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A15635	Epithalamia: or Nuptiall poems vpon the most blessed and happie mariage betweene the high and mightie Prince Frederick the fifth, Count Palatine of the Rhein, Duke of Bauier, &c. and the most vertuous, gracious and thrice excellent Princesse, Elizabeth, sole daughter to our dread Soueraigne, Iames by the grace of God King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. Celebrated at White-hall the fourteenth of Februarie, 1612. Written by George Wither.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1613 (1613)	STC 25901; ESTC S119958	10,392	34

master of my owne desire Am hither come with others to admire I am not of these Heliconian wits Whose pleasing straines the Courts know humor fits But a poore rurall Sheapheard that for need Can make sheepe Musique on an Oaten reed Yet for my loue Ile this be bold to boast It is as much to you as his that 's most Which since I no way els can now explaine If you 'l in midst of all these glories daigne To lend your eares vnto my Muse so long She shall declare it in a wedding song EPITHALAMION VALENTINE good morrow to thee Good I wish though none I doe thee I would waite vpon thy pleasure But I cannot be at leasure For I owe this day as debter To a thousand times thy better Hymen now will haue effected What hath been so long expected Thame thy Mistris now vnwedded Soone must with a Prince be bedded If thou 'lt see her Virgin euer Come and do it now or neuer Where art thou oh faire Aurora Call in Uer and Lady Flora. And you daughters of the Morning In your neat'st and feat'st adorning Cleare your fore-heads and be sprightfull That this day may seeme delightfull All you Nimphs that vse the Mountaines Or delight in groues and fountaines Shepheardesses you that dally Either vpon Hill or vally And you daughters of the Bower That acknowledge Vestaes power Oh you sleep too long awake yee See how Time doth ouertake yee Hark the Lark is vp and singeth And the house with ecchoes ringeth Pretious howers why neglect yee Whil'st affaires thus expect yee Come away vpon my blessing The bride-chamber lies to dressing Strow the waies with leaues of Roses Some make garlands some make poses T' is a fauor and 't may ioy you That your Mistris will employ you Where 's Sabrina with her daughters That do sport about her waters Those that with their locks of Amber Haunt the fruitfull hills of Camber We must haue to fill the number All the Nimphs of Trent and Humber Fie your hast is scarce sufficing For the Bride 's awake and rising Enter beauties and attend her All your helps and seruice lend her With your quaint'st and new'st deuises Trim your Lady faire Thamisis See shee 's ready with Ioyes greet her Lads go bid the Brid-groome meet her But from rash approach aduise him Least a too much Ioy surprize him None I ere knew yet that dared View an Angell vnprepared Now vnto the Church she hies her Enuy bursts if shee espies her In her gestures as she paces Are vnited all the Graces Which who sees and hath his senses Loues inspight of all defences Oh most true maiestick creature Nobles did you note her feature Felt you not an inward motion Tempting Loue to yeeld deuotion And as you were eu'n desiring Something check you for aspiring That 's hir Ueriue which still tameth Loose desires and bad thoughts blameth For whilst others were vnruly She obseru'd Diana truly And hath by that meanes obteyned Guifts of her that none haue gained Yon 's the Bridgrome d' yee not spy him See how all the Ladies eye him Venus his perfection findeth And no more Adonis mindeth Much of him my Hart deuineth On whose brow all Vertue shineth Two such Creatures Nature would not Let one place long keep she should not One shee 'le haue she cares not whether But our Loues can spare her neither Therefore ere we 'le so be spighted They in one shall be vnited Natures selfe is well contented By that meanes to be preuented And behold they are retired So conioyn'd as we desired Hand in hand not only fixed But their harts are intermixed Happy they and we that see it For the good of Europe be it And heare Heauen my deuotion Make this Rhyne and Thame an Ocean That it may with might and wonder Whelme the pride of * Tyber vnder Now yon * Hall their persons shroudeth Whither all this people crowdeth There they feasted are with plentie Sweet Ambrosia is no deinty Groomes quaff Nectar for there 's meeter Yea more costly wines and sweeter Young men all for ioy go ring yee And your merriest Carolls sing yee Here 's of Dam'zells many choices Let them tune their