IDENTILIN$$  F108C08|Eclog|CUL Leconfield MS|ff.106v.-13. /P:GAS,3-23-90,o/C:T-LP 4Jun91
108.C08.HE1  %3Ecclogue. 
108.C08.HE2  1613. Decemb%5er%6: 26:%4 [on same line as HE1]
108.C08.HE3  %3Allophanes%4 finding %3Idios%4, in the Countrie in Christm%5as%6 /time, 
108.C08.HE4  reprehends his absence from Court.  Att the mariage 
108.C08.HE5  of the /Ea: of Som%Mersett.  %3Idios%4 giues an account 
108.C08.HE6  of his purpose~ /therin and of his absence thence.|
108.C08.HE7  %3Allophanes.%4
108.C08.001  Vnseasonable man, Statue of Ice, [CW:What]
108.C08.002  What could to Countries solitude intice, [107]
108.C08.003  Thee, in this yeeres cold and decrepitt time?
108.C08.004  Natures instinct drawes to the warmer clyme,
108.C08.005  Euen small birds, whoe by that Courage dare,
108.C08.006  In numerous fleetes saile through their Sea, the Aire.
108.C08.007  What delicacie can in feilds appeere,
108.C08.008  Whiles Flora her self doth a freize Ierkin weare?
108.C08.009  Whilst winds doe all the trees, and hedges stripp
108.C08.010  Of leaues to furnish rods enough, to whipp.
108.C08.011  Thy madnes from thee; And all springs by frost
108.C08.012  Haue taken colde, and theire sweet murmurs lost;
108.C08.013  Yf thou thy faults or fortunes, woldst lament,
108.C08.014  With iust solemnitie, doe itt in%A Lent;
108.C08.015  Att Court, the spring, allreadie aduanced is,
108.C08.016  The Sunne staies longer vp; And yett not his
108.C08.017  The glorie is; farr other, other fires,
108.C08.018  First zeale to Prince, and State; The%M loue desires,
108.C08.019  Burne in one brest, and like heauens twoe great lightes,
108.C08.020  The first dooth gouerne daies, the other nightes.
108.C08.021  And then earlie light w%5ch%6 did appeere
108.C08.022  Before the sunne and Moone created were,
108.C08.023  The Princes fauour, is diffus'd on all [CW:from]
108.C08.024  From w%5ch%6, all fortunes, Names, and Natures fall. [107v]
108.C08.025  Then from those wombes of Starrs, the brides bright eyes,
108.C08.026  Att euerie glaunce, a Constellation flies,
108.C08.027  And sowes the Court with Starrs, and dooth preuent,
108.C08.028  In light and power, the all=eyd firmament.
108.C08.029  First her eies kindles, other Ladies eyes,
108.C08.030  Then from theire beames, Theire iewells lusters rise.
108.C08.031  And from theire iewells, torches doe take fier,
108.C08.032  And all is warmth and light, and good desire.
108.C08.033  Moste other Courts, alas, are like to hell.
108.C08.034  Where, in dark places, fire without light dooth dwell.
108.C08.035  Or butt like stoues; For lust and enuy gett
108.C08.036  Continuall, butt artificiall heate;
108.C08.037  Heere loue and zeale growne one; all clouds digest,
108.C08.038  And make one Court, an euerlasting East.
108.C08.039  And can'st thou be from thence?
108.C08.039a %3Idios.%4   %3No, I am there,%4
108.C08.040  As heauen to men dispos'd, is euerie where,
108.C08.041  So are those Courts, whose Princes animate
108.C08.042  Not onlie all theire house, butt all theire state,
108.C08.043  Lett no man thinck, because he is full, he hath all, [CW:Kings.]
108.C08.044  Kings (as theire patterne god) are liberall [108]
108.C08.045  Not onlie in fullnes, butt Capacitie,
108.C08.046  Enlarging narrowe men to feele and see
108.C08.047  And comprehend the blessings they bestowe,
108.C08.048  So recluz'd Hermitts often times doe knowe
108.C08.049  More, heauens glorie, then a worldling can,
108.C08.050  As man is of the world, the hart of man
108.C08.051  Is an Epitome of gods great booke
108.C08.052  Of creatures, And man need no further looke,
108.C08.053  Soe is the Countrie of Courts, where sweet peace dooth
108.C08.054  As theire owne common soule, giue life to both.
108.0C8.055  I am not then from Court.
