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A01194	Of the most auspicatious marriage: betwixt, the high and mightie Prince, Frederick; Count Palatine of Rheine, chiefe sewer to the sacred Roman Empire, Prince Elector, and Duke of Bauaria, &. and the most illustrious Princesse, the Ladie Elizabeth her Grace, sole daughter to the high and mightie Iames, King of great Brittaine, &c. In III. bookes: composed in Latine by M. Ioannes Maria, de Franchis. And translated into English.; De auspicatissimis nuptiis. English	Franchis, Joannes Maria de.; Hutton, Samuel.	1613 (1613)	STC 11309; ESTC S102613	45,931	90

point to be performed in the persons of the most illustrious Lady the Princesse of great Brittany and of the most noble Prince PALATINE the vertues of which excellent couple euen Ioue himselfe collanded and foretolde the many blessings that should proceed of these royall Nuptialls whereby Religion and the whole Quier of Heauen were with great hopes appeased THE II. BOOKE THe Gods with their recomforted Sister doe congratulate each other and she returnes them thankes for their so great fauors and they allioine and moue Iuno the president of marriages and Venus the mother of loue to assume the Embassy the effectuating of this disseigne of the gods Iuno sends downe vpon the earth Iris her Embassadress clad with most artificialluestiments in which the reforming of Religion and the occurrences of greatest consequence in the world for many yeeres past were inwoo●en and with Iris Venus ioyned as colleague Cupid her sonne with a troope of other Immortall personages who being repleat with ioy and prophecying thorogh the regions of the aire the greatnes of this most happy vnion arriued at Heidelberg being the Metropolis of the Pa●atinate where they entring secretly by night Cupid with golden dart amorous fire in a dream strook inflamed the young Prince not yet knowing the obiect of his desire till afterwards walking in his gallery entraunced with those amorous thoughts his eye lighted on the picture of the L. Elizabeth the only daughter of the most puissant King of great Brittā with whose portraiture amōgst diuers others of the greatest Princesses in the world the said gallery was beautified At the first sight of that faire picture of a more faire substance the Prince was supprised with a new flame acknowledging that that was the beautifull forme which Cupid represented vnto him and with which he stirred him vp to loue and hereupon the Prince causeth the picture to be taken downe and placed in his owne chamber and to this shrius of his Goddess he daily offers many truly inamorated and deuoted Orisons But his loue more more continually increasing his excellency could not be satisfied with this liueless resemblance but after many cōsultations resolues to goe in person into England to see at the life the Mistris and owner of that faire form which had captiuated his heart whither at length with a most auspitious successe and a most noble retinew he happily arriued THE III. BOOKE WHere being honorably receiued of the King his whole Court the Prince with the excellency of his endowments of nature and art by the inuisible assistance of the supernall powers in kindles no lesse flames of loue in the virgin breast of the royall Princesse towards him then were in his Excellencies towards her highness And whilst each of these two most louing and most louely louers did day night seuerally meditate of this their first loue Consus the lord of councel in the shape of Philon late his Maiesties tutor appear'd in night to the sleeping king telling his highness that the cōming of the Prince Elector into his kingdom was by the ordinance of heauen to the end that by the aliance made between them by the Princess his daughter the state of Religion should he established by this most wished for mariage To this heauenly Counsellor the king consented with this prouiso that the Prince should first as it was fitting request it at his highnesse hands which his excellency afterward willingly performing his Maiesty at the first motion graciously condescended The esspousalls are prolaimed and at the report hereof the whole kingdome reuels and keeps royall festiualls and the father of waters Oceanus hauing by Triton his Trumpeter assembled the Maritine fluuiall powers doth out of the cleer brow of heauen and the most temperate season of the spring prognosticate happy successe highly praysing in this match the iudgement of the foreseeing sapient King and therwithall prouokes euery thing to reioyce Now comes the Bridall day in honor whereof Vulcan the God of fire at the intercession of Venus his wife doth with his element play his masters prize in presenting strange and delightful fire-workes vpon the Thames And Mars in competition with him to content the Queene of loue shewes valiant and various feates and stratagems of warre and the City to shew her loue and legeance to her Soueraigne with many sorts of stately showes disembowelleth the inmost of her heart and the king himselfe because there should be nothing wanting in this high solemnety keepes an open Court full of all royall delights In the middest whereof the marriage is consummated and the most louing royall paire obtaine the height of their amorous desires