IDENTLINE$$ F150B16|BoulRec|Leare|ff. 48v-9v|Original EWS 6-5-85 150.B16.0HE D%5r%6 Donne on m%5es%6 Bulstrode. 150.B16.001 Death, I recant, & sayd vnsayd by mee [f. 48v] 150.B16.002 What ere hath slipt, that might diminish thee 150.B16.003 Spirituall treason, Atheisme tis to say 150.B16.004 that any can thy Summons disobay 150.B16.005 the earths face is but thy table, there are sett 150.B16.006 plants, cattell, men, dished for death to eate 150.B16.007 In a rude hunger low he millions drawyes 150.B16.008 Into his bloody or plaguy, or starued Iawyes 150.B16.009 Now hee will seeme to spare & doth more wast 150.B16.010 Eating the best first, too well preserued to last 150.B16.011 Now wantonly he spoyles & eats v=s not 150.B16.012 But breakes of freinds & lets vs peece meal rot 150.B16.013 Nor will the earth serue him he sincks the deepe 150.B16.014 where harmely fish monasticke silence keepe 150.B16.015 who (wear death dead) by rowles of liuing sand 150.B16.016 might spung the Elementt & make it land 150.B16.017 he rounds the Aier & breaks the Hymnique notes 150.B16.018 In birds heauens queristers organicke Throats 150.B16.019 w%5ch%6 if they did not dy, might seeme to bee 150.B16.020 A tenth ranke in his heauenly Hirarchy 150.B16.021 O strange & long liued death how camst thou In 150.B16.022 And how without creation didst be gin 150.B16.023 thou hast & shall see death before thou diest 150.B16.024 all the foure Monarchies & Antichrist 150.B16.025 how could I thinke thee nothing yet see now 150.B16.026 In all this all nothing els is but thou 150.B16.027 Our births & liues, virtues & vices bee 150.B16.028 wastfull consumptions, & degrees of thee. 150.B16.029 for we doe liue our bellows, wear, & breath [f. 49] 150.B16.030 nor are we mortall dying dead but death. 150.B16.031 and though thou beest o mighty bird of praye 150.B16.032 So much reclaimd by god that thou must laye 150.B16.033 all that thou killest at his feet yet doth hee 150.B16.034 reserue but few. & leaues the most to thee 150.B16.035 and of those few now thou hast ouer throwne 150.B16.036 One whome thy blow, makes not ouers nor thy owne 150.B16.037 Shee was more stories high, hopeless to come, 150.B16.038 to hir Soule if thou hast offerd at his lower roome 150.B16.039 her Soule & body weare a king & Court 150.B16.040 but thou hast both of Captaine mist & fort 150.B16.041 as houses fall not though the king remoue 150.B16.042 bodyes of saints rest for theire soules aboue 150.B16.043 death getts twixt soules & bodies such a place 150.B16.044 as sin insiniuats twixt iust men & grace 150.B16.045 hir soule is gone to vsher vpp hir Corce 150.B16.046 both worke a separation noe diuource 150.B16.047 which shall be all most a nother soule, for there 150.B16.048 bodyes are puerer, then most soules are here 150.B16.049 because in hir her virtues did out goe 150.B16.050 her yeares, wouldst thou o emulus death doe soe 150.B16.051 and kill hir young to thy loss. must the cost 150.B16.052 of beauty & witt apt to doe harme be lost 150.B16.053 what if thou foundest her profe, against sinns of youth 150.B16.054 Yet eauery age a diuers sine persuth 150.B16.055 Thou mights haue stayd & taken better hold 150.B16.056 Shortly ambitious & couitous (when old) 150.B16.057 Shee might haue prid, & such deuotion 150.B16.058 Might once haue strayd to superstition 150.B16.059 In all his virtues y%5t%6 might haue growne, it might 150.B16.060 abundant virtues bread a fond delight 150.B16.061 And had shee bin preserued Iust, there would haue bine 150.B16.062 Some that would sine, in thinkinge her to sine 150.B16.063 Such as would call hir frindshippe loue & fame 150.B16.064 To sociableness a name prophaine 150.B16.065 Or sine by tempting, (or not daring that) 150.B16.066 by wishing, though they neuer told hir what 150.B16.067 thus might thou haue slaine more soules, hadst y%5u%6 not crost 150.B16.068 thy selfe, & to tryumph thyne army lost 150.B16.069 yet though thes wayes be lost, thou hast left one [f. 49v] 150.B16.070 which is immoderate greife that shee is gone 150.B16.071 but we may scape that sine. & weepe as much 150.B16.072 our teares are due because wee are not such 150.B16.073 Some teares that knott of frinds hir death must cost 150.B16.074 because the chaine is broacke & noe linke lost./ 150.B16.0SS 150.B16.$$