REASON

Forbear your rude attempt; what Ignorance Could yield you so profane, as to advance One thought in Act, against these Mysteries? Are UNION'S in non-Latin alphabet , with the Greeks valve the same, that Ceremoniae with the La tines; and im ply all sorts of Rites: howso ever (abusive lie) they have been made particular to Bacc us. See Serve. to that of Vir. Aene worser. 4. qualis come motis excitam sacris Thyas. Orgies of so slender price? She that makes Souls, with Bodies, mix in Love, Contracts the World in one, and therein JOVE; Is Mac. in some. Scipion. lib. 1. Spring, and End of all Things yet, most strange! Her self nor suffers Spring, nor End, nor Change. No wonder, they were you, that were so bold; For none but Humours and Affections would Have dared so rash a venture. You will say It was your Zeal, that gave your powers the sway; And urge the masqued, and disguised pretence Of saving Blood, and succouring Innocence? So want of Knowledge, still, begetteth jars, When humorous Earthlings will control the Stars. Inform your selves, with safer Reverence, To these mysterious Rites, whose mystic sense REASON (which all things but it self) confounds) Shall clear unto you, from authentic grounds. The Pair, which do each other side, Though (yet) some space does them divide, This happy Night must both make one Blessed Sacrifice, to UNION. Nor is this Altar hut a Sign Of one more soft, and more divine The Properly that, which was made rea die for the nevv-married Bride, and was called Genialis, à Generandis liberis. Sir. in . Aeneid. Genial Bed, where HYMEN keeps The solemn Orgies, void of sleeps: And wildest CUPID, waking, hovers With adoration betwixt the Lovers. The Tead of white, and blooming Thorn, In token of increase is born: As See Ovid. Fast. lib. 6. Sic fatus, spinam, quam tristes pel lere pesset A foe ribu noxas, aec rat Alba, dedi . also, with the ominous Light, To fright all Malice from the Night. Like are the Plutarch. in Quaest. Rome. And Var. lib. 4 de ling. Lat. Fire, and Water set; That, even as Moisture, mixed with Heat, Helps every Natural Birth, to life; So, for their Raze, join Man, and Wife. The P n. Nat. Hist. li. 21. Can. 8 blushing Veil shows shamefastness Th'ingenuous Virgin should profess At meeting with the Man: Her Hair That Pomp. Fist. Br ss Hotto. de Rit. Nup. flows so liberal, and so fair, Is shed with gray, to intimate She entereth to a Matrons state. For which those Var lib. 6. de ling. Lat. and Fist. in Frag. Utensils are born. And, that she should not Labour scorn, Her self a Fist. ibid. Snowy Fleece does wear, And these her Plutarch. in Quaest. Rome. & in Romul. Rock and Spindle bear, To show, that Nothing, which is good, Gives check unto the highest blood. The Plin. Nat. Hist. li. 8. Can. 48 Zone of wool about her waste, Which, in contrary Circles cast, Does meet in one That was Nodus Hercu leanus, which the Husband, at night, untied in sign of good fortune, that he might be happy in propagation of Issue, as Hercules was, who left seventy Children. See Fist. in voc. Cingul. strong knot, that binds, Tells you, so should all Married Minds. And lastly, these five Waxed Lights Imply Perfection in the Rites; For Plutarch. in Quaest. Rome. Five the special Number is, Whence hallowed UNION claims her bliss. As being all the Sum, that grows From the united strengths, of those Which See Mars. Capel. lib. 6. de Nupt. Phil. & M r n numero Pentade. Male, and Female Numbers we Do style, and are First Two, and Three. Which, joined thus, you cannot sever In aequal parts, but One will ever Remain as common; so we see The binding-force of Unity: For which alone, the peaceful Gods In Number, always, love the odds; And even parts as much despise, Since out of them all Discords rise. ANd see, where JUNO, whose great Name Is UNIO, in the Anagram, Displays her glistering State, and Chair, As she enlightened all the Air! Hark how the charming Tunes do beat In sacred Concords bout her seat! And lo! to grace what these intend, 1 page duplicate 1 page duplicate Eight of her Noblest Powers descend, Which are They were all eight called by particular Surnames of JUNO, ascri bed to her for some peculiar property in Marriage, as somewhere of ter is more fit lie declared. enstil'd her Faculties, That govern nuptial Mysteries; And wear those Masques before their faces, Lest, dazzling Mortals with their graces As they approach them, all Mankind Should be, Like CUPID, stroken blind. These ORDER waits for, on the