A MARIAGE HYMNE IN THREE BOOKS The Argument of the first Booke In the Gods councell wrong'd Religion Complaines of iniuries Infernall DIS Had sent forth legions from deepe Acheron Who world her truth defeat preuent her blisse IOVE seeing and pittying her incessant paines A Mariage for her comfort praeordaines 1. MY minde replenisht with full hopes and ioyes Cannot containe it selfe in thoughtfull silence But it must vtter both with pen and voice The royall mariage of high consequence Betwixt a German and the Britaine State Where Peace and Honor met Fortune and Fate 2. Come Iuno Goddesse of true mariage loue Come call'd by charme sweet Muses from your Mountaines Come Nymphes faire daughters of high thundring Ioue Who gouerne Thames and Rhine woods waues or fountains Inspire my aspiring spirit while it indites This heauen-blest bed-league and connubiall rites 3. Let it be lawfull for an earth-bred essence Passing in thought Olimpus crystall gates T' approach the Pantheon of your glorious presence And there behold your euer-blessed states Then on your altars crownd with myrtle-bowes I le offer He catombs and incense vowes 4. Ioue resident in his Emperiall Towres Built on the pillars of Eternity Calls for a Senate of coelestiall powres By which he gouernes with stability Th'instable world the waies of Sun and Moon And whatsoe're in Heauen or Earth is done 5. From hence the Pleiads Nyads fierce Orion Arctophilax the great and lesser Beares The Dolphin Goat-fish and fierce-hearted Lyon Take the full influence of their flaming spheres From hence all heauenly constellations Deriue their orders influence operations 6. Hence Nature takes her turnes plants their increase Matter takes forme Forme beauty Beauty fall Number beginning Motion worke and ease Place bodies Bodies measure Time takes all Hence Cause her causes hath Fortune her course And Fates which neuer yield their mighty force 7. Hence came the generous kinds of euery beast And whatsoeuer swims in Seas quick tide And whatsoeuer lies on Earths rough brest And whatsoeuer flies or far or vvide Man more then others hath attain'd Gods feature As being the chiefest wisest holiest creature 8. On him Ioue plac'd his dearest loue and care His euerlasting pleasure and content Made him his creatures graces glories heire And made for him Seas lands aires large extent Keeping in forme and

Straight shuts them vp within herselfe at warres Loue harts her eye maides modesty strikes terror Thus in loues conflict with chast modesty She loues and feares she sees and dares not see 26. But yet so closly could not this young louer Mooue the faire Orb of her Siderian eyes But straight the louesick Palsgraue could discouer And meet the turn with due obseruancies Hundred ey'd Argus Io nere so tended As he Eliza til these greetings ended 27. This thus and more perform'd in princely sort Dark sable-coulor'd Nox comes trotting on Mounted vpon Allaster from the port Of black Cymmerian pitchy Acheron Phaebus with fiery chariot flies away Post hast to giue Antipodes the day 28. Meane while a guard of gallant Gentlemen Addrest in skarlet liueries euery one With Cognizants first drawne with Pallas pen Then wouen with siluer gold and pretious-stone In which Palladian art did vive appeare King IAMES his arms great Britans Monarch there 29. These worthy Waiters worthy of their places Present their burning tapers 'fore the King Who with the Queen and all those Princely graces Addrest himselfe to Ioviall banqueting Which being done as fitteth Princes best They all retire them to nocturnall rest 30. King IAMES no sooner prest his lofty bed And Somnus comes to close his Princely eyes But Morpheus his fancy wakened And Consus counsels god he straight espies Who softly comes with graue and auncient pace Comely though old with reuerence in his face 31. With his fur'd night-gowne shooes cap for night In his right hand he brings a golden booke Thus he presents himselfe to IAMES his sight Much like old Philon both in speech and look Who for in younger age he taught his Grace His Highnes therfore knew him by his face 32. Who mildly standing at our Soueraignes feet He thus begins to speake with grauitie Great Britans Monarch giue me leaue to greet Thy mighty selfe and then to question thee Why'mongst so many dost thou tosse thy mind A match for faire Elizabeth to find 33. Behold great Ioue by heauens owne direction Hath sent thee one the mirror of his time Whose Auncestry next vnder your protection May with the best compare of Kingly line Whose regiment encreaseth with his yeeres In aequi-pollence to the mightiest peeres 34. More wise he is then young age can affoord Whom mighty Ioue both loues and offers thee He doth professe the same religious Word And link't in Christian league of amity Make this thy Son this Prince will only proue He worthy hers she worthy of his loue 35. Th'emperiall heauens command me tell thee this Which promise thee and them a royall straine Who shall for heauens intentions cannot misse Restore the golden ages back againe This said Mirh-breathing Consus goes his waies Leauing the King halfe sleeping in a maze 36. He with mature deliberation Who 't was was sent and who it was that sent him Together with his pleasing graue relation What good Ioue offer'd