sweetest voices Fet the Muses too to cheare them They can rauish all that heare them Ladyes t' is their Highnesse pleasures For to see you foot the Measures Louely gestures addeth graces To your bright and Angell faces Giue your actiue minds the bridle Nothing worse then to be●dle UUorthies your affaires forbeare yee For the State a while may spare yee Time was that you loued sporting Haue you quite forgot your Courting Ioy the hart of Cares be guileth Once a yeare Apollo smileth Fellow shepheards how I pray you Can your flocks at this time stay you Let vs also hie vs thither Le ts lay all our witts together And some Pastorall inuent them For to show the loue we ment them I my selfe though meanest stated And in Court now almost hated Will knit vp my Scourge and venter In the midst of them to enter For I know ther 's no disdaining Where I looke for entertaining See me thinks the very season As if capable of Reason Hath laine by her natiue rigor The faire Sunbeames haue more vigor They are Aeols most endeared For the Ayre 's stilld and cleared Fawnes and lambs and kidds do play In the honor of this day The shrill Blacke-bird and the Thrushe Hops about in euery bush And among the tender twiggs Chaunt their sweet harmonious ijgs. Yea and mou'd by this example They doe make each Groue a temple Where their time the best way vsing They their Summer loues are chusing And vnles some Churle do wrong them There 's not an od bird among them Yet I heard as I was walking Groues and hills by Ecchoes talking Reeds vnto the small brooks whistling Whilst they danc't with pretty rushling Then for vs to sleep t were pitty Since dumb creatures are so witty But oh Titan thou dost dally Hie thee to thy Uesterne vally Let this night one hower borrow Shee shall pay 't againe to morrow And if thou 'lt that fauor do them Send thy sister Phaebe to them But shee 's come her selfe vnasked And brings * God 's and Heroes masked None yet saw or heard in story Such immortall mortall glorie View not without preparation Least you faint in admiration Say my Lords and speak truth barely Mou'd they not exceeding rarely Did they not such praises merit As if flesh had all bin spirit True indeed yet I must tell them There was One did far excell them But alas this is ill dealing Night vnwares away is stealing Their delay the poore bed wrongeth That for Bride with Bride groome longeth And aboue all other places Must be blest with their embraces Reuellers then now forbeare yee And vnto your rests prepare yee Let 's a while your absence borrow Sleep to night and dance to

EPITHALAMIA OR NVPTIALL POEMS VPON THE MOST BLESSED AND HAPPIE MARIAGE BETWEENE the High and Mightie Prince FREDERICK the fifth Count Palatine of the Rhein Duke of Bauier c. AND THE MOST VERTVOVS GRACIOVS AND THRICE EXCELLENT PRINCESSE ELIZABETH SOLE Daughter to our dread Soueraigne IAMES by the grace of God King of Great Britaine France and Ireland defender of the Faith c. CELEBRATED AT WHITE-HALL the fourteenth of Februarie 1612. Written by GEORGE WITHER AT LONDON Imprinted for Edward Marchant and are to be sold at his shop ouer against the Crosse in Pauls Church-yeard 1612. TO THE ALL-VER TVOVS AND THRICE EXCELLENT PRINCESSE ELIZABETH SOLE DAVGHTER TO OVR DREAD SOVERAIGNE IAMES BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF GREAT BRITANE FRANCE AND IRELAND c. AND WIFE TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE FREDERICK THE FIFTH COVNT PALATINE OF THE RHEIN DVKE OF BAVIER c. ELECTOR AND ARCH-SEWER TO THE SACRED ROMAN EMPIRE DVRING THE VACANCIE VICAR OF THE SAME AND KNIGHT OF THE MOST HONORABLE ORDER OF THE GARTER GEORGE WITHER WISHETH ALL THE HEALTH IOYES HONOVRS AND FELICITIES OF THIS WORLD IN THIS LIFE AND THE PERFECTIONS OF ETERNITIE IN THE WORLD TO COME To the Christian Readers REaders for that in my booke of Satyricall Essayes I haue been deemed ouer Cynicall to shew that I am not wholy inclined to that Vaine But indeed especially out of the loue which in duty I owe to those incomparable Princes I haue in honor of their Royall Solemnities Published these short Epithalamiaes By which you may perceaue how euer the world thinke of me I am not of such a Churlish Constitution but I can afford Vertue her deserued honor and haue as well an affable looke to encourage Honestie as a sterne frowne to cast on Villanie If the times would suffer me I could be as pleasing as others and perhaps ere long I will make you amends for my former rigor Meane while I commit this vnto your censures and bid you farewell G. W. EPITHALAMION BRight Northerne Star and great