StoryTitle("caps", "Epithalamion") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ye learnéd sisters which have oftentimes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beene to me ayding, others to adorne,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull rymes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That even the greatest did not greatly scorne", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To heare theyr names sung in your simple layes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But joyéd in theyr praise;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when ye list your owne mishaps to mourne,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which death, or love, or fortunes wreck did rayse,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your string could soone to sadder tenor turne,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And teach the woods and waters to lament", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your dolefull dreriment:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now lay those sorrowfull complaints aside;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, having all your heads with girlands crownd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Helpe me mine owne loves prayses to resound;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne let the same of any be envide:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So Orpheus did for his owne bride,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So I unto my selfe alone will sing;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The woods shall to me answer, and my Eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Early before the worlds light giving lampe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His golden beame upon the hils doth spred,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Having disperst the nights unchearefull dampe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Doe ye awake; and, with fresh lusty-hed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Go to the bowre of my belovéd love,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My truest turtle dove;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bid her awake; for Hymen is awake,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And long since ready forth his maske to move,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With his bright Tead that flames with many a flake,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And many a bachelor to waite on him,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In theyr fresh garments trim.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bid her awake therefore, and soone her dight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For lo! the wishéd day is come at last,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That shall, for al the paynes and sorrowes past,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pay to her usury of long delight:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, whylest she doth her dight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Doe ye to her of joy and solace sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That all the woods may answer, and your eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bring with you all the Nymphes that you can heare", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Both of the rivers and the forrests greene,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And of the sea that neighbours to her neare:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Al with gay girlands goodly wel beseene.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And let them also with them bring in hand", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Another gay girland", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For my fayre love, of lillyes and of roses,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bound truelove wize, with a blew silke riband.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And let them make great store of bridale poses,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And let them eeke bring store of other flowers,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To deck the bridale bowers.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And let the ground whereas her foot shall tread,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For feare the stones her tender foot should wrong,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be strewed with fragrant flowers all along,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And diapred lyke the discolored mead.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which done, doe at her chamber dore awayt,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For she will waken strayt;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The whiles doe ye this song unto her sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The woods shall to you answer, and your Eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ye Nymphes of Mulla, which with carefull heed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The silver scaly trouts doe tend full well,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And greedy pikes which use therein to feed;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(Those trouts and pikes all others doo excell;)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And ye likewise, which keepe the rushy lake,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where none doo fishes take;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bynd up the locks the which hang scatterd light,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in his waters, which your mirror make,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Behold your faces as the christall bright,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That when you come whereas my love doth lie,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No blemish she may spie.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And eke, ye lightfoot mayds, which keepe the deere,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That on the hoary mountayne used to towre;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the wylde wolves, which seeke them to devoure,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With your steele darts doo chace from comming neer;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be also present heere,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To helpe to decke her, and to help to sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That all the woods may answer, and your eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wake, now my love, awake! for it is time;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Rosy Morne long since left Tithones bed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All ready to her silver coche to clyme;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Phœbus gins to shew his glorious hed.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hark! how the cheerefull birds do chaunt theyr laies", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And carroll of Loves praise.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The merry Larke hir mattins sings aloft;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Thrush replyes; the Mavis descant playes;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Ouzell shrills; the Ruddock warbles soft;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So goodly all agree, with sweet consent,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To this dayes merriment.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah! my deere love, why doe ye sleepe thus long?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When meeter were that ye should now awake,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "T'awayt the comming of your joyous make,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And hearken to the birds love-learnéd song,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The deawy leaves among!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For they of joy and pleasance to you sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That all the woods them answer, and theyr eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My love is now awake out of her dreames,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And her fayre eyes, like stars that dimméd were", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With darksome cloud, now shew theyr goodly beames", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "More bright then Hesperus his head doth rere.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come now, ye damzels, daughters of delight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Helpe quickly her to dight:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But first come ye fayre houres, which were begot", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In Joves sweet paradice of Day and Night;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which doe the seasons of the yeare allot,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And al, that ever in this world is fayre,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Doe make and still repayre:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And ye three handmayds of the Cyprian Queene,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The which doe still adorne her beauties pride,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Helpe to addorne my beautifullest bride:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, as ye her array, still throw betweene", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some graces to be seene;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, as ye use to Venus, to her sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The whiles the woods shal answer, and your eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now is my love all ready forth to come:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let all the virgins therefore well awayt:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And ye fresh boyes, that tend upon her groome,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Prepare your selves; for he is comming strayt.