IDENTILIN$$  F10600C/EpLin/1639/Sigs. H8-I2, pp. 119-23 (CtY,MH,MiU)
106.00C.HE   %1Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne.%2 [H8]
106.00C.001  THe Sun-beames in the East are spred,
106.00C.002  Leave, leave, faire Bride, your solitary bed,
106.00C.003  [notind]No more shall you returne to it alone,
106.00C.004  It nourseth sadnesse; and your bodies print, [CW:Like]
106.00C.005  Like to a grave, the yeelding Downe doth dint; [H8v]
106.00C.006  You and your other You meet there anon,
106.00C.007  Put forth, put forth, that warme balme-breathing \(thigh,
106.00C.008  Which when next time you in these sheets will smo-/(ther
106.00C.009  There it must meet another,
106.00C.010  Which never was, but must be, oft, more nigh;
106.00C.011  Come glad from thence, goe gladder than you came,
106.00C.012  %1To day put on perfection, and a womans name.%2 
106.00C.013  Daughters of London, you which bee
106.00C.014  Our Golden Mines, and furnish'd Treasury, 
106.00C.015  You which are Angels, yet still bring with you
106.00C.016  Thousands of Angels on your marriage dayes,
106.00C.017  Helpe with your presence, and devise to praise
106.00C.018  These rites, which also unto you grow due;
106.00C.019  [notind]Conceitedly dresse her, and be assign'd,
106.00C.020  By you fit place for every flowre and jewell,
106.00C.021  Make her for love fit fuell
106.00C.022  As gay as Flora, and as rich as Inde;
106.00C.023  So may she faire and rich, in nothing lame,
106.00C.024  %1To day put on perfection, and a womans name.%2
106.00C.025  And you frolique Patricians,
106.00C.026  Sonnes of those Senatours, wealths deepe oceans,
106.00C.027  Ye painted Courtiers, barrels of others wits,
106.00C.028  Yee countrey men, who but your beasts love none,
106.00C.029  Yee of those fellowships,(MH,MiU)~;(CtY) whereof hee's one, 
106.00C.030  Of study and play made strange Hermaphrodits,
106.00C.031  Here shine; This bridegroome to the temple bring
106.00C.032  Loe, in yon path which store of straw'd flowers gra-/(ceth,
106.00C.033  The sober virgin paceth;
106.00C.034  Except my sight faile, 'tis no other thing. [CW:Weepe]
106.00C.035  Weepe not, nor blush, here is no griefe nor shame, [I1]
106.00C.036  %1To day put on perfection, and a womans name.%2
106.00C.037  Thy two-leav'd gates faire Temple unfold,
106.00C.038  And these two in thy sacred bosome hold,
106.00C.039  Till, mystically joyn'd but one they be;
106.00C.040  Then may thy leane and hunger-starved wombe
106.00C.041  Long time expect their bodies, and their tombe,
106.00C.042  Long after their owne parents fatten thee.
106.00C.043  All elder claimes, and all cold barrennesse,
106.00C.044  All yeelding to new loves be farre for ever,
106.00C.045  Which might these two dissever,
106.00C.046  Alwayes, all th'other may each one possesse;
106.00C.047  For, the best Bride, best worthy of praise and fame,
106.00C.048  %1To day puts on perfection, and a womans name.%2
106.00C.049  Winter dayes bring much delight,
106.00C.050  Not for themselves, but for they soone bring night;
106.00C.051  Other sweets wait thee then these diverse meats,
106.00C.052  Other disports then dancing jollities,
106.00C.053  Other love tricks then glancing with the eyes,
106.00C.054  But that the Sun still in our halfe Spheare sweats;
106.00C.055  He flies in winter, but he now stands still,
106.00C.056  Yet shadowes turne; Noone point he hath attain'd,
106.00C.057  [notind]His steeds will be restrain'd,
106.00C.058  [notind]But gallop lively downe the Westerne hill;
106.00C.059  Thou shalt, when he hath runne the Heavens halfe \(frame,
106.00C.060  %1To night put on perfection, and a womans name.%2
106.00C.061  The Amorous evening starre is rose,
106.00C.062  Why then should not our amorous starre inclose [CW:Her]
106.00C.063  Her selfe in her wish'd bed? Release your strings [I1v]
106.00C.064  Musicians and dancers take some truce
106.00C.065  With these your pleasing labours, for great use
106.00C.066  As much wearinesse as perfection brings.(MH)~^(CtY,MiU)
106.00C.067  [ind5sp]You, and not onely you, but all toyl'd beasts
106.00C.068  Rest duely; at night all their toyles are dispensed;
106.00C.069  [notind]But in their beds commenced
106.00C.070  Are other labours, and more dainty feasts.
106.00C.071  She goes a maid, who, least she turne the same,
106.00C.072  %1To night puts on perfection, and a womans name.%2
106.00C.073  Thy virgins girdle now untie,
106.00C.074  And in thy nuptiall bed [loves altar] lie
106.00C.075  A pleasing sacrifice; now dispossesse
106.00C.076  Thee of these chaines and robes, which were put on
106.00C.077  T'adorne the day, not thee; for thou, alone,
106.00C.078  [notind]Like vertue'and truth, art best in nakednesse;
106.00C.079  [ind5sp]This bed is onely to virginitie
106.00C.080  A grave, but to a better state, a cradle.
106.00C.081  [notind]Till now thou wast but able
106.00C.082  [ind3sp]To be what now thou art; then that by thee
106.00C.083  No more be said, %1I may be%2, but %1I am%2,
106.00C.084  %1To night put on perfection, and a womans name.%2
106.00C.085  Even like a faithfull man content,
106.00C.086  That this life for a better should be spent:
106.00C.087  [notind]So she a mothers rich stile doth preferre,
106.00C.088  And at the Bridegroomes wish'd approach doth lie,
106.00C.089  Like an appointed Lambe, when tenderly
106.00C.090  The priest comes on his knees, to'imbowell her.
106.00C.091  [ind5sp]Now sleepe or watch with more joy; and o%C light
106.00C.092  Of heaven, to morrow rise thou hot, and early, [CW:This]
106.00C.093  This Sunne will love so dearely [I2]
106.00C.094  Her rest, that long, long we shall want her sight.
106.00C.095  Wonders are wrought, for she which had no name,
106.00C.096  %1To night puts on perfection, and a womans name.%2
106.00C.0SS  %1The end of the Epithalamions or /Marriage Songs.%2
106.00C.0$$  Divided into 8 12-line stanzas; lines 3,6,7,9 of each st. ind. 3sp. and l. 10 ind. 5sp., except as noted; line 12 in italics.