Mineruaes peere Sweet Lady of this Day Great Britans deere Loe thy poore Vassall that was erst so rude With his most Rustick Satyrs to intrude Once more like a poore Siluan now drawes neare And in thy sacred Presence dares appeare Oh let not that sweete Bowe thy Browe be bent To scarre him with a Shaft of discontent One looke with Anger nay thy gentlest Frowne Is twice enough to cast a Greater downe My Will is euer neuer to offend These that are good and what I here entend Your Worth compels me to For lately greeu'd More then can be exprest or well beleeu'd Minding for euer to abandon sport And liue exilde from places of resort Careles of all I yeelding to security Thought to shut vp my Muse in darke obscuritie And in content the better to repose A lonely Groue vpon a Mountaine chose East from Caer Winn midway twixt Arle and Dis True Springs where Britans true Arcadia is But ere I entred my entended course Great Aeolus began to offer force * The boysterous King was growne so mad with rage That all the Earth was but his furies stage Fyre Ayre Earth Sea were intermixt in one Yet Fyre through Water Earth and Ayre shone The Sea as if she ment to whelme them vnder Beat on the Cliffs and rag'd more loud then thunder And whilst the Vales she withsalt waues did fill The Ayre show'rd Flouds that drencht our highest hill And the proud trees that would no duty know Lay ouerturned twenties in a Rowe Yea euery Man for feare fell to Deuotion Least the whole Ile should haue been drencht in th'Oceā Which I peceiuing coniur'd vp my Muse The Spirit whose good helpe I sometime vse And though I ment to breake her rest no more I was then faine her ayd for to implore And by her helpe indeed I came to know Why both the Ayre and Seas were troubled so For hauing vrg'd her that she would vnfold What cause she knewe Thus much at last she told Of late quoth she there is by powers Diuine A match concluded twixt Great Thame and Rhine Two famous Riuers equall both to Nile The one the pride of Europes greatest Ile Th' other disdaining to be closely pent Washes a great part of the Continent Yet with abundance doth the Wants supplie Of the still-thirsting Sea that 's neuer drie And now these being not alone endear'd To mightie Neptune and his watrie Heard But also to the great and dreadfull Ioue With all his sacred Companies aboue Both haue assented by their Loues inuiting To grace with their owne presence this Vniting Ioue cal'd a Summons to the Worlds great wonder T' was that we heard of late which we thought thunder A thousand Legions he intends to send them Of Cherubins and Angells to attend them And those strong Winds that did such blustring keepe Were but the Tritons sounding in the Deepe To warne each Riuer pettie Streame and Spring Their aide vnto their Soueraigne to bring The Floods and Shewers that came so plenteous downe And lay entrencht in euery Field and Towne Were but retainers to the Nobler sort That owe their Homage at the Watrie Court Or else the Streames not pleas'd with their owne store To grace the Thames their Mistris borrowed more Exacting for their neighboring Dales and Hills But by consent all naught against their wills Yet now since in this stir are brought to ground Many faire buildings many hundreds drown'd And dailie found of broken Ships great store That lie dismembred vpon euery shore With diuers other mischeefes knowne to all This is the cause that those great harmes befall Whilst others things in redines did make Hells hatefull Haggs from out their prisons brake And spighting at this hopefull match began To wreak their wrath on Ayre Earth Sea and Man Some hauing shapes of Romish shavelings got Spewd out their venome and began to plot Which way to thwart it others made their way With much distraction thorough land and Sea Extreamely raging But Almighty Ioue Perceaues their Hate and Enuy from aboue He 'le checke their fury and in yrons chain'd Their libertie abus'd shall be restraind Hee 'le shut them vp from comming to molest The Meriments of Hymens holy feast Where shall be knit that sacred Gordian knot Which in no age to come shall be forgot Which Policie nor Force shall nere vnty But must continue to eternitie Which for the whole Worlds good was fore-decreed With Hope expected long now come indeed And of whose future glory worth and merit Much I could speak with a prophetick spirit Thus by my Muses deare assistance finding The cause of this disturbance with more minding My Countries welfare then my owne content And longing for to see this Tales euent My lonely life I suddainly forsooke And to the Court againe my Iorney tooke Meane while I sawe the furious Winds were laid The risings of the swelling Waters staid The Winter gan to

