IDENTILIN$$  F107SP1|EpEliz|St.Paul's ms.49.B.43|ff.108-110v. /P:GAS/o/C:T-LP,12Jun91
107.SP1.HE1  An Epithalamion, on mariage songe 
107.SP1.HE2  on the /Lady Elisabeth, and Fredricke Count palatine,
107.SP1.HE3  /being married on S%5t%6 Valentines day.
107.SP1.001  Haile bishopp Valentine whose day this is
107.SP1.002  All the aire is thy diocis
107.SP1.003  And all the chirping queristers
107.SP1.004  And other birds are thy parishioners
107.SP1.005  Thou marriest every yeare,
107.SP1.006  The lerique larke, and the graue whispering doue,
107.SP1.007  The sparrow that neglects his life for love,
107.SP1.008  The houshould bird with the redd stomacher,
107.SP1.009  Thou makst the blackbird speed as soone,
107.SP1.010  As doth the goldfinch, or the Halcyone,
107.SP1.011  The housband Cocke looks out, and streight is sped, [CW:And]
107.SP1.012  And meets his wife, w%5ch%6 brings her featherbed [108v]
107.SP1.013  This day, more cheerfully, then ever shine,
107.SP1.014  This day w%5ch%6 might enflame thyselfe, old valentine.|
107.SP1.015  Till now, thou warmst w%5th%6 multiplying loves
107.SP1.016  Two larks, two sparrowes, or two doves,
107.SP1.017  All that is nothing vnto this,
107.SP1.018  ffor thou this day, couplest two Phenixes,
107.SP1.019  Thou makst a Taper see,
107.SP1.020  What the sunne never sawe; and what the arke
107.SP1.021  (W%5ch%6 was of foules, and beasts, the Cage, and parke)
107.SP1.022  Did not conteine, one bed conteynes through thee,
107.SP1.023  Two Phenixes whoes joyned brests
107.SP1.024  Are vnto one another mutuall nests
107.SP1.025  Where motion kindles such fires as shall give
107.SP1.026  Young Phenixes, and yett the old shall live.
107.SP1.027  Whose love and courage never shall decline,
107.SP1.028  But make the whole yeare through; thy day, O Valentine.|
107.SP1.029  Vp then faire Phenix bride, frustrate the Sunne,
107.SP1.030  Thy self from thine affection
107.SP1.031  Takst warmth enough; and from thine eye
107.SP1.032  All lesser birds will take their Jollitie,
107.SP1.033  Vp vp faire bride, and Call
107.SP1.034  Thy Stars, from out th%5e%6yre severall boxes; take [CW:Thy]
107.SP1.035  Thy Rubies, pearles, and diamonds forth, and make [109]
107.SP1.036  Thy self a Constellation of all them all
107.SP1.037  And by their blazing signify
107.SP1.038  That a great princess falls, but doth not die;
107.SP1.039  Bee thou a new starre, that to vs portends
107.SP1.040  Ends of much wonder; And be thou those ends,
107.SP1.041  Since thou dost this day, in new glory shine,
107.SP1.042  May all men date records, from this thy Valentine.|
107.SP1.043  Come fouth, come forth, And as one glorious flame,
107.SP1.044  Meeting another growes the same,
107.SP1.045  So meete thy Fredericke, and soe
107.SP1.046  To an vnseperable vnion growe.
107.SP1.047  Since separation,
107.SP1.048  ffalls not on such thinges, as are infinite,
107.SP1.049  Nor things w%5c%6h are but one, can disvnite;
107.SP1.050  Yo%5w%6 are twise inseparable, great; and one;
107.SP1.051  Goe then to where the Bishopp staies
107.SP1.052  To make yo%5w%6 one his way, w%5c%6h divers wayes
107.SP1.053  Must be effected; And when all is past,
107.SP1.054  And that yo%5w%6 are one, by harts, and hands made fast,
107.SP1.055  Yo%5w%6 two haue one way left, yourselves to entwine,
107.SP1.056  Besides this Bishops knott, or Bishopp Valentine
107.SP1.057  But oh, what ayles the Sunne, that here he staies
107.SP1.058  Longer to day, then other daies? [CW:Staies]
107.SP1.059  [NI]Staies he new light, from theis to gett? [109v]
107.SP1.060  And finding here such store, is loth to sett?
