Definition of "bridegroome"

But me think, it is good reaſon, that I should be at mine owne Bꝛidall, and not giuen in the Church befoꝛe I knowe the Bꝛidegroome.

1593, John Lyly, Evphves. The Anatomy of Wit., pages 57-58

[…] expecting the vncertaine comming of the Bridegroome, and ſo when hee came, were receiued with him into the bridall Chamber of eternall bleſſedneſſe.

1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 50