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A01194	Of the most auspicatious marriage: betwixt, the high and mightie Prince, Frederick; Count Palatine of Rheine, chiefe sewer to the sacred Roman Empire, Prince Elector, and Duke of Bauaria, &. and the most illustrious Princesse, the Ladie Elizabeth her Grace, sole daughter to the high and mightie Iames, King of great Brittaine, &c. In III. bookes: composed in Latine by M. Ioannes Maria, de Franchis. And translated into English.; De auspicatissimis nuptiis. English	Franchis, Joannes Maria de.; Hutton, Samuel.	1613 (1613)	STC 11309; ESTC S102613	45,931	90

vp and dovvne least they be famisht Driuing their vvhole-built coates from place to place Are being more sure of seat in better case 60. A vvretched mother gods and men may call me Still must my sons be fighting for their ovvne In euery place and time strife doth befall me For pains long past I vvill not novv make mone My present feares expecting yet far more Make me forget vvhat I endur'd before 61. This plague's not all extinct hels malice boiles His mischief-plotting brain deuiseth vvorse Our holy vvrits he burns and Saints he broiles Destroies vvhole countries vvith a blasting curse Appoints nevv lavves and sets nevv gods on hie All that gain-say by force or fire shall die 62. He still prepares more and more punishments For such as vvel professe my truths pure faith I see the massacres and banishments Prisons and poisons vvhich in store Dis hath Vnlesse you quell their pride blest povvres diuine We cannot scape helpe then my selfe and mine 63. If any piety or pittie moue you All Gods in wisdome should each care for other Forsake not my faint hopes and them that loue you You which defend all creatures do not loth her Which is your friend sister though much grieu'd See my true harmeless children soon relieu'd 64. Father if I haue euer prais'd thy power And spred thy mighty name through Earths vast ground Deliuer me and mine from this sad howre By thy right hand with which thou rul'st this round Thy God-head and my safe-gard I le inuoke thee If neither thy care nor my laments prouoke thee 65. Yet pitty thine owne glory thine owne brood For if I perish or my face must hide Thy fame and subiects which thou boughtst with blood Will faile from thee vvhich thou shouldst not abide If yet thou vvilt not helpe yet grant this boon I may preuent all griefs by dying soon 66. Thus did Religion speak and staid her speech Winding her armes and casting downe her eyes As if she death did rather then life beseech But as when haruest-winds rush from the skies The leaues in vvoods a rustling murmur make Such a soft vvhispring did the Gods ore-take 67. This Goddesse being so neere a kin so grieuing Mov'd much compassion in their tender spirits They thought high Ioue too milde in gouerning Themselues too calme to Dis for his demerits They meane to comfort her with heauenly force And stop the Furies in their bloody course 68. So much were all incens'd vvith her true teares When all-ore-swaying Ioue commands them silence Shakes Heauen and earth with shaking his gold-haires And then speaks thus with dreadfull excellence Daughter my praise and greatest power below Free thy faire cheeks from teares thy thought from woe 69. We nere did yet nor euer will for-goe thee Thy loue so deeply settles in our brest Our care and prouidence nere shall be fro thee Heauen is thy friend My selfe with all the rest And if thou wouldst the fates and me conceiue What we determine I 'le declare giue leaue 70. Hearing the boysterous threats of Dis foule iawes And seeing him loose his furies from stix flood T' infect th'erroneous world they might break lawes Of Gods and men confounding what is good Perceiuing darknes ouer-spread this age And man-kind much degenerate from our image 71. The primitiue purenesse all corrupt with lust The truth ore weighd with fond inuentions Vice boasting ouer Vertue laid in dust The Dragon conquering by dissentions We saw which mou'd vs most our children dying And heard their guiltles blood for vengeance crying 72. Often my wrath did burne to thunder-strike them But that the beautious order of all creatures Made me repent for though I did not like them Yet for them would I not dissolue all Natures I knew their houre of horror was not come Wherein they should receiue their damning doom 73. To be still bound in chaines of dismall night Eternally to suffer griefe and death Meane while how ere they deale by craft of spite He workes himself more paine and shame beneath More glory to the Gods No maruaile then If they corrupt the liues and harts of men 74. So soone so fin He formerly possest them Tempting but once he made them throughly euill Since when iniquity so much opprest them Their Vertue