Epithalamion in nuptias eruditi et pii iuvenis Ioannis Oldendorpii secundi, celeberrimi huius temporis iurisconsulti, & consiliarii principis Hassiae primarii, doctoris Ioannis Oldendorpii, filii: et castissimae virginis Christinae, reverendi viri Ioannis Soniceri theologiae doctoris, et linguarum in celebri Academia Marpurgensi professoris, filiae

For you see the bridal torches shining there, and the plucked strings returning a deep sound, which tell of the new joys of the Metropolis of the Catti Marburg, capital of the Hessi/Catti people, and are accustomed to be witnesses of the new covenant. Let each one give the new bonds of the wedding couch with his own gift, and hope for all prosperous things at once. Let the court of the Prince of Hesse provide wild meats, hares, roe-deer, and bristly pigs. Let the passing Lahn River Lahn provide the most pleasing dishes, fish, in which an extreme abundance swims. Let renowned wines be carried here from the Rhenish shores, and the sweet musts that the present time holds.

CALLIOPE.

Filthy love has atrociously devastated many cities, as Sparta, Sybaris, and fallen Troy teach. You, young man, weighing these things very well within your own heart, you now also enter the bonds of marriage, nor do you wish to be without a partner of the bed any longer, lest you fall when captured by foul love. Therefore, pious bridegroom, among the virginal crowns, you choose from your heart the one who alone pleases you. You choose from all the maidens in this city of Mars, with whom your whole life is to be spent. Nor does the golden beauty of your bride please you so much (although that is often accustomed to move many). But the distinction of character, piety, and chaste virtue have captivated your eloquent heart. The third cause was the lineage of the bride, and your father-in-law, a great glory among theologians. And a skilled professor of languages with grave praise, of Hebrew, Latin, and Greek original: "Cecropiæ" (Athenian/Greek) at once. Whose fame flies everywhere through the spacious world, because the published writings yield glory to him.

And because