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Set all your things in seemely good aray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fit for so joyfull day:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The joyfulst day that ever sunne did see.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Faire Sun! shew forth thy favourable ray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And let thy lifull heat not fervent be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For feare of burning her sunshyny face,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her beauty to disgrace.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O fayrest Phœbus! father of the Muse!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If ever I did honour thee aright,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or sing the thing that mote thy mind delight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Doe not thy servants simple boone refuse;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But let this day, let this one day, be myne;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let all the rest be thine.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then I thy soverayne prayses loud wil sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That all the woods shal answer, and theyr eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Harke! how the Minstrils gin to shrill aloud", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Their merry Musick that resounds from far,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The pipe, the tabor, and the trembling Croud,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That well agree withouten breach or jar.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But, most of all, the Damzels doe delite", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When they their tymbrels smyte,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And thereunto doe daunce and carrol sweet,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That all the sences they doe ravish quite;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The whyles the boyes run up and downe the street,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Crying aloud with strong confuséd noyce,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As if it were one voyce,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hymen, iö Hymen, Hymen, they do shout;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That even to the heavens theyr shouting shrill", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Doth reach, and all the firmament doth fill;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To which the people standing all about,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As in approvance, doe thereto applaud,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And loud advaunce her laud;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And evermore they Hymen, Hymen sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That al the woods them answer, and theyr eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Loe! where she comes along with portly pace,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lyke Phœbe, from her chamber of the East,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Arysing forth to run her mighty race,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Clad all in white, that seemes a virgin best.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So well it her beseemes, that ye would weene", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some angell she had beene.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her long loose yellow locks lyke golden wyre,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sprinckled with perle, and perling flowres atweene,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Doe lyke a golden mantle her attyre;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, being crownéd with a girland greene,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Seeme lyke some mayden Queene.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her modest eyes, abashéd to behold", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So many gazers as on her do stare,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon the lowly ground affixéd are;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne dare lift up her countenance too bold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But blush to heare her prayses sung so loud,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So farre from being proud.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nathlesse doe ye still loud her prayses sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That all the woods may answer, and your eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tell me, ye merchants daughters, did ye see", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So fayre a creature in your towne before;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So sweet, so lovely, and so mild as she,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Adornd with beautyes grace and vertues store?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her goodly eyes lyke Saphyres shining bright,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her forehead yvory white,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her cheekes lyke apples which the sun hath rudded,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her lips lyke cherryes charming men to byte,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her brest like to a bowle of creame uncrudded,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her paps lyke lyllies budded,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her snowie necke lyke to a marble towre;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all her body like a pallace fayre,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ascending up, with many a stately stayre,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To honors seat and chastities sweet bowre.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon her so to gaze,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But if ye saw that which no eyes can see,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The inward beauty of her lively spright,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Garnisht with heavenly guifts of high degree,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Much more then would ye wonder at that sight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And stand astonisht lyke to those which red", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Medusaes mazeful hed.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There dwels sweet love, and constant chastity,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unspotted fayth, and comely womenhood,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Regard of honour, and mild modesty;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There vertue raynes as Queene in royal throne,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And giveth lawes alone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The which the base affections doe obay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And yeeld theyr services unto her will;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne thought of thing uncomely ever may", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thereto approch to tempt her mind to ill.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Had ye once seene these her celestial threasures,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And unrevealéd pleasures,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then would ye wonder, and her prayses sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That al the woods should answer, and your eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Open the temple gates unto my love,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Open them wide that she may enter in,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all the postes adorne as doth behove,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all the pillours deck with girlands trim,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For to recyve this Saynt with honour dew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That commeth in to you.