If, of free-will, one, offering in his stead,

Rendered the debt. So passed she to the dead:

But comes again upraised. Therefore, ’tis meet

That they which mourned should dance, and mouths make sweet

Music about this chamber, decked and dight

For fruitful wedlock: whereto I bring light,

And warmth, and blessing. So may surer bliss,

And through long years, attend the marriage kiss,

Which here now is to be.

(Exit Hymen. Enter Chorus of Women.)