IDENTILIN$$  F150H070|BoulRec|Harvard, MS Eng. 966.6 [Stephens]|ff.87-88v, pp.173-76|mf T-LP
150.H07.HE   Elegia Vicessima. On the death. /[single rule] /of the said m%5rs%6 Boulstred. /[single rule] [87] 
150.H07.001  Death I Recant, and say, vnsaid by mee  
150.H07.002  what ere hath slipt tha%At might dyminish thee.
150.H07.003  Spirituall Poison, Atheisme tis to say  
150.H07.004  That any Can thy summons Disobay.
150.H07.005  Th'Earths face, is but thy table, there are sett  
150.H07.006  Plants, Cattell, Men, Dishes for death to Eate. 
150.H07.007  In a rude hunger, now he Millyons drawes 
150.H07.008  Into his Blowdy, or Plaguy, or starv'd Iawes.
150.H07.009  Now he will seeme to spare, and doth more wast
150.H07.010  Eating the best first, well p%5r%6serv'd to last,
150.H07.011  Now wantonly he spoiles, and eats vs not
150.H07.012  But breaks of freinds, and lets vs peece%Amale rott
150.H07.013  Nor will the Earth serue him he sinks y%5e%6 deepe 
150.H07.014  Where harmles fysh, Monastique sylence%A keepe,
150.H07.015  Who (weare death dead) by Roes of living sand
150.H07.016  Might spunge that Eleme%Mt, and make it Land.
150.H07.017  He rownds the Aire and breaks y%5e%6 Hymnick notes 
150.H07.018  In Birds heav'n quiriste%5rs%6 Organick throats*
150.H07.019  W%5ch%6 if they did not dye might seeme to bee*
150.H07.020  A tenth rancke in the Heavenly Hierarchie [CW:.O.]
150.H07.021  O strong, and long liv'd Death, How camst thou in? [87v]
150.H07.022  And how w%5th%6out Creation didst begin?
150.H07.023  Thou hast, & shall see dead, before y%5w%6 die'st 
150.H07.024  All the ffowr Monarks[var:ies], and Ante-christ.
150.H07.025  How can I thinke thee nothing that see now
150.H07.026  In a%All this All, Nothing els but thou?
150.H07.027  Ou%5r%6 Byrths, and Lives, virtues, & vices bee
150.H07.028  Wastfull Consumptyons & degrees of thee.
150.H07.029  ffor we to live, o%5r%6 Bellowes were and Brea%Ath
150.H07.030  Nor a%Are we Morta%All dyinge dead, but death. 
150.H07.031  And though thou beest A mighty Byrd of Pray
150.H07.032  So much Recla%Aym'd by God, that thou maist lay 
150.H07.033  All that thou kilst at his feete, yet doth hee.
150.H07.034  [M:verse#omitted]
150.H07.035  And of those fewe, now thou hast overthrowne 
150.H07.036  One, whom thy blow makes not ou%5rs%6, nor thine own|.|
150.H07.037  She wa%As More storyes high, hopeles to come 
150.H07.038  To  her Sowle, thou hast ofered at he%5r%6 lowe%5r%6 Room
150.H07.039  Her sowle, and Body was a Kinge, and Court 
150.H07.040  But thou hast both of Captaine mist, and fort
150.H07.041  As Howses fa%All not, though the King Remove
150.H07.042  Bodyes>Bod*es of Sain%5ts%6 rest for their Sowles aboue
150.H07.043  Death getts twixt sowles, & Bodyes such a pla|ce| [CW:.As.]
150.H07.044  As synn Insinuats twixt Iust Men, & Grace. [88]
150.H07.045  Both work A sep%Patyon, no dyvorce.
150.H07.046  Her sowle is gone to vshe%5r%6 vpp her Corse 
150.H07.047  W%5ch%6 shalbe almost another Sowle, for there
150.H07.048  %1Bodies are purer then best soules are here.%2
150.H07.049  Beca%Ause in her, her virtues did ovt goe
150.H07.050  Her years: woldst thou ae%Lmulous death do soe?
150.H07.051  And kyll her yonge to thy losse? must y%5e%6 Cost
150.H07.052  Of Bewty, and wytt, Apt to do harme be lost?
150.H07.053  What though thou fownd'st her proofe gainst sins of \(youth
150.H07.054  %1Oh! Euery Age, a Diuers Sin pursu'th.%2
150.H07.055  Thou sholdst ha%Aue sta%Ayd, & taken bette%5r%6 hold 
150.H07.056  Shortly Ambytious, Covituos when old
150.H07.057  She might haue prov'd, And such devotion
150.H07.058  Might ons't haue stra%Aid to sup%Pstico%Mn.
150.H07.059  If all her virtue must haue growne, yet might
150.H07.060  Abunda%Mt virtue ha%Aue bred a proud delight.
150.H07.061  Had she p%Psevered iust, there wold haue bene 
150.H07.062  Some that wold synn, misthinking she did synn;
150.H07.063  Such a%As wold ca%All her friendship, Love, & faine
150.H07.064  To Socyablenes a%As[M:x] A Name Propha%Ane. [CW:.Or.]
150.H07.065  Or synn by Temptinge, or not daring tha%At
150.H07.066  By wishinge, though they neuer told her what.
150.H07.067  Thus mights't thou haue slaine more sowls hadst y%5u%6 not cro%Ast
150.H07.068  Thy self: and to tryvmph thy Army Lost.
150.H07.069  Yet though theis wais be lost, thou hast left one
150.H07.070  W%5ch%6 is Immoderate Greife y%5t%6 she is gone.
150.H07.071  But we ma%Ay sca%Ape the synn, yet weep as much
150.H07.072  Ou%5r%6 tea%Ars are dewe beca%Ause we are not such.
150.H07.073  Som tea%Ars that knott of frends her death must cost
150.H07.074  Because y%5e%6 Chaine is broke though no lincke Lost.
150.H07.SS   [8 small flourishes]
150.H07.0$$  No indentations; variants above words/letters and marginalia in a later hand; some syllables accented in the scribal hand.