IDENTILIN$$ F107O36|EpEliz|Bod Rawl.poet.160|ff. 29v-30v. /P:GAS,5-10-90,o/C:T-LP,12Jun91 107.O36.HE1 AN EPITHALAMIE /Or Nuptiall hymne 107.O36.HE2 vpon /the Marriage of the ' /Paltsgraue & the La=/dye, Elizabeth 107.O36.HE3om 107.O36.001 Haile Bishop Valentine whose daye this %^%5>is<%6 107.O36.002 All the ayre is thy Diocesse 107.O36.003 And all the chirping quiresters 107.O36.004 And other birds are thy parishioners 107.O36.005om 107.O36.006 the lyrick larke anf the graue whispring do%^%5>ue<%6 107.O36.007 the sparrow that neglects his life for loue 107.O36.008 the howsehold bird with y%5e%6 red stomacher 107.O36.009 Thou mak'st the blackbird speed as soone 107.O36.010 As doth the goldfinch or the Halcion 107.O36.011 The husband Cock lookes out & straigh>t< is /sped 107.O36.012 And meets his wife w%5ch%6 brings his featherbed 107.O36.013 This day more cheerefully then eu%5r%6 shine 107.O36.014 this day w%5ch%6 might inflame thy selfe old Valen/tine 107.O36.015 Till now thou warmst w%5th%6 multiplying loues 107.O36.016 Twoe larkes twoe sparrowes or two doues 107.O36.017 All that is nothing vnto this 107.O36.018 ffor thou this day couplest two Phenixes 107.O36.019 Thou mak'st a taper see 107.O36.020 What the sunne never sawe, & w%5t%6 the Arke 107.O36.021 (which was of foules and beasts y%5e%6 cage & park,) 107.O36.022 Did not conteyne, one bed conteynes through thee 107.O36.023 Twoe Phenixes whose ioyned brests 107.O36.024 Are vnto one an other mutuall nests 107.O36.025 Whose motion kindles such fire as shall giue 107.O36.026 Young Phoe%Lnixes & yet the old shall liue 107.O36.027 Whose loue & courage neu%5r%6 shall decline 107.O36.028 But make the whole yeare through thy day o /Valentine 107.O36.029 Vp then faire Phoe%Lnix bride frustrate y%5e%6 sunne 107.O36.030 Thy selfe from thyne affection 107.O36.031 takest warmth enough from thyne eye 107.O36.032 All lesser birds will take their iollitye 107.O36.033 Vp vp faire bride and call, 107.O36.034 Thy starres from out their seu%5r%6all boxes take 107.O36.035 thy rubies pearles & dyamonds forth & make 107.O36.036 thy selfe a constellation of them all 107.O36.037 And by this blazing signifie 107.O36.038 That a great Princes falls yet doth not dye 107.O36.039 be thou a new starre y.%5t%6 to vs portends 107.O36.040 Ends of much wonder, & be thou their ends [CW:since] 107.O36.041 Since thou dost this daye in new glory shine [30] 107.O36.042 May all men date records from this thy Valentine 107.O36.043 Come forth come forth & as one glorios flame 107.O36.044 meeting an other greets the same 107.O36.045 Soe meet thy ffrederick and soe 107.O36.046 To an inseperable vnion growe 107.O36.047 Since seperation 107.O36.048 ffalls not on such things as are infinite 107.O36.049 nor things that are but one; can disvnite 107.O36.050 Yow are twice inseperable, great & one 107.O36.051 Goe then twoe where the bishop stayes 107.O36.052 To make yow one his waye, w%5ch%6 divers waies 107.O36.053 must be effected & when all is past 107.O36.054 And that yow one by hearts & hands made fast 107.O36.055 Yow twoe haue one way left yo%5ur%6 selues t' intwine 107.O36.056 After this bishops knott, or bishop Valentine 107.O36.057 But oh! what ayles the sunne y%5t%6 here he stayes 107.O36.058 Longer to daye then other daies? 107.O36.059 Stayes new light from them to gett 107.O36.060 And finding there such store is loth to sett; 107.O36.061 And why doe yow twoe walke 107.O36.062 Soe slowly pac'd in this procession? 107.O36.063 is all your care but to be look'd vpon 107.O36.064 and to be others spectacle and talke 107.O36.065 The feasts with gluttanous delayes 107.O36.066 Is eaten and too long their meat they praise 107.O36.067 the Masquers come late & I thinke will staye 107.O36.068 like faires till the cock crowe them away 107.O36.069 Alas! did not antiquitye assigne 107.O36.070 A night as well as day to thee oh Valentine.| 107.O36.071 They did and night is come & yet we see 107.O36.072 fformalities retarding thee 107.O36.073 What meane those Ladyes w%5ch%6 as though 107.O36.074 They went to take a clock in peises; goe 107.O36.075 Soe nicely about the Bride? 107.O36.076 A Bride before a good night could be sed 107.O36.077 should vanish from her clothes into her bed 107.O36.078 As soules from bodyes steale & are not spy'd 107.O36.079 But now shees laid! w%5t%6. though she be? 107.O36.080 Yet there are more delaies, for where is he? 107.O36.081 He comes and passes through Spheare after spheare 107.O36.082 ffirst her sheets then her armes then any where 107.O36.083 Let not then this daye but this night be thine 107.O36.084 Thy daye was but y%5e%6 Eue to this o Valentine 107.O36.085 Here lyes a shee-sunne & a hee=Moone here 107.O36.086 She giues the best light to his spheare [CW:or] 107.O36.087 Or each is both, and all and soe [30v] 107.O36.088 They vnto One an other nothing owe 107.O36.089 And yet they doe but are 107.O36.090 Soe iust and rich in that coyne w%5ch%6. they paye 107.O36.091 that neither would nor needs forbeare nor stay 107.O36.092 neither desires to be spar'd nor to spare 107.O36.093 They quickly paye their debt & then 107.O36.094 Take noe acquittances but paye agen 107.O36.095 They paye they giue they lend & soe let fall 107.O36.096 Noe such occasionn to be liberall 107.O36.097 More truth more courage in theis two doth shine 107.O36.098 then all thy turtles haue & sparrowes Valentine 107.O36.099 And by this art of theis twoe Phoe%Lnixes 107.O36.100 Nature againe restored is 107.O36.101 ffor since theis twoe are twoe or more 107.O36.102 Theres but one Phoe%Lnix still as was before 107.O36.103 Rest now at last and we 107.O36.104 As Satyres watch y%5e%6 suns vprise, will staye 107.O36.105 wayting when yo%5ur%6 eyes opened let out daye 107.O36.106 Only desyr'd because yo%5r%6 face we see 107.O36.107 Others neere, yow; shall whispering speak 107.O36.108 And wagers laye at w%5ch%6 syde daye will break 107.O36.109 and winne by observing then whose hand it is 107.O36.110 that opens first a curtaine, hers or his 107.O36.111 This wilbe try'de, to morrrow after Nyne 107.O36.112 Till w%5ch%6. howre we thy daye enlarge oh Valen=/tine 107.O36.SS .|.ffinis.|. /J:Dunne.|. 107.O36.0$$ Lines 2, 3, 5, 9, 13, 14 of each st ind; sts except first numbered in Arabic numerals.