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First Line: Advance your choral motions now
Last Line: The kind delights you breed.
Variant Title(s): To The Masquers Representing Stars
Subject(s): Pleasure


1.

Advance your choral motions now,
You music-loving lights:
This night concludes the nuptial vow,
Make this the best of nights:
So bravely crown it with your beams
That it may live in fame
As long as Rhenus or the Thames
Are known by either name.

2.

Once more again, yet nearer move
Your forms at willing view;
Such fair effects of joy and love
None can express but you.
Then revel midst your airy bowers
Till all the clouds do sweat,
That pleasure may be poured in showers
On this triumphant seat.

3.

Long since hath lovely Flora thrown
Her flowers and garlands here;
Rich Ceres all her wealth hath shown,
Proud of her dainty cheer.
Changed then to human shape, descend,
Clad in familiar weed,
That every eye may here commend
The kind delights you breed.





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