%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> EPITHALAMIUM / On the Auspicious Match, betwixt the Right / Honourable. / The Earl of WIGTOUN / And the truely Vertuous Lady / MARGARET LINDSAY / Daughter to the Right Honourable, The Earl of / BALCARROS. B., A. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 07/14/2014 34159

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R176746 NOW is the Time the Origin of Light, / Doth equally divide our Day from Night. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 26 EPITHALAMIUM / On the Auspicious Match, betwixt the Right / Honourable. / The Earl of WIGTOUN / And the truely Vertuous Lady / MARGARET LINDSAY / Daughter to the Right Honourable, The Earl of / BALCARROS. EPITHALAMIUM On the Auspicious Match, betwixt the Right Honorable. The Earl of WIGTOUN And the truly Virtuous Lady MARGARET LINDSAY Daughter to the Right Honorable, The Earl of BALCARROS. B., A. ?-?

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NOW is the Time the Origin of Light, Doth equally divide our Day from Night. When the Musicians of the Air do sing Melodious Notes to welcome in the Spring When each of them do choose their proper Mate, And Bill, and Hugg, and closly Copulate, More through the Force of Love than Phoebus Heat, This is the time when Hymen choos'd to join This Worthy pair, and to make one of twain; They're both descended of an Ancient Race Which a long train of Noble Worthies Grace, Both in the Flower of Age, and Venus Spring, Are equally adorn'd in every thing; He is a stately Personage and fair, Endeu'd with each Accomplishment that's Rare, Of nature, or Refined Literature, Her very name insinuats her praise, She is a Pearl indeed, and of great Price She's Frugal, Chast, and Beautious and Wise, Like the Wise Merchant in the Gospel Hee Hath found the Pearl and hid Treasurie, Which in true Computation is far more Then all the Riches on the Eastern shoor, And in Requital doth himself Bequeath, A greater prise then either India hath; The Conquest's Equal, Equal is the prise, The acquisition's a sweet Paradise On either side, it doth surpass my Skill T'express the pleasure that they both shall feel, When he and she in Hymens name shall bow, And pay to each the duty that they owe.
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