_Hunc veneram locum, septeno lumine septum._ _Dignumque_ Arthuri _totidem astra micant._
I am begynyng and ende, that made ech creature My sylfe, and for my sylfe, but man esspecially Both male and female, made aftyr myne aun fygure, Whom I joyned togydyr in Matrimony And that in Paradyse, declaring opynly That men shall weddyng in my Chyrch solempnize, Fygurid and signifyed by the erthly Paradyze.
In thys my Chyrch I am allway recydent As my chyeff tabernacle, and most chosyn place, Among these goldyn candylstikkis, which represent My Catholyk Chyrch, shynyng affor my face, With lyght of feyth, wisdom, doctryne, and grace, And mervelously eke enflamyd toward me Wyth the extyngwible fyre of Charyte.
Wherefore, my welbelovid dowgthyr Katharyn, Syth I have made yow to myne awn semblance In my Chyrch to be maried, and your noble Childryn To regn in this land as in their enherytance, Se that ye have me in speciall remembrance: Love me and my Chyrch yowr spiritual modyr, For ye dispysing that oon, dyspyse that othyr.
Look that ye walk in my precepts, and obey them well: And here I give you the same blyssyng that I Gave my well beloved chylder of Israell; Blyssyd be the fruyt of your bely; Yower substance and frutys I shall encrease and multyply; Yower rebellious Enimyes I shall put in yowr hand, Encreasing in honour both yow and yowr land.
LOVEW. This would be censured now a days as profane to the highest degree.
TRUM. No doubt on't: Yet you see there was a time when People were not so nicely censorious in these Matters, but were willing to take things in the best sence: and then this was thought a noble Entertainment for the greatest King in _Europe_ (such I esteem King _H._ 7. at that time) and proper for that Day of mighty Joy and Triumph. And I must farther observe out of the Lord _Bacon_'s History of _H._ 7. that the chief Man who had the care of that Days Proceedings was Bishop _Fox_, a grave Councelor for War or Peace, and also a good Surveyor of Works, and a good Master of Cerimonies, and it seems he approv'd it. The said Lord _Bacon_ tells us farther, That whosoever had those Toys in compiling, they were not altogether Pedantical.
LOVEW. These things however are far from that which we understand by the name of a Play.