ground, To keep, that you should not confound Their measured steps, which only move About the harmonious sphere of LOVE. COnvey them, ORDER, to their places, And rank them so, in several traces, As they may set their mixed Powers Unto the Music of the Hours; And THESE, by joining with them, know In better temper how to flow: While I (from their abstracted Names ) Report the virtues of the Dams. First his Surname JUNO received of the Sab nes; from them, the Romans gave it her: of the Spear, which (in the Sabine tongue) was called Curis, and was that, which they named Hasta Caelibaris, which had stuck in the Body of a slain Swordplayer, and wherewith the Brides Head was dressed. whereof Fist. in Voice Celibar. gives these reasons, Ut quemadmodumilla continued uncta fuerit cum corpore Gladiatoris, sic ipsam cum Viro fit; vel quia Matronae IUNONIS Curitis in tute la fit, quae ita app llabatur à ferenda hasta: vel Queen worser forts vir S genitur as ominetur; v l Queen worser nuptiali jure imperio viri subjicitur Nubens, quià Hasta summa armorum, & imperii est, &c. To most of which Plutarch in his Quaest. R m. consents, but adds a better in Romul. That when they divided the Brides hair with the point of the Spear, in non-Latin alphabet , it no ted their first Nuptialles (with the Sabines) were contracted by force, and as with Ene mies. Howsoever, that it was a Custom with them, this of Ovid. Fast. lib. 2. con firms. Comat Virgineas hasta recurva comas. CURIS comes to deck the Brides fair Tress. Care of the ointments For the Surname of UNXIA, we have Mars. Capel. his Testimony, De Nupt. Phil. & Merc . libr. 2. Queen worser un ctionibus praeest: As also Servius, libro quarto Aeneid. where they both report it a Fashion with the Romans, that before the nevv-married Brides entered the How ses of their Husbands, they adorned the Posts of the Gates with woollen Tavv dries, or Fille S, and anointed them with Oils, or the fat of Wolves, and Boars; being superstitiously possessed, that such Ointments had the virtue of ex pelling Evils from the Family: and thence were they called Uxores, quasi Vnx oars. UNXIA does profess. She was nam JUGA, propter Jugum, ( as Servius says) for the yoke which was imposed, in Matri any, on those that were married, or (with Sex. Pomp Fist.) quod Juges sunt usdem jugi Pares, unde & Conjuges. or in respect of the Altar ( to which I have declared before) sacred to JUNO, in Vico Iugario. JUGA, her office to make One of Twain: As she was GAMELIA, in sacrificing to her, they took away the Gall, and threw it behind the Altar; intimating, that (after Marriage) there should be known, no Bitterness, nor Hatred between the joined Couple, which might divide, or separate them: See Plum arch. Connub. Prae. This Rite I have somewhere following touched at. GAMELIA sees that they should so remain. Fair The Title of ITERDUCA she had amongst them, quod and sponsi aedes, sponsas comitabatur; or was a Protectress of their journey, Mars. Capel. De Nupt. Philolog. & Mercur. libro secundo. ITERDUCA leads the Bride her way; And The Like of DOMIDUCA, quod and optatas duc r to. Mars. ibid. DOMIDUCA home her steps does stay: CINXIA, the same Author gives unto her, as the De fendresse of Maids, when they had put off their Girdle, in the Bridal Chamber; To which, Festus. Cinxiae Iunonis nomen sanctum habebatur in Nuptiis, quod initio Coniu gij solutio erat Cinguli, quo novam Nupta erat cincta. And Arnobius, a man most learned in their Ceremonies, lib. 3. adverse. Gent. says, Unctionibus superest Vnxi . Cinguloruus Cinxia replicationi. CINXIA the Maid, quit of her Zone defends; TELIA signifies Perfectam, or, as some translate it, Perfe ctrix; with Jul. Pol. libr. 3. Oh omast. in non-Latin alphabet valves JUNO Praes S Nuptiarum who sai h, the Attribute descends of in non-Latin alphabet , which (with the Ancients ) signified Marriage, and thence, were they called in non-Latin alphabet , that entered into that estate. Sir vius interprets it the same with GAMELIA, Aeneid. 