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Epithalamium.
Mirrour of Men, tis Venus will
Thou shouldst approve thy abler skill
In loves Pharsalia, that she
As well as Mars may boast of thee.
Thy foe is the selected flowre
Of Albions knot or beauties bowre
A Cytherean Amazon.
Loves Penthesilean champion.
Imprison her in thy foulding armes
And stoutly strike up loves allarms:
And satiate with agile delights
Your unrestrained appetites.
My joy, and happie Omens meet
With pleasure in the geniall sheet.
Thou shouldst approve thy abler skill
In loves Pharsalia, that she
As well as Mars may boast of thee.
Thy foe is the selected flowre
Of Albions knot or beauties bowre
A Cytherean Amazon.
Loves Penthesilean champion.
Imprison her in thy foulding armes
And stoutly strike up loves allarms:
And satiate with agile delights
Your unrestrained appetites.
My joy, and happie Omens meet
With pleasure in the geniall sheet.
In this sportive Sciamachie
Where lips both shafts and targets be
No cannons are, thy head to shroud
In a blew mist or smoakie cloud.
This is Cupids iolly feast
Who proud to please so choyce a guest,
Through loves Alimbique thee invite
To distill the joyes of night,
And from thy Mycrocosme by
The art of Paphyan Chymistrie,
One Catapasmian balme derive,
Which may preserve thy name alive.
May joy and happy Omens meet
With pleasure in the geniall sheet.
Where lips both shafts and targets be
No cannons are, thy head to shroud
In a blew mist or smoakie cloud.
This is Cupids iolly feast
Who proud to please so choyce a guest,
Through loves Alimbique thee invite
To distill the joyes of night,
And from thy Mycrocosme by
The art of Paphyan Chymistrie,
One Catapasmian balme derive,
Which may preserve thy name alive.
May joy and happy Omens meet
With pleasure in the geniall sheet.
Both these whom Hymen here untie
Make up but one Hermaphrodite
Let their affections (Queene of love,)
Within the same spheare alwaies move,
And never terminate or know
A thing call'd period, but grow
And with their wreathes be alwaies seene
Like Paphne cloath'd in Aprills greene.
Thou that canst thy trophies show
O're these, and o're thy mother too,
Kindle dayly their desires
Towards one another with new fires.
May joy and happy omens meet
With pleasure in the geniall sheet.
Make up but one Hermaphrodite
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Within the same spheare alwaies move,
And never terminate or know
A thing call'd period, but grow
And with their wreathes be alwaies seene
Like Paphne cloath'd in Aprills greene.
Thou that canst thy trophies show
O're these, and o're thy mother too,
Kindle dayly their desires
Towards one another with new fires.
May joy and happy omens meet
With pleasure in the geniall sheet.
The influence of starrs above
Do Sympathize with sacred love
This night by Uenus assignation
Of two is made one constellation
For Uirgo is (to shine more free)
Transferred into Gemini.
These twinckling starres concur to beare
A Hieroglyphick of you here,
But stop here muse now Juno's rites
Waite to be done, extinguish lights,
Lest by their glaring is descride
The blushing of the bashfull bride.
My joy and happy omens meet
With pleasure in the geniall sheet.
Do Sympathize with sacred love
This night by Uenus assignation
Of two is made one constellation
For Uirgo is (to shine more free)
Transferred into Gemini.
These twinckling starres concur to beare
A Hieroglyphick of you here,
But stop here muse now Juno's rites
Waite to be done, extinguish lights,
Lest by their glaring is descride
The blushing of the bashfull bride.
My joy and happy omens meet
With pleasure in the geniall sheet.
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