 | Argalvs and Parthenia |  |
Noble
Youth, and louely Maide,
Heauen accepts your pleasing fires,
And hath granted your desires:
By the mystry of our power,
First, we consecrate this howre
To Iuno's name, that she would blesse
Our prosprous actions with successe.
With this Oyle (which we appoint
For holy vses) we annoint
Your temples, and with nuptiall bands
Thus we firmly ioyne your hands:
Be ioyn'd for euer: and let none
Presume t'vndoe, what we haue done.
Be ioyn'd till lawlesse Death shall seuer
Both hands & hearts: be ioyn'd for euer:
Eternall curses we alot
To those, till then, shall loose this knot.
Heauen accepts your pleasing fires,
And hath granted your desires:
By the mystry of our power,
First, we consecrate this howre
To Iuno's name, that she would blesse
Our prosprous actions with successe.
With this Oyle (which we appoint
For holy vses) we annoint
Your temples, and with nuptiall bands
Thus we firmly ioyne your hands:
Be ioyn'd for euer: and let none
Presume t'vndoe, what we haue done.
Be ioyn'd till lawlesse Death shall seuer
Both hands & hearts: be ioyn'd for euer:
Eternall curses we alot
To those, till then, shall loose this knot.
| Argalvs and Parthenia | |