IDENTILIN$$  F108SP1|Eclog|St. Paul's Cathedral, MS 49.B.43|ff.110v-13. /P:GAS,5-16-90,o/C:T-LP 4Jun91
108.SP1.HE1  Eclogue
108.SP1.HE2  1613 December 26.| [on same line as HE1]
108.SP1.HE3  Allophanes finding Idios in the Countrey in the /Christmas 
108.SP1.HE4  reprehends his absence from the Court, /At the mariadge 
108.SP1.HE5  of the Earle of Sommersett. /Idios gives an accompt 
108.SP1.HE6  of his purpose therein, /And of his absence there./
108.SP1.HE7  Alloph.
108.SP1.001  Vnseasonable man, Statue of Ice
108.SP1.002  What could to Countreys sollitude entice
108.SP1.003  Thee, in this yeares cold, and decrepitt tyme?
108.SP1.004  Natures instinct drawes to the warmer clime.
108.SP1.005  Even small birdes, who by that courage dare[CW:In]
108.SP1.006  In numerous fleets, saile through their sea, the aire.
108.SP1.007  What delicacy can in feilds appeare,
108.SP1.008  Whilest Flora herself, doth a freeze Iirkin weare?
108.SP1.009  Whilst windes doe all the trees, and hedges stripp
108.SP1.010  Of leaves, to furnish rods enough to whip
108.SP1.011  Thy madnes from thee,: And all springes by frost
108.SP1.012  Haue taken cold, and their sweete murmure lost.
108.SP1.013  If thou thy falts or fortunes wouldst lament
108.SP1.014  W%5th%6 just soleminty, doe in Lente.
108.SP1.015  At Court the springe, already advanced is,
108.SP1.016  The Sunne staies longer vp, and yett not his
108.SP1.017  The glory is: farr other, other fires
108.SP1.018  ffirst, zeale to Prince, and state; Then loues desires,
108.SP1.019  Burne in one brest, and like heauens two great lights,
108.SP1.020  The first doth gouerne daies, the other nights;
108.SP1.021  And then that early light, w%5ch%6 did appeare
108.SP1.022  Before the Sunne, and Moone, created were
108.SP1.023  The Princes favor is diffused ore all
108.SP1.024  ffrom w%5ch%6 all fortunes, Names, and natures fall.
108.SP1.025  Then from those wombes of starrs, the brides bright eyes,
108.SP1.026  At every glance, a constellat%5i%6on flies,
108.SP1.027  And sowes the Courte w%5th%6 starres, and doth prevent
108.SP1.028  In light and power, the All-eyd firmament.
108.SP1.029  ffirst her eyes, kindles other ladies eyes; [CW:Then]
108.SP1.030  Then from their beames, their iewells lustres rise.
108.SP1.031  And from their Iewells, torches doe take fire,
108.SP1.032  And all is warmth, and light, and good desire.
108.SP1.033  Most other Courts, Alas, are like to Hell,
108.SP1.034  Where in darke plotts, fire without light doth dwell.
108.SP1.035  Or but like stoves; for lust and envy gett
108.SP1.036  Continuall, but artificiall heate.
108.SP1.037  Here, zeale, and loue growen one, all Clouds digest,
108.SP1.038  And make one Courte, an everlasting East.
108.SP1.039  And Canst thou be from thence.|?
108.SP1.039a Idios.  Noe I am there
108.SP1.040  As Heaven, to men disposd, is every where
108.SP1.041  So are those Courts, whose Princs animate
108.SP1.042  Not only all their house, but all their state.
108.SP1.043  Lett noe man thinke, because he is full, he hath all,
108.SP1.044  Kings (as their paterne God) are liberall
108.SP1.045  Not only in fulnes, but Capacity
108.SP1.046  Enlarging narrow men, to feele and see,
108.SP1.047  And Comprehend the blessings they bestow
108.SP1.048  So reclusd Hermits often tymes doe know
108.SP1.049  More of Heavens glory, then a worldling Cann.
108.SP1.050  As man is of the world, the harte of man [CW:Is]
108.SP1.051  Is an Epitome of gods greate booke
108.SP1.052  Of Creatures, and man need noe farther looke.
108.SP1.053  So is the Countrey of Courts, where sweete peace doth
108.SP1.054  As their one Common soule, give Life to both.