4. and verb. Et Iunone see cundâ: But it implies much more, as including the faculty to mature, and perfect; See the Greek Scholiast on Pined. Nem. in Him. and Thyaeum Uliae filium Argi. in non-Latin alphabet : that is, Nuptials are therefore called in non-Latin alphabet because they effect Perf ction of Life, and do note that Ma turity which should be in Matrimony. For before Nuptialles, she is called JUNO in non-Latin alphabet that is, Virgo; after Nuptials, in non-Latin alphabet , which is adulta, or Perf cta. TELIA ( for HYMEN) perfects all, and ends. Such was Mentioned by Homer, Ilia. . which many have interpreted diversely: all Allegorically; Plam. in Thaete to, under stands it to be the Sun, which while he circles the world in his course, all things are safe, and preserved: Others vary it. Macrobius, (to whose interpreta cion, I am specially affected in my Allusion) considers it thus: in Some. Scip. libr. 1. cap. 14. Ergo cum ex summo Deo men's, ex mente anima fit; anima for & condat, & vita complete omniam quae sequuntur, cunctaque hic unus fulgor illuminet, & in universis appareat, ut in multis speculis, er ordinem positis, vultus unus; Cumque omniam continuis succession us see sequantur, degenerantia per ordinem and imum meandi: invenietur pressius intuenti à summo Deo usque and ultimam rerum faecem un mutuis see vinculis religans, & nusquam interruptam connexio. Et haec est Hemeri Catena auream, quam pendere de coelo in terras Deum jus isse commemorate. To which strength and evennesle of connexion, I have not absurdly likened this uniting of Humours, and Affections, by the sacred Powers of Marriage. the Golden Chain let down from Hea ven; And not those Links more even, Then these: so sweetly tempered, so combined By UNION, and refined. Here no Contention, Envy, Grief, Deceit, Fear, Jealousy have weight; But all is Peace, and Love, and Faith, and Bliss: What Harmony Like this? The Gall, behind the Altar quite is thrown; This Sacrifice hath none. Now no Affections rage, nor Humours swell; But all composed dwell. Oh JUNO, HYMEN, HYMEN, JUNO! who Can merit with you two? Without your presence, VENUS can do nought, Save what with shame is bought: No Father can himself a Parent show, Nor any House with prosperous Issue grow. Oh then! What Deities will dare With HYMEN, or with JUNO to compare? SSee, see! the bright Stellam Vene ris, or VENUS, which when it goes before the Sun, is called Phos phorus, or Lu cifer; when it follows, esperus, or Noctifer (as Cat. translates it.) See Cic. 2. de Natum Deor. Mar. Cap. de Nup. Phi. & Mere. libr. 8. The nature of this star Pythag ras first found out; and the present office Claud. expresses in Fescen. Att llens thalamis Idali um jubar dilectus Veneri nascitur Hesperus. Idalian Star, That lights Lovers to their War, Complains, that you her influence lose; While thus the Night-sports you abuse. SEe, now she clean withdraws her Light; And (as you should) gives place to Night: That spreads her broad, and blackest wing Upon the world, and comes to bring A Stat. in Epit. Fu cra, torosq e eae, tenerum premit agmen Amorum. And Claud. in Epith. P nnati passim pueri, quo quem que ocavit mbra, jacent. Both which, prove the Ancients feigned many Cupid's. Read also Prop. E . 29. libr. 2. thousand several-coloured Loves, Some Like Sparrows, some Like Doves, That hop about the Nuptial-room, And fluttering there (against you come) Warm the chaste Bower, which VENUS is so induced by Stat. Claud. and others, to celebrate Nuptials. CYPRIAN strews, With many a Lily, many a Rose. Here stay, and let your Sports be crowned: The perfectest Figure is the Round. Nor fell you in it by adventure, When REASON was your Guide, and Centre. This, this that beauteous VENUS Gir dle, mentio ned by Homer. Ill . . which was feigned to be variously wrought with the Needle, and in it woe ven Love, De sire, Sweetness, Soft Parlee, Gracefulness, Persuasions, & all the Powers of VENUS. Ceston is of Lovers many-coulor'd Bliss. Come HYMEN, make and inner Ring, And let the Sacrificers sing; Cheer up the faint, and trembling Bride, That quakes to touch his Bridegroom's side: Tell her, what JUNO is to JOVE, The same shall she be to her Love; His Wife: which we do rather measure See the words of A lius verus. in Spartian. A Name of Dignity, then Pleasure. Up Youths, hold up your Lights in air, And shake abroad So Cat. in Nup. Jul. & Manlii hath it. Viden', ut fa ces splendid as quatiunt continued mass? and by and by after, aureas quati un comas. their flaming hair. Now move united, and, in Gate, As you (in pairs) do front the State, With grateful Honours, thank his Grace That hath so glorified the Place: And as, in Circle, you depart Linked hand in hand; So, heart in heart, May all those Bodies still remain Whom he, (with so much sacred pain) No less hath bound within his Realms Then they are with the OCEAN'S streams. Long may his UNION find increase As he, to ours, hath deigned his peace.