107.SP1.061  And why doe yo%5w%6 two walke
107.SP1.062  So slowly pacd in this prosession?
107.SP1.063  Is all your Care, but to be lookt vpon,
107.SP1.064  And be to other* spectacle and talke?
107.SP1.065  The feast w%5t%6h gluttonous delaies
107.SP1.066  Is C->>E<aten, and to longe their meat they praise
107.SP1.067  The maskers come to late, and I thinke will stay
107.SP1.068  Like fairies, till the cock crow them away,
107.SP1.069  Alas, did not antiquity assigne
107.SP1.070  A night, as well as day, to thee, O Valentine.|
107.SP1.071  They did, and night is Come; And yett we see
107.SP1.072  Formalities retarding Thee
107.SP1.073  What meane theis ladies, w%5c%6h as though
107.SP1.074  They were to take a clock in peecs, goe
107.SP1.075  Soe nicely about the bride
107.SP1.076  A Bride before a good night could be said
107.SP1.077  Should vanish from her clothes, into her bed,
107.SP1.078  As soules from bodies steale, and are not spied.
107.SP1.079  But now shees laid; what though she be?
107.SP1.080  Yett there are more delayes, for where is he?
107.SP1.081  He Comes, and passes through spheare, after spheare: [CW:First]
107.SP1.082  First her sheets, then her armes then any where [110]
107.SP1.083  Lett not then this day, but this night be thine,
107.SP1.084  Thy daie, was but thy Eue to this, O valentine.|
107.SP1.085  Here lies a shee shune, and a he moone here,
107.SP1.086  She gives the best light to his spheare
107.SP1.087  Or each is both, And all, and soe,
107.SP1.088  They vnto one another, nothinge owe,
107.SP1.089  And yett they doe, but are
107.SP1.090  Soe just, and rich, in that Coine, w%5c%6h they pay,
107.SP1.091  That neither would, nor needs forbeare nor stay,
107.SP1.092  Neither deserves to be spard, nor to spare;
107.SP1.093  They quickly pay their debt, and then,
107.SP1.094  Take noe acquittance, but pay agen
107.SP1.095  They pay, they give, they lend, and soe lett fall,
107.SP1.096  Noe such occasion to be liberall.
107.SP1.097  More truth, more courage, in theis two doe shine
107.SP1.098  Then all thy Turtles haue, and sparrowes Valentine.|
107.SP1.099  And by this act of theis two Phenixes
107.SP1.100  Nature againe restored is,
107.SP1.101  [I5]ffor since theis two, are two noe more
107.SP1.102  There is but one Phenix still, as was before;
107.SP1.103  Rest now at last and wee [CW:As]
107.SP1.104  As Satires watch the Sunns vprise, will stay [110v]
107.SP1.105  Wayting when your eys opened, lett out day;
107.SP1.106  Only desired, because your face we see;
107.SP1.107  Others neere yo%5w%6, shall whispering speake,
107.SP1.108  And wagers lay, at w%5c%6h side day will breake,
107.SP1.109  And winn by observing then, whose hand it is,
107.SP1.110  And opens first a Curten, Hers, or His;
107.SP1.111  This wilbe tried to morrow after nyne
107.SP1.112  Till w%5c%6h hower, we thy day enlarge, O Valentine.|
107.SP1.0SS  om
107.SP1.0$$  Lines 2, 3, 5, 9 of each st ind 10sp. except as noted; sts numbered in arabic numerals in LM.