eas'ly yeelds vnto the Diuell The Crime of their first fathers concupisence Polluted all his childrens conscience 75. I see and suffer this for to strike all Would void my treasure-house of thunder-bolts Besides the vulgar oft in errors fall Calling euill good good euill and so like dolts Thinking to merit deserue their owne damnation Hoping to save themselues loose their saluation 76. I grieue indeed and faine would helpe with signes The faith of men but that my words are plain Though they remember not my sacred lines Pittying I put them to no further pain For thus hath heauen decreed from this high chaire Faith is not forced free-will admits no feare 77. It is our grace that enters mens soft mindes And there informes reformes conforms their will It neither draws or driues but as it findes It shews here heauen there hel here good there euill What so ere men doe being dead they shall sustain The more they know so rer shall bee their pain 78. When heauen and earth shall passe with horrid crie And all abused creatures plague their sin Yet I that made all would haue nothing die Least mine and their foule aduersarie grin And therefore counsel rather vse then strength That men knowing me might come to heauen at length 79. And with such order will I guide successe Vertue shall nere so faile nor sin so grow That euery furie shall their wish possesse As when they made all fit for that fowle blow I suffered them to choose deuise prepare Men matter place yet all defeated were 80. They could not bring to passe their policies The good were garded by mine hand and eie For I disclosing their deepe villanies Brought them to death which would haue others die Who keeps his hart from guile his hands from crime May now securely passe his peacefull time 81. And if some-times the tempest of mischaunce Hinder his ease heauen will thus breed his crowne So daughter whom I study to aduance Full oft thou findst my help being oft cast downe Nor could thy weakenesse haue endur'd so long Vnles my might had made thy faith more strong 82. Remember I did oft thine honor nourish When men against thee threatned sword and fire I made thy Children more and better flourish Whom neither force could feare nor meed could hire Hell striues in vaine against thy power deuine Thy kindgom shall remaine as long as mine 83. What thou giu'st other Gods men shall giue thee Thou shalt haue sinceere worship sacred orders Doubt not chere vp thine hart hope trust on mee With comely temples and enlarged borders Thou shallt be Queene on earth and Queen in heauen Iudgement shall right thy wrongs and make all euen 84.

Straight shuts them vp within herselfe at warres Loue harts her eye maides modesty strikes terror Thus in loues conflict with chast modesty She loues and feares she sees and dares not see 26. But yet so closly could not this young louer Mooue the faire Orb of her Siderian eyes But straight the louesick Palsgraue could discouer And meet the turn with due obseruancies Hundred ey'd Argus Io nere so tended As he Eliza til these greetings ended 27. This thus and more perform'd in princely sort Dark sable-coulor'd Nox comes trotting on Mounted vpon Allaster from the port Of black Cymmerian pitchy Acheron Phaebus with fiery chariot flies away Post hast to giue Antipodes the day 28. Meane while a guard of gallant Gentlemen Addrest in skarlet liueries euery one With Cognizants first drawne with Pallas pen Then wouen with siluer gold and pretious-stone In which Palladian art did vive appeare King IAMES his arms great Britans Monarch there 29. These worthy Waiters worthy of their places Present their burning tapers 'fore the King Who with the Queen and all those Princely graces Addrest himselfe to Ioviall banqueting Which being done as fitteth Princes best They all retire them to nocturnall rest 30. King IAMES no sooner prest his lofty bed And Somnus comes to close his Princely eyes But Morpheus his fancy wakened And Consus counsels god he straight espies Who softly comes with graue and auncient pace Comely though old with reuerence in his face 31. With his fur'd night-gowne shooes cap for night In his right hand he brings a golden booke Thus he presents himselfe to IAMES his sight Much like old Philon both in speech and look Who for in younger age he taught his Grace His Highnes therfore knew him by his face 32. Who mildly standing at our Soueraignes feet He thus begins to speake with grauitie Great Britans Monarch giue me leaue to greet Thy mighty selfe and then to question thee Why'mongst so many dost thou tosse thy mind A match for faire Elizabeth to find 33. Behold great Ioue by heauens owne direction Hath sent thee one the mirror of his time Whose Auncestry next vnder your protection May with the best compare of Kingly line