107.NY1.006 The liriq%Q Lark and y%5e%6 graue whispering Doue: 107.NY1.007 The Sparro%5w%6 y%5t%6 neglects his life for loue: 107.NY1.008 The houshould bird w%5th%6 y%5e%6 red stomacher: 107.NY1.009 [NI]Thou makst y%5e%6 blackbird speed as soone 107.NY1.010 As doth the Goldfinch or y%5e%6 Halcione: 107.NY1.011 The husband Cock looks out and straight is sped [CW: And] 107.NY1.012 And meets his wife w%5ch%6 brings her featherbed 107.NY1.013 This day more chearfully then euer shine 107.NY1.014 This day w%5ch%6 might enflame thy self (old Valentine!) 107.NY1.015 Till no%5w%6 thou warm'st w%5th%6 multiplying Loues 107.NY1.016 Two Larks, two sparrows and two Doues 107.NY1.017 All y%5t%6 is nothing vnto this 107.NY1.018 For thou this day couplest two Phoe%Lnixes 107.NY1.019 Thou mak'st a%A taper see 107.NY1.020 W%5t%6 the Sunn nere saw and w%5t%6 y%5e%6 Arke 107.NY1.021 (W%5ch%6 was of Fowls and Beasts y%5e%6 cage and Park) 107.NY1.022 did not contayne; one bed contayns through thee 107.NY1.023 Two Phoe%Lnixes whose ioyned brests 107.NY1.024 Are vnto one an other mutuall nests 107.NY1.025 Where motion kindles such fires as shall giue 107.NY1.026 Young Phoe%Lnixes and yet y%5e%6 old shall liue 107.NY1.027 Whose Loue and courage neuer shall decline 107.NY1.028 But make the whole yeare through thy day (O Valentine!) 107.NY1.029 Vp then faire Phoe%Lnix bird; frustrate y%5e%6 Sunn 107.NY1.030 Thy self, from thyne affection 107.NY1.031 tak'st warmth enough, and from thyne eye 107.NY1.032 All lesser birds will take theire idyletye 107.NY1.033 Vp, vp fayre bird and call 107.NY1.034 The starrs from out theire seuerall boxes, take 107.NY1.035 thy Rubies pearls, and Diamonds forth and make 107.NY1.036 thyself a Constellation of them all 107.NY1.037 And by this blazing signefie 107.NY1.038 that a great Prince falls and doth not dye 107.NY1.039 Be thou a new starr y%5t%6 to vs portends 107.NY1.040 Ends of much wonder and be y%5u%6 those ends. 107.NY1.041 Since y%5u%6 dost this day in new glory shine 107.NY1.042 May all me%M date Records from this day (Valentine!) 107.NY1.043 Come forth, come forth and as one gloriouse flame 107.NY1.044 meeting an other grows y%5e%6 same 107.NY1.045 so meet thy Frederiq%Q and so 107.NY1.046 to an vnspeakable vnion gro%5w%6 107.NY1.047 since seperation 107.NY1.048 falls not on such things as are infinite 107.NY1.049 Nor things w%5ch%6 are but one can disunite 107.NY1.050 yo%5w%6 are twice inseperable, Great and One 107.NY1.051 Goe then to where y%5e%6 Bishop stays 107.NY1.052 to make yo%5w%6 onely way w%5ch%6 diuerse wayes 107.NY1.053 must be effected; And when all is past 107.NY1.054 And when yo%5w%6 are One by harts and hands made fast 107.NY1.055 yo%5w%6 two haue one way lefte y%5r%6selus t'entwine 107.NY1.056 besids this bishope knott, o%5r56 Bishop Valentine. 107.NY1.057 But oh w%5t%6 ayles y%5e%6 Sun y%5t%6 here he stays 107.NY1.058 Longer to day then other days 107.NY1.059 stayes he ne%5w%6 light fro%M these to gett, 107.NY1.060 and finding here such store is loath to sett. 107.NY1.061 And why doe yo%5w%6 two walke 107.NY1.062 so slowly pac'd in this procession? 107.NY1.063 is all y%5r%6 care but to be lookd vpon? 107.NY1.064 and be to others spectacle and talke? 107.NY1.065 The feaste w%5th%6 gloriouse delayes 107.NY1.066 Is eaten and too long theire meate they prayse 107.NY1.067 The Maskers come too late and I thinke will stay 107.NY1.068 Like Fayeryes till y%5e%6 Cock crow y%5m%6 away 107.NY1.069 Alas did not Antiquitie assigne 107.NY1.070 A night as well as day to thee (O Valentine!) 107.NY1.071 It did; and night is come; And yet we see 107.NY1.072 formalities retarding thee. 107.NY1.073 W%5t%6 meane these Ladies, w%5ch%6 as though 107.NY1.074 they were to take a clocke in peices, goe 107.NY1.075 so nice%Gly about the Bride? 107.NY1.076 A bride before a Good Night could be sayd 107.NY1.077 should vanish fro%M her cloaths into her bed 107.NY1.078 As souls from bodies steale and are not spy'd. 107.NY1.079 But no%5w%6 she'es lay'd; w%5t%6 though she bee? 107.NY1.080 yet there are more delayes, For where is hee? 107.NY1.081 He comes, and passeth through Spheare after spheare 107.NY1.082 First her sheets y%5n%6 her armes, then any where. 107.NY1.083 Let not then this day but this night be thine 107.NY1.084 The day was but thy Eu'e to this (O Valentine!) 107.NY1.085 Here lies a shee Sunn and a Hee Moone here 107.NY1.086 shee giues y%5e%6 best light to his Spheare 107.NY1.087 or each is both, and all, and so 107.NY1.088 They vnto one another nothing owe 107.NY1.089 And yet they doe; but are 107.NY1.090 So iust and rich in y%5t%6 coyne w%5ch%6 they pay 107.NY1.091 that neither would nor needs forbeare, or stay 107.NY1.092 Neither desires to be spar'd nor to spare 107.NY1.093 They quickly pay the debt and then 107.NY1.094 take noe acquittances but pay againe 107.NY1.095 They pay, they giue, they lend, and so lett fall 107.NY1.096 Noe such occasion to be liberall 107.NY1.097 More truth, more courage in theise two doe shine 107.NY1.098 Then all thy Turtles haue and Sparrows (Valentine!) 107.NY1.099 And by this Acte of these two Phoe%Lnixes 107.NY1.100 Nature againe restored is, 107.NY1.101 For since these two are two >noe< more 107.NY1.102 There is but one Phoe%Lnix still as was before 107.NY1.103 Rest no%5w%6 at last. And wee 107.NY1.104 As Satyres watch y%5e%6 Sunns vprise; will stay 107.NY1.105 Wayting when y%5r%6 eyes opened lett out day 107.NY1.106 Only desir'd because y%5r%6 face wee see. 107.NY1.107 Others neere yow shall whispering speake 107.NY1.108 And wagers lay at w%5ch%6 side day will breake. 107.NY1.109 And winn by obseruing then whose hand it is 107.NY1.110 that opens first a curtayne Hers or His. 107.NY1.111 This wilbe try'd to morro%5w%6 after nyne 107.NY1.112 Till w%5ch%6 howre wee thy day enlarge (O Bishop Valentine!) 107.NY1.SS Finis The Epithalamion| |Jo. Donn.|.| 107.NY1.0$$ Lines 2, 3, 5, 9 of each st ind except as noted; sts numbered in arabic numerals. Poem is numbered XXV in RM of p.67 in the "Miscellanea" section.