change in euery thing And seem'd to borrow mildnes of the Spring The Violet and Primerose fresh did growe And as in Aprill trimd both Cops and rowe The Citie that I left in mourning clad Drouping as if it would haue still bin sad I found deckt vp in robes so neat and trimme Faire Iris would haue lookt but stale and dimme In her best cullors had she there appeard The Sorrowes of the Court I found well cleerd Their wofull habits quite cast off and tyr'd In such a glorious fashion I admir'd All her cheefe Peeres and choisest beauties too In greater pompe then Mortalls vse to doe Wait as attendants Iuno's come to see Because shee heares that this solemnitie Exceeds faire Hippodamia's where the strife Twixt her Minerua and lame Vulcans wife Did first arise and with her leads along A noble stately and a mighty throng Venus attended with her rarest features Sweet louely-smiling and hart-mouing creatures The very fairest Iewells of her treasure Able to moue the senseles stones to pleasure Of all her sweetest Saints hath robd their shrines And brings them for the Courtiers Valentines Nor doth Dame Pallas from these tryumphs lurke Her Noblest wits shee freely sets on worke Of late shee summond them vnto this place To do your masks and Reuells better grace Here Mars himselfe to Clad in Armor bright Hath showne his fury in a bloudles fight And both on land and water sternely drest Acted his bloudy Stratagems in Iest. Which to the people frighted by their error With seeming wounds and death did ad more terror Besides to giue the greater cause of wonder Ioue did vouchsafe a ratling peale of thunder Cometts and Meteors by the starrs exhald Were from the Midle-region lately cald And to a place appointed made repaire To show their firie friscolls in the ayre People innumerable do resort As if all Europe here would keepe one Court Yea Hymen in his safferon-coloured weed To celebrate his rites is full agreed All this I see which seeing makes me borrow Some of their mirth a while and lay downe sorrow And yet not this but rather the delight My hart doth take in the much hoped sight Of these thy glories long already due And this sweet comfort that my eyes do viewe Thy happy Bridegrome Pr Co Palatine Now thy best friend and truest Valentine Vpon whose brow my mind doth read the story Of mightie fame and a true future glorie Me thinks I doe foresee already how Princes and Monarchs at his stirrop bow I see him shine in steele The bloudy feilds Already wonne and how his proud foe yeelds God hath ordaind him happines great store And yet in nothing is he happy more Then in thy loue faire Princesse For vnles Heauen like to Man be prone to ficklenes Thy Fortunes must be greater in effect Then time makes show of or men can expect Yet notwithstanding all those goods of fate Thy Mind shall euer be aboue thy state For ouer and beside thy proper merit Our last Eliza grants her Noble spirit To be redoubled on thee and your names Being both one shall giue you both one fames Oh blessed thou and they to whom thou gui'st The leaue for to attend thee where thou liu'st And haples we that must of force let goe The matchles treasure we esteeme of so But yet we trust t is for our good and thine Or els thou shouldst not chang thy Thame for Rhyne We hope that this will the vniting proue Of Countries and of nations by your loue And that from out your blessed loynes shall come Another terror to the Whore of Rome And such a stout Achilles as shall make Her tottering Walls and weake foundation shake For Thetis-like thy fortunes do require Thy Issue should be greater then his sire But gratious Princesse now since thus it fares And God so well for you and vs prepares Since he hath daign'd such honors for to do you And showne himselfe so fauorable to you Since he hath changd your sorrowes and your sadnes Into such great and vnexpected gladnes Oh now remember for to be at leasure Sometime to think on him amidst your pleasure Let not these glories of the world deceaue you Nor her vaine fauors of your selfe bereaue you Consider yet for all this Iollitie Y' are mortall and must feele mortalitie And that God can in midst of all your Ioyes Quite dash this pompe and fill you with annoyes Triumphes are fit for Princes yet we find They ought not wholy to take vp the mind Nor yet to be let past as things in vaine For out of all things wit will knowledge gaine Musique may teach of difference in degree The best tun'd Common-Weales