IDENTILIN$$ F149H05|Mark|Harvard, MS Eng. 966.4 (Dobell)|f.140r-v, pp.283-84|mf T-LP 4Sep87 149.H05.HE Elegyes /A funerall Elegy on the Death of y%5e%6 / Lady Markham.[140] 149.H05.001 Man is the World, and Death the Ocean, 149.H05.002 to w%5ch%6 God giues the lower parts of man. 149.H05.003 This sea envyrons all, and though as yet 149.H05.004 God haue sett markes and boundes 'twixt vs and it|.| 149.H05.005 Yet doth it roare and gnawe, and still pretend, 149.H05.006 and breakes our bankes, when ere it takes a ffrend; 149.H05.007 Then our Land-waters (teares of passion) vent. 149.H05.008 our waters then aboue our firmament 149.H05.009 (teares w%5ch%6 our soule doth for her sinne let fall) 149.H05.010 take all a brackish tast and funerall; 149.H05.011 and ev'n those teares w%5ch%6 should wash sinne, are sinne 149.H05.012 we after Gods Noe drowne the world agen. 149.H05.013 Nothinge but man, of all envenom'd thinges 149.H05.014 doth worke vpon it selfe with in-borne stinges. 149.H05.015 Teares are false Spectacles, we cannot see 149.H05.016 through Passions mist, what we are, or what she. 149.H05.017 In her this Sea of Death hath made no breach, 149.H05.018 but as the slymtyde doth wash the slimy Beach, 149.H05.019 and leaues embroidered worke vpon the Sand, 149.H05.020 Soe is her flesh refin'd by Deaths cold hand. 149.H05.021 As men of China, after an ages stay 149.H05.022 doe take vp Porce-lane where they bury'd clay. 149.H05.023 Soe at this graue, her Limbecke, w%5ch%6 refines 149.H05.024 y%5e%6 Diamonds, Rubies, Saphyrs, Pearles, and Mynes 149.H05.025 of w%5ch%6 this flesh was, her soule shall inspire 149.H05.026 flesh of such stuffe, as God, when his last fire 149.H05.027 annulls this world, to recompence it, shall 149.H05.028 make, and name them th' Elixar of this All. 149.H05.029 They say, the Sea, when it gaines, looseth too. 149.H05.030 yf carnall Death, y%5e%6 younger brother, doe [140] 149.H05.031 vsurpe the body, our Soule, w%5ch%6 subiect is 149.H05.032 to th'elder death, by sinne, is freede by this: 149.H05.033 They perish both when they attempt the Iust, 149.H05.034 for Graues our Trophees are, and both dead dust, 149.H05.035 Soe vn-obnoxious nowe, sh' hath buried both, 149.H05.036 for none to Death sinnes, that to sinne is loth. 149.H05.037 nor doe they dy, w%5ch%6 are not loth to dy, 149.H05.038 Soe hath she this, and that Virginity. 149.H05.039 Grace was in her extremity diligent 149.H05.040 that kept her from sinne, yet made her repent. 149.H05.041 Of what small spotts pure white complaines? alas, 149.H05.042 howe litle poyson breakes a Chrystall glasse? 149.H05.043 she sinn'd, but iust ynough to let vs see, 149.H05.044 that Gods word must be true, All sinners be: 149.H05.045 Soe much did zeale her conscience rectify, 149.H05.046 that extreme truth lackt' litle of a lye; 149.H05.047 makinge Omissions actes; layinge that touch 149.H05.048 of sinne, on thinges that sometimes may be such. 149.H05.049 As Moses Cherubins, whose natures doe 149.H05.050 Surpasse all speede, by him are winged too, 149.H05.051 Soe would her Soule, already in heav'n, seeme then 149.H05.052 To clime, by teares, the Com%Mon stayres of Men. 149.H05.053 Howe fitt she was for God, I am content 149.H05.054 to speake, that Death his vaine hast may repent: 149.H05.055 howe fitt for vs, howe even, and howe sweete, 149.H05.056 howe good in all her titles, and howe meete 149.H05.057 to haue reform'd that froward[var:or] heresy 149.H05.058 that women can no parts of frendship be; 149.H05.059 howe Morall, howe Devine, shall not be told, 149.H05.060 least they that heare her Vertues, thinke her old; 149.H05.061 And least we take Deaths part, and make him glad 149.H05.062 of such a pray, and to his Triumphs adde. 149.H05.SS [2 3-leaf clovers] 149.H05.0$$ No indentations.