108.0C8.055a %3Allphanes.%4  Dreamer thou art;
108.0C8.056  Thinck'st thou fantastique, that thou hast a part
108.0C8.057  In the East Idian fleete, because thou hast
108.0C8.058  A little spice or Amber in thy taste?
108.0C8.059  Because thou art not frozen, art thou warme?
108.0C8.060  Seest thou all good, because thou seest no harme?
108.0C8.061  The earth dooth in her inward bowells holde 
108.0C8.062  Stuff well dispos'd, and w%5ch%6 would faine be gould,
108.0C8.063  Butt neuer shall, except it chaunce to lye [CW:So]
108.0C8.064  So vpward, that heau'en gild itt w%5th%6 his eye; [108v.]
108.0C8.065  As for deuine things: Faith comes from aboue,
108.0C8.066  So for best ciuill vse, All tinctures mou'e
108.0C8.067  From higher powers: From god religion springs
108.0C8.068  Wisedom and honnor, from the vse of Kings.
108.0C8.069  Then vnbeguile thy self; And know w%5th%6 me,
108.0C8.070  That Angells, (though on Earth emploid they bee)
108.0C8.071  Are still in heau'en, So is he still at home,
108.0C8.072  That dooth abroad, to honest actions come.
108.0C8.073  Chide, thy self, then O foole, w%5ch%6 yesterdaie
108.0C8.074  Mighst' haue read more then all thy bookes bewraie;
108.0C8.075  Hast thou a historie, w%5ch%6 dooth present
108.0C8.076  A Court where all affections doe assent.
108.0C8.077  Vnto the Kings; and that, That Kings are iust.
108.0C8.078  And where itt is no leuitie to trust.
108.0C8.079  Where there is no ambition, butt to obaie,
108.0C8.080  Where men need whisper nothing, and yett maie,
108.0C8.081  Where the Kings fauors are so plac'd, thatt all
108.0C8.082  Finde that the King therein is liberall,
108.0C8.083  To them, in him; Because his fauors bend
108.C08.084  To virtue, to the w%5ch%6, they all pretend.
108.C08.085  Thou hast no such; yett heere was this and more, [CW:An]
108.C08.086  An earnest louer wise then, and before, [109]
108.C08.087  Our little Cupid hath sued liuorie,
108.C08.088  And is no more in his minoritie,
108.C08.089  Hee is admitted now into that brest,
108.C08.090  Where the Kings Councells, and his secretts rest;
108.C08.091  What hast thou lost, O%C ignorant man?
108.C08.091a %3Idios.%4  I knew, [I knew, on l. 92]
108.C08.092  All this, and onlie therfore I withdrewe,
108.C08.093  To know, and feele all this, and not to haue
108.C08.094  Words to expres itt, makes a man a graue,
108.C08.095  Of his owne thoughts: I would not therfore staie,
108.C08.096  Att a great feast, hauing no grace to saie,
108.C08.097  And yett I scap'd not heere; For being come,
108.C08.098  Full of the common ioy; I vtter'd some,
108.C08.099  Read then this Nuptiall song, w%5ch%6 was not made
108.C08.100  Either the Court or mens harts to inuade,
108.C08.101  Butt since I am dead, and buried, I cold frame
108.C08.102  No Epitaph w%5ch%6 might aduance my fame,
108.C08.103  So much, as this poore song, w%5ch%6 testefies,
108.C08.104  I did vnto that daie, some sacrifice. [CW:Epithalamion.|]
108.C08.104a %3Epithalamion.%4| [109v]
108.C08.104b om
108.C08.104c %3The time of the Marriage.%4
108.C08.105  %3Thou art repriu'd%4 old yeere; thou shalt not dye,
108.C08.106  Though thou vpon thy death bed lye,
108.C08.107  And shooldst within fiue daies expire,
108.C08.108  Yett thou art rescue'd by a mightier fyer,
108.C08.109  Then thy old soule the Sunne,
108.C08.110  When he dooth in his largest Circle runne.
108.C08.111  The passage of the West or East would thawe
108.C08.112  And open wide, theire easie liquid iawe
108.C08.113  To all our ships, could a Promethean Art
108.C08.114  Either vnto the Northen Pole impart
108.C08.115  The fyre of these inflaming eyes, or of this louing hart.
108.C08.155a om
108.C08.115b %3Equalitie of Persons.%4
108.C08.116  Butt vndescernig Muse, Which hart, w%5ch%6 eyes,
108.C08.117  In this new Couple doost thou prize,
108.C08.118  Where his eye as inflaming is,
108.C08.119  As hers, and her hart, loues as well as his.
