Epithalamion protreptikon (1578) - Page 7

It is fitting to have admonished only: I do not wish to be distrustful:
I admonish what is fitting: and I prescribe nothing.
I prescribe nothing: the warnings help: as much as you might not need
Prov. 9. Argue the wise, and he will love you: and the foolish, and he will pursue you with hatred; and elsewhere: Fools have hated discipline. Any of these: they can also have harmed nothing.
And whoever has withdrawn his ear from the warnings:
He will be a fool: even if he is a Cato, he will be a fool.

Especially the learned Fathers: and all the Relatives:
To the male and female relatives of the Bridegroom and Bride. Whom the love of the Bridegroom has called over these SACRED things:
And whoever of you touches the pious Bride with a closer
Relationship: each one of you has departed from one grandfather:
Give forth rejoicing applause with a glad heart:
And offer the brow with sweet jests.
This day is joyful: send this to joyful signs:
And complete it, having been gathered by good studies.
Let it be sweet to drink the wine: and to break the fat birds:
Let it be sweet to have diminished the wine.
Things are not evil by use, but by abuse. To the pure, all things are pure. Tit. 1. There are three duties of the wedding feast. For the present time so wishes: and ministers Bacchus Iacchus:
And orders to harvest the sweet gain of autumn.
If a PIOUS mind harvests, the generous sky does not envy:
It is right, if the love of sobriety remains.
1. That they may be witnesses of the legitimately initiated marriage. 2. That they may be companions of joy: rejoicing in the Lord. 3. That they may be fellow workers of pious prayers for the happy outcome of the new spouses in marriage, etc. Taste the dishes that have been set before you: and favor the spirit:
And pour out PIOUS VOWS with a common prayer:
Praying that God may give friendly sails to the Ship:
Which the Bride now enters with the Bridegroom as her guide.
» You see that nothing turns out happy for a man acting:
» Unless he desires the companionable help of the Divine in prayers.
» Every labor everywhere, without the nod of the Divine, grows cold: