HYMEN

VENUS, is this a time to quit your car? To stoop to earth? to leave, alone, your star, Without your influence? and, When she is Nuptiis Praefecta , with Juno, Suadela, Diana , and Jupiter himself. Paus. in Mes seniac. & Plut. in problem. on such a night, Which should be crowned with your most cheering sighed? As you were ignorant of what were done By CUPIDS hand, your all-triumphing Son? Look on this state; and if you yet not know, What Crown there shines, whose Sceptre here does grow; Think on thy loved Aeneas , the son of Venus, Virgil makes throughout, the most exquisite pattern of Pie tie, Justice, Prudence , and all oh there Princely virtues, with whom (in way of that excel lence) I confer my soon reign, applying, in his de scription, his own word , vsur ped of that Poets. Parcere sub iectis & debellar superbos. AENEAS, and what name, MARO, the golden trumpet of his fame, Gave him, read thou in this. A Prince, that draws By'example more, then others do by laws: That is so joust to his great act, and thought, To do, not what Kings may, but what Kings ought. Who, out of piety, unto peace, is vowed; To spare his subjects, yet to quell the proud, And dares esteem it the first fortitude, To have his passion, foes at home, subdued. That was reserved, until the Parcae spun Their whitest wool; and then, his thread begun. Which thread, when In that monstrous conspi racy of E. Gowrie. Treason would have burst, a soul (To day renowned, and added to my roll) Opposed; and, by that act, to his name did bring The honour, to Titulo tunc crescere poss, nunc per to titulus. be Savour of his King. This King , whose worth (if gods for virtue love) Should VENUS with the same affections move, As her AENEAS; and no less endear Her love to his safety, then when she did cheer, ( Virg. Aeneid. lib. 1. After a tempest) long afflicted Troy , Upon the Lybian shore; and brought them joy. SHe is a noble virgin, styled the maid Of the Red-cliffe , and hath her dowry weighed; No less in virtue, blood , and form , then gold. Thence, where my Pillar's reared, you may behold, (Filled with Loves Trophae S) does she take her name. Those Pillars did uxorious The ancient Poets , whenso ever they would intend any thing to be done, with great Mastery , or excellent Art, made Vulcan the artificer, as Hom. Iliad. Σ. in the forging of Achilles his armour: and Virg. for Aeneas, Aenei. 8. He is also said to be the God of ire , and light. Sometime taken for the purest beam : and by Orph. in High . celebrated for the Sun and Moon. But more specially, by Eurip. in Troad. he is made Facifer in nuptiis. Which present office we give him here, as being calor naturae , and praeses luminis. See Plato in Cratyl. For his de scription, read Pausa. in Elia. VULCAN frame, Against this day, and underneath that hill, He, and his Cyclopes , are forging still Some strange, and curious piece, adorn the night, And give these graced Nuptials greater light.