The Entertainment, or Porch-Verse, at the Marriage of Mr. Henry Northleigh and the Most Witty Mrs. Lettice Yard

Welcome! but yet no entrance, till we bless
First you, then you, and both for white success.
Profane no porch, young man and maid, for fear
Ye wrong the threshold-god that keeps peace here:
Please him, and then all good-luck will betide
You, the brisk bridegroom, you the dainty bride.
Do all things sweetly, and in comely wise;
Put on your garlands first, then sacrifice;
That done, when both of you have seemly fed,
We'll call on Night, to bring ye both to bed;
Where being laid, all fair signs looking on,
Fish-like, increase then to a million:
And milliƶns of springtimes may ye have,
Which spent, one death bring to ye both one grave.
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