IDENTILIN$$  F108C09|Eclog|CUL Luttrell|ff. 86-89v./P:GAS,3-26-90,o/C:T-LP 3Jun91
108.C09.HE1  Eclogue. [86]
108.C09.HE2  1613. December. 26. [on the same line as HE1]
108.C09.HE3  Allophanes finding Idios in the Country in the Christmas, 
108.C09.HE4  /reprehends his absence from Court at the mariage 
108.C09.HE5  of /the Earle of Somerset.  Idios giues an account 
108.C09.HE6  of his /purpose therin, & of his Actions there.
108.C09.HE7  Allophanes
108.C09.001  Vseasonable man, statue of Ice
108.C09.002  [NI]What could to countryes solitude entice
108.C09.003  Thee in this yeares cold & decrepitt time?
108.C09.004  Natures instinct drawes to y%5e%6 warmer clime
108.C09.005  Euen small birdes, who by that courage dare
108.C09.006  In numerous fleets saile through their sea, the Ayre.
108.C09.007  What delicacy can in feilds appeare
108.C09.008  Whilst fflora herselfe doth a buff Ierkin weare
108.C09.009  Whilst windes do all the trees & hedges stripp
108.C09.010  of Leaues, to furnish roddes enough to whipp
108.C09.011  Thy madnesse from thee, And all springes by frost
108.C09.012  Haue taken cold & their sweet murmure Lost?
108.C09.013  If thou thy faults or fortunes wouldst lament
108.C09.014  With iust solemnitye, doe it in Lent.
108.C09.015  At Court y%5e%6 Spring already advanced is
108.C09.016  The Sunne stayes longer vp, And yet not his
108.C09.017  The glory is. Far other, other fires
108.C09.018  ffirst zeale to Prince & State, then Loues desires
108.C09.019  Burne in one brest, And like heauens two great lights
108.C09.020  The first doth gouerne dayes, the other nights.
108.C09.021  And then that early light (which did appeare
108.C09.022  Before the Sun & moone created were)
108.C09.023  The Princes favour is diffus'd o're all
108.C09.024  ffrom which all fortunes names & natures fall
108.C09.025  Then from those wombes of starres y%5e%6 Brides bright eyes [86v]
108.C09.026  At euery glance a Constellation flyes
108.C09.027  And sowes y%5e%6 Court with starres & doth prevent
108.C09.028  In light & power the all-ey'd firmament.
108.C09.029  ffirst her eyes kindle other Ladyes eyes
108.C09.030  Then from their beames their Iewells lusters rise
108.C09.031  And from their Iewells torches doe take fire
108.C09.032  And all is warmth & light & good desire.
108.C09.033  Most other Courts, alas, are like to Hell,
108.C09.034  Where in darke plotts, fire without light doth dwell
108.C09.035  Or but like stoues (for lust & envy gett
108.C09.036  Continewall (but artificiall heate)
108.C09.037  Heere Zeale & Loue growen one all clouds digest
108.C09.038  And make our Court an euerlasting rest
108.C09.039  And cans't thou be from hence?
108.C09.039a Idios.  no I am there
108.C09.040  As heauen to men disposd is euerye where
108.C09.041  So are those Courts whose Princes animate
108.C09.042  not only all their house but all their State
108.C09.043  Let no man thinke because hee's full, he hath all
108.C09.044  Kinges (as their Patterne, God,) are liberall
108.C09.045  Not only in fulnesse but Capacitye
108.C09.046  Enlarging narrow men to feele & see
108.C09.047  And comp%5re%6hend the blessings they bestow.
108.C09.048  So reclus'd Hermites oftentimes do know
108.C09.049  More of heauens glory then a worldling can.
108.C09.050  As man is of y%5e%6 world; y%5e%6 heart of man
108.C09.051  Is an Epitome of gods great booke
108.C09.052  of Creatures, & man need no farther looke
108.C09.053  So is the Country of Courts, where sweet peace doth
108.C09.054  As their owne com%Mon Soule, giue life to both,
108.C09.055  And am I then from Court? [CW:Alloph:]
108.C09.055a Alloph:  Dreamer thou art [87]
108.C09.056  Thinkst thou, fantastique, that thou hast a part
108.C09.057  In the East India fleete because thou hast
108.C09.058  A little spice or Amber in thy tast?