108.SP1.055  I am not then from Courte./
108.SP1.055a Alloph:		Dreamer thou art
108.SP1.056  Thinkst thou, fantastique, that thou hast a part
108.SP1.057  In the East indian fleete, because thou hast
108.SP1.058  A little spice, or amber in thy tast?
108.SP1.059  Because thou art not frozen art thou warme?
108.SP1.060  Seest thou all good, because thou seest noe harme?
108.SP1.061  The arth doth in her inward bowells hold
108.SP1.062  Stuffe well disposd, and w%5ch%6 would faine be gold,
108.SP1.063  But never shall except it chance to lye,
108.SP1.064  Soe vpward, that Heaven gild it w%5th%6 his eye;
108.SP1.065  As for devine thinges; faith comes from aboue,
108.SP1.066  Soe, for best civill vse, all tinctures moue
108.SP1.067  From higher powers: from God religion springes,
108.SP1.068  Wisdome, and Honor from the vse of kinges.
108.SP1.069  Then vnbeguile thy self; And know with me
108.SP1.070  That Angells, though on earth imployed they be,
108.SP1.071  Are still in heauen: so is he still at home [CW:that]
108.SP1.072  That doth abroad to honest actions come.
108.SP1.073  Chide thy self then, O foole, w%5ch%6 yesterday
108.SP1.074  Mightst haue read more, then all thy books bewray.
108.SP1.075  Hast thou a history, w%5ch%6 doth present
108.SP1.076  A Court, where all affections doe assent
108.SP1.077  Vnto the kings; and that that kings are just?
108.SP1.078  And where it is noe levity to trust?
108.SP1.079  Where there is noe ambition, but to obey,
108.SP1.080  Where men need whisper nothing, and yett may.
108.SP1.081  Where the kings favors are soe placd, that all
108.SP1.082  ffind that the kinge therein is liberall
108.SP1.083  To them, in him, because his fauors bend
108.SP1.084  To vertue, to the w%5ch%6 they all pretend.
108.SP1.085  Thou hast noe such, yett here was this and more;
108.SP1.086  An earnest louer, wise then, and before;
108.SP1.087  Our little Cupid hath sued liverie,
108.SP1.088  And is noe more in his minority.
108.SP1.089  He is admitted now into that brest
108.SP1.090  Where the kings Counsaile, and his secretts rest,
108.SP1.091  What hast thou lost, O ignorant man?
108.SP1.091a Idios  I knew
108.SP1.092  All this, and only therefore I w%5th%6drewe. [CW:To]
108.SP1.093  To know and feele all this, and not to haue
108.SP1.094  Words to express it, makes a man a graue
108.SP1.095  Of his owne thoughts; I would not therefore stay
108.SP1.096  At a greate feast, hauing noe grace to saie;
108.SP1.097  And yett I scapt not here; for being come
108.SP1.098  ffull of the Common Ioy, I vttred some.
108.SP1.099  Read then this nuptiall songe, w%5ch%6 was not made
108.SP1.100  Either the Courte, or mens harts to invade;
108.SP1.101  But since I am dead, and buryed, I could frame
108.SP1.102  No Epitaph, w%5ch%6 might advance my fame
108.SP1.103  So much, as this poore songe, w%5ch%6 testifies,
108.SP1.104  I did vnto that day some sacrifice.| [flourish]
108.SP1.104a Epithalamion.
108.SP1.104b om
108.SP1.104c The tyme of the mariadge.|
108.SP1.105  Thou art reprivd, old yeare, Thou shalt not die
108.SP1.106  Though thou vpon thy deathbed lie,
108.SP1.107  And shouldst within fiue daies expire
108.SP1.108  Yett thou rescued by a mightier fier
108.SP1.109  Then thy old soule, the Sunne,
108.SP1.110  When he doth in his largest Circle runne; [CW:The]
108.SP1.111  The passage of the west, or East would thaw
108.SP1.112  And open wide, their easy liquid jawe
108.SP1.113  To all our shipps, could a Promethian Art
108.SP1.114  Either vnto the Northerne pole impart
108.SP1.115  The fire of theis enflaming eyes, or of this loving hart.
108.SP1.115a om
108.SP1.115b Equality of persons./
108.SP1.116  But vndiscerning muse, w%5ch%6 hart, w%5ch%6 eys
108.SP1.117  In this new couple, dost thou prize
108.SP1.118  When his eye as inflaming is
108.SP1.119  As hers, and her harte loues as well as his.
