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Epithalamions
Vpon ffrederick Count Palatine
and the Lady Elizabeth
marryed on S.t
Valentines day
Hayle Bishop Valentine whose day this is [317]
All the Ayre is thy Diocesse
And all the chirping Queristers
And other birds ar thy parishioners
Thou marryest every yeare
The Lyrick Larke and the graue whispering Doue
The Sparrow that neglects his life for Loue
The houshold bird with the redd Stomacher
Thou makst the Blackbird speede as soone
As doth the Goldfinch or the Halcyon
The Husband Cock lookes out and soone is spedd
And meetes his wife w.ch brings her feather bedd.
This day more cheerefully then ever shine
This day wch might inflame thy selfe old Valentine.

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