ΓΑΜΗΛΙΑ On the happy marriage of the most accomplished paire H. R. Esq And the vertuous A. B. ACADEMIA OXONIENSIS Christus Lucrum Veritas in Profundo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OXFORD Printed by L. L. AN. DOM. 1640. AD SPONSVM AEDES Brumhamianas primò invisentem SIste gradum quavis Juvenis dignissime formâ Haec statio erranti est placidissima pectoris aestū Hic relevare potes nec pulchri indagine vultûs Per varios migres agros variasque per urbes Occupet ignarum forsan Brumhamia in illis Aedibus alma Venus posuere castra Cupido Hospitium praedulce Deae peregrine subito Saucius exibis Nam quos non vulnerat Anna Sanguinis antiqui Bayntonia dives avorum Et decor ipsa suis cunctis praelata puellis Et formâ praestans primis nubilis annis Huic similem quondam servavit ahenea turris Aethere cui puro descendit plurimus auro Jupiter fulvus pro munere depluit imber Pro love munus erat plus nostrâ elucet in Annâ Plus pro dote feret siquidem supereminet omnes Virgineus pudor divina modestia dotes Vreris infaelix Age divam ambito puellam Non benè conveniunt aestus in amante pudorque Basia stulte petas nec tantum basia prosunt Quantum sola nocent Peragat facundia causam Quam non suasit Amor fervens pectoris ardor Diva Venus Venerisque leves faveatis Amores Tu quoque casta licet noli morosa videri Et cave ne renuas sortem quam fata benignam Insolitò misêre vagae quot rure puellae Jllius heu cupidae quot sperant basia matres Virginibus cessura suis Tibi fata dederunt Quae reliquis inimica negant quos sola recusas Quâlibet amplexus emissent arte puellae Ne te difficilem praebe vix dignior illo Quisquam nocte tuâ est nuptae thalamoque pudico Vicimus ô Juvenes laetas Hymenaeus ad aures Fertur insignis patitur Bayntonia vinci Dat quoque victa manum Veneris jam foedere gaudens Oscula nunc repetas pulchris signata labellis Oscula blanda dabit nec quaeras oscula tantùm Virginitas jam tota tua est cùm Cynthia noctem Speratam tulerit Sol se merserit undis Phaebus abit Properes dulcia bella capessas Collectumque diù cupidus largire vigorem J. E. To the happy Bride-groome WHilest we faire Sir approaching Winter moane And grieve to see our May and Iuly gone These gentler Moneths conspire to crowne your fate And with joyn'd temper still attend your state Hee that enjoyes a Paradise which yeelds The Pride of Gardens flowry Lawnes and Fields Chang'd seasons cannot feele to him the yeare 'Twixt spring and summer doth throughout appeare To the most vertuous Bride A. B. The Paths of Love are plaine and we his Darte Can trace when it wounds but a common heart In you faire Spouse the winged Deity Is Knots and Charmes Riddle and Mystery 1 Tell me Before what pearled row Ripe Cherries doe in Autumne grow 2 What earthly Glories scatter'd raies Excell Apollo's haire and Bayes 3 What Climate in the North breaths forth Aires then the Easterne beds more worth 4 What twin-like starres below doe prove Light and eclipse to those above 5 What Snow is that which is both flame And frost to him that courts the same 6 What chast coole Ice hath heate so much To melt th'embracer with its touch 7 What Sun is that which risen benights Fresh Summer set breeds his delights Would You unriddle these in order set The two first letters of the Alphabet T. F. EN En stellato fulgens Venus aurea coelo Praeludit Thalamis multis lucida flammis Faustas promittit taedas noctemque benignam Vobis faelices Animae post taedia longa Has sedes sacravit Amor jam fata potestis Improba ridere vanos contemnere casus Sic postquam iratum tranavit navita pontum Et fruitur portu Fortunae oblitus iniquae Demulcet Genium atque udis poenè obrutus undis Ignigenae indulget Baccho tepidoque Lyaeo Et nondum siccas expellunt pocula curas Ite agite ô Juvenes vos castissima turba Quae nondum Veneri specula appendistis honores Ferte omnes Sponso Sponsae lectissima circum Nectite serta torum multoque è flore corollas Hoc templum Veneris tenerique Cupidinis ara En ubi casta venit vittis redimita capillos Victima purpureos niveoque insignis amictu Tali Agamemnoniam cultu incessisse puellam Credibile est quando formâ commota Diana Suppositâ cervâ maestis servabat ab aris Turba puellarum cur non imponitis arae Huic molli lecto nuptam ne brachia vincla Impediant nec vincla pedes succumbat Amoris Victima sponte suâ Cur palles sacra puella En mystes tibi sponsus erit tibi vulnera figet Cur iterum formosa times at vulnera Amoris Mille genis teneris mille mille labellis Atque oculis frontique affiget basia donec Deliquium patiatur Amor tunc arctius ulnis Corpus formosum amplectens eburnea colla Pectore mulcebit tepido viresque vagantes Colliget atque novos sensim producet amores Adsis sponse sacer mystes sponsus Amoris Mystes sponsus Veneris solennia sacra Sunt peragenda tibi faveat tibi noctis amicae Longa