IDENTILIN$$  F107C09|EpEliz|CUL Luttrell|ff.82-83v. /P:GAS,3-24-90,o/C:T-LP,11Jun91
107.C09.HE1  Epithalamions. 
107.C09.HE2  /vpon ffrederick Count Palatine /& the Lady Elizabeth 
107.C09.HE3  /marryed on S%5t%6 valentines day.
107.C09.001  Hayle Bishop valentine whose day this is
107.C09.002  All the Ayre is thy Diocesse
107.C09.003  And all the chirping Quiristeres
107.C09.004  And other birdes are thy Parishioners.
107.C09.005  Thou marryest euery yeare
107.C09.006  The Lyrick Lark & y%5e%6 graue whispering Doue
107.C09.007  The Sparrow y%5t%6 neglects his life for Loue
107.C09.008  The houshold bird with the red stomacher.
107.C09.009  Thou makst the blackbird speed assoone
107.C09.010  As doth the Goldfinch or the Halcyon,
107.C09.011  The husband Cocke lookes out & soone is spedd
107.C09.012  And meetes his wife which bringes her featherbed
107.C09.013  This day more cheerfully then euer shine,
107.C09.014  This day which might inflame thy selfe old Valentine.
107.C09.015  Till now thou warmdst w%5th%6 multiplying loues
107.C09.016  Two Larkes, two Sparrowes, or two doues
107.C09.017  All that is nothing vnto this
107.C09.018  for thou this day couplest two Phae%Lnixes
107.C09.019  Thou makst a Taper see
107.C09.020  What the Sunne neuer saw, & what the Arke
107.C09.021  (which was of fowles & beasts the cage & Parke)
107.C09.022  Did not containe, one bed containes through thee
107.C09.023  Two Phae%Lnixes whose ioyned brests
107.C09.024  Are vnto one another mutuall nests
107.C09.025  Where motion kindles such fires as shall giue
107.C09.026  Yong Phae%Lnixes & yet the old shall liue
107.C09.027  Where loue & courage neuer shall decline
107.C09.028  But make the whole yeare through thy day o%C Valentine.
107.C09.029  Vp then faire Phae%Lnix-%Ybride%Z%5>Bride<%6, frustrate y%5e%6 Sunne 
107.C09.030  Thyselfe from thine Affection
107.C09.031  Takst warmth enough, & from thine Eye
107.C09.032  All lesser birdes will take their Jollitye
107.C09.033  Vp, vp faire bird & call
107.C09.034  Thy Starres from out thy seuerall boxes, take
107.C09.035  Thy Rubies Pearles & Diamondes forth & make
107.C09.036  Thyselfe a Constellation of them all
107.C09.037  And by their blazing signifye
107.C09.038  That a great Princesse falls but doth not dye.
107.C09.039  Be thou a new starre that to vs pretends
107.C09.040  Ends of much wonder, And be thou those |E|nds.
107.C09.041  Since thou dost this day in new glory shine
107.C09.042  May all men date Recordes from this thy Valentine.
107.C09.043  Come forth, come forth, And as one glorious flame
107.C09.044  meeting another, growes the same
107.C09.045  So meet thy Frederick, & so
107.C09.046  To an vnseperable vnion grow
107.C09.047  Since Separation
107.C09.048  ffalls not on such thinges as are infinite
107.C09.049  Nor thinges which are but one can dis-vnite
107.C09.050  You are twice vnseparable, Great & one.
107.C09.051  Goe then Two->>two< where the Bishop stayes 
107.C09.052  To make you one, his way, which diuers wayes
107.C09.053  Must be effected, and when all is past
107.C09.054  And that you are one by hearts & hands made fast
107.C09.055  You two haue one way left yourselues to entwyne
107.C09.056  Besides this Bishops knott or Bishop Valentine. [CW:but,#oh]
107.C09.057  But, oh, what ailes the Sunne that heere he stayes
107.C09.058  Longer to day then other dayes
107.C09.059  Stayes he new light from these to gett
107.C09.060  And finding heere such starres, is loth to sett?
107.C09.061  And why doe you two walke
107.C09.062  So slowly pac'd in this Procession?
107.C09.063  Is all your care but to be look'd vpon
107.C09.064  And be to others Spectacle & talke?
107.C09.065  The feast with gluttonous delayes
107.C09.066  Is eaten and too long their meate they prayse
107.C09.067  The maskers come Late, &, I thinke, will stay
107.C09.068  Like fayryes, till the Cock crow them away.
107.C09.069  Alas! did not Antiquitye assigne
107.C09.070  A night as well as Day to thee o%C Valentine?
107.C09.071  They did, & night is come, & yet we see
107.C09.072  fformalityes retarding thee.
107.C09.073  what meane these Ladyes, which, as though
107.C09.074  They were to take a clock in peices, goe
107.C09.075  So nicely about the bride?
107.C09.076  A Bride, before a Good night could be sayd,
107.C09.077  Should vanish from her clothes in to her bed.
107.C09.078  As Soules from bodyes steale & are not spy'd.
107.C09.079  But now shee's Lay'd. what though shee bee?
107.C09.080  Yet there are more delayes, for where is hee?
107.C09.081  He comes & passes through Sphere after Sphere
107.C09.082  ffirst her Sheetes, then her Armes, then any where,
107.C09.083  Oh lett not this day but this night be thine
107.C09.084  Thy day was but the Eue to this o%C Valentine.
107.C09.085  Heere lyes a Shee-Sunne, & a Hee-moone theae
107.C09.086  Shee giues y%5e%6 best light to his Sphere
107.C09.087  Or each is both, and all, & so
107.C09.088  They vnto one another nothing owe
107.C09.089  And yet they doe, but are
107.C09.090  So iust and rich in that coyne which they pay
107.C09.091  That neither would nor needs forbeare or stay
107.C09.092  Neither desires to be spar'd nor to spare
107.C09.093  They quickly pay their debt, & then
107.C09.094  Take no Acquittances but pay agen.
107.C09.095  They pay, they giue, they lend & so lett fall
107.C09.096  No such occasion to be liberall.
107.C09.097  More Truth more courage, in these two do shine
107.C09.098  Then all thy Turtles haue & Sparrowes Valentine.
107.C09.099  Now by this Act of these two Phae%Lnixes
107.C09.100  Nature againe restored is
107.C09.101  ffor since these two are two no more
107.C09.102  Ther's but one Phoe%Lnix still as was before
107.C09.103  Rest now at last & wee
107.C09.104  As Satyrs watch the sunnes vp-rise, **->>will< stay
107.C09.105  Wayting when your eyes opened lett out day
107.C09.106  Only desird because your face wee see
107.C09.107  Others, neere you, shall whispring speake
107.C09.108  And wagers lay at which side day will breake
107.C09.109  And winne by obseuing whose hand it is
107.C09.110  That opens first a Curtaine, Hers, or His
107.C09.111  This will be tryd to morrow after nine
107.C09.112  Till which hower wee thy day enlarge o%C Valentine [CW:The#Sunne]
107.C09.0SS  om
107.C09.0$$  Lines 2, 3, 5, 9 of each st ind; sts not numbered.