Whose regiment encreaseth with his yeeres In aequi-pollence to the mightiest peeres 34. More wise he is then young age can affoord Whom mighty Ioue both loues and offers thee He doth professe the same religious Word And link't in Christian league of amity Make this thy Son this Prince will only proue He worthy hers she worthy of his loue 35. Th'emperiall heauens command me tell thee this Which promise thee and them a royall straine Who shall for heauens intentions cannot misse Restore the golden ages back againe This said Mirh-breathing Consus goes his waies Leauing the King halfe sleeping in a maze 36. He with mature deliberation Who 't was was sent and who it was that sent him Together with his pleasing graue relation What good Ioue offer'd and what good he meant him These reasons force quoth he our full consent Being such as one had been sufficient 37. But most of all Religion she doth moue me Which all Kings ought to striue for to the death It 's that great German makes vs most to loue thee And hold thee worthy our Elizabeth Thus Britans Caesar in his thoughts revolv'd And thus he spake and thus he them resolv'd 38. But do you thinke Eliza's rest was peace Thinke you the Princely Virgin was not troubl'd Hersleep was lessened by her thoughts increase On Frederick thinking straight her thoughts were doubl'd To him no sooner thinks he to be kind But straight her Princely selfe comes to her mind 39. Aie me quoth shee what sodaine motion 's this How is my brest clogg'd with a bitter sweet Cupid hath surely ta'ne his shaft amiss Elce how could Feare and Hope together meete I know not how but yet methinks I see Such vncouth passions both at once in me 40. Loue shall not trouble vs were loue so bold To enterprise our royall Vigin brest In vaine it straue to win our maiden hold That nere shall yeild let Cupid do his best Not though loues fire within me were as great As that Octaean or Trinacrian heat 41. Vnlesse my father giue his full consent Vnlesse my King appoint me whom to loue Loues arrowes are in vaine but idly spent And of no force should all loues forces proue Hee 's worthy Loue but aie what bootes to like Vnlesse my father doe the bargaine strike 42. Loue loue would sure but wither in the blade Proue barren fruitles langvish and so die Ah Frederick but that 's it makes mee'fraid I wish my father held th' as great as I Great God of Loue as thou hast plai'd thy part To make me Loue so moue my fathers hart 43. Procure him get a marriage worthy mee It is not farr his highnesse need to seeke Fortune presents fit opportunity Doe Cupid and I le kisse thy louely cheeke But yet in all be sure thou draw a dart That shall not misse Prince Frederick to the hart 44. Mine eies are onely plea'sd with his faire brow Me thinks and he should Loue to by his face Yet and perhaps the German loues me now If outward gesture shew the inward grace Why should not I then aunswer Fredericks Loue Whose were enough an Empresses to moue 45. Answer quoth I what answer shall I giue A virgin Princesse daughter to a King Except my Father vnder whome I liue Say to me This is he whose nuptiall ring Thy Princely selfe must weare this is the man Loue him then could I answer soone I can 46. Thus with a sigh her speach she smothereth But loue so would not close her waking eies Which way so ere the Vergin turns vimeth Shee could but thinke she Frederic espies And more she thinks such thoughts can fancy moue The louely Prince is suing for her loue 47. Nor yet when radiant Phosphorus appearing Vshers Aurora banishing the night The tawney liuery of bright Phebus wearing Can all-harts-conquering loue bee put to flight The lesse her loue she seeketh to bewray The more it 's seene by seeing euery day 48. How oft would she vnto her mother Queen Sweetly commend this Princes pedegree How oft would she haue blushing ready been To tell the titles of his Emperie His manners now then 's godly youth relating And then his hopes of age prognosticating 49. Her mother Queen obserues her speeches well And smiling sayes Our Daughter is in loue She likes it tho and to the King can tell Her passions which his Highnes doth approue Yet least she should perceiue they did reioyce They ieasted with the Virgine for her choyce 50. But afterwards the sapient King perpending Great Ioues commandement Rheins great family His Vertues Kingdomes and Religion tending All to aduancement of true piety What feare 't would strike to foes to hell what terror What loue both Court country beares this mirror 51. Admiring and reioycing in his mind

