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Virgins, and fellow maydes (that were of late)
Take kindly heere my weeding dayes a dew,
I entertayne degree aboue your state:
For Marriage life's beyond the single crew,
Bring me to Church as custome sayes you shall,
And then as wife, farewell my wenches all.
Take kindly heere my weeding dayes a dew,
I entertayne degree aboue your state:
For Marriage life's beyond the single crew,
Bring me to Church as custome sayes you shall,
And then as wife, farewell my wenches all.
I goe before you vnto Honour now,
And Hymen's Rites with ioy doe vndertake
For life, I make the constant Nuptiall vow,
Striue you to follow for your credits sake,
For greater grace to Womankind is none
Then Ioyne with husband, faithfull two in one.
And Hymen's Rites with ioy doe vndertake
For life, I make the constant Nuptiall vow,
Striue you to follow for your credits sake,
For greater grace to Womankind is none
Then Ioyne with husband, faithfull two in one.
God Honoured thus, our great Grand-mother Eue
And gaue thereby the blessing of increase,
For were not mariage we must all beleeue,
The generations of the earth would cease.
Mankind should be extinguish'd and decreas'd
And all the world would but consist of beast.
And gaue thereby the blessing of increase,
For were not mariage we must all beleeue,
The generations of the earth would cease.
Mankind should be extinguish'd and decreas'd
And all the world would but consist of beast.
Which caused me to finde my Mayden folly,
And having found it, to reforme the same:
Though some of you, thereat seeme melancholy
That I for ever doe renounce your name.
I not respect what censure you can giue,
Since with a loving Man I meane to liue.
And having found it, to reforme the same:
That I for ever doe renounce your name.
I not respect what censure you can giue,
Since with a loving Man I meane to liue.
Whose kindest heart, to me is worth you all,
Him to content, my soule in all things seekes,
Say what you please, exclaiming chide and brall,
Ile turne disgrace vnto your blushing cheekes.
I am your better now by Ring and Hatt,
No more playn Rose, but Mistris you know what.
Him to content, my soule in all things seekes,
Say what you please, exclaiming chide and brall,
Ile turne disgrace vnto your blushing cheekes.
I am your better now by Ring and Hatt,
No more playn Rose, but Mistris you know what.
Marrie therefore and yeald increase a store,
Else to what purpose weare you breed and borne:
Those that receaue, and nothing giue therefore:
Are fruitles creatures, of contempt and scorne,
The excellence of all things doth consist,
In giuing, this no reason can resist.
Else to what purpose weare you breed and borne:
Those that receaue, and nothing giue therefore:
Are fruitles creatures, of contempt and scorne,
The excellence of all things doth consist,
In giuing, this no reason can resist.
The glorious Sun, in giving forth his light,
The Earth in plants, and hearbs & countles things
The trees their fruit, The Empresse of the Night
She bountious giues to rivers flouds and springs,
And all that heaven, and all that earth containes,
Their goodnes, in Increase of guifts explaynes.
The Earth in plants, and hearbs & countles things
The trees their fruit, The Empresse of the Night
She bountious giues to rivers flouds and springs,
And all that heaven, and all that earth containes,
Their goodnes, in Increase of guifts explaynes.
But what doe you that neither giue nor take,
(As only made for hearing, and for seeing,)
Although created helpers for Mans sake:
Yet Man no whit the better for your being,
That spend consume and Idle out your howers,
Like many garden-paynted vselesse flowers.
(As only made for hearing, and for seeing,)
Although created helpers for Mans sake:
That spend consume and Idle out your howers,
Like many garden-paynted vselesse flowers.
Your liues are like those worthles barren trees,
That never yeald (from yeare to yeare) but leaues:
Greene-bowes vpon them only all men sees,
But other goodnes there is none receaues,
They flourish sommer and they make a showe,
Yet to themselues they fruitles spring & growe.
That never yeald (from yeare to yeare) but leaues:
Greene-bowes vpon them only all men sees,
But other goodnes there is none receaues,
They flourish sommer and they make a showe,
Yet to themselues they fruitles spring & growe.
Consider beast, and fish and foule, all creatures,
How there is male and female of their kinde,
And how in loue they doe inlarge their natures:
Even by constrayn'd necessity inclyn'd:
To paire and match, and couple tis decreed,
To stocke and store the earth, with what they breed.
How there is male and female of their kinde,
And how in loue they doe inlarge their natures:
Even by constrayn'd necessity inclyn'd:
To paire and match, and couple tis decreed,
To stocke and store the earth, with what they breed.
In that most powerfull word, still power doth lye,
To whose obedience all must subiect bee,
That sayd at first, Increase and multiply,
Which still enduers from age to age we see:
Dutie obligeth every one should frame,
To his dread will, that did commaund the same.
To whose obedience all must subiect bee,
That sayd at first, Increase and multiply,
Which still enduers from age to age we see:
Dutie obligeth every one should frame,
To his dread will, that did commaund the same.
It is not good for Man to be alone,
(Sayd that great God, who only knowes whats best:)
And therefore made a wife of Adams bone,
While he reposing slept, with quyet rest,
Which might presage, the great Creator men.
In their coniunction, sume of earths content,
(Sayd that great God, who only knowes whats best:)
And therefore made a wife of Adams bone,
While he reposing slept, with quyet rest,
In their coniunction, sume of earths content,
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