neglected now And to a bag-pipe whistle single Kitt Lift up their heeles 'till they the Seiling hit Scraping such welcomes that your hall will bee Turn'd fallow with their Gamboll jolitye As if their plowing shooes would there foretell The plenteous viands which againe shall swell Your full crown'd tables equalling that store Your Fathers charity us'd spend before Your flourishing age doth prophecy their mirth Shall yearly be renew'd with a faire birth Such hopes are dasht when youth mungrels it's blood With a rich three-score ore-worne Widdow-hood Where the not pleasant but most reverend bride Lies like a Sybill by her husbands side Who kisseth her with such devotion As Anch'rites doe some Relique or Saints bone But heer 's no wrinkles save what Venus hurles On her faire brow when it with smiles she curles These strict embraces teach the fruitfull vine And shew the honyedwood-bine to entwine Like two perfumes mixt may they know no strife But to infuse in a third Odour life G. K. On the happy Marriage of H. R. and A. B. masked under the names of ASTROPHIL and CHARILLIS YOu Virgins that did ne're yet prove The power and sweet effects of love And yet faine would learners be J'th ' chast and naturall mistery Goe not to your wanton vine 'T is not love she doth define But loves errour see her Top Makes use of every Neighbour prop And rather then shee 'l lye alone Shee le loosely mingle with her own The Jvy too as well doth twine About the Elme as lofty Pine If shee has store shee doth not care How crooked and deform'd they are Such love as this though typ'd by trees Is practis'd by those looser shee s Whose dotage thinks all ware will passe If veil'd with loves diviner glasse Her true complexion wouldst thou see Such as is not Heresy Whose unmixt and cleaner fires Owe their birth to such desires As a Hermite may admit Or a frozen Anchorite Let Astrophil thy Tutor be Or Charillis chastity Who to each Virgin breast shall prove Not lovers but the Art of love Which having learnt and that you bee Proficients in the mystery At your Tutors Bridall day Every Virgin sing a Lay And as sacrifices bring The pride and glory of the spring Lillies Daffadills and Posies Of the blushing Damaske Roses Primroses and other flowres To bedeck the Wedding bowres Chaplets fresh both white and greene Such as fit Loves King and Queene Since to each Virgin breast they 'le prove Not Lovers but the Art of Love That done with soft and dutious feet At Brumham house together meet Where if the Bride as innocent As if there were no marriage meant You find asleep each one may sip The balmy Nectar of her Lip Which treasure up for it will be The best preserve for Chastity Then with voyce as soft and still As Zeph'rus whisper Astrophill At which word as at the Bell Which rings a Dirge or Matins Knell Rise the chast and watchfull Nunes Shee 'le disclose her clowded Sunnes Which having seene you boldly may Tell the world 't is breake of day Then with no unseemly rimes As are usuall at such times 'Mongst loose Madames of the Court Make immodesty a sport But with hearts as pure and free From bad thoughts as Martyrs be When they laughing court the stake Finer try your charge to make Which nor sad nor froward doe You may be chast and merry too Each virgin to her selfe may say That I had such a wedding day Having bound her flaxen tresses And put on the choyce of dresses To her Love that all this while With a sweet and unforc't smile Doe's expect in one soft kisse To give and take an unpriz'd blisse You must deliver your rich store Both the Indies boast not more And like learners watchfull stand At the Bride and Bride-groome's hand Since to each Virgin Breast they 'l prove Not Lovers but the Art of Love Next when as their lipps have showne Their soules more Constant Vnion And the God of Marriage stands With Virgin-Tapers in his hands Which he lately lighted by His or her refulgent eye Then I say the Virgin crew Of Brumham Nymphs know what to doe And the swaynes of Buckington Lacok Chalne and Heddington Pleasant Bremble where the fleet And parted streames of Avon meet Wait the Bride and Bridegroomes Nodds Like that troupe of lesser Gods That once met on Phlaegras greene To attend Heavens King and Queene And the Birds who chirping say This shall be your Bishops day From your cheerefull hollow throates Strive to drowne the Minstrells notes See they come what light is here Phoebus is out-shone I sweare And for shame behind a cloud His fainting conquer'd beames doth shrowd Tell me Virgins have you seen On the Spye or Wansditch green Such a lovely well-shapd Creature Or e're dream'd of such a feature For I know your dreames suggest What doth please your fancies best Browne his hayre is which doth shew The owner of 't is trusty too Proper as the lofty Pine Or the trees of Apennine Strait