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With trembling steps, and humble reverence,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She commeth in, before th' Almighties view;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of her ye virgins learne obedience,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When so ye come into those holy places,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To humble your proud faces:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bring her up to th' high altar, that she may", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sacred ceremonies there partake,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The which do endlesse matrimony make;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And let the roring Organs loudly play", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The praises of the Lord in lively notes;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The whiles, with hollow throates,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Choristers the joyous Antheme sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That al the woods may answere, and their eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Behold, whiles she before the altar stands,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hearing the holy priest that to her speakes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And blesseth her with his two happy hands,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How the red roses flush up in her cheekes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the pure snow, with goodly vermill stayne", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like crimsin dyde in grayne:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That even th' Angels which continually", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "About the sacred Altare doe remaine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Forget their service and about her fly,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ofte peeping in her face, that seemes more fayre,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The more they on it stare.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But her sad eyes, still fastened on the ground,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Are governéd with goodly modesty,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That suffers not one looke to glaunce awry,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which may let in a little thought unsownd.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why blush ye, love, to give to me your hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The pledge of all our band!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sing, ye sweet Angels, Alleluya sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That all the woods may answere, and your eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now al is done: bring home the bride againe;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bring home the triumph of our victory:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bring home with you the glory of her gaine;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With joyance bring her and with jollity.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Never had man more joyfull day then this,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whom heaven would heape with blis,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Make feast therefore now all this live-long day;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This day for ever to me holy is.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Poure out the wine without restraint or stay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Poure not by cups, but by the belly full,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Poure out to all that wull,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And sprinkle all the postes and wals with wine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That they may sweat, and drunken be withall.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Crowne ye God Bacchus with a coronall,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Hymen also crowne with wreathes of vine;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And let the Graces daunce unto the rest,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For they can doo it best:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The whiles the maydens doe theyr carroll sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To which the woods shal answer, and theyr eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ring ye the bels, ye yong men of the towne,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And leave your wonted labors for this day:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This day is holy; doe ye write it downe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That ye for ever it remember may.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This day the sunne is in his chiefest hight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With Barnaby the bright,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From whence declining daily by degrees,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He somewhat loseth of his heat and light,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When once the Crab behind his back he sees.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But for this time it ill ordainéd was,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To chose the longest day in all the yeare,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And shortest night, when longest fitter weare:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet never day so long, but late would passe.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ring ye the bels, to make it weare away,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And bonefiers make all day;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And daunce about them, and about them sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That all the woods may answer, and your eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah! when will this long weary day have end,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And lende me leave to come unto my love?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How slowly do the houres theyr numbers spend?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How slowly does sad Time his feathers move?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hast thee, O fayrest Planet, to thy home,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Within the Westerne fome:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy tyréd steedes long since have need of rest.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Long though it be, at last I see it gloome,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the bright evening-star with golden creast", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Appeare out of the East.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fayre childe of beauty! glorious lampe of love!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That all the host of heaven in rankes doost lead,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And guydest lovers through the nights sad dread,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How chearefully thou lookest from above,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And seemst to laugh atweene thy twinkling light,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As joying in the sight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of these glad many, which for joy doe sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That all the woods them answer, and their echo ring!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now ceasse, ye damsels, your delights fore-past;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Enough it is that all the day was youres:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now day is doen, and night is nighing fast:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now bring the Bryde into the brydall boures.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The night is come, now soone her disaray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in her bed her lay;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lay her in lillies and in violets,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And silken courteins over her display,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And odourd sheetes, and Arras coverlets.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Behold how goodly my faire love does ly,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In proud humility!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like unto Maia, when as Jove her tooke", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In Tempe, lying on the flowry gras,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Twixt sleepe and wake, after she weary was,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With bathing in the Acidalian brooke.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now it is night, ye damsels may be gon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And leave my love alone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And leave likewise your former lay to sing:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The woods no more shall answere, nor your echo ring.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now welcome, night! thou night so long expected,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That long daies labour doest at last defray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all my cares, which cruell Love collected,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hast sumd in one, and cancelléd for aye:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Spread thy broad wing over my love and me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That no man may us see;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in thy sable mantle us enwrap,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From feare of perrill and foule horror free.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let no false treason seeke us to entrap,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor any dread disquiet once annoy", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The safety of our joy;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But let the night be calme, and quietsome,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Without tempestuous storms or sad afray:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lyke as when Jove with fayre Alcmena lay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When he begot the great Tirynthian groome:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or lyke as when he with thy selfe did lie,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And begot Majesty.