and what good he meant him These reasons force quoth he our full consent Being such as one had been sufficient 37. But most of all Religion she doth moue me Which all Kings ought to striue for to the death It 's that great German makes vs most to loue thee And hold thee worthy our Elizabeth Thus Britans Caesar in his thoughts revolv'd And thus he spake and thus he them resolv'd 38. But do you thinke Eliza's rest was peace Thinke you the Princely Virgin was not troubl'd Hersleep was lessened by her thoughts increase On Frederick thinking straight her thoughts were doubl'd To him no sooner thinks he to be kind But straight her Princely selfe comes to her mind 39. Aie me quoth shee what sodaine motion 's this How is my brest clogg'd with a bitter sweet Cupid hath surely ta'ne his shaft amiss Elce how could Feare and Hope together meete I know not how but yet methinks I see Such vncouth passions both at once in me 40. Loue shall not trouble vs were loue so bold To enterprise our royall Vigin brest In vaine it straue to win our maiden hold That nere shall yeild let Cupid do his best Not though loues fire within me were as great As that Octaean or Trinacrian heat 41. Vnlesse my father giue his full consent Vnlesse my King appoint me whom to loue Loues arrowes are in vaine but idly spent And of no force should all loues forces proue Hee 's worthy Loue but aie what bootes to like Vnlesse my father doe the bargaine strike 42. Loue loue would sure but wither in the blade Proue barren fruitles langvish and so die Ah Frederick but that 's it makes mee'fraid I wish my father held th' as great as I Great God of Loue as thou hast plai'd thy part To make me Loue so moue my fathers hart 43. Procure him get a marriage worthy mee It is not farr his highnesse need to seeke Fortune presents fit opportunity Doe Cupid and I le kisse thy louely cheeke But yet in all be sure thou draw a dart That shall not misse Prince Frederick to the hart 44. Mine eies are onely plea'sd with his faire brow Me thinks and he should Loue to by his face Yet and perhaps the German loues me now If outward gesture shew the inward grace Why should not I then aunswer Fredericks Loue Whose were enough an Empresses to moue 45. Answer quoth I what answer shall I giue A virgin Princesse daughter to a King Except my Father vnder whome I liue Say to me This is he whose nuptiall ring Thy Princely selfe must weare this is the man Loue him then could I answer soone I can 46. Thus with a sigh her speach she smothereth But loue so would not close her waking eies Which way so ere the Vergin turns vimeth Shee could but thinke she Frederic espies And more she thinks such thoughts can fancy moue The louely Prince is suing for her loue 47. Nor yet when radiant Phosphorus appearing Vshers Aurora banishing the night The tawney liuery of bright Phebus wearing Can all-harts-conquering loue bee put to flight The lesse her loue she seeketh to bewray The more it 's seene by seeing euery day 48. How oft would she vnto her mother Queen Sweetly commend this Princes pedegree How oft would she haue blushing ready been To tell the titles of his Emperie His manners now then 's godly youth relating And then his hopes of age prognosticating 49. Her mother Queen obserues her speeches well And smiling sayes Our Daughter is in loue She likes it tho and to the King can tell Her passions which his Highnes doth approue Yet least she should perceiue they did reioyce They ieasted with the Virgine for her choyce 50. But afterwards the sapient King perpending Great Ioues commandement Rheins great family His Vertues Kingdomes and Religion tending All to aduancement of true piety What feare 't would strike to foes to hell what terror What loue both Court country beares this mirror 51. Admiring and reioycing in his mind

Bramble yeilds the sauor of the Rose The Thornes drop mirh wild Vines with grapes increase The Corke tree hony the Willow pepper grows The Alder sugar the Beach-tree Cinamon Where Acorns grew sweet Balsam springs thereon 78. Ginger Cloues Saffron Spiknard all do grow And spring with plenty in the vntild feild And from the Rocks doth sweet Ambrosa flow The Winds doe Aromatick odours yeild The watrie places spring Malobathrum The Fountains milk the floods pure Nectar run 79. Seas natiue pibbles gild the glorious shoare And the salt foame to Amber doth conuert Rich Plenty now presents her golden store And vnto Mortalls doth her gifts impart Old yeelds to New Quarrels to Peace's might Impiety to Faith and Wrong to Right 80. Vaine Superstition vailes to Pietie Deceipt to Truth Doubt vnto Demonstration Darknes to Light Pluto to Ioues deity Hell to bright Heauen Damnation to Saluation All shall be brought to pristin aequipage While to the world reuerts the golden age 81. Reioyce Germania ioy to see this day And thou possessor of the light most cleere The worlds admir'd great Britania In honour of this change let ioyes appeare Such happines attends this royall choyce As equall cause nere had you to reioyce 82. Nay all be blith let plows keep holliday The Oxe refuse his yoke let harrows rust The lopper leaue his vines halfe lopt to play The Clowne crie hoigh with points of lether trust For vines vnlopt shall yeild a fruitfull store And earth vntil'd shall spring