108.C08.120  Be tryed by bewtie, and than
108.C08.121  The Bridegroome is a maid, and not a man,
108.C08.122  Yf by that manlie courage they be tried, [CW:W%5ch%6.|]
108.C08.123  Which skorns vniust opinion; Then the Bride [110]
108.C08.124  Becomes a man, Should chaunce, or Enuyes art
108.C08.125  Deuide theise twoe, whome nature scarce did part?
108.C08.126  Since boath haue the inflaming eye, and both the louing hart.
108.C08.126a om
108.C08.126b %3Raising of the Bridegroome%4
108.C08.127  %3Though itt bee%4 some deuorce, to thinck of you
108.C08.128  Single, somuch One, are you twoe,
108.C08.129  Lett me heere Contemplate thee
108.C08.130  First cheerfull Bridegroome, and first lett me see,
108.C08.131  [I20]How thou preuent'st the Sunne,
108.C08.132  And his red foming horses doest 'outrunne,
108.C08.133  How hauing laid downe, in thy Soueraigns brest
108.C08.134  All businesses, from thence to reinuest,
108.C08.135  Them, when theise Tryumphs cease, Thou forward art
108.C08.136  To shew to hir, whoe dooth the like impart
108.C08.137  The fyre of thy inflaming eyes, and of thy louing hart.
108.C08.137a om
108.C08.137b %3Raising of the Bride.%4
108.C08.138  %3Butt now%4, to thee faire Bride, itt is some wrong
108.C08.139  To thinck, thou wert in bed so long,
108.C08.140  Since soone thou laiest downe first, 'tis fitt [CW:Thou.]
108.C08.141  Thou in first rysing, shoold'st allow for itt; [110v]
108.C08.142  [I20]Pouder thy radiant haire,
108.C08.143  Which if without such thou wouldst weare
108.C08.144  Thou, w%5ch%6, to all w%5ch%6 come to looke vpon,
108.C08.145  Are meant for Phae%Lbus, wouldst be Phaeton;
108.C08.146  For our ease, giue thine eyes, th'vnusuall part
108.C08.147  Of ioye, a teare; So quench't, thou maie'st impart
108.C08.148  To vs that come, thy inflaming eyes, to him thy louing hart.
108.C08.148a om
108.C08.148b %3Her apparrelling.%4
108.C08.149  %3Thus thou%4 descend'st to our infirmitie
108.C08.150  Whoe can the Sunne in Water see.
108.C08.151  Soe doest thou, when in silk and gold,
108.C08.152  Thou cloud'st thy self, since wee w%5ch%6 doe beholde
108.C08.153  [ind.20sp.]Are dust and wormes, 'tis iust
108.C08.154  Our obiects be the fruites of wormes and dust.
108.C08.155  Lett euerie Iewell be a glorious starr, 
108.C08.156  Yett starrs are not so pure, as theire Spheares are,
108.C08.157  And though thou stoope to appeere to vs in part
108.C08.158  Still in that picture, thou intirelie art,
108.C08.159  W%5ch%6 thy inflaming eies haue made w%5th%6in his louing hart.| [CW:Going.|]
108.C08.159a om
108.C08.159b %3Going to the Chappell:%4| [111]
108.C08.160  %3Now from%4 your Easts, you yssue forth, and wee
108.C08.161  As men, w%5ch through a Cypres, see,
108.C08.162  The rysing Sunne, doe thinck itt twoe,
108.C08.163  So as you go to Church, doe thinck of you,
108.C08.164  [I25]But that vaile being gone,
108.C08.165  By the Church rytes, you are from thenceforth one.
108.C08.166  The Church tryumphant, made this match before,
108.C08.167  And now the militant dooth striue no more,
108.C08.168  Then reuerend Preist, whoe gods Recorder art,
108.C08.169  Doe, from his dictates, to theise twoe impart
108.C08.170  All blessings, w%5ch%6 are seene or thought, by Angells eye or hart.
108.C08.170a om
108.C08.170b %3The benediction.%4
108.C08.171  %3Blest paire%4 of swanns, oh maie you int%5er%6bring
108.C08.172  Dailie new ioyes, and neuer sing,
108.C08.173  Liue till all grounds of wishes faile,
108.C08.174  Till honnor, yea till wisedom grow so stale,
108.C08.175  [I20]That new great heights to try,
108.C08.176  Yt must serue your ambition to dye.