as straightest lines of Art Or those beames the Sunne doth dart When no thicke or clowdy dayes Doe refract or breake his rayes Would you have me to expresse In a word all comelinesse That nothing may be said beside Hee 's as beauteous as his Bride And with her there 's no compare Venus selfe is not so faire Shee ha's goodly eyes 't is true So has bright Charillis too Venus forehead thoug't be high Js not white as Jvory When Charillisses I know Whiter is then falling snow Whose sudden chast and spotlesse birth Never mingled yet with earth Her Lipps but oh J cant'runne o're All the parts of her rich store Hymens torch burnes all this while And the Bride and Bridegroomes smile Gently chides at my delay But they shall no longer stay Virgins o'pe the Temple gates Where the Priest and people waites Each as jocound as if they Saw and had this Bridall Day Now with fervour joyne your hands As in love so Hymens bands While my humble muse retires Seldome warm'd at such bright fires And betakes it selfe agen To it's blunt and usuall Pen. And if e're J chance to woe Beauteous payre I le thinke of you Since to all Virgin Breasts you prove Not Lovers but the Art of Love G. B. HAnds joyned 'T was never Better see They shadow out some Majesty 'T is this stately Posture crownes Kings and Queenes Ambitions For to make sure his mystique Bands Hymen tyes one knot of Hands Here Great Love thou hast a Paire More soft then purest Kidd more Faire Which doe lend the Gloves they weare Perfume beyond the Millainer And where can Rich Sents breathing lye Fitter then in such Jvory Then Happy Sir the common voice Must needs commend You and Your choice Who are so vertuous so Best You will ev'n consecrate your Priest Come then from Church There 's other Rites Wait to accumulate Your delights View the Board and see what fare The
ΓΑΜΗΛΙΑ On the happy marriage of the most accomplished paire H. R. Esq And the vertuous A. B. ACADEMIA OXONIENSIS Christus Lucrum Veritas in Profundo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OXFORD Printed by L. L. AN. DOM. 1640. AD SPONSVM AEDES Brumhamianas primò invisentem SIste gradum quavis Juvenis dignissime formâ Haec statio erranti est placidissima pectoris aestū Hic relevare potes nec pulchri indagine vultûs Per varios migres agros variasque per urbes Occupet ignarum forsan Brumhamia in illis Aedibus alma Venus posuere castra Cupido Hospitium praedulce Deae peregrine subito Saucius exibis Nam quos non vulnerat Anna Sanguinis antiqui Bayntonia dives avorum Et decor ipsa suis cunctis praelata puellis Et formâ praestans primis nubilis annis Huic similem quondam servavit ahenea turris Aethere cui puro descendit plurimus auro Jupiter fulvus pro munere depluit imber Pro love munus erat plus nostrâ elucet in Annâ Plus pro dote feret siquidem supereminet omnes Virgineus pudor divina modestia dotes Vreris infaelix Age divam ambito puellam Non benè conveniunt aestus in amante pudorque Basia stulte petas nec tantum basia prosunt Quantum sola nocent Peragat facundia causam Quam non suasit Amor fervens pectoris ardor Diva Venus Venerisque leves faveatis Amores Tu quoque casta licet noli morosa videri Et cave ne renuas sortem quam fata benignam Insolitò misêre vagae quot rure puellae Jllius heu cupidae quot sperant basia matres Virginibus cessura suis Tibi fata dederunt Quae reliquis inimica negant quos sola recusas Quâlibet amplexus emissent arte puellae Ne te difficilem praebe vix dignior illo Quisquam nocte tuâ est nuptae thalamoque pudico Vicimus ô Juvenes laetas Hymenaeus ad aures Fertur insignis patitur Bayntonia vinci Dat quoque victa manum Veneris jam foedere gaudens Oscula nunc repetas pulchris signata labellis Oscula blanda dabit nec quaeras oscula tantùm Virginitas jam tota tua est cùm Cynthia noctem Speratam tulerit Sol se merserit undis Phaebus abit Properes dulcia bella capessas Collectumque diù cupidus largire vigorem J. E. To the happy Bride-groome WHilest we faire Sir approaching Winter moane And grieve to see our May and Iuly gone These gentler Moneths conspire to crowne your fate And with joyn'd temper still attend your state Hee that enjoyes a Paradise which yeelds The Pride of Gardens flowry Lawnes and Fields Chang'd seasons cannot feele to him the yeare 'Twixt spring and summer doth throughout appeare To the most vertuous Bride A. B. The Paths of Love are plaine and we his Darte Can trace when it wounds but a common heart In you faire Spouse the winged Deity Is Knots and Charmes Riddle and Mystery 1 Tell me Before what pearled row Ripe Cherries doe in Autumne grow 2 What earthly Glories scatter'd raies Excell Apollo's haire and Bayes 3 What Climate in the North breaths forth Aires then the Easterne beds more worth 4 What twin-like starres below doe prove Light and eclipse to those above 5 What Snow is that which