Pleasant dialogues and dramma's, selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. With sundry emblems extracted from the most elegant Iacobus Catsius. As also certaine elegies, epitaphs, and epithalamions or nuptiall songs; anagrams and acrosticks; with divers speeches (upon severall occasions) spoken to their most excellent Majesties, King Charles, and Queene Mary. With other fancies translated from Beza, Bucanan, and sundry Italian poets. By Thomas Heywood

Himens blessing upon the same.

Faelice••ter & Amplius quos Irrupta tenet Copulae.

I bring you Himens blessing, hearts intire, First warm'd, then kindled at his holy fire. The Grecian Ladies kept these nights to mirth Sacred, and from their marriage, not their birth Counted their age; This knot so doubly tyde May no disaster, or sad fate divide. May peace and love in all your lookes be read, A plentious table, and a fruitfull bed Be never wanting, jealousie and strife

Be farre exil'd, that a contented life May sweeten all those houres that are t'ensue. And as your Parents now rejoyce in you, May you in your blest Issue, and spread name, That when to them I kindle a new flame, As at this feast, where like occasions meet, Both Sires and Grandsires may be proud to see't. And this to many generations prove, As the best fruits of true conjugall love.