And like a suitor thus begins to woo him 103. Loue to my selfe then is my selfe more deare The heauens Protector and the Gods defender To whom Ioue owes those bolts make Mortals feare Who to my selfe thy Loue didst euer tender To whom I owe for kindnes done at Troy And for the Armes thou made my warlike Boy 104. Yet ere I pay my louing Vulcane know I am constraind to sue to thee for more Thou 'lt not denie thy wife and Goddesse now Thou neuer didst deny me ought before It 's not for martiall Armes sweet hart I sue W'haue done with those wee 'l hence bid wars adue 105. Indeed I once was forc't for that to woo But not so now And it 's for my selfe beside Nay and a thing befits thy Venus too I must not nay I will no be deni'd For if you do indeed I le hang the lip And neuer with thee more to meadows trip 106. Sweet thus it is I heare by heauens designe A royall Nuptiall shortly like to bee Twixt Frederick the Palatine of Rhine Aud faire Eliza of great Brittanie And how King Iames bestirs him euery way To make great Triumphs gainst the wedding day 107. Londons great Thames they all in hast prepare Where ore they build Briggs Chaines and Fabricates Of Art which well with Pallas may compare To entertaine these high imperiall States Where they in honour of this day desire To shew on waters powers of subtile fire 108. VVherefore Sweet Chuck for my sake ready be To help these fire-workes do a maisters part Thou art the God of fire then ouersee And teach the English thine Ignean Art I would not for the world that Art should misse For want of Thee and then she gaue a kisse 109. Now as the waxen Torch no sooner feeles The scorching heat of Lemnius fire approaching But straight's on low euen so this Suitor steeles Her Lemman Vulcan with alures incroaching He bristles vp and turning white o' th eye He thus to Venus gins to make reply 110 Sweet Duck what need you to entreat me so You may command and I must needs obey You know I am yours whether I will or no Faire Venus wil is Vulcans lock and key Besides for this trouble your selfe no more I heard what hand Ioue had in this before 111. Kind mouse and then he knept lo heere 's my hand For thy sake I wil do them what I can I and my forge shall be at their command Or neuer hold me for an honestman As I 'me a God and then againe he knept Turn'd white o' th' eye and so the Clubfoot slept 112. No sooner did this Nuptiall day adproach And Trumpets warne them of this glorious sight But some on foot some horst some in their coach Repare to Thames with all their maine and might Where Barges Oares and Scullers did appeare Aweight for Atlas bigge enough to beare 113. Troopt with his peeres great Brittains King ascends A lofty stately Turret made for view Vith whom Queene Anne Prince Charles Prince Frederick wends With faire Eliza oh that heauenly shew So ritch so graue Maiestick are they gone As if great Ioue ascended to his throane 114. With that lame Vulcan from the lofty Tower Straight falls to worke and gins to stir his stump Where with a peale of ordnance for an hower Giues them faire welcome all with many a thump VVho yet before his thundring fires were showne Makes one good legge God knowes he had but one 115. Next after this the squibs skip vp the ayre Makes cloudes by thousands spread them like a net Such like as when the Titans durst to dare The Gods aboue and they on Phlegra met Such were the flashes cracks and heauens face As when the Gods had Gyants in the chase 116. But no such feare withall the nimble fire Giues eares contentments pleasures to the eye The cunning squibs while they the Heauens aspire Make twenty shapes on house and casements nie They skip they run they fall and keep a quoile VVhile all the Thames was ready for to boile 117. Scarce this was done when by Vulcanian arts A sell fierce fiery Dragon gins to mount VVho with his taile the ayre so swiftly parts As makes a thunder Teeth withouten Count. VVhet gnash and crash his Irish Dart tonguethere Threatens to kill and poyson who comes neere 118. Saint George on horseback with his speare and sheild Confronts the Serpent and with martiall looks Makes towards the Dragon in the airy field And with vndaunted spirit his speare he shook The Dragon in whose scales laid hart and might Prouokes this worthy warriour to the fight 119. Both with like courage and with equall force They first aloofe charge each the other there Saint George being mounted on his warlik horse Assailes the Dragon with his conquering speare The furious Dragon fiercely doth assaile To meet th' encounter with his scale arm'd tayle 120. VVhere he attempts with twining circling rounds To graspe the Warriour and to teare his skin George with his speare preuents those murdering wounds And giues the hurt the Dragon ment to him When mad with ire he makes a horrid yell Spoutes thundring fire earth trembling at the knell 121. Now careles of himselfe not dreading ill The Dragon flies to fight neere hand to hand He feares not death so