IDENTILIN$$  F108H05|Eclog|Harvard(Dobell MS),fms Eng.966.4|ff. 154-8. /P:T-LP/o/29Mar91/4Jun91
108.H05.HE1  Eclogue. [154]
108.H05.HE2  om
108.H05.HE3  Allophanes findinge Idios in the Countrey this Christmas, 
108.H05.HE4  /rep%Phends his absence fro%M Court at y%5e%6 marriage 
108.H05.HE5  of y%5e%6 Earle /of Som%Mersett.  Idios giues an account 
108.H05.HE6  of his purpose herein, /and his actions here.
108.H05.HE7  Allophanes.
108.H05.001  Vnseasonable man, statue of Ice!
108.H05.002  what cold to Countreys solitude entice
108.H05.003  thee, in this years cold and decrepid time?
108.H05.004  Natures instinct drawes to the warmer Clime
108.H05.005  Euen small byrds, who by that courage dare
108.H05.006  in numerous ffleets sayle through theire Sea, the ayre.
108.H05.007  What delicacy can in feilds appeare,
108.H05.008  Whilst Flora' her selfe doth a freeze Ierkin weare?
108.H05.009  Whilst windes do all the trees and hedges strip
108.H05.010  of leaues, to furnish rodds ynough, to whip
108.H05.011  thy madnes from thee: and all springes, by frost
108.H05.012  haue taken cold, and theire sweete murmur lost.
108.H05.013  yf thou thy faults or fortunes wouldst lament
108.H05.014  With iust solemnity; doe it in Lent.
108.H05.015  At Court, the springe already advanced is,
108.H05.016  the Sunne stayes longer vp, and yet not his
108.H05.017  the glory is: farre other, other fires;
108.H05.018  first zeale to Prince and state, then Loues desires
108.H05.019  burne in one brest, and like heav'ns two greate lights,
108.H05.020  the first doth governe dayes, the other nights:
108.H05.021  And then that early light, w%5ch%6 did appeare
108.H05.022  before the Sunne and Moone created were,
108.H05.023  the Princes favour, is diffus'd o're all,
108.H05.024  from w%5ch%6 all fortunes, names, and natures fall.
108.H05.025  Then from those wombes of starres; the Brides bright eyes
108.H05.026  at euery glaunce a Constellation flyes,
108.H05.027  and sowes the Court with starres, and doth prevent
108.H05.028  in light and power th'all-ey'd Firmament.
108.H05.029  first, her eyes kindle other Ladyes eyes,
108.H05.030  then, from theire beames, theire Iewells lusters rise,
108.H05.031  and from theire Iewells, torches doe take fire,
108.H05.032  and all is warmth, and light, and good desire.
108.H05.033  Most other Courts, alas, are like to Hell, [154v]
108.H05.034  where, in darke plotts, fire without light doth dwell:
108.H05.035  Or but like stowes; for lust and envy gett
108.H05.036  Continuall, but artificiall heate.
108.H05.037  heere, zeale and Loue growne one, all cloudes disgest,
108.H05.038  and make our Court an euerlastinge East.
108.H05.039  And canst thou be from thence?
108.H05.039a Idios  Noe; I am there
108.H05.040  as heav'n to men dispos'd, is euery where:
108.H05.041  Soe are those Courts, whose Princes animate
108.H05.042  not only all theire house, but all theire state.
108.H05.043  Let no man thinke, because hee's full, he hath all,
108.H05.044  Kings (as theire patterne, God) are liberall
108.H05.045  not only in fulnes, but in Capacity,
108.H05.046  Enlarginge narrowe men to feele and see,
108.H05.047  and comprehend the blessings they bestowe:
108.H05.048  soe reclusd' Hermitts oftentimes doe knowe
108.H05.049  more of H%5>e<%6av'ns glory, then a wordlinge can.
108.H05.050  As man is of the world; the Hart of man
108.H05.051  is an Epitome of Gods greate booke
108.H05.052  of Creatures, and man neede no further looke:
108.H05.053  Soe is the Countrey of Courts; where sweete peace doth
108.H05.054  as theire owne com%Mon Soule, giue life to both.
