SPONSA.
Egredimini & videte filiæ Sion.
Sponsa.
Daughters of Jerusalem,
The fairest Sprouts of Sions stem,
Come forth, my Friends, come forth, and see
What mine, and what your Honours be!
You well remember th' happy Day,
(And well remember it, you may)
When first your King receiv'd his Crown,
King Salomon, and 'twas his own,
Not of the Kingdom but of his Love;
And it the fairer Crow'n did prove.
From 'his Mothers Hands the joyful Son,
On 'his Nuptial Day receiv'd the Crown.
But such a Son, and such a Mother,
Vying Glories each with th' other,
And such a Crown, and such a Day,
When in chast Joys dissolv'd they lay,
The happy Bridegroom, and the Bride,
And you, their Friends, on either side,
If once again you'd wish to see,
And greater Joys than those could be,
Come, and my greater SALOMON behold,
More glorious in his Love, than he in all his Gold.