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And let the mayds and yong men cease to sing;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne let the woods them answer, nor theyr eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let no lamenting cryes, nor dolefull teares,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be heard all night within, nor yet without:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne let false whispers, breeding hidden feares,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Breake gentle sleepe with misconceivéd dout.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let no deluding dreames, nor dreadful sights,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Make sudden sad affrights;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne let house-fyres, nor lightnings helpelesse harmes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne let the Pouke, nor other evill sprights,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne let mischivous witches with theyr charmes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne let hob Goblins, names whose sence we see not,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fray us with things that be not:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let not the shriech Oule nor the Storke be heard,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor the night Raven, that still deadly yels;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor damnéd ghosts, cald up with mighty spels,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor griesly vultures, make us once affeard:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne let th' unpleasant Quyre of Frogs still croking", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Make us to wish theyr choking.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let none of these theyr drery accents sing;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne let the woods them answer, nor theyr eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But let stil Silence trew night-watches keepe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That sacred Peace may in assurance rayne,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And tymely sleep, when it is tyme to sleepe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May poure his limbs forth on your pleasant playne;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The whiles an hundred little wingéd loves,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like divers-fethered doves,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall fly and flutter round about your bed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in the secret darke, that none reproves,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Their prety stelthes shal worke, and snares shal spread", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To filch away sweet snatches of delight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Conceald through covert night.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ye sonnes of Venus, play your sports at will!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For greedy pleasure, carelesse of your toyes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thinks more upon her paradise of joyes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then what ye do, albe it good or ill.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All night therefore attend your merry play,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For it will soone be day:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now none doth hinder you, that say or sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne will the woods now answer, nor your Eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who is the same, which at my window peepes?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or whose is that faire face that shines so bright?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is it not Cinthia, she that never sleepes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But walkes about high heaven al the night?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O! fayrest goddesse, do thou not envy", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My love with me to spy:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For thou likewise didst love, though now unthought,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And for a fleece of wooll, which privily", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Latmian shephard once unto thee brought,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His pleasures with thee wrought.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Therefore to us be favorable now;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And sith of wemens labours thou hast charge,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And generation goodly dost enlarge,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Encline thy will t'effect our wishfull vow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the chast wombe informe with timely seed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That may our comfort breed:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till which we cease our hopefull hap to sing;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne let the woods us answere, nor our Eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And thou, great Juno! which with awful might", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The lawes of wedlock still dost patronize;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the religion of the faith first plight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With sacred rites hast taught to solemnize;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And eeke for comfort often calléd art", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of women in their smart;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Eternally bind thou this lovely band,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all thy blessings unto us impart.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And thou, glad Genius! in whose gentle hand", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bridale bowre and geniall bed remaine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Without blemish or staine;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the sweet pleasures of theyr loves delight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With secret ayde doest succour and supply,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till they bring forth the fruitfull progeny;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Send us the timely fruit of this same night.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And thou, fayre Hebe! and thou, Hymen free!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Grant that it may so be.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Til which we cease your further prayse to sing;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne any woods shal answer, nor your Eccho ring.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And ye high heavens, the temple of the gods,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In which a thousand torches flaming bright", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Doe burne, that to us wretched earthly clods,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In dreadful darknesse lend desiréd light;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all ye powers which in the same remayne,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "More then we men can fayne!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Poure out your blessing on us plentiously,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And happy influence upon us raine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That we may raise a large posterity,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which from the earth, which they may long possesse", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With lasting happinesse,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up to your haughty pallaces may mount;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, for the guerdon of theyr glorious merit,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May heavenly tabernacles there inherit,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of blesséd Saints for to increase the count.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So let us rest, sweet love, in hope of this,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And cease till then our tymely joyes to sing:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The woods no more us answer, nor our eccho ring!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Song! made in lieu of many ornaments,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With which my love should duly have been dect,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which cutting off through hasty accidents,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ye would not stay your dew time to expect,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But promist both to recompens;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be unto her a goodly ornament,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And for short time an endlesse moniment.", "") ?>
Poet("Edmund Spenser", "1552-1599") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>