HYMEN

WHat more than usual Light (Throughout the Place extended) Makes JUNO'S Fane so bright! Is there some greater Deity descended? Orraigne, on earth, those Powers So rich, as with their beams Grace UNION more than our's; And bound her Influence, in their happier streams? 'Tis so: This same is he, The King, and Priest of Peace! And that his Empress, she, That sits so crowned with her own increase! Oh you, whose better Blisses, Have proved the strict embrace Of UNION, with chaste kisses, And seen it flow so in your happy Raze; That know, how well it binds The fighting Seeds of Things, Wins Nature's, Sexes, Minds, And every discord in true Music brings: Fit now propitious Aids, To Rites, so duly prized; And view two Noble Maids, Of different Sex, to UNION sacrificed. In honour of that blessed Estate, Which all Good Minds should celebrate. SAve, save the Virgins; Keep your hall owed Lights Untouched: And with their flame defend our Rites. The four untempered Humours are broke out: And, with their wild Affections, go about To ravish all Religion. If there be A Power, Like REASON, left in that huge Body, Or little World of Man, from whence these came, Look forth, and with thy bright and Alluding to that opinion of Pythagoras; who held all Reason, all Kn wledge, all Discourse of the Soul to be mere Number. See Plut. de Plac. Phil. numerous flame Instruct their Darkness, make them know, and see, In wronging these, they have rebelled gainst thee. The longing Bridegroom, It was a Custom for the Man to stand there, expecting the approach of his Bride. See Hotto. de Rit. Nupt. in the Porch, Shows you again, the bated Torch; And thrice hath JUNO Alluding to that of Virg. Aeneid. 4. Prima & Tellus, & Pr nuba JUNO Daunt signum: fulsere ignes, & conscius aether Connubii, &c. mixed her Air With Fire, to summon your repair. HAste therefore, haste, and call, Away: The gentle Night is pressed to pay The usury of long Delights, She owes to these protracted Rites.