Burn in one breast, and, like heav'n's two great lights, The first doth govern days, the other nights: The prince's favour, is diffus'd o'er all, 20 From which all fortunes, names, and natures, fall; Then from those wombs of stars, the bride's bright At ev'ry glance a constellation flies, And sows the court with stars, and doth prevent In light and power the all-ey'd firmament. First her eyes kindle other ladies' eyes, [eyes, Then from their beams, their jewels, lustres rise, 30 And from their jewels torches do take fire, And all is warmth, and light, and good desire. Most other courts, alas! are like to hell, Where in dark plots fire without light doth dwell; Continual but artificial heat. Here zeal and love, grown one, all clouds digest, IDIOS. No, I am there: As heav'n, to men dispos'd, is ev'ry where; Not only in fulness but capacity, Enlarging narrow men to feel and see, And comprehend the blessings they bestow. More of Heaven's glory than a worldling can. Is an epitome of God's great book Of creatures, and men need no farther look; So's the country of courts, where sweet peace doth, ALLOPHANES. Dreamer! thou art: Think'st thou, Fantastique! that thou hast a part Because thou art not frozen, art thou warm? Stuff well dispos'd, and which would fain be gold, So upward, that Heav'n gild it with his eye. 50 60 10 Chide thyself then, O Fool! which yesterday Might'st have read more than all thy books bewray, Hast thou a history which doth present A court where all affections do assent Unto the king's, and that that king's are just? Where there is no ambition but t' obey, Where men need whisper nothing and yet may; To them, in him, because his favours bend To virtue, to the which they all pretend? Our little Cupid hath sued livery, And is no more in his minority: He is admitted now into that breast Where the king's counsels and his secrets rest. All this, and only therefore I withdrew. 80 Read then this nuptial-song, which was not made I did unto that day some sacrifice. 1. THE TIME OF THE MARRIAGE. THOU art repriev'd, old Year! thou shalt not die, Tho' thou upon thy death-bed lie, And shouldst within five days expire; Yet thou art rescu'd from a mightier fire. When he doth in his largest circle run. The passage of the West or East would thaw, To all our ships, could a Promethean art Either unto the Northern Pole impart 110 The fire of these inflaming eyes, or of this loving heart. II. EQUALITY OF PERSONS. BUT, undiscerning Muse! which heart, which eyes, In this new couple dost thou prize, When his eye as inflaming is As her's, and her heart loves as well as his? The bridegroom is a maid, and not a man; 12) If by that manly courage they be try'd Becomes a man: should chance or envy's art IH. RAISING OF THE BRIDEGROOM. THO' it be some divorce to think of you 130 Single, so much one are you two, Let me here contemplate thee First, chearful Bridegroom! and first let me see And his red foaming horses dost outrun ; How, having laid down in thy sovereign's breast Them, when these triumphs cease, thou forward art 139 The fire of thy inflaming eyes, and of thy loving heart. IV. RAISING OF THE BRIDE. BUT now to thee, fair Bride! it is some wrong To think thou wert in bed so long; Since soon thou liest down first, 'tis fit Thou in first rising should allow for it. Powder thy radiant hair, Which if without such ashes thou wouldst wear, |