VULCAN

WHich I have done; the best of all my life: And have my end, if it but please my wife, And she commend it, to the laboured worth. Cleave solid Rock, and bring the wonder forth. IT'is a sphere , I'haue formed round, and even, In endue proportion to the sphere of heaven, With all his lines , and circles ; that compose The perfectest form, and aptly do disclose The heaven of marriage: which I title it. Within whose Zodiac , I have made to fit, In order of the signs , twelve sacred powers, That are presiding at all nuptial hours: 1. The first, in ARIES place, respecteth pride Of youth ; and beauty ; graces in the bride. 2. In TAURUS, he loves strength , and manliness ; The virtues, which the bridegroom should profess. 3. In GEMINI, that noble power is shown, That twins their hearts ; and does, of two, make one. 4. In CANCER, he that bids the wife give way With backward yielding, to her husbands sway. 5. In LEO, he that does in still the heat Into the man: which, from the following seat, 6. Is tempered so, as he that looks from thence Sees, yet, they keep a VIRGIN innocence. 7. In LIBRA'S room, rules he that does supply All happy beds with sweet equality. 8. The SCORPIONS place he fills, that make the jars , And stings in wedlock; little strifes , and wars: 9. Which he, in the ARCHERS throne, does soon remove By making, with his shafts, new wounds of love. 10. And those the follower , with more heat, inspires, As, in the GOAT, the sun renews his fires. 11. In wet AQVARIUS stead, reigns he, that showers Fertility upon the genial bowers. 12. Last, in the FISH place, sits he, does say; In married joys, all should be dumb, as they. And this hath VULCAN, for his VENUS, done, To grace the chaster triumph of her son. 1. The first, in ARIES place, respecteth pride Of youth ; and beauty ; graces in the bride. 2. In TAURUS, he loves strength , and manliness ; The virtues, which the bridegroom should profess. 3. In GEMINI, that noble power is shown, That twins their hearts ; and does, of two, make one. 4. In CANCER, he that bids the wife give way With backward yielding, to her husbands sway. 5. In LEO, he that does in still the heat Into the man: which, from the following seat, 6. Is tempered so, as he that looks from thence Sees, yet, they keep a VIRGIN innocence. 7. In LIBRA'S room, rules he that does supply All happy beds with sweet equality. 8. The SCORPIONS place he fills, that make the jars , And stings in wedlock; little strifes , and wars: 9. Which he, in the ARCHERS throne, does soon remove By making, with his shafts, new wounds of love. 10. And those the follower , with more heat, inspires, As, in the GOAT, the sun renews his fires. 11. In wet AQVARIUS stead, reigns he, that showers Fertility upon the genial bowers. 12. Last, in the FISH place, sits he, does say; In married joys, all should be dumb, as they. And this hath VULCAN, for his VENUS, done, To grace the chaster triumph of her son.