Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UPON MY LORD BROGHILL'S WEDDING; DIALOGUE, SUCKLING AND BOND, by JOHN SUCKLING Poet's Biography First Line: In bed, dull man Last Line: Another, when they're ready, shows them game. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives | ||||||||
S. IN bed, dull man, When Love and Hymen's revels are begun, And the church ceremonies past and done! B. Why, who's gone mad to-day? S. Dull heretic, thou wouldst say, He that is gone to heaven's gone astray; Broghill our gallant friend Is gone to church, as martyrs to the fire: Who marry, differ but i' th' end, Since both do take The hardest way to what they most desire. Nor stay'd he till the formal priest had done, But ere that part was finish'd, his begun: Which did reveal The haste and eagerness men have to seal, That long to tell the money. A sprig of willow in his hat he wore (The loser's badge and liv'ry heretofore), But now so order'd that it might be taken, By lookers-on, forsaking as forsaken; And now and then A careless smile broke forth, which spoke his mind, And seem'd to say she might have been more kind. When this, dear Jack, I saw, Thought I, How weak is lovers' law! The bonds made there (like gipsies' knots) with ease Are fast and loose, as they that hold them please. [B.] But was the fair nymph's praise or power less That led him captive now to happiness, 'Cause she did not a foreign aid despise, But enter'd breaches made by others' eyes? [S.] The gods forbid! There must be some to shoot and batter down, Others to force and to take in the town. To hawks, good Jack, and hearts There may Be sev'ral ways and arts: One watches them perchance, and makes them tame; Another, when they're ready, shows them game. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BLESSING FOR A WEDDING by JANE HIRSHFIELD A SUITE FOR MARRIAGE by DAVID IGNATOW ADVICE TO HER SON ON MARRIAGE by MARY BARBER THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD KISSING AGAIN by DORIANNE LAUX A TIME PAST by DENISE LEVERTOV A BALLAD UPON A WEDDING by JOHN SUCKLING A SUPPLEMENT OF AN IMPERFECT COPY OF VERSES OF MR. WILL. SHAKESPEARE'S by JOHN SUCKLING |
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