108.C09.059  Because thou art not frozen, art thou warme?
108.C09.060  Seest thou all good because thou seest no harme?
108.C09.061  The Earth doth in her inward bowells hold
108.C09.062  Stuff well dispos'd, & which would faine be gold
108.C09.063  But neuer shall except it chance to lye
108.C09.064  So vpward that heauen guild it with his eye.
108.C09.065  As for diuine thinges faith comes from aboue
108.C09.066  So for best ciuill vse all tinctures moue
108.C09.067  ffrom higher powers.  ffrom God religion springes,
108.C09.068  Wisdome & honour from y%5e%6 vse of Kinges.
108.C09.069  Then vnbeguile thy selfe, & know with me
108.C09.070  That Angells, though on Earth employd they bee
108.C09.071  Are still in heauen:  so is hee still at home
108.C09.072  That doth abroad to honest Actions come.
108.C09.073  Chide thy selfe then (o%C foole) which yesterday
108.C09.074  Mightst haue read more then all thy bookes bewray
108.C09.075  Hast |thou| a hystorye which doth p%P%5e%6sent
108.C09.076  A Court, where all affections doe assent
108.C09.077  Vnto the kinges, & that the kinges are iust?
108.C09.078  And where it is no Leuitye to trust
108.C09.079  Where there is no Ambition but to obay
108.C09.080  Where men need whisper Nothing, & yet may
108.C09.081  Where the kinges favours are so plac'd, that all
108.C09.082  ffind that the king therin is Liberall
108.C09.083  To them in him, because his favours bend
108.C09.084  To virtue vnto which they all pretend?
108.C09.085  Thou hast no such: yet heere was this & more
108.C09.086  An earnest Louer, wise, then, & before
108.C09.087  Our little Cupid hath su'd Liuerye [87v]
108.C09.088  And is no more in his minoritye
108.C09.089  Hee is admitted now into that brest
108.C09.090  where the Kings Counsells & his secrets rest
108.C09.091  what hast thou lost, o%C Ignorant man?
108.C09.091a Idios.  --I know
108.C09.092  All this, and only therfore I withdrew
108.C09.093  To know & feele all this, & not to haue
108.C09.094  words to exp%5re%6sse it makes a man a Graue
108.C09.095  Of his owne thoughts.  I would not therfore stay
108.C09.096  At a great feast, hauing no Grace to say.
108.C09.097  And yet I scapd not heere, for being come
108.C09.098  ffull of y%5e%6 Com%Mon Ioy, I vtterd some.
108.C09.099  Reade then this nuptiall song which was not made
108.C09.100  Either the Court or mens hearts to invade
108.C09.101  But since I am dead & buried, I could frame
108.C09.102  No Epitaph which might advance my fame
108.C09.103  So much as this poore song which testifyes
108.C09.104  I did vnto that day some Sacrifice./
108.C09.104a Epithalamion.
108.C09.104b om
108.C09.104c I  The Time of y%5e%6 Mariage.
108.C09.105 Thou art repriu'd old yeare, thou shalt not dye
108.C09.106  Though thou vpon thy deathbed lye
108.C09.107  And shouldst within fiue dayes expire
108.C09.108  yet thou art rescu'd by a mightier fire
108.C09.109  Then thy old Soule, the Sunne
108.C09.110  When he doth in his Largest Circle runne.
108.C09.111  The passage of the west of East would thaw
108.C09.112  And open wide their easy liquid %Yiaw%Z->>Iaw<
108.C09.113  To all our %YSp%Z->>Shipps< could a Promethean Art
108.C09.114  Either vnto y%5e%6 northerne Pole impart
108.C09.115  The fire of these inflaming Eyes or of this Louing heart. [CW:Equalitye]
108.C09.115a om
108.C09.115b II  Equalitye of Persons. [88]
108.C09.116  But vndiserning Muse, which heart which eyes
108.C09.117  In this new couple dost thou prise?
