IDENTILIN$$  F149H06|Mark|Harvard, MS Eng. 966.5 (O'Flahertie)|ff.82v-83, pp.162-163|mf T-LP 4Sep87
149.H06.HE   A Funerall Elegie vpon the death /of the Lady Markham [82v]
149.H06.001  Man is the world, and death the Ocean 
149.H06.002  To w.%5ch%6 God giues the lower parts of man,
149.H06.003  This Sea enuirons all, and though, as yet 
149.H06.004  God hath set markes and bounds twixt vs and it
149.H06.005  yet doth it rore and gnaw, and still pretend  
149.H06.006  And breakes our bankes when ere it takes a frind.
149.H06.007  Then our land waters, (teares of passion) vent.
149.H06.008  Our waters, then aboue our firmament,
149.H06.009  (Teares w.%5ch%6 our soule doth for her sinne let fall)
149.H06.010  Take all a brackish tast and funerall,
149.H06.011  And even those teares w.%5ch%6 should washe sinne, are sinn|.|
149.H06.012  Wee after Gods, No, drowne our world agen.
149.H06.013  Nothing but Man of all invenomd things
149.H06.014  Doth worke vpon it selfe with inborne stings.
149.H06.015  Teares ar false spectacles, wee cannot see
149.H06.016  Through passions mist what wee are or what shee|.|
149.H06.017  In her this Sea of death hath made no breach
149.H06.018  But, as the Tide doth wash the slimy* beache
149.H06.019  And leaues embroyderd workes vpon the sand:
149.H06.020  So is her flesh refind by deaths cold hand.
149.H06.021  As men of Chine after an Ages stay
149.H06.022  Do take vp Purcesane>Purcelane where they buryed clay
149.H06.023  So at this Graue, her Limbeck, (w.%5ch%6 refines   
149.H06.024  The Dyamonds Rubyes Saphyres Pearles and Mines
149.H06.025  Of w.%5ch%6 this flesh was) her soule, shall enspire 
149.H06.026  Flesh of such stuff, as God, when his last fire  
149.H06.027  Annulls this world, to recompence it, shall  
149.H06.028  Make and name them th' Elixar of this all.
149.H06.029  They say, the Sea, when it gaynes, looses too 
149.H06.030  If carnall death, the young%5r%6 brother doe [CW:Vsurp|e|]
149.H06.031  Vsurpe the body, our Soule, w.%5ch%6 subiect is [83]
149.H06.032  To th'elder death by sinne, is freed by this.
149.H06.033  They perish both when they attempt the Iust  
149.H06.034  For Graues our Trophyes are, and both Deaths dust.   
149.H06.035  so vnobnoxious now sh'hath buryd both
149.H06.036  ffor none to death sinnes that to sinne is lothe 
149.H06.037  Nor doe they dye w.%5ch%6 are not lothe to dye,
149.H06.038  So hath shee this and that Virginity. 
149.H06.039  Grace was in her extreamly diligent 
149.H06.040  That kept her from sinne, yet made her repent.
149.H06.041  Of what small spotts pure white complaynes|?| alas, 
149.H06.042  How little poyson breakes a christall glasse|?|
149.H06.043  Shee sinnd but iust enough to let vs see
149.H06.044  That Gods word must bee true, All sinners bee. 
149.H06.045  So much did Zeale her conscience rectify>rarify
149.H06.046  That Extreme Truth lackd little of a Lye 
149.H06.047  Making omissions acts, laying the touch 
149.H06.048  Of Sinne on things w.%5ch%6 sometimes may bee such.
149.H06.049  As Moses Cherubins, whose natures doe
149.H06.050  Surpasse all speed, by him ar winged too|:|
149.H06.051  So would her Soule, already in heauen, seeme then 
149.H06.052  To climbe by Teares, the com%Mon stayres of men. 
149.H06.053  How fitt shee was for God I am content  
149.H06.054  To speake, that Death his vayne hast may repent
149.H06.055  How fitt for vs, how eeven, and how sweete
149.H06.056  How good in all her titles, and how meete
149.H06.057  To haue reformd that forward heresy
149.H06.058  That woemen can no parts of frindshipp bee. 
149.H06.059  How |M|orall, how Diuine shall not bee told
149.H06.060  Least they that heare her virtues thinke her old
149.H06.061  And least wee take deaths part and make him glad
149.H06.062  Of such a pray, and to his Triumphs add. 
149.H06.SS   om
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