Ayres and dialogues For One, Two, and Three Voyces. By Henry Lawes ... The First Booke |
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An Anniversary on the Nuptials of John Earle of Bridgewater, July 22. 1652.
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An Anniversary on the Nuptials of John Earle of Bridgewater, July 22. 1652.
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The Day's return'd, and so are we, to payour Offering on this great Thanksgiving-day.
'Tis His, 'tis Her's, 'tis Both, 'tis All;
Though now it rise, it ne'r did fall;
Whose Honour shall as lasting prove,
as our Devotion or Their Love:
Then let's rejoyce, and by our Joy appear,
In this one Day we offer all the Year.
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See the bright Pair, how amiably kind,As if their Souls were but this Morning joyn'd:
As the same Heart in Pulses cleft,
This for the Right Arme, that the Left;
So His and Her's in sever'd parts
Are but two Pulses, not two Hearts:
Then Let's, &c.
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Let no bold Forraign noise their Peace remove,Since nothing's strong enough to shake their Love,
Blesse Him in Her's, Her in His Arms,
From suddain (true or fals) Alarms;
Let ev'ry Year fill up a score,
Born to be One, but to Make more:
Then let's, &c.
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This Day Ten years to Him and Her did grantWhat Angels joy, and Joyes which Angels want:
Our Lady-Day, and our Lord's too,
Twere sin to rob it of its due,
Tis of both Genders, Her's and His,
We stay'd twelve Months to welcome this.
Then let's rejoyce, and by our Joy appear
In this one Day we offer all the Year.
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