is both flame And frost to him that courts the same 6 What chast coole Ice hath heate so much To melt th'embracer with its touch 7 What Sun is that which risen benights Fresh Summer set breeds his delights Would You unriddle these in order set The two first letters of the Alphabet T. F. EN En stellato fulgens Venus aurea coelo Praeludit Thalamis multis lucida flammis Faustas promittit taedas noctemque benignam Vobis faelices Animae post taedia longa Has sedes sacravit Amor jam fata potestis Improba ridere vanos contemnere casus Sic postquam iratum tranavit navita pontum Et fruitur portu Fortunae oblitus iniquae Demulcet Genium atque udis poenè obrutus undis Ignigenae indulget Baccho tepidoque Lyaeo Et nondum siccas expellunt pocula curas Ite agite ô Juvenes vos castissima turba Quae nondum Veneri specula appendistis honores Ferte omnes Sponso Sponsae lectissima circum Nectite serta torum multoque è flore corollas Hoc templum Veneris tenerique Cupidinis ara En ubi casta venit vittis redimita capillos Victima purpureos niveoque insignis amictu Tali Agamemnoniam cultu incessisse puellam Credibile est quando formâ commota Diana Suppositâ cervâ maestis servabat ab aris Turba puellarum cur non imponitis arae Huic molli lecto nuptam ne brachia vincla Impediant nec vincla pedes succumbat Amoris Victima sponte suâ Cur palles sacra puella En mystes tibi sponsus erit tibi vulnera figet Cur iterum formosa times at vulnera Amoris Mille genis teneris mille mille labellis Atque oculis frontique affiget basia donec Deliquium patiatur Amor tunc arctius ulnis Corpus formosum amplectens eburnea colla Pectore mulcebit tepido viresque vagantes Colliget atque novos sensim producet amores Adsis sponse sacer mystes sponsus Amoris Mystes sponsus Veneris solennia sacra Sunt peragenda tibi faveat tibi noctis amicae Longa quies serò suos sol dividat ignes Quaerit Amor tenebras amica silentia noctis Virgine sic tandem oblatâ sacrisque peractis Mane novo innumeram possis praedicere prolem P. M. GOod morning to your chastest loves the day Hasts to compleat your joyes Sol could not stay One minute longer ere he rose he fled The tedious courtships of his Tethys bed And woo'd Aurora with a gentle smile That she would ope the day and so beguile Night of her due she blush'd and straight the hills Were mantle'd all in red the wood quire fils The groves with Musick th' morne the groves and all Welcome the comming of loves festivall Virgins deflowre the feilds you may commit Rapes on the medows and be Virgins yet Rob Flora's gawdy wardrobe and o'respread The way with flowers where the Lovers tread This is an honest theft this no offence To sinne when Love command's is innocence This done the lovers may to th' Temple goe The Temple hath a share in Loves rights too Religion is the band of loue we ty The lovers knot in this solemnity The ring 's the pledge of love no other stone Gives it its price but its owne union Blest Couple doe I not a sinne commit To say a couple when this knot is knit This right performed you both victors are Conquering each others hearts each hath a share In the others love from the selfe same fire Both loves receive their warmth the same desire Burns in each breast two bodies thus may be By one soule mov'd 't is Loves
Philosophy Love hath proclam'd a feast his courts doe ring With sweetest Musick and the Minstrils sing The court 's inspir'd with mirth who ever now Lookes sad and pensiue or contracts the brow Savours of Schisme and faction he will prove Not of the court but family of Love Had some decrepite paire enter'd Loves bands Snowie with age and joyned palsi'd hands Mirth would have bin a mock-show Jf the Bride Had chanc'd to smile you would perhaps have spy'd Empty unfurnish'd gums to sing at best Had bin to cough in tune and all the rest Of Loves solemnities but only showne The Bride and Bridegroomes imperfection Here both are young youth dances on their brows Fresh and untainted vigour gently flows Within their veines hither doth nature bring The richest tributes of the youthfull spring See where the Bride appeares such Majesty Did not invest the Cyprian Queen when shee Ore ' came on th' Phrygian Mounts or when she strove With armed Mavors in the field of Love Let but her aged parents gently sipp The balmy sweetnesse of her virgin lipp Jt will repaire their age and straight restore A fresher spring then ere they had before Blest Sr be happy in your Bride those armes Are more effectuall then the strongest charmes They will effascinate your soule but this Bewitching is unto a future blisse Enjoy her chast and modest there can be No better dowry then Virginity Chast as the blushing morne or pearly dew Which drops from Virgin-Roses whose faire hue The Sunne hath not yet courted Tast the sweet Due to your wedded soules it is not meet That you