quies serò suos sol dividat ignes Quaerit Amor tenebras amica silentia noctis Virgine sic tandem oblatâ sacrisque peractis Mane novo innumeram possis praedicere prolem P. M. GOod morning to your chastest loves the day Hasts to compleat your joyes Sol could not stay One minute longer ere he rose he fled The tedious courtships of his Tethys bed And woo'd Aurora with a gentle smile That she would ope the day and so beguile Night of her due she blush'd and straight the hills Were mantle'd all in red the wood quire fils The groves with Musick th' morne the groves and all Welcome the comming of loves festivall Virgins deflowre the feilds you may commit Rapes on the medows and be Virgins yet Rob Flora's gawdy wardrobe and o'respread The way with flowers where the Lovers tread This is an honest theft this no offence To sinne when Love command's is innocence This done the lovers may to th' Temple goe The Temple hath a share in Loves rights too Religion is the band of loue we ty The lovers knot in this solemnity The ring 's the pledge of love no other stone Gives it its price but its owne union Blest Couple doe I not a sinne commit To say a couple when this knot is knit This right performed you both victors are Conquering each others hearts each hath a share In the others love from the selfe same fire Both loves receive their warmth the same desire Burns in each breast two bodies thus may be By one soule mov'd 't is Loves
Philosophy Love hath proclam'd a feast his courts doe ring With sweetest Musick and the Minstrils sing The court 's inspir'd with mirth who ever now Lookes sad and pensiue or contracts the brow Savours of Schisme and faction he will prove Not of the court but family of Love Had some decrepite paire enter'd Loves bands Snowie with age and joyned palsi'd hands Mirth would have bin a mock-show Jf the Bride Had chanc'd to smile you would perhaps have spy'd Empty unfurnish'd gums to sing at best Had bin to cough in tune and all the rest Of Loves solemnities but only showne The Bride and Bridegroomes imperfection Here both are young youth dances on their brows Fresh and untainted vigour gently flows Within their veines hither doth nature bring The richest tributes of the youthfull spring See where the Bride appeares such Majesty Did not invest the Cyprian Queen when shee Ore ' came on th' Phrygian Mounts or when she strove With armed Mavors in the field of Love Let but her aged parents gently sipp The balmy sweetnesse of her virgin lipp Jt will repaire their age and straight restore A fresher spring then ere they had before Blest Sr be happy in your Bride those armes Are more effectuall then the strongest charmes They will effascinate your soule but this Bewitching is unto a future blisse Enjoy her chast and modest there can be No better dowry then Virginity Chast as the blushing morne or pearly dew Which drops from Virgin-Roses whose faire hue The Sunne hath not yet courted Tast the sweet Due to your wedded soules it is not meet That you should now in contemplation move But try at length the practick part of Love Warm'd by each others loves you may beget Each night a Cupid and be youthfull yet P. M. SPonsa veni differs nimìs expectata mariti Gaudia quà m pretiosa Tibi dilabitur hora Dum nimiùm benè compositis Te vestibus ornas Tu plus nuda places Paridis sententia Palmae Ipsi nec Veneri victricia serta dedisset Si non nudatae Nimiam sub pectore curam De cultu retines non veste ornatior ullâ Quà m Tali Qualem Tibi connubialia praestant Stragula lodicesquè sacri velamina lecti Undique conspersis sternatur floribus alma Tellus Quicquid calcaverit haec Rosa fiat Lilia virgineae dispergite verna puellae Hoc agite vobis talis precor accidat hora. Accendas Hymenaee faces facilisque vocatus Ritibus his adsis viridi velatus amictu Sisque maritatis florentis nuntius aevi Nolo equidem decores humeros velamine flavo Zelotypi color iste decet connubia sponsi Ast hinc suspicio procul hinc quoque vana facessant Jurgia sollicitae procul hinc discedite curae Et quicquid violet peramica silentia noctis Aequo perpetuo nexu jungantur Amantes Turturibus similes solo hoc discrimine distent Nullo cum gemitu nullo cum murmure vivant Rumpe moras Zonamque tuam Quid sponsa moraris Pro Zonâ cingat pulcherrima virgo mariti Gratior amplexus vivusque sit annulus iste Quo sua perpetuo firmet connubia nodo Teque viro jungas nec vitis amiciùs ulmo Haereat aut plures opto ferat illa racemos Quam Tu filiolos parias foecunda Quotannis Et geminum parias longâque propagine foetum Sitque alter Matris Patrisque sit ectypon alter G. W. COme Hymen haste and bring thy lights And for a while let 's know no Nights Put thy glad saffron Garment on Let all dull sadnesse farre begone And sing with Musique by thy side Joy to the Bridegroome and the Bride Behold here is a loving