IDENTILIN$$  F107O34|EpEliz|Bod Rawl.poet.117|ff.216v-215rev. /P:GAS,5-11-90,o/C:T-LP,12Jun91
107.O34.HE1  Epithalamiu%M, by D. Donne. >>pag. 103.<<
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107.O34.001  Hayle B%5pp%6 Valentine; whole day is this
107.O34.002  al the ayre is thy diocesse
107.O34.003  and all the chirpinge quiristers
107.O34.004  and other birdes are thy parishioners
107.O34.005  thou marryes euerye yeare
107.O34.006  The lirique larke; and the graue whisperinge dove.
107.O34.007  the sparrowe y%5t%6 neglects his life for loue.
107.O34.008  the howsehold bird w%5th%6 the redd stomacher.
107.O34.009  thou makst the blacke bird speed as sone. 
107.O34.010  As doth the goldfinch or the Halcion
107.O34.011  The howsecocke lokes but forth and sone is sped
107.O34.012  And meetes his wife, w%5ch%6 bringes her fetherbed
107.O34.013  This daye more cheirfully then eu%5r%6 shine
107.O34.014  This night inflame thy selfe old Valentyne.
107.O34.015  Till now thou warmst w%5th%6 multiplyinge loues
107.O34.016  Two larkes, two sparrowes and two doues
107.O34.017  All that is nothinge vnto this
107.O34.018  ffor thou this daye couples two phoe%Lnixes
107.O34.019  Thou makst a taper see
107.O34.020  What the sunne never sawe, and what the arke.
107.O34.021  W%5ch%6 was of beastes, and fowles, the cage and parke
107.O34.022  did not conteine? one bed contaynes through thee.
107.O34.023  Two Phoe%Lnixes: whose ioyned brestes
107.O34.024  Are vnto one an other, mutual nests,
107.O34.025  Where %Ymo%Zmotion kindles such fyers as shall giue
107.O34.026  Two Phoe%Lnixes, and yit the old shall liue
107.O34.027  Whose loue, and courage never shall declyne;
107.O34.028  But make the whole year through thy day O Valentyne
107.O34.029  Vp then fayre Phoe%Lnix bird, frustrate the sonne.
107.O34.030  Thy selfe %Yaffecc%Z from thyne affeccion
107.O34.031  takst warmth inough, and from thyne eye
107.O34.032  All lesser birds will take their iollitye
107.O34.033  vp vp fayre bride and call
107.O34.034  Thy starres from out there severall boxes take [216]
107.O34.035  Thy rubyes, pearles, and diamonds forth? and make
107.O34.036  Thy selfe a constellation of them all.
107.O34.037  and by this blazinge signifye
107.O34.038  That >%^%5a%6< great princesse falls, but does not dye.
107.O34.039  Bee thou a newe starre, that to vs portendes
107.O34.040  Ends of such wonder, and be thou the endes
107.O34.041  Since thou dost this daye in newe glorye shine.
107.O34.042  May all men date records, from this thy Valentyne
107.O34.043  come forth, come forth, and as one glorious flame
107.O34.044  Meetinge an other growes the same
107.O34.045  so meete thy ffredericke, and soe
107.O34.046  To an inseperable vnion growe
107.O34.047  since seperacion.
107.O34.048  ffalls not on such thinges as are infinite.
107.O34.049  Nor thinges that anye, but one, can disioynte
107.O34.050  You are twice inseperable great and one
107.O34.051  to make you one, goe then, to where the B%5pp%6 stayes
107.O34.052  His waye w%5ch%6 diuerse wayse
107.O34.053  Must be effected, and when all is past
107.O34.054  And you are one, by hartes and handes made fast
107.O34.055  You two haue one waye yo%5r%6 selues to entwyne.
107.O34.056  After this B%5pps%6  knott of B%5pp%6 Valentine.
107.O34.057  But oh what ayles the sonne, y%5t%6 heer he stayes
107.O34.058  Longer to daye then other dayes?
107.O34.059  Stayes he newe light from them to gett
107.O34.060  And findinge hear such store is loath to sett,
107.O34.061  And why doe you two walke
107.O34.062  So sloelye paced to this procession
107.O34.063  Is all yo%5ur%6 care but to be lookte vppon
107.O34.064  And be to others spectacle, and talke
107.O34.065  The feast w%5ch%6 gluttons (delayes)
107.O34.066  is eaten, and to longe their meat they prayse 
107.O34.067  The masquers came late and (I thinke) will staye
107.O34.068  Like fayryes, tell the cocke call them awaye
107.O34.069  Alass did not antiquitye assigne [215v]
107.O34.070  A night as well as day o Valentyne.
107.O34.071  They did and night is come, and yet wee see
107.O34.072  Formallityes retardinge thee,
107.O34.073  What meane these Ladyes, w%5ch%6 as thoughe
107.O34.074  They weare to take, a clocke in peeces goe
107.O34.075  so nicelye aboute the bride,
107.O34.076  A bride before a good night %Ysh%Z%5>c<%6ould be sedd
107.O34.077  sh%5c%6->>would< vanish from hir cloathes into hir bed
107.O34.078  As soules from bodyes steale and are not spyed
107.O34.079  But she is layd what though she be
107.O34.080  y|it| their are more delayes, for where is hee
107.O34.081  he comes and passes through sheer after sheer
107.O34.082  first hir sheetes, then hir armes then any wheare.
107.O34.083  Let not this day but this night be thyne.
107.O34.084  The daye was but the Eue. to this o valentyne.
107.O34.085  Hear lyes a she sunne, and a hee moone
107.O34.086  she giues the best light to his spheere.
107.O34.087  And each is both, and all, and soe
107.O34.088  They vnto an other, nothing owe
107.O34.089  And yit they doe, but are
107.O34.090  Soe iust and rich in that coyne w%5ch%6 they paye
107.O34.091  That neither would, nor needes forbear or staye,
107.O34.092  Neither desires to be sparde, nor to spare
107.O34.093  They quicklye pay their debtes and then
107.O34.094  Take no acquittances but paye agen
107.O34.095  They paye, they giue, they lend, and so lett fall 
107.O34.096  No|e| such ocasion to be liberall,
107.O34.097  More truth more courage in these two do shine.
107.O34.098  Then all thy turtles, haue, and sparrowes Valentine
107.O34.099  And by this act of these two phae%Lnixes
107.O34.100  Nature agayne restored is
107.O34.101  ffor since these two, are two no more
107.O34.102  There is but one phae%Lnix still as was before
107.O34.103  Rest nowe at last, and wee.
107.O34.104  As satyres watch the sunnes vprise will staye [215]
107.O34.105  Waytinge when yo%5r%6 eyes opened, lett out daye
107.O34.106  Onlye' desired because yo%5r%6 face we see 
107.O34.107  Others neare you shall whispering speake
107.O34.108  and wagers laye at w%5ch%6 side day will breake
107.O34.109  And winne by observinge then, whose hand it is
107.O34.110  That opens first a curtayne, hers or his
107.O34.111  This wilbe tryed to morrowe after nyne
107.O34.112  Till w%5ch%6 thy day inlarge not o valentyne
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