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An Epithalamium vpon the happy marriage of our Soueraigne Lord King Charles, and our gracious Lady Queene MARY.
THe Ocean long contended (but in vaine)
To part our shore from France.
Let Neptune shake his mace, & swelling waues aduance:
The former Vnion now returnes againe,
This Isle shall once more kisse the Maine
Ioyn'd with a flowry bridge of loue, on which the Graces dance.
Leander here no dang'rous iourney takes,
To touch his Heros hand:
Our Hellespont with Ships becomes as firme as Land,
When this sweete Nymph her place of birth forsakes,
And England signes of welcome makes
As many, as our gladsome coasts haue little graines of sand.
That voyce, in which the Continent was blest,
Now to this Iland calls
The liuing Woods, and Rocks to frame new rising Walls:
The moouing Hills salute this happy guest,
The Riuers to her seruice prest,
Seine into Thames, Garonne to Trent, and Loire to Seuerne falls.