Paire They both are young and both are faire Thy Torches yet did never see Brave Youth and Beauty so agree Haste Hymen then to joyne their Hands Haste thee and loose their virgin Bands What beauty on his cheeke doth shine T is lovely yet not Faeminine Each cheeke endeavours to excell And in this Friendly strife doe dwell A red in either doth abide As if they blush'd at eithers Pride In Hers what Modesty doth sit The Rose and Lilly there are knit From Her snowy spotlesse looke The face of Jnnocence was tooke Her Lipps in Labour swell soft Kisses Th'ofspring are and sweeter blisses Their Friends and Fortunes aequall bee Their virtues and estates agree Their Age is too so nigh the same That they scarce differ but in Name They seeme to mee as if they had Bin Man and Wife by Birth not made Haste thee Hymen what dost feare The threats of this or t'other shire Can Bromham mourne or Cannington To see so blest an union If to a Gemme a Gemme you joyne The more 's the Prize the more 's the shine Thou rob'st not this or t'other place But add'st to both a double Grace They two being wed those Townes may be Partakers of the Mysterie Two starres conjoyn'd both may dispence To sundry climes their Jnfluence The fruitfull vine doth from one Roote Diffuse his Moisture round about So that the farthest Branch may be The thickest cluster'd on the tree So from the stock may branches grow To shade those Townes and Countries to And now I see 'em joyn'd the Bells To list'ning Friends the glad news tells Joy sitts on ev'ry brow each eye Mov's quick as Heaven with Lollity One wedding brings a thousand forth For all seeme married unto Mirth But see the Sunne how fast he flies And to his amorous Tethys hies How red he blushes as he were A sham'd t' have kept the married Paire From their due joyes so long Their day Js night he cries so poasts away And haste thou Muse too only wish Each night may prove no worse then this Their Love may still encrease and they Kisse still as loving as to Day The children like the Parents prove Some Mars'es and some Queenes of Love R. P. HUc huc ô Veneres Cupidinesque Huc Nymphae Charitesque quotquot estis Sed castae Veneres Cupidinesque Sed quales Charites beatis illum Sed quales Charites beatis illam Huc laeto simul advolate cursu Huc vos properate grata Musae Turba quaelibet induens Thaliam Vestros jungite Gratiis lepores Illi junctus Hymen choro beabit Fausto carmine blandulum maritum Fausto carmine blandulam maritam Haec junget sociâ dies catenâ Hugonem juvenum venustiorum Et sexûs decus omne mollis Annam Ne citum nimis urgeas Phlegonta Currum qui regis arbiter diei Cedas seriùs at nigrae sorori Festi gaudia protrahens amaeni Atat gnavus impiger maritus Lento irascitur invidetque Phaebo Sponsi gaudia plena quid moramur Et quid vota novae modesta sponsae Amplexusque pios sed ruborem Sincera oscula sed simul timorem Et quae dat genialis ille lectus Blanda Cypridos incruenta bella Ah pigros nimis urgeas caballos Currum qui regis arbiter diei
Da furvae citiùs locum sorori Nec sedem priùs occupa relictam Donec officiosa turba amici Inter brachia molliora sponsi Nuptam corripiant novam relicto Nuper nomine virginis rubentem AN ECLOGUE Coridon Alexis Cor. Hoe Alexis gentle swaine Turne a litle back againe Whether run'st thou with such speed Whil'st thy flocks neglected feed Alex. Hast Coridon make hast away This is Sheep-heards holyday Seest thou how the glad swaines runne With each an acclamation Of joy and pleasure to betide The happy Bridegroome and his Bride Cor. Courteous Sheepe-heard read to me Whose is this solemnity Alex. Wot'st thou not how Brumham's pride Happy Virgin happier Bride Pan's eldest Nymph and nearest care Wedds Sylvanus sonne and heire Cor. Shee the glory of these plaines Whose beauty so bewitch'd the swaines And in her fond admirers strooke Amazement with each gracefull looke Shee whose every accent might Charme with wonder and delight And challenge in harmonious measure Syrinx Pan's transformed pleasure Who when her eye shee doth advance Conquers a heart with every glance Shee who made the amorous boyes To esteeme no other joyes But neglect their flocks to fold While her eyes they might behold And not mind the swift-pac'd Day Gazing on a brighter ray Whose amorous and awfull eye Moves with such tempting modesty At once t' would kindle a loose flame And check it Is' t not Shee Alex. The same Yet all this beauty now is wonne By the Swaine of Cannington Then whom Phoebus yet hath spied Nothing fairer but his Bride One in whose ennobled brest Vertue 's selfe hath chose to rest True in heart and strong in tongue Wonder in a swaine so young Nothing Noble nothing faire Lacks to make a perfect paire Cor. Joyne we then and let our love Call for more blessings from above On this rich couple Send them downe Every Deity a