Tixall Poetry/To the Right Honourable Walter Lord Aston and His Lady, upon Their 24th Yeare of Happy Marriage

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To the Right Honourable

Walter Lord Aston and His Lady,

upon Their 24th Yeare of Happy Marriage.

 

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Pardon the humble offering I pay,
Madam, to you, your lord, and to the day.
What doth this threefold service here betoken?
A triple cord of duty never broken.
Long live joynt partners, soule and body one!
Long live this day that made the union!
But poore and empty is my single vote,
After the full and most authentike throate
Of a grand jury, foure-and-twenty yeares,
As happily recorded it appeares,
By the brave verdict to your joyes given in,
For truth sans ceremonie, for terme sans fin.
Thus, in short writing couch'd, behold the test,
And glorious tryal of a grand inquest;
And th' impartial judgment here discovers,
The crown and tryumph that attend true lovers.
The trope is lost, unless you reade what meant I,
But to bespeake another foure-and-twenty.
This yeare their foreman, in poetike fury,
Gives you the sense and soul of their grand jury;
And in the name and nature of Apollo,
Doth fairly prophecy the rest shall follow.
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$Madam, you see both heart and hand agree
To court your genius, and wee hope to see
Your joyes growue up unto a jubilye.