108.C09.118  When his Eye as enflaming is 
108.C09.119  As hers, & her heart Loues as well as his.
108.C09.120  Be tryd by beauty & than
108.C09.121  The Bridgroome is a mayd & not a man:
108.C09.122  If by that manly Courage they be try'd
108.C09.123  which scornes vniust opinion, then y%5e%6 Bride
108.C09.124  Becomes a Man.  Should chance or Envyes Art
108.C09.125  Diuide these two whom nature scarce did part
108.C09.126  Since both haue both th'enflaming Eyes, & both y%5e%6 louing heart.
108.C09.126a om
108.C09.126b III  Raysing the Bridgroome.|
108.C09.127  Though it be some Diuorce to thinke on you
108.C09.128  Singly (so much one are you two)
108.C09.129  yet lett me heere contemplate thee
108.C09.130  ffirst, cheerfull Bridgroome, And first lett me see
108.C09.131  How thou p%5re%6uent'st the Sunne
108.C09.132  And his red foming horses dost out-runne
108.C09.133  How (hauing layd downe in thy Soueraignes brest
108.C09.134  All busenesses, from thence to re-invest
108.C09.135  Them, when these Triumphs cease) thou forward art
108.C09.136  To shew to her who doth y%5e%6 like impart
108.C09.137  The fire of thy Enflaming Eyes & of thy louing heart
108.C09.137a om
108.C09.137b IV  Raysing of the Bride.|
108.C09.138  But now to thee (faire Bride) it is some wrong
108.C09.139  To thinke thou wert in bed so long.
108.C09.140  Since |soone| thou ly'st downe first, tis fitt
108.C09.141  Thou in first rising shouldst allow for it.
108.C09.142  Powder thy radiant hayre
108.C09.143  which if without such ashes thou shouldst weare
108.C09.144  Thou, which to all that come to looke vpon
108.C09.145  wert ment for Pae%Lbus, wouldst be Phaeton.
108.C09.146  ffor our ease giue thine Eyes th'vnvsuall part
108.C09.147  of ioy, a Teare, so quenchd thou mayst impart
108.C09.148  To vs that come thy enflaming eyes, to Him thy loving heart
108.C09.148a om
108.C09.148b V  Her apparelling.| [88v]
108.C09.149  Thus thou descend'st to our Infirmitye
108.C09.150  who can the Sun in water see
108.C09.151  So dost thou where in Silke & gold
108.C09.152  Thou cladst thyselfe, since wee which do behold
108.C09.153  Are dust & wormes, tis iust
108.C09.154  Our obiects be the fruites of wormes & dust.
108.C09.155  Let euery Iewell be a glorious Starre
108.C09.156  Yet Starres are not so pure as their Spheares are
108.C09.157  And though thou stoope to appeare to vs in part
108.C09.158  Still in that Picture, thou entirely art
108.C09.159  which thy enflaming Eyes haue made within his louing heart.
108.C09.159a om
108.C09.159b VI  Going to Chappell.|
108.C09.160  now from your Easts you issue forth, & wee
108.C09.161  (As men which through a Cypresse see
108.C09.162  The rising Sunne, do thinke it two
108.C09.163  So) as you goe to Church do thinke of you.
108.C09.164  But that vayle being gonne
108.C09.165  By the Church rites, you are from thenceforth one.
108.C09.166  The Church Triumphant made this match before
108.C09.167  And now the militant doth striue no more
108.C09.168  Thou reuerend Preist who Gods Recorder art
108.C09.169  Doe from his Dictates to these two impart
108.C09.170  All blessinges which are seene or thought by Angells Eye or heart.
108.C09.170a om
108.C09.170b VII  The Benediction./
108.C09.171  Blest payre of Swannes, oh may you enter-bring
108.C09.172  Dayly new ioyes, and neuer sing
108.C09.173  Liue till all grounds of wishes fayle
108.C09.174  Till honour, yea till wisdome grow so stale
108.C09.175  That new great heights to trye
108.C09.176  It must serue your Ambition to dye
108.C09.177  Rayse heyres, & may heere to y%5e%6 worlds end liue
108.C09.178  Heyres, for this Ring, to take thankes, yours to giue.
