Epithalamion protreptikon

With love, and with diligence, take this bridegroom,
As my muse now gives to you, a line.
If you look at the gift itself, it is meager:
But if you look at the soul, it will be something great.
So that the wedding may fall out most happily and best,
You who inhabit the heaven, O God, turn it well.
And in these chambers, which you now enter, may He perform
Everything for you, sweet for all, in all things.

By the most studious friend of ancient standing,
M. PAUL CHERLER of Elsterburg,
from the Voigtland. Minister of the Church of Pincemienfis.

A horizontal rectangular woodcut ornament featuring scrolling acanthus leaves and floral motifs.