108.C08.177  Raise heires, and may hence, to the worlds end liue
108.C08.178  Heires, for this King to take thancks, you to giue. [CW:Nature.|]
108.C08.179  Nature and Grace doe all, and nothing Art, [111v]
108.C08.180  Maie neuer age, or error ouerthawrt,
108.C08.181  W%5th%6 anie west, these radiant eyes, w%5th%6 any North, this hart.
108.C08.181a om
108.C08.181b %3Feasts and Reuells./%4
108.C08.182  Butt you are ouer blest. Plentie this daie
108.C08.183  [ind.8sp.]Iniures, itt causes tyme to staie,
108.C08.184  The tables grone, as though the feast
108.C08.185  Would as the flood, destroie all foule and beast.
108.C08.186  And were the doctrine new
108.C08.187  That the Earth mou'd, This daie would make itt true,
108.C08.188  ffor euerie part, to daunce and Reuell goes.
108.C08.189  They tred the ayre, and fall no where, they rose
108.C08.190  Though six howers since, the Sunne to bed did part,
108.C08.191  The mask and banquetts will yett impart
108.C08.192  A Sunsett, to these wearie eyes; a Center to this hart.
108.C08.192a om
108.C08.192b %3The Brides going to bedd%4
108.C08.193  What mean'st thou bride this company to keepe?
108.C08.194  To sitt vp till thou faine woold'st sleepe?
108.C08.195  Thou mai'st not, when thou art laid' doe so,
108.C08.196  Thy self must to him, a new banquett growe, [CW:And.|]
108.C08.197  And you must enterteine [112]
108.C08.198  And doe all this daies dances o're againe.
108.C08.199  Knowe that if Sunne and Moone together doe
108.C08.200  Rise in one point, They doe not sett so too.
108.C08.201  Therfore thou maist, faire Bride, to bed depart
108.C08.202  Thou art not gone, being gone, Where ere thou art
108.C08.203  Thou leau'st in him thy Watcfull eies, in him thy louing hart.
108.C08.203a om
108.C08.203b %3The Bridegroomes com%Ming./%4
108.C08.204  %3As he that sees%4 a starr fall, runns apace
108.C08.205  And finds a Gellie in the place,
108.C08.206  So dooth the Bridegroome haste as much,
108.C08.207  Being told, this starr is falne, and finds her such,
108.C08.208  And as freinds maie looke strange
108.C08.209  By a new fashion, or apparells change, 
108.C08.210  Theire soules, though long acquainted, they had bein,
108.C08.211  Theise clothes, theire bodies, neuer yett had seene.
108.C08.212  Therfore att first shee modestlie might start,
108.C08.213  Butt must forthwith surrender euerie part,
108.C08.214  As freelie as each to each before, gaue either eye or hart. [CW:The]
108.C08.214a om
108.C08.214b %3The good night./%4 [112v]
108.C08.215  %3Now as%4 in Tullias tombe, one lamp burnt cleare,
108.C08.216  Vnchang'd for fifteene hondred yeere,
108.C08.217  Maie theise loue lamps, we heere Enshrine,
108.C08.218  In warmth, light lasting, equall the diuine.
108.C08.219  Fyre euer dooth aspire,
108.C08.220  And makes all like itt self, turnes all to fyre,
108.C08.221  Butt ends in ashes w%5ch%6 these cannot doe
108.C08.222  For none of them is fuell, butt fyer too,
108.C08.223  This is ioyes bonfire then, where loues strong arts
108.C08.224  Make of so noble indiuiduall parts
108.C08.225  One fire of fowre inflaming eyes, and of twoe louing harts.|
108.C08.225a %3Idios%4
108.C08.226  %3As I haue%4 brought this song, that I maie doe
108.C08.227  A perfect sacrifice, Ile burne itt too.
108.C08.227a %3Allophanes.%4
108.C08.228  %3No S%5r%6%4: this paper I haue iustlie gott.
108.C08.229  For in burnt incense, the perfume is not.
108.C08.230  His onlie, that presents itt, butt of all,
108.C08.231  What euer celebrates this festiuall
108.C08.232  Is common, since the ioye therof is so,[CW:Nor.|]
108.C08.233  Nor maie your self be Preist, butt lett me goe, [113]
108.C08.234  Back to the Court, and I will laie itt vpon
108.C08.235  Such Alters, as prize your deuotion.|
108.C08.0SS  om
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