108.H05.055  I am not then from Court.
108.H05.055a Alloph:  Dreamer, thou art.
108.H05.056  thinkst thou, ffantastique, that thou hast a part
108.H05.057  in he East-Indian fleete, because thou hast
108.H05.058  a litle spice or Amber in thy tast?
108.H05.059  Because thou art not frozen, art thou warme?
108.H05.060  Seest thou all good, because thou sest no harme?
108.H05.061  The earth doth in her inward bowells hold [155]
108.H05.062  stuffe well-disposd', and w%5ch%6 would faine be gold,
108.H05.063  but neuer shall, except it chance to ly
108.H05.064  So vpward, that Heav'n guild it with his eye.
108.H05.065  As for Devine thinges, ffayth comes from aboue;
108.H05.066  Soe for best Ciuill vse, all tincture moue
108.H05.067  ffrom higher powers: from God, relligion Springes,
108.H05.068  Wisedome and Honour from the vse of kings.
108.H05.069  Then vn=beguile thy selfe, and knowe with me,
108.H05.070  that Angells, though on Earth imploy'd they be,
108.H05.071  are still in Heaven: Soe is he still at home,
108.H05.072  that doth abroade to honest actions come.
108.H05.073  Chide thy selfe then, O foole, w%5ch%6 yesterday
108.H05.074  mightst haue reade more, then all thy bookes bewray.
108.H05.075  Hast thou a History w%5ch%6 doth present
108.H05.076  a Court, where all affections doe assent
108.H05.077  Vnto the kinges, and that the kings are iust,
108.H05.078  and where it is no leuity to trust;
108.H05.079  where there is no ambition, but t'obey
108.H05.080  where none neede whisper nothinge, and yet may;
108.H05.081  where the kings ffavours are soe plac'd, that All
108.H05.082  find that the kings therein is liberall
108.H05.083  to them, in him, because his Favours bend
108.H05.084  to Vertue, to the w%5ch%6 they all pretend?
108.H05.085  Thou hast no such: yet heere was this, and more
108.H05.086  an Earnest Louer, wise then, and before.
108.H05.007  Our litle Cupid hath su'd Livery,
108.H05.088  and is noe more in his Minority:
108.H05.089  He is admitted nowe into that brest
108.H05.090  where the Kinges Counsailes, and his secretts rest.
108.H05.091  what hast thou lost, O Ignorant man?
108.H05.091a Idios  I knewe
108.H05.092  All this, and only therefore I withdrewe. [155v]
108.H05.093  To knowe and feele all this, and not to haue
108.H05.094  words to expresse it, makes a man a graue
108.H05.095  of his owne thoughts: I would not therefore stay
108.H05.096  at a greate Feaste, havinge no grace to say:
108.H05.097  and yet I scapd' not heere, for beinge come
108.H05.098  full of the com%Mon ioy, I vttered some;
108.H05.099  Reade then this Nuptiall Songe, w%5ch%6 was not made
108.H05.100  eyther the Court, or mens harts to invade.
108.H05.101  But since I am deade and buried, I cold frame
108.H05.102  no Epitaph, w%5ch%6 might advance my fame
108.H05.103  So much, as this poore Songe, w%5ch%6 testifyes
108.H05.104  I did vnto that day some Sacrifice.
108.H05.104a Epithalamium.
108.H05.104b om
108.H05.104c The time of the Marriage.
108.H05.105  Thou art repriu'd, old yeare, thou shalt not dy
108.H05.106  though thou vpon thy Death-bed ly.
108.H05.107  and shouldst within fiue dayes expire,
108.H05.108  yet thou art rescued by a mightier fire
108.H05.109  then thy old Soule, the Sunne,
108.H05.110  when he doth in his largest Circle runne.
108.H05.111  the passage of the East or West would thawe
108.H05.112  and open wide theire easy liquid iawe
108.H05.113  to all our ships; cold a promethean Art
108.H05.114  eyther vnto the Northerne Pole impart
108.H05.115  The fire of these inflaminge eyes, or of this lovinge Hart.
