Compararier ausit?”
Claudian, in his epithalamium on the nuptials of Palladius and Celerina, and the German poet Lotichius, extol Hymen in terms similar to those employed in the first of the above stanzas: and the advantages he confers, alluded to in the second, have been beautifully touched on by Milton, as also by Pope, in his chorus of youths and virgins, forming part of the Duke of Buckingham’s intended tragedy—Brutus:
“But Hymen’s kinder flames unite,
And burn for ever one,
Chaste as cold Cynthia’s virgin light,
Productive as the sun.
“O source of every social tye,
United wish and mutual joy,
What various joys on one attend!
As son, as father, brother, husband, friend.”