108.SP1.120  Be tryed by beauty and than
108.SP1.121  The Bridegroome is a maid, and not a man.
108.SP1.122  If by that manly Courage they be tried,
108.SP1.123  W%5ch%6 scornes vnjust opinion, then the bride
108.SP1.124  Becomes a man, should chance or envies art
108.SP1.125  Devide theis two whom nature scarce did part?
108.SP1.126  Since both hath both thenflaming eyes, & both y%5e%6 louing hart.
108.SP1.126a om
108.SP1.126b Raising of y%5e%6 Bridegroome
108.SP1.127  Though it be some divorce, to thinke of yo%5w%6
108.SP1.128  Singly, so much one are yo%5w%6 two,
108.SP1.129  Lett me here contemplate thee, [CW:First]
108.SP1.130  ffirst Cheerfull bridegroome, and first lett me see,
108.SP1.131  How thou preventst the Sunne,
108.SP1.132  And his red foming horses dost outrunne.
108.SP1.133  How hauing laid downe in thy Soveraignes brest
108.SP1.134  All businesses, from thence to reinvest
108.SP1.135  Them, when theis tryumphs cease, thou forward art
108.SP1.136  To shew to her, who doth the like impart
108.SP1.137  The fire of thy inflaming eyes, and of thy loving hart:
108.SP1.137a om
108.SP1.137b Raising of the Bride.
108.SP1.138  But now, to thee, faire bride, it is some wronge,
108.SP1.139  To thinke thou wert in Bed so longe
108.SP1.140  Since soone thou liest downe first, tis fitt
108.SP1.141  Thou in first >rasinge shouldst allow for it.
108.SP1.142  Pouder thy radiant haire
108.SP1.143  W%5ch%6 if without such ashes thou shouldst were,
108.SP1.144  Thou, w%5ch%6 to all w%5ch%6|,| Come to looke vpon,
108.SP1.145  Art ment for Phebus, wouldst be Phaeton.
108.SP1.146  ffor one ease, give your eyes, thvnvsuall part
108.SP1.147  Of Ioy, a Teare: so squenchd thou maist impart,
108.SP1.148  To vs, that come, thy enflaming eyes, to him, they louing hart
108.SP1.148a om
108.SP1.148b Her apparrellinge. [CW:Thus]
108.SP1.149  Thus, thou descendst to our infirmity,
108.SP1.150  Who Can the Sunne in water see.
108.SP1.151  So dost thou, when in silke and gold
108.SP1.152  Thou shouldst thy self; scine we w%5ch%6 did behold
108.SP1.153  [ind.8sp.]Are dust, and wormes, tis just
108.SP1.154  Our objects be the fruite of wormes and dust.
108.SP1.155  Lett every jewell be a glorious starr,
108.SP1.156  Yett stars are not so pure, as their sphears are,
108.SP1.157  And though thou stoope, to appere to vs, in part
108.SP1.158  Still in that picture, thou intirely art.
108.SP1.159  W%5ch%6 thy enflaming eys haue made, w%5th%6in his loving hart.
108.SP1.159a om
108.SP1.159b Going to the chappell.
108.SP1.160  Now from yo%5r%6 easts, you issue forth and we
108.SP1.161  As men w%5ch%6 through a Cipress tree see
108.SP1.162  The rising sunne, doe thinke it two;
108.SP1.163  So, as yo%5w%6 goe to Church, doe thinke of yo.%5w%6
108.SP1.164  But that vaile being gone,
108.SP1.165  By the Church writes->>rites<|,| yo%5w%6 are from thence forth one,
108.SP1.166  The Church tryumphant made this match before
108.SP1.167  And Now the militant doth striue noe more,
108.SP1.168  Then Reverend Preist, who Gods Recorder art, [CW:Doe]
108.SP1.169  Do, from his dictates, to theis two impart
108.SP1.170  All blessings, w%5ch%6 are seene, or thought, by angels eye or hart.
108.SP1.170a om
108.SP1.170b Benediction.
108.SP1.171  Blest paire of Swans, oh may yo%5w%6 interbring
108.SP1.172  Daily new joies, and never singe.
108.SP1.173  Live, till all groundes of wishes faile,
108.SP1.174  Till honor, yea till wisdome grow so stale.
108.SP1.175  [ind.8sp.]That new great heights to trie,
108.SP1.176  It must serve your ambition to die.
