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Epithalamia

Epithalamium \Ep`i*tha*la"mi*um\, n.; pl. Epithalamiums, L. Epithalamia. [L., fr. Gr. ?, orig. an adj., nuptial; 'epi` upon, at + ? bride chamber.] A nuptial song, or poem in honor of the bride and bridegroom.

The kind of poem which was called epithalamium . . . sung when the bride was led into her chamber.
--B. Jonson.

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While in no degree Shakespearian echoes, there are epithalamia and dirges of his that might properly have fallen from the lips of Posthumus in "Cymbeline.