should now in contemplation move But try at length the practick part of Love Warm'd by each others loves you may beget Each night a Cupid and be youthfull yet P. M. SPonsa veni differs nimìs expectata mariti Gaudia quà m pretiosa Tibi dilabitur hora Dum nimiùm benè compositis Te vestibus ornas Tu plus nuda places Paridis sententia Palmae Ipsi nec Veneri victricia serta dedisset Si non nudatae Nimiam sub pectore curam De cultu retines non veste ornatior ullâ Quà m Tali Qualem Tibi connubialia praestant Stragula lodicesquè sacri velamina lecti Undique conspersis sternatur floribus alma Tellus Quicquid calcaverit haec Rosa fiat Lilia virgineae dispergite verna puellae Hoc agite vobis talis precor accidat hora. Accendas Hymenaee faces facilisque vocatus Ritibus his adsis viridi velatus amictu Sisque maritatis florentis nuntius aevi Nolo equidem decores humeros velamine flavo Zelotypi color iste decet connubia sponsi Ast hinc suspicio procul hinc quoque vana facessant Jurgia sollicitae procul hinc discedite curae Et quicquid violet peramica silentia noctis Aequo perpetuo nexu jungantur Amantes Turturibus similes solo hoc discrimine distent Nullo cum gemitu nullo cum murmure vivant Rumpe moras Zonamque tuam Quid sponsa moraris Pro Zonâ cingat pulcherrima virgo mariti Gratior amplexus vivusque sit annulus iste Quo sua perpetuo firmet connubia nodo Teque viro jungas nec vitis amiciùs ulmo Haereat aut plures opto ferat illa racemos Quam Tu filiolos parias foecunda Quotannis Et geminum parias longâque propagine foetum Sitque alter Matris Patrisque sit ectypon alter G. W. COme Hymen haste and bring thy lights And for a while let 's know no Nights Put thy glad saffron Garment on Let all dull sadnesse farre begone And sing with Musique by thy side Joy to the Bridegroome and the Bride Behold here is a loving Paire They both are young and both are faire Thy Torches yet did never see Brave Youth and Beauty so agree Haste Hymen then to joyne their Hands Haste thee and loose their virgin Bands What beauty on his cheeke doth shine T is lovely yet not Faeminine Each cheeke endeavours to excell And in this Friendly strife doe dwell A red in either doth abide As if they blush'd at eithers Pride In Hers what Modesty doth sit The Rose and Lilly there are knit From Her snowy spotlesse looke The face of Jnnocence was tooke Her Lipps in Labour swell soft Kisses Th'ofspring are and sweeter blisses Their Friends and Fortunes aequall bee Their virtues and estates agree Their Age is too so nigh the same That they scarce differ but in Name They seeme to mee as if they had Bin Man and Wife by Birth not made Haste thee Hymen what dost feare The threats of this or t'other shire Can Bromham mourne or Cannington To see so blest an union If to a Gemme a Gemme you joyne The more 's the Prize the more 's the shine Thou rob'st not this or t'other place But add'st to both a double Grace They two being wed those Townes may be Partakers of the Mysterie Two starres conjoyn'd both may dispence To sundry climes their Jnfluence The fruitfull vine doth from one Roote Diffuse his Moisture round about So that the farthest Branch may be The thickest cluster'd on the tree So from the stock may branches grow To shade those Townes and Countries to And now I see 'em joyn'd the Bells To list'ning Friends the glad news tells Joy sitts on ev'ry brow each eye Mov's quick as Heaven with Lollity One wedding brings a thousand forth For all seeme married unto Mirth But see the Sunne how fast he flies And to his amorous Tethys hies How red he blushes as he were A sham'd t' have kept the married Paire From their due joyes so long Their day Js night he cries so poasts away And haste thou Muse too only wish Each night may prove no worse then this Their Love may still encrease and they Kisse still as loving as to Day The children like the Parents prove Some Mars'es and some Queenes of Love R. P. HUc huc ô Veneres Cupidinesque Huc Nymphae Charitesque quotquot estis Sed castae Veneres Cupidinesque Sed quales Charites beatis illum Sed quales Charites beatis illam Huc laeto simul advolate cursu Huc vos properate grata Musae Turba quaelibet induens Thaliam Vestros jungite Gratiis lepores Illi junctus Hymen choro beabit Fausto carmine blandulum maritum Fausto carmine blandulam maritam Haec junget sociâ dies catenâ Hugonem juvenum venustiorum Et sexûs decus omne mollis Annam Ne citum nimis urgeas Phlegonta Currum qui regis arbiter diei Cedas seriùs at nigrae sorori Festi gaudia protrahens amaeni Atat gnavus impiger maritus Lento irascitur invidetque Phaebo Sponsi gaudia plena quid moramur Et quid vota novae modesta sponsae Amplexusque pios sed ruborem Sincera oscula sed simul timorem Et quae dat genialis ille lectus Blanda Cypridos incruenta bella Ah pigros nimis urgeas caballos Currum qui regis arbiter diei