108.H05.115a om
108.H05.115b AE%Lquality of Persons. [156]
108.H05.116  But vn-discerninge Muse, w%5ch%6 Hart, w%5ch%6 eyes
108.H05.117  in this newe couple dost thou prize?
108.H05.118  when his eye as inflaminge is
108.H05.119  as hers, and her hart loues as well as his;
108.H05.120  be try'de by beauty, and than
108.H05.121  the Bridegroome is a mayde, and not a man:
108.H05.122  yf by that manly courage they be try'de
108.H05.123  w%5ch%6 scornes vniust opinion; then the Bride
108.H05.124  becomes a man: should Chaunce or Envyes art
108.H05.125  devide these two, whome Nature scarse did part?
108.H05.126  Since both haue both th'enflaminge eyes, & both y%5e%6 loving Hart.
108.H05.126a om
108.H05.126b Raysinge of Bridegroome.
108.H05.127  Though it be some diuorce to thinke of you
108.H05.128  Singly, so much one are you two;
108.H05.129  let me heere contemplate thee
108.H05.130  first cheerefull Bridegroome; and first let me see
108.H05.131  howe thou p%Pvent'st y%5e%6 Sunne
108.H05.132  and his red fominge horses dost out-runne.
108.H05.133  howe havinge layd downe in thy Soveraignes brest
108.H05.134  all businesses, from thence to re-invest
108.H05.135  them, when these Triumphs cease, thou forward art
108.H05.136  to shewe to her who doth y%5e%6 like impart
108.H05.137  The fire of thy enflaminge eyes, and of thy lovinge Hart.
108.H05.137a om
108.H05.137b Raysinge of the Bride. [156v]
108.H05.138  But nowe to thee, faire Bride, it is some wronge
108.H05.139  to thinke thou wert in bed soe longe;
108.H05.140  since soone thou ly'st downe first, 'tis fitt
108.H05.141  thou in first risinge shouldst allowe for it.
108.H05.142  Powder thy radiant haire,
108.H05.143  w%5ch%6 yf without such ashes thou wouldst weare,
108.H05.144  thou w%5ch%6 to all, that come to looke vpon,
108.H05.145  art meant for phae%Lbus, wouldst be Phaeton.
108.H05.146  for our ease, giue thine eyes th'vn-vsuall part
108.H05.147  of ioy, a Teare: soe quenchd', thou may'st impart
108.H05.148  To vs that come th'enflaminge eyes, to him thy loving Hart.
108.H05.148a om
108.H05.148b Her apparrellinge.
108.H05.149  Thus thou descendst to our Infirmity
108.H05.150  who can the Sunne in water see:
108.H05.151  Soe do'st thou when in silke and gold
108.H05.152  thou cloud'st thy selfe; since we w%5ch%6 doe behold
108.H05.153  are dust and wormes, 'tis iust
108.H05.154  our obiects be the fruits of wormes and dust.
108.H05.155  Let euery Iewell be a glorious starre,
108.H05.156  yet starres are not so pure as theire spheares are;
108.H05.157  and thought->>though< thou stoope t'appeare to vs in part,
108.H05.158  still in that picture thou entirely art,
108.H05.159  w%5ch%6 thy inflaminge eyes haue made within his lovinge Hart.
108.H05.159a om
108.H05.159b Goinge to the Chappell. [157]
108.H05.160  Nowe from your Easts you yssue forth, and we
108.H05.161  as men w%5ch%6 through a Cypres see
108.H05.162  the risinge of the Sunne, doe thinke it two,
108.H05.163  Soe as you goe to Church, doe thinke of you.
108.H05.164  but that Vayle beinge gone
108.H05.165  by the Church-rites, you are from thence-forth one.
108.H05.166  the Church Triumphant made this match before,
108.H05.167  and nowe, the Militant doth striue no more.