as 't did before 83. Let hearts want hatred wrath be banisht quite And hasty words of modestie bereauen Let suits so cease that Clarks haue nought to write In stead of these sing Carrols to the heauen Let Courts be scaffolds for Clyents to gaze While Common Pleas be turn'd to common playes 84. Let Caesars selfe descend to see this sport Great Lords be merry with the lowly Lowne Cry helter skelter let the lawes come short Crafts-men leaue work May-games in euery towne Let Courtiers act some amorous Comedie With Iigs at end on 't to the Plow-iaggs by 85. Let Souldiers lay by Armes yet sleep secure Let only Loue be held a Warriour Let beds be fields where they the fight endure The conquer'd being pleas'd with loss by war Let neuer cloud dare to approach the day But let the times with pleasure pass away 86. Let all the world be fild with Hymens voice The world in wisht Vacuna's gouernment At good to come let Britans all reioice And euery yeere in Happines be spent Let euery month each day houre minute be Crown'd blest succesfull and from perils free 87. But Thee the best of Kings heroick IAMES The true Defendor of the sacred Word As now this world thy royall worth proclaimes So euer let all worlds the like afford Euer extolling thee with golden phrases Who gilds the world with thine immortall praises 88. Thou mighty Off-spring of Imperiall Race From whom great Kings do claime their greatest blood Yet thy knowne vertues giue thee higher grace Thine Off-spring great thy vertues make thee good Thy speech thy prudence wisdome to foresee In all assayes to all apparent be 89. Thy royall brest scorns worth by meere opinion Nor holds chiefe honor to possesse a Crowne Thy honor'd thoughts are how to raise Religion And in thy kingdomes pull Abuses downe In thee gods feare with innate Piety And mild aspect is mixt with Maiesty 90. God-like th' art slow to wrath swift to reward Iuditious to rule and helpe the right Thy Subiects to thy lawes haue due regard Won by thy fauor vnconstrain'd by might By thee the Gospell from thy Temples rent That true-light-giuing word hath gouernment 91. By thee the Sheep escape the iawes of Hell Without thee Faith would scarcely find her name Thou manst her cause and dost performe it wel For which the world eternizeth thy fame Thou ' mongst thine owne art set in Honors top ' Mongst faithfull Aliants held their chiefest prop. 92. Thou art what heauenly guifts can make thee bee What Subiects praiers what Art can fabricate What Fame can yeild thy sacred Maiestie What can be added to thy glorious state If ought then this thou dost prefer 't is knowne Religions cause in all before thine owne 93. Kings were deny'd thy royall sons to be Because they did not hold their faiths aright Thine end was how to establish pietie And on that end most blessedly hast light To happinesse now nothing doth remaine Vnlesse the same be acted o're againe 94. Be Iouiall then great King cast care away Rheins blood is not inferior to the best With whom thou hast confirm'd a league for ay And giuen the Gospell an eternall rest In which there is more cause of wonder showne Then when was made the Scots and English one 95. Wherefore againe be Iouiall great King And thou blest Queen of Denmarks royall line Thou fairest faire thou beautious Beauties spring Thou humane patterne of the powers diuine Be Iouiall sweet Queen cast care away In honor of this happy Nuptiall day 95. And you choice paire of Princes ioine your hands And with your hands your hearts with hearts your loues And with your loues speech such as loue commands With speech ioine kisses like to Paphian Doues From whose faire loynes heauens grant a royall line To raigne for euer Rheins great PALATINE 96. You speckled Glaucian Nymphs you flesh-fish Elues Come from your creeks skip from your pumice pores VVith rishy haire-laces trick vp your selues And with faire flowers bestrew your flood-gate dores To get the Topaze stir your little bones And make your shoares to glitter with the stones 98. And you pure floods skud with your christal streams And crowne your Founts with flowers of various sorts Sing but let Io be your merry Theames And let your hearts be cogniz'd by your sports All helpe to grace the Nuptials with vs And so left speaking great Oceanus 99. From euery chink skips out a Nereiad Old Nereus their father being first VVith all the rest All of these tydings glad It was the thing for which they long did thirst VVith ioyfull acclamations one by one They kneeling make this hearty Orizon 100. For euer liue great Brittains King and Queen For euer liue Rheins Prince and royall bride For euer may their Ofsprings both be seen Long wisht for hop't for Heauens euer be their guide Nor let vs euer cease to pray for them To which they all deuoutly said Amen 101. Amen quoth Thames Grant Dariom Owse Rheine Skern Scurfe Swale Seuerne Humber Iske and Clun Wisk Weer and Wharfe Nid Tease Tweed Trent Tyne Aire Sheld Tay Calder Vre Danow and Dun Wa●me Cald●e Peterel Frith Lune Ments and Chaine With hundred others whome I cannot name 102. While Neptunes brood thus triumph on the Seas Venus must needs haue Vulcane play his part This royall match doth so the Lady please In show of honor he must shew his art Which to obtaine shee kindly comes vnto him