will framed be And that he moues and liues with greatest grace That vnto Time and Measure tyes his pace Then let these things be Emblems to present Your Mind with a more lasting true content When you behold the infinite resort The glory and the splendor of the Court What wondrous fauors God doth here bequeath you How many hundred thousands are beneath you And view with admiration your great blisse Then with your selfe you may imagine this T' is but a blast or transitorie shade Which in the turning of a hand may fade Honors which you your selfe did neuer winne And might had God bin pleas'd anothers bin And think if shaddowes haue such maiestie What are the glories of eternitie Then by this image of a fight on sea Wherein you heard the thundring canons plea And saw flames breaking from their Murthering throts Which in true skirmish fling resistles shots Your wisdome may and will no doubt begin To cast what perill a poore Souldier's in You will conceaue his miseries and cares How many dangers deaths and wounds he shares Then though the most pass't ouer and neglect them That Rethorick will moue you to respect them And if hereafter you should hap to see Such Mimick Apes that courts disgraces be I meane such Chamber-combatants who neuer Weare other helmet then a hat of Beuer. Or nere board Pinnace but in silken saile And in the steed of boysterous shirts of maile Goe arm'd in Cambrick if that such a Kite I say should scorne an Egle in your sight Your wisdome iudge by this experience can Which hath most worth Hermaphrodite or Man The nights strange * prospects made to feede the eyes With Artfull fyres mounted in the skies Graced with horred claps of sulphury thunders May make you mind Iehouahs greater wonders Nor is there any thing but you may thence Reape inward gaine aswell as please the Sense But pardon me oh fayrest that am bold My heart thus freely plainely to vnfold What though I knowe you knew all this before My loue this showes and that is something more Do not my honest seruice here disdaine I am a faithfull though an humble Swaine I 'me none of those that haue the meanes or place With showes of cost to do your Nuptialls grace But only

morrow We could well allow your Courting But t will hinder better sporting They are gone and Night all lonely Leaues the Bride with Bridegroome only Muse now tell for thou hast power For to fly thorough wall or tower VVhat contentments their harts cheareth And how louely shee appeareth And yet do not tell it no man Rare conceits may so grow common Do not to the Vulgar show them T' is enough that thou dost know them Their ill harts are but the Center Where all misconceauings enter But thou Luna that dost lightly Haunt our downes and forrests nightly Thou that fauor'st generation And art help to procreation See their yssue thou so cherish I may liue to see it flourish And you Planets in whose power Doth consist these liues of our You that teach vs Diuinations Help with all your Constellations For to frame in Her a creature Blest in Fortune witt and Feature Lastly oh you Angells ward them Set your sacred Spels to gard them Chase away such feares or terrors As not being seeme through errors Yea let not a dreames molesting Make them start when they are resting But THOV chiefly most adored That shouldst only be implored Thou to whom my meaning tendeth Whether er'e in show it bendeth Let them rest to night from sorrow And awake with ioy to morrow Oh to my request be heedfull Grant them that and al things needful Let not these my straines of Folly Make true prayer be vnholy But if I haue here offended Help forgiue and see it mended Daigne me this And if my Muses Hastie issue shee peruses Make it vnto her seeme gratefull Though to all the VVorld els hateful But how er'e yet Soule perseuer Thus to wish her good for euer THus ends the Day together with my Song Oh may the Ioyes thereof continue long Let Heauens iust all-seeing sacred power Fauor this happie Iubile of your And blesse you in your chast embraces so We Britans may behold before you goe The hopefull Issue we shall count so deare And whom vnborne his foes already feare Yea I desire that all your sorrowes may Neuer be more then they haue been to day Which hoping For acceptance now I sue And humbly bid your Grace and Court adue I saw the sight I came for which I know Was more then all then world beside could show But if amongst Apolloes Layes you can Be pleasd to lend a gentle eare to Pan Or thinke your Country Shepheard loues as deare As if he were a Courtier or a Peere Then I that els must to my Cell of paine