108.H05.168  Then Reuerend Preist, who Gods Recorder art,
108.H05.169  doe from his Dictats to these two impart
108.H05.170  All blessings, w%5ch%6 are seene, or thought, by Angells eye, or Hart.
108.H05.170a om
108.H05.170b The Benediction.
108.H05.171  Blest paire of Swannes, oh may you inter-bringe
108.H05.172  daily newe ioyes, and neuer singe.
108.H05.173  Liue, till all groundes of wishes faile,
108.H05.174  Till honour, yea till wisedome growe soe stale,
108.H05.175  that newe greate heights to try
108.H05.176  it must serue your Ambition to dy.
108.H05.177  Raise heires; and may heere, to the worlds end, liue
108.H05.178  Heires from this kinge to take thankes, yours, to giue.
108.H05.179  Nature and grace doe all, and nothinge Art
108.H05.180  may neuer age or errour ouerthwart
108.H05.181  with any West these Radiant eyes, w%5th%6 any North, this Hart.
108.H05.181a om
108.H05.181b ffeast and Reuells. [157v]
108.H05.182  But you are ouer-blest: Plenty this day
108.H05.183  inures; it causes time to stay.
108.H05.184  y%5e%6 tables groane, as though this Feast
108.H05.185  would, as the ffloud, destroy all Foule and beast.
108.H05.186  and were the doctrine newe
108.H05.187  that the Earth mou'd, this Day would make it true.
108.H05.188  for euery part to daunce and Reuell goes
108.H05.189  they treade the ayre, and fall not where they rose
108.H05.190  though sixe houres since the Sunne to bed did part
108.H05.191  the Masques and Banquetts will not yet impart
108.H05.192  A Sunn-sett to these weary eyes, a Center to this Hart.
108.H05.192a om
108.H05.192b The Brides goinge to bed.
108.H05.193  What meanst thou, Bride, this company to keepe?
108.H05.194  to sitt vp, till thou faine wouldst sleepe?
108.H05.195  thou mayst not when th'art layd doe soe.
108.H05.196  thy selfe must to him a newe Banquett growe,
108.H05.197  and you must entertaine
108.H05.198  and doe all this dayes Dances 'ore againe.
108.H05.199  Knowe that yf Sunne and Moone together doe
108.H05.200  rise in one point, they doe not sett soe too.
108.H05.201  therefore thou mayst, faire Bride, to bed depart,
108.H05.202  thou art not gone, beinge gone, where ere thou art,
108.H05.203  Thou leau'st in him thy watch-full eyes, in hi%M thy loving Hart.
108.H05.203a om
108.H05.203b The Bridegroomes com%Minge. [168]
108.H05.204  As he that sees a starre fall, runnes apace
108.H05.205  and finds a Ielly in the place:
108.H05.206  So doth the Bridegroome hast as much
108.H05.207  beinge told this starre is falne, and finds her such:
108.H05.208  and as frends may looke strange
108.H05.209  by a newe fashion or apparrells change,
108.H05.210  theire Soules, though long acquainted they had byn,
108.H05.211  these clothes, theire bodies, neuer yet had seene.
108.H05.212  therefore at first she modestly might start,
108.H05.213  but must forthwith surrender euery part
108.H05.214  as freely, as each t'each before gaue eyther eye, or Hart.
108.H05.214a om
108.H05.214b The Good-night.
108.H05.215  Nowe as in Tullia's Tombe a lampe burnt cleere
108.H05.216  Vnchang'd for fifteene hundred yeare,
108.H05.217  may these Loue=lampes we heere enshrine
108.H05.218  In warmth, light, lastinge equall the Devine.
108.H05.219  fire euer doth aspire,
108.H05.220  and makes all like it selfe, turnes all to fire,
108.H05.221  but ends in ashes: w%5ch%6 these cannot doe,
108.H05.222  for none of them is Fewell, but fire too
108.H05.223  this is ioyes Bone-fire then, when Loues strong arts
108.H05.224  make of soe noble Indiuiduall parts
108.H05.225  One fire in theire enflaminge eyes, and in theire loving Harts.
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