IDENTILIN$$  F149EU3|Mark|Laing III.493|ff. 94v-95v|EWS  Original  5-31-83
149.EU3.0HE  Elegye on y%5e%6 death of y%5e%6 La: Markam.
149.EU3.001  Man is y%5e%6 worlde, & death y%5e%6 Ocean [f. 94v]
149.EU3.002  To w%5ch%6 god giues y%5e%6 lower parts of man:
149.EU3.003  This sea enuyrons all & though as yet
149.EU3.004  God haue sett markes & boundes twixt vs & it:
149.EU3.005  yet doth it roare, & gnawe, & still pretende,
149.EU3.006  & breakes our bankes when ere it takes a freinde,
149.EU3.007  Then our Land-water (teares of passion) vente:
149.EU3.008  Our water then aboue our firmament
149.EU3.009  (Teares w%5ch%6 our soule doth for her sinnes lett fall)
149.EU3.010  Take all a brakish taste & funerall.
149.EU3.011  & euen those teares y%5t%6 should wash syn ar syn:
149.EU3.012  Wee after Gods No drowne y%5e%6 world agen/
149.EU3.013  No thing but man of all enueminde things
149.EU3.014  doth worke vpon it selfe w%5th%6 ynborne stinges:
149.EU3.015  Teares ar false spectacles; we cannot see
149.EU3.016  Through passions mist what wee ar, or what shee.
149.EU3.017  In her this sea of Death hath made no breache,
149.EU3.018  But as y%5e%6 tyde doth wash y%5e%6 slymy beache,
149.EU3.019  & leaues embroydred workes vpon y%5e%6 Sande,
149.EU3.020  So is her flesh refynde by Death coulde hande:
149.EU3.021  As men of Chyna after an Ages stay,
149.EU3.022  Do take vp porcelayne where thay buryed claye,
149.EU3.023  So at this graue, her lymbeck w%5ch%6 refynes
149.EU3.024  y%5e%6 dyamonds, rubyes, saphirs, pearles & mynes
149.EU3.025  of w%5ch%6 this flesh was, her Soule shall inspire
149.EU3.026  flesh of such stuffe, as god (when his last fyre
149.EU3.027  Annulls this %Yall%Z worlde), to recompense it, shall [cw: make &]
149.EU3.028  Make & name then, Th'Elixar of this All./ [f. 95]
149.EU3.029  Thay say y%5e%6 Sea when it gaynes, looses too:
149.EU3.030  If carnall death (y%5e%6 younger brother) do
149.EU3.031  Vsurpe y%5e%6 bodye, our soule w%5ch%6 subject is
149.EU3.032  To th'elder Death by Syn, %Yit%Z is freed by this.
149.EU3.033  Thay perish bothe when thay attempt y%5e%6 Juste,
149.EU3.034  for graues our Tropheyes ar, & both deaths duste.
149.EU3.035  So vnobnoxious now, sh'hath buryed both:
149.EU3.036  for none to death synnes, y%5t%6 to sinne is loth:->.
149.EU3.037  Nor do thay dye w%5ch%6 ar not loth to dye,
149.EU3.038  So hath shee this & that virginitye.
149.EU3.039  Grace was in her extreamly diligente
149.EU3.040  y%5t%6 kept her from Syn, yet make her repente/
149.EU3.041  Of what smale spotts pure whyte complaines,?  Alas
149.EU3.042  How little poyson cracks a christall glasse?
149.EU3.043  She sinnde but just enough to let vs see
149.EU3.044  y%5t%6 gods worde must be true; All sinners bee,
149.EU3.045  So much did zeale her conscience rarifye,
149.EU3.046  y%5t%6 extreame Trueth lackt littly of a lye;
149.EU3.047  Making omissions acts, laying y%5e%6 touche
149.EU3.048  Of Syn on things w%5ch%6 sumtymes may be such.
149.EU3.049  As Moyses Cherubines (whose natures do
149.EU3.050  Surpasse all speede) by him ar winged too,
149.EU3.051  So would her Soule (already in heau'n) seeme then
149.EU3.052  To clyme by teares; ** The common stayres of Men/
149.EU3.053  How fitt She was for God, I am content
149.EU3.054  To speake, y%5t%6 death his vayne haste may repente,
149.EU3.055  How fitt for vs, how euen, & how sweete,
149.EU3.056  How good in all her tytles, & how meete
149.EU3.057  To haue reform'de this forwarde heresye [cw: that]
149.EU3.058  That women can no partes of frendshipp be, [f. 95v]
149.EU3.059  How morall, how deuine shall not be tould
149.EU3.060  Least thay that heare her vertues, thinke her oulde,
149.EU3.061  & lest wee take Deaths parte, & make him glad
149.EU3.062  Of such a praye, & to his tryumphe adde.
149.EU3.0SS  J.D.
149.EU3.$$   "edit. 1669 p. 251" in pencil.  Heading and corrections scribal.