IDENTLINE$$ F153C08|Har|Leconfield|ff. 113-8v|Original EWS 6-17-85 153.C08.0HE Obsequies to the Lo: Harrington broth%5r%6 to the Countesse of Bedford. 153.C08.001 %1Faire soule%2, which was not onlie as all soules bee, [f. 113] 153.C08.002 Then, when thou wast infuzed, Harmonie, 153.C08.003 Butt didst continew so; And now dost beare 153.C08.004 A part in gods great Organ, this whole Spheare; 153.C08.005 Yf looking vp to god, or downe to vs, 153.C08.006 Thou finde that anie waie is Peruious 153.C08.007 Twixt heauen and earth, and that mans actions doe 153.C08.008 Come to your knowledge and affections too. 153.C08.009 See, and with ioye, mee, to that good degree 153.C08.010 Of goodnes growne, that I can studie thee, 153.C08.011 And by these meditations refin'd, 153.C08.012 Can vnaparrell and enlarge my minde, 153.C08.013 And so can make by this soft extasie, 153.C08.014 This place a map of heauen, my self of thee. 153.C08.015 Thou seest me heere at midnight, now all rest. [cw:Times/] 153.C08.016 Tymes dead lowe water: When all minds deuest [f. 113v] 153.C08.017 Tomorrows busines, when the labourers haue, 153.C08.018 Such rest in bed, that theire last churchyeard graue 153.C08.019 Subiect to change, will scarce be a Type of this, 153.C08.020 Now when the Client, whose last hearing is 153.C08.021 Tomorrowe sleepes, when the condemned man, 153.C08.022 (Whoe when hee opes his eies, must shutt them than, 153.C08.023 Againe by death) although sad watch hee keepe, 153.C08.024 Dooth practise dying by a little sleepe, 153.C08.025 Thou att this midnight seest mee, and as soone 153.C08.026 As that Sunne ryses to mee, midnights noone, 153.C08.027 All the world's growne transparant, and I see 153.C08.028 Through All, bothe Church and State in seeing thee. 153.C08.029 And I discerne by fauour of this light 153.C08.030 My self, the hardest obiect of the sight. 153.C08.031 God is the glas; As thou, when thou doost see 153.C08.032 Him, whoe sees all, seest all concerning thee, 153.C08.033 So yett vnglorified, I comprehend 153.C08.034 All in these mirrours of thy waies