Heauens blessing, and earths ioy. Or a true relation, of the supposed sea-fights & fire-workes, as were accomplished, before the royall celebration, of the al-beloved mariage, of the two peerlesse paragons of Christendome, Fredericke & Elizabeth With triumphall encomiasticke verses, consecrated to the immortall memory of those happy and blessed nuptials. By Iohn Taylor,
Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
To Eternitie.
THou that beyond all things dost goe so farre,
That no Cosmographers could e're suruay,
Whose glory (brighter then great Phoebus Carre)
Doth Shine, where night doth ne're eclipse the day:
To thee I consecrate these Princes acts,
In thee alone let all their beings be:
Let all the measures of their famous tracts
In thee begin, but neuer end like thee.
And when thy seruant Time, giues Life to Death.
And Death surrenders all their liues to Fame:
Oh then inspire them with celestiall breath,
With Saints and Martyrs to applawd thy name.
Thus vnto thee (as thine owne proper rights)
I consecrate these matchles worthy wights.
