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... sins of the flesh. Beginning with the Scriptures, the Bible itself—which no one dares read now but in mawkish French versions—what priest, for instance, would venture to recommend to the nerveless spirit of his flock the study of the sixteenth chapter of Ezekiel or of the Song of Songs, that Epithalamium of Jesus and the Soul—down to the ...

— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... where he was to lodge for the night. After the brilliant failure of his first theatrical venture, he dared not return to the lodging which he occupied in the Rue Grenier-sur-l'Eau, opposite to the Port-au-Foin, having depended upon receiving from monsieur the provost for his epithalamium, the wherewithal to pay Master Guillaume Doulx-Sire, farmer of the taxes on cloven-footed animals in Paris, the rent which he owed him, that is to say, twelve sols parisian; twelve times the value of all that he possessed in the world, ...

— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo

... thing I did not know your brother has just told me—that you are to be wed before Christmas. He has ordered me to write your epithalamium." ...

— The Shame of Motley • Raphael Sabatini

Words linked to "Epithalamium" : prothalamium, ode, prothalamion