Crowne Alex. Pallas wisdome Cor. Juno treasure Alex. Hebe youth Cor. And Venus pleasure Alex. Bacchus and Apollo joyne To make this a fruitfull vine Cor. Hymen with thy brighter flame Quite expell all cause of blame Farre hence vaine jealousy be set Where youth and beauty so are met Alex. That so thir numerous joyes may ne're decrease Each being others greatest happinesse T. P. ECLOGUE Damon Cloris Dam. COme Cloris let us hast away Wee must all now keepe holiday Thirsill to day must Coelia wed Pan will enjoy him in his Bed Clo. The newes is welcome such a paire So young so handsome and so faire Arcadia yeelds not what a face Doth the gentle Coelia grace How did shee Captivate the Swaines That ever saw her on the Plaines What Garlands would this Sheep-heard bring What Roundelaies that other sing That scarce a Pipe was heard to play Vnlesse in praise of Coelia Dam. And Cloris Thirsil is a Lad That in as great esteeme is had What Sheep-heardesse on all the greene Hath not Thirsills lover beene Pretty Daphnis oft would make Garlands and Posies for his sake And oft in flowers his name would set And weare it in her Coronet And then shee 'd vow that his name lent The flowers their colour and their sent Phyllis too did often send Tokens to him as her friend Shee wrought him Handkerchiefs which shee Conveid unto him privily And if at any time he chanc'd To use them when hee publike danc'd Phyllis then was happy made And ample recompences had What shifts would Amarillis frame If shee but heard of Thirsills name Shee 'd drive her flocks to his and sweare They better fed because so neare His eyes shee 'd call those heavenly showers That deck the earth with grasse and flowers And t was no mar'le since shee did view How in his cheeks sweet Roses grew Shee call'd his face a Flowery May His eye a never falling day If that he but a piping were Shee l cal 't the musicke of the Spheare Clo. Oh Damon thou thy selfe canst say How Coelia doth both sing and play How all the youngsters of the plaines Are ravisht with her curious straines How when she sings her Flock will looke As with admiration strooke They leave of grasing straight to heare And only then doe feed the eare Some stand stone still as if afraid To disturbe the beauteous Maide But others friske it here and there Dancing to the Tunes they heare Whil'st all the Sheepheardesses yeeld To her the honour of the field Dam. Then Cloris they are happy met Clo. They 're like a Rose to a Rose set Like two bright starres they doe appeare Both are faire and both are cleare Sol with bright Venus doth conjoyne Beauty and Majesty combine Pan crowne their wishes may they be Not happy but foelicity A. S. WHat strange sound 's this an invocation Of Cupid Hymen Love Peace Vnion 'T is well some yet agree for by those Gods J thought that all the World had been at odds And didst thou say a Wedding i st not Friend A Tournament these Families intend Or more vast quarrell such as threats our Land Looke yon 's as brave a troope as th' Royall band But hence all terrors since J well discry Here 's nought intended but a blest supply Against both warres and sicknesses hopes yet Since though we cannot save wee may beget He that gave Angells Immortality Jn liew of that did bid Man Multiply By what name shall I saint these houres some say T is not so much a Nuptiall as Birth-day Since Parents Friends each one this day begins To acknowledge him that was borne single Twins And yet I feare we have err'd grossely who Doe stile these Twins They are not so much two But shall become ere these ten Moones be gone Incorporate one Babe one Little-one Of that compleat and perfect Vnity All you boast yet is but as Prophecie Your Loves as ring are types that the Church will'd But Progeny is Marriage fulfill'd Nature expects this from you as her meed Then for your birth you thanke her with your breed R. P. FIdlers goe breake your strings more musick lies Jn the Brides mirth then your harsh melodies Dancers be you gone too her panting hart Keepes truer musick-time then all your art And what needs these strew'd flowr's if for their sent Her breath Arabian spices doth present But if the colour please your eye why see A blushing rose in each cheeks modesty Your junkets too are uselesse for each guest Findes in the Bride a most delicious feast Hymen put out thy torch though love 's a fire Yet darknesse and not light is his desire But if againe you would revive the Sun Let the Bride ope an eye and straight 't is done Thus happy Bridegroome you enjoy in one A wife and wedding preparation How will the Hinds of Somerset glad Swains Run hobling with their welcomes o're the plains When Canington shall turne loves paradice With the wisht presence of your beauteous prize They 'l leave their harvest thougb it shine the plow The flayle and all shall lye