108.SP1.177  Raise heyres; and may here to the worldes end live,
108.SP1.178  Heires for this kinge, to take thanks, yo,%5w%6 to give.
108.SP1.179  Nature, and grace doe all, and nothing art.
108.SP1.180  May never Age, or error everthwart,
108.SP1.181  W%5th%6 any west theis radiant eyes, w%5th%6 any North this hart.
108.SP1.181a om
108.SP1.181b Feasts and reuells.
108.SP1.182  But yo%5w%6 are overblest: plenty, this day
108.SP1.183  Injures, It causes time to stay,
108.SP1.184  The tables grone, as though this feast
108.SP1.185  Would as the flood, destroy all foule, and beast.
108.SP1.186  And were the doctrine new
108.SP1.187  That the earth moud, this day would make it true, [CW:For]
108.SP1.188  ffor every part to dance, and revell goes:
108.SP1.189  They tred the aire, and fall not where they rose;
108.SP1.190  Though six howers since, the sunne to bed did part,
108.SP1.191  The masks and banquetes will not yett impart|,|
108.SP1.192  A Sunsett to theis weary eyes, a Center to this hart.
108.SP1.192a om
108.SP1.192b The Brides going to Bedd.
108.SP1.193  What meanst thou bride, this Company to keepe?
108.SP1.194  To sitt vp, till thou faine wouldst sleepe?
108.SP1.195  Thou maist not, when thou art laid, doe soe.
108.SP1.196  Thy self must to him, a new banquett grow,
108.SP1.197  And yo%5w%6 must entertaine,
108.SP1.198  And doe all this daies dances ore againe;
108.SP1.199  Know that if sunne and Moone togeath%5r%6 doe
108.SP1.200  Rise in one pointe, they doe not sett soe too.
108.SP1.201  Therefore thou maist, faire bride, to bed depart
108.SP1.202  Thou art not gone, being gone, where ere thou art
108.SP1.203  Thou leaust in him thy watchfull eyes, in him thy loving harte.
108.SP1.203a om
108.SP1.203b The Bridegroomes comming.
108.SP1.204  As he that sees a starr fall, runns apace,
108.SP1.205  And findes a jelly in the place
108.SP1.206  So doth the bridegroome hast as much, [CW:Being]
108.SP1.207  Being told this starre is fallen, and findes her such
108.SP1.208  [I5]And As freindes may looke strange
108.SP1.209  By a new fashion, or apparrels change,
108.SP1.210  Their soules though longe acquainted, they had beene,
108.SP1.211  Theis Cloaths their bodies never yett had seene.
108.SP1.212  Therefore at first she modestly might starte
108.SP1.213  But must forewith surrender every parte,
108.SP1.214  As freely, as each to each before gaue either eye or harte.
108.SP1.214a om
108.SP1.214b The Goodnight.|
108.SP1.215  Now, as in Tullias tombe, one lampe burnt cleere,
108.SP1.216  Vnchangd for fifteene hundred yeare,
108.SP1.217  May theis loue lampes, we here enshrine,
108.SP1.218  In warmth, light, lasting, equall the devine.
108.SP1.219  ffire ever doth asspire,
108.SP1.220  And makes all like itself, turnes all to fire,
108.SP1.221  But ends in ashes, w%5ch%6 theis cannott doe;
108.SP1.222  ffor none of them is fuell, but fire too.
108.SP1.223  This is Ioies bonfire then, where loues strange artes
108.SP1.224  Make of soe noble individuall partes
108.SP1.225  One fire of fower inflaming eyes, and of two loving hartes.|
108.SP1.225a Idios
108.SP1.226  As I haue brought this songe, that I may doe [CW:A]
108.SP1.227  A perfect sacrifice, Ile burne it too.
108.SP1.227a Alloph:
108.SP1.228  No S%5r%6 this paper, I haue justly gott,
108.SP1.229  ffor in burnt insense, the perfume is not,
108.SP1.230  His only that presentes it, but of all.
108.SP1.231  Whatever celebrates this festivall
108.SP1.232  Is Common, since thereof the joy is soe.
108.SP1.233  Nor may your self be Priest, but lett me goe
108.SP1.234  Back to the Courte, and I will lay it vpon
108.SP1.235  Such Alters, as prize yo%5r%6 devotion.|
108.SP1.0SS  [whirlwind flourish]
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