hee his foe may kill The battell doubtfull for the while doth stand They slice the ayre with blowes on either side Till light and thunders through the Regions ride 122. At last these doubts Saint George the valiant Puts out of doubt and hath the Serpent kild The puissant victor vp the ayre doth vaunt While Earths below with acclamations fild Thus brauely ending this Vulcanian fight Another shew presents it selfe to fight 123. On Thames a steepy mountaine Vulcan founds Where bushes thickets hearbs and flowers appeare VVhereout a kennell of wel-mouthed hounds Do rouze a stately stagge who flies for feare He wheeles imbosts and runs for feare to dye They follow chanting with a heauenly crye 124. At last so hotly they the sttagge pursue They pinch the haunches of the fearefull Deare Aire reboating thunders out a new He striues to scape but still was neare the neere Forcelesse at last seeing no way but death He brayes he weeps he dies and vanisheth 125. Next after this a worke of admiration For Art Deuise Nouelty and Wit Whose true description passeth my relation Is show'n these royall Princes as they sit A seeming Martiall Nauy brauely man'd Fraught with rich spoiles coms sayling t'wards the land 126. Thames grones to beare the burden of the weight Their Oares do make the water seeme to rore Their glittering streamers daze the lookers sight Their drums and trumpets deafe all neere the shore Thus the braue warlick Britans do assayle A Turkish Towre which they attempt to scale 127. The Trumpets sound defiance to the Turke The Turke defies the Britan to his face On either side the soldiers fall to work Turks to sinke ships Britans

euer seene so bright The day of daies now 's happily expir'd Faire Phaebs hasting to produce the night A Night no night was euer equall seene Wherein the Prince enioyes his virgin Queen 154. Sweet Venus to thy golden Chariot hast thee Drawne through the regions by thy siluer doues Hymen the wonders of the world haue grac't thee Why hasts not thou to grace their bedright loues Light Tapers Hymen beauties Queene is wed With Io Pean sing the bride to bed 155. Hast honour'd God of vnpoluted louers Thou royall Lord of lawfull propagation Thy royall wedlock to the world discouers Thy sacred power and care for procreation Bring only thou canst bring the Virgin Bride And lay the Princesse by the Prince his side Chast Vesta yeelds to thy connubiall powers And Cypris selfe accknowledgeth thy might Withall confessing all her dallying howers Only by thee legitimate and right Light Tapers Hymen beauties Queene is wed With Io Pean sing the bride to bed 157. Thou honourer of that Thessalian mountaine The heauens-aspiring Pindus hast thee hither Forsake thy Phocis and Castalian fountaine Brittaine out-peeres them put them altogether Greece yeelds thee nought but Brittaine yeelds thee more And what Greece wants great Britaine hath in store 158. Heere haue the Muses fountaines of their owne Heere mountaines woods and patrons to defend them Heere is the Temple of true wedlock knowne Heere therefore rest thee Hymen heere attend them Light Tapers Hymen beauties Queene is wed With Io Pean sing the bride to bed 159. Each aged Sire no sooner knits the knot Betwixt his daughter and some good mans sonne But thour' t a guest thou must not be forgot Its thee they most desire when all is done The Virgin yeelds trusting no one but thee Her maiden girdle to thy custody 160. Haste thou great Off-spring of Vrania The Muses glory and Pernassus pride The knot is knit confime the same for ay FREDERICK intreats thee with his Princely Bride Light Tapers Hymen Beauties Queen is wed With Io Paean sing the Bride to bed 161. Now now 's the time when thou must play thy part Rhein for a wife ELIZA hath procur'd More sweet by Nature then Venus could by art When she Adonis to her loue allur'd Her sweetest perfumes neuer could compare VVith sweet ELIZA'S breath which sweets the aire 162. Now Swan-like Ioue when he to Ledae wended Or to his Danae in a showre of gold VVith FREDERIC for pomp could haue contended VVhen he espous'd this Queen of heauenly mold Light Tapers Hymen beauties Queene is wed With Io Pean sing the bride to bed 163. Faire Virgin flower of all Diana's traine Off-spring of Ioue and of Mnenie sine The Goddess-graces all in thee remaine To make thy Earth the heauens Epitome To thee doth golden Ceres giue her haire Diana cheekes and Iuno forehead faire 164. To thee Minerua giues her chastest eyes Pomona paps Latona lilly hands Astraea arms Venus lips rosie dies Tethis thy pretty feet whereon thou stands Gratia thy gesture what creature 's like thee liuing Whose euery part is of a Goddess giuing 165. Hermione was neuer halfe so faire No though Orestes were the Iudge of beautie Ne yet might