Will ioyfull tnrne vnto my flocke againe And there vnto my fellow sheapheards tell Why you are lou'd wherein you doe excell And when we driue our flocks a field to graze them So chaunt your praises that it shall amaze them And thinke that Fate hath now recald from death Their still-lamented sweet Elizabeth For though they see the Court but now and then They know desert as well as Greater men And honord Fame in them doth liue or die As well as in the mouth of Maiesty But taking granted what I here intreat At heauen for you my deuotions beat And though I feare fate will not suffer me To do you seruice where your Fortunes be How ere my skill hath yet despised seem'd And my vnripened wit been misesteem'd When all this costly Showe away shall flit And not one liue that doth remember it If Enuies trouble let not to perseuer I le find a meanes to make it knowne for euer CERTAINE EPIGRAMMES CONCERNING MARIAGE Epigram 1. T Is said in Marriage aboue all the rest The children of a King find comforts least Because without respect of Loue or Hate They must and oft be ruled by the State But if contented Loue Religions care Equalitie in State and yeares declare A happie Match as I suppose no lesse Then rare and great 's Elizaes Happinesse Epigram 2. GOd was the first that Marriage did ordaine By making One two and two One againe Epigram 3. SOuldier of thee I aske for thou canst best Hauing knowne sorrow iudge of Ioy and Rest. What greater blisse then after all thy harmes To haue a wife that 's faire and lawfull thine And lying prison'd twix't her luory armes There tell what thou hast scapt by powers diuine How many round thee thou hast murthered seene How oft thy soule hath been neere hand expiring How many times thy flesh hath wounded beene Whilst she thy fortune and thy worth admiring With ioy of health and pitie of thy paine Doth weepe and kisse and kisse and weepe againe Epigram 4. FAire Helen hauing stain'd her husbands bed And mortall hatred twix't two Kingdomes bred Had still remaining in her so much good That Heroes for her lost their dearest blood Then if with all that ill such worth may last Oh what is she worth that 's as faire and chast Epigram 5. OLd Orpheus knew a good wiues worth so well That when his di'd he followed her to hell And for her losse at the Elizean Groue He did not onely Ghosts to pitie moue But the sad Poet breath'd his sighes so deepe T' is said the Diuels could not chuse but weepe Epigram 6. LOng did I wonder and I wondred much Romes Church should from her Clergie take that due Thought I why should she that contentment grutch What doth shee all with continence indue Noe but why then are they debar'd that state Is shee become a foe vnto her owne Doth shee the membèrs of her bodie hate Or is it for some other cause vnshowne Oh yes they find a womans lips so daintie They tie themselues from one cause thei le haue twenty Epigram 7. WOmen as some men say vnconstant be Perhaps a few and so no doubt are men Nay if their scapes we could so plainely see I feare that soarce there will be one for ten Men haue but their owne lusts that tempt to ill Women haue lusts and mens allurements to Alas if their strengths cannot curbe their will What should poore women that are weaker do Oh they had need be chast and looke about them That striue 'gainst lust within and knaues without them He here remembers and describes the 〈…〉 te Winter which was so exceeding tempestuous and windy The reason of the tempestuous Winter The cause of all such dangers as fell out during the distemperature of the ayre He noteth the most admirable alteration of the weather a while before these Nuptials The glorious preperation for this solemnity the state whereof is here allegorically described * Meaning the Sea fight and the taking of the Castle on the water which was most arteficially performed The fire works he alleadgeth to those exhalations * He declares what vse is to be made of these showes triumphes and what meditations the mind may be occupied about when we behold them * Fire works The Mariage being on Saint Valentines day the author showes it by beginning with the salutation of a supposed Valentine * Scuerne * Wales Tyber is the Riuer which runneth by Rome Whithall Simel in anno ridet Appol * Abuses strip and whipt He noteth the mildnesse of the winter which excepting that the beginning was very windy was as temperate as the spring Most men are of opinion that this day euery byrd doth chuse her mate for that yeare By these he meanes the 2. Masques one of them being presented by the Lords the other by the Gentry