Re: Honour, Riches, Marriage Blessing

On Aug 19, 2021, David Dalton wrote
(in article<[email protected]>):

> Newfoundland celtic rock band Figgy Duff, on their album
> After the Tempest, recorded Honour, Riches (song from
> The Tempest, sung by Pamela Morgan).
>
> The song from the Tempest goes:
>
> Honour, riches, marriage blessing
> Long continuance and increasing
> Hourly joys be still upon you
> Juno sings her blessings on you
>
> Earth's increase foison plenty
> Barns and garners never empty
> Vines with clustering bunches growing
> Plants with goodly burden bowing
>
> Spring come to you at the farthest
> At the very end of harvest
> Scarcity and want shall shun you
> Ceres blessing so is on you
>
> though it will have to be slow increasing.

and it will have to be compatible marriage, including
no one-way attraction.

> Also I
> think my copy of the Collected Works of Shakespeare
> might have “in the very end of harvest”.
>
> Also with all the floods and drought and wildfires
> and plagues of insects the last two verses are
> less certain, depending on what we do. But perhaps
> there can be a volcanic eruption which would cool
> the planet for a few years, buying us a bit of time.

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