Hellen with this Queen compare Make Paris Iudge to Hellen bound by duetie Light Tapers Hymen beauties Queene is wed With Io Paean sing the Bride to bed 166. Thou flower of youth Sonne to the Gods aboue The heauens delight and earths felicity To thee the Gods each one to show their Loue Present their gifts worthy eternity To thee great Ioue giues an heroyck hart And mighty Mars his courage doth impart 167. On thee Apollo doth his wit bestow Vranus forme Cyllenius eloquence To thee God Cupid hath bequeathd his Bow Neptune his treasures of magnificence Saturne thy manners what mortall can compare With him whom all the gods haue fram'd so rare 168. Theseus was neuer halfe so braue a creature Though Ariadne iudg'd betwixt them two Hyppolitus nere had so comly feature Make Phedra iudge who did the yongling woo Light Tapers Hymen this heauenly couple's wed With Io Paean sing the Bride to bed 269. If euer for heroick nuptiall rites In the delight or honor did appeare This Nuptiall both for honour and delights Out strips the best and all that euer were As far as floods out-strip the litte springs Or seas the floods or mighty meanest things 170. So sweet a pare no age did euer see No age shall euer see them paraleld No loue night Court was or will euer bee That linkt attended such sweet Princes held Light Tapers Hymen this heauenly couple's wed With Io Paean sing the Bride to bed 171. The Bridegroom now hath cast his nuts about As Casting thoughts away in nonage weaker The bride-cake's broak and hurld the prease throughout In signe of future Plenty to the breaker Gold in abundance giue they to the poore Betookning bounty Maiesty and store 172. Graue Senators chast Matrons doe invite thee Young louely Lords faire Virgins do intreat These may and wish for marriage that incite thee Denie their suit 't were sin and pitty great Light tapers Hymen this heauenly couple's wed With Io Pean sing the Bride to bed 173. See see they come Hymen hath tapers light Britans and Rhein●sts let your hearts reioyce And you that now professe your faiths aright With hallowed Hymus to heauens lift vp your voice Here towards her chamber comes the Virgin Bride Drawne from her royall faire Queen-mothers side 174. See with what state Hymen his Tapers brings You Virgin Ladies that attend along List likewise how melodiously shee sings Helpe Hymeneus sing his vnder song Hymen O Hymen beauties Queen is wed With Io Paean sing we Bride to bed 175. See where faire Concord comes sweet garlands weaving And loue her louely flowers before her stro'ing Neither their places or their office leauing Till they haue crown'd the Virgin as shee 's going Venus and Iuno on either side instruct her The Virgin blushing while the Queenes conduct her 176. Halfe nilling-willing with her eies demisse Shee forward steps but with a backward pace With a blush her beauty wrapped is Like Roses shut which promise greater Grace Hymen O Hymen this beauties Queene is wed With Io Pean sing the Bride to bed 177. Like as bright Cynthia in her golden shine Attended on with many aglittering Star Whose radiant Beauties though they bee deuine Yet Cynthya's praecedes the fairest far Euen so Eliza mongst her Nymphs most faire Exceeds their most with more past all compare 178. Her tresses eurl'd by Lydian art she weares With Emralds Rubies Amathists bedeckt With Diamonds dangling at her Princely eares Her neck adorn'd with pearls of best respect Topar and Berill who i' st can number them No Iewels wanted to adorne this Gem. 179. Thus rich attir'd but richer far in beauty Eliza meets her worthy PALATINE Whil'st all the Court in shew of loue and duty Cry Heauens preserue the Princess and the Rheine Hymen O Hymen this heauenly couples wed With Io Paean sing the Bride to bed 180. Against this mirrour to her chamber came Aglaia had prepar'd her Princely bed Where laid no sooner this imperiall Dame And purple curtains bout the Princess spread But all retire leauing to wait no other Saue louely Cupid and his louelier Mother 181. Propitious may the Heauens for euer be Propitious Earth with all they both containe Propitious proue for euer Ioues decree The golden-age reducing back againe Now Hymen cease thine hymenaean voice For Frederick enioyes his royall choice FINIS THere is great strife twixt death and loue Which of them is the stronger And which of them can strike the stroake Whose wound endures the longer HENRY FREDERICK sayd they both Shall be our marke to trie Which of vs twaine can doe the deede To get the victorie Death HENRY strikes God Cupid strikes Faire FREDERICKS strength to proue So HENRY dyes a sodaine death So FREDERICK is in loue VVe know Loue is as strong as Death But Death to Loue must yeeld For Death is past loue still remaines God Cupid wins the Field