Francis Beaumont (1584-1616). The Bridal Song. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1907. The Book of Elizabethan Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

The Bridal Song

By Francis Beaumont (1584–1616)


PEACE and silence be the guide
To the man and to the bride!
If there be a joy yet new
In marriage, let it fall on you,
That all the world may wonder!	5
If we should stay, we should do worse,
And turn our blessing to a curse
By keeping you asunder.