108.C09.179  Nature & grace do all & nothing Art
108.C09.180  May neuer age or error ouerthwart
108.C09.181  with any west these radiant Eyes, with any north this heart.|[M:>|any<] [CW:Feasts#&]
108.C09.181a om
108.C09.181b VIII  Feasts & Revells.| [89]
108.C09.182  But you are ouerblest, Plenty this day
108.C09.183  Iniures, it causes time to stay.
108.C09.184  The tables grone, as though this feast
108.C09.185  Would, as y%5e%6 floud, destroy all fowle & beast.
108.C09.186  And, were the Doctrine new
108.C09.187  That the Earth mou'd, this day would make it true.
108.C09.188  ffor euery part to dance & reuells goes
108.C09.189  They tread the Ayre & fall not whence they rose.
108.C09.190  Though six howres since the Sun to bed did part
108.C09.191  The masques & banquetts will not yet impart
108.C09.192  A Sun-set to those weary Eyes, a Center to this heart.|
108.C09.192a om
108.C09.192b IX  The Brides going to bed.|
108.C09.193  What mean'st thou, Bride, this Company to keepe
108.C09.194  To sitt vp till thou faine wouldst sleepe?
108.C09.195  Thou mayst not, when th'art Layd, do soe
108.C09.196  Thy selfe must to him a new banquett growe;
108.C09.197  And you must entertaine,
108.C09.198  And doe all this dayes daunces o're againe.
108.C09.199  Know that if Sun & moon together doe
108.C09.200  Rise in one point, they do not sett so too.
108.C09.201  Therfore thou mayst to bed, faire bride, depart
108.C09.202  Th'art not gon being gon, where e're thou art
108.C09.203  Thou leau'st in him thy watchfull Eyes, in him thy louing heart.|
108.C09.203a om
108.C09.203b X  The Bridgroomes Com%Ming.
108.C09.204  As hee that sees a Starre fall, runnes apace
108.C09.205  And findes a Gelly in y%5e%6 place
108.C09.206  So doth y%5e%6 bridgroome hast as much
108.C09.207  Being told this Starre is falne & finds her such.
108.C09.208  [I10]And as freinds may looke strange
108.C09.209  By a new fashion, or apparells change
108.C09.210  Their Soules, though long acquainted they had beene,
108.C09.211  These Clothes, the bodyes neuer yet had seene.
108.C09.212  Therfore at first she modestly might start
108.C09.213  But must forthwith surrender euery part
108.C09.214  ffreely as each to each before gaue either Eye or heart.
108.C09.214a om
108.C09.214b XI  The Goodnight. [89v]
108.C09.215  Now as in Tullias Tombe one Lampe burnt cleere
108.C09.216  Vnchangd for fifteene hundred yeare
108.C09.217  May these Loue Lampes we heere enshrine
108.C09.218  In warmth, Light, Lasting equall the diuine.
108.C09.219  [ind.10sp.]ffyre euer doth aspire
108.C09.220  And makes all like itselfe, turnes all to fire
108.C09.221  But Ends in ashes, which those cannot doe
108.C09.222  ffor none of them is fewell but fire too.
108.C09.223  This is Ioyes bonfire, then, where Loues strong arts
108.C09.224  Made of so noble Indiuiduall partes
108.C09.225  O|u|e fire of 4 enflaming Eyes & of two Louing hearts.
108.C09.225a Idios.
108.C09.226  As I haue brought this songe, that I may doe
108.C09.227  A Perfect Sacrifice, Ile burne it too.
108.C09.227a Alloph:
108.C09.228  No S%5r%6., this paper I haue iustly gott
108.C09.229  ffor in burnt incense the perfume is not
108.C09.230  His only that presents it, but of all.
108.C09.231  Whatever celebrates this Nuptiall 
108.C09.232  Is Com%Mon, since the Ioy therof is so,
108.C09.233  Nor may yourselfe be Preist; But lett me go
108.C09.234  Back to the Court & I will lay it on
108.C09.235  Such Altars as prize your deuotion.|
108.C09.SS   om
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