 | Argalvs and Parthenia |  |
By this, the Nobles hauing recommended
Their tongues to silence, their discourse being ended,
They look'd about, and thinking to haue done
Their seruice to the Bride; the Bride was gone.
And now, the Bridegroome (vnto whom delay
Seem'd worse then death) could brook no longer stay:
Attended by his noble guests, he enters
That roome, where th'enterchangeable Indenters
Of dearest loue, lay ready to be seal'd
With mutuall pleasures, not to be reueald.
His garments grow too tedious, and their waight
(Not able to be borne) doe ouerfraight
His weary shoulders; Atlas neuer stoopt
Beneath a greater burthen, and not droopt;
No helpe was wanting; for he did receiue
What sudden ayde he could expect, or haue
From speedy hands, from hands that did not wast
The time, vnlesse (perchance) by ouer hast;
Meane while, a dainty warbling brest, not strong,
As sweet, presents this Epithalamion song.
Their tongues to silence, their discourse being ended,
They look'd about, and thinking to haue done
Their seruice to the Bride; the Bride was gone.
And now, the Bridegroome (vnto whom delay
Seem'd worse then death) could brook no longer stay:
Attended by his noble guests, he enters
That roome, where th'enterchangeable Indenters
Of dearest loue, lay ready to be seal'd
With mutuall pleasures, not to be reueald.
His garments grow too tedious, and their waight
(Not able to be borne) doe ouerfraight
His weary shoulders; Atlas neuer stoopt
Beneath a greater burthen, and not droopt;
No helpe was wanting; for he did receiue
What sudden ayde he could expect, or haue
From speedy hands, from hands that did not wast
The time, vnlesse (perchance) by ouer hast;
Meane while, a dainty warbling brest, not strong,
As sweet, presents this Epithalamion song.
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