IDENTILIN$$  F149HH1|Mark|Huntington MS EL 6893 (Bridgewater)|ff.100-101|mf T-LP 2Sep87 
149.HH1.HE   A funerall Elegie vpon /the Lady Markham [100]
149.HH1.001  Man is the world & death the Ocean 
149.HH1.002  to which God giues the lower parts of man
149.HH1.003  This Sea invirons all, & though as yet 
149.HH1.004  God hath sett marks & bounds twixt vs & it
149.HH1.005  yet doth it roare & gnaw & still pretend  
149.HH1.006  and break our bank, when ere it tak* a frend
149.HH1.007  Then our land waters ,>(teares of passion) vi*t[M:vent]
149.HH1.008  our waters then above our firmament
149.HH1.009  (>*teares (w%5ch%6 our Sowle for her syn%Ms let fall)
149.HH1.010  take all a brackish tast, & funerall,
149.HH1.011  And even those teares w%5ch%6 should wash sinn amayne [100v]
149.HH1.012  wee after Gods Noe drowne our wo'rld againe.
149.HH1.013  Nothing but man of all invenom'd things 
149.HH1.014  doth work vpon itself w%5th%6 In=borne stings
149.HH1.015om
149.HH1.016om
149.HH1.017  In her this Sea of death hath made no breach
149.HH1.018  but as the tyde doth was%5h%6 the slymy b%5r%6each
149.HH1.019  and leaves embroidred works vpon y%5e%6 sand
149.HH1.020  So is her flesh refynd by deaths cold hand
149.HH1.021  As men of China after an ages stay
149.HH1.022  do take vp puslane>pu%5*%6slane where they buried clay
149.HH1.023  So at this grave her lymbeck w%5ch%6 refines   
149.HH1.024  the Dy'mons Rubys, Saphyres, pearles & mynes
149.HH1.025  Of w%5ch%6 thy flesh was, her sowle shall inspire 
149.HH1.026  flesh of such stuff as God (when his last fyre  
149.HH1.027  anulls this world, to recompence it) shall  
149.HH1.028  make & name then y%5e%6 Elyxar of this all
149.HH1.029  The Sea when >most it gayneth looseth too. %Yg**her%Z 
149.HH1.030  If carnall death the yonger brother
149.HH1.031  >doe vsurp the bodie, Our Sowle w%5ch%6 subiect is 
149.HH1.032  to th'elder death by synn, is freed by this
149.HH1.033  They perish >both when they attempt the iust  
149.HH1.034  for graves our Trophees are, & both deaths dust   
149.HH1.035  So obnoxious now shee hath buried both
149.HH1.036  For none to death synnes, w%5ch%6 to syn%M are loth 
149.HH1.037  Nor doe they dye, which are not loth to dye [101]
149.HH1.038  So it shee hath. & that virginitie 
149.HH1.039  Grace was in her extreamelie diligent 
149.HH1.040  That kept her from synne, yet made her repent
149.HH1.041  Of what small spotts pure white complaynes  
149.HH1.042om
149.HH1.043  Shee synn'%Ye%Zd, but iust, enoug%5h%6 to lett vs see
149.HH1.044  that Gods word must be true, All synners bee 
149.HH1.045  So much did zeale her conscience rarifie
149.HH1.046  That extreame trueth lacked little of a lye 
149.HH1.047  makeing Omyssions, acts, laying the touch 
149.HH1.048  of Synne on things, sometimes may be such;
149.HH1.049  as Moses Cherubins, whose natur's doe
149.HH1.050  surpas all speed, by >him are winged too
149.HH1.051  So would her Sowle, alredy in heave%M see%M then 
149.HH1.052  to clyme by Teares, the com%Mon staires of me%M 
149.HH1.053  Howe fitt shee was for God, I am content  
149.HH1.054  to speak, that death, his vayne hast may repen%5t%6
149.HH1.055  How fitt for vs, how even & how sweet
149.HH1.056  how >lowe in all her titles, & how meet
149.HH1.057  to have reformed this forward hae%Lresie
149.HH1.058  that women can no parts of frendshipp bee 
149.HH1.059  How morrall, how devine shall not be tould
149.HH1.060  least they that heare her virtue think her ould
149.HH1.061  and least wee take deaths part & make him glad
149.HH1.062  of such a praye & to his Triumphs add. 
149.HH1.SS   [whirlwind flourish]
149.HH1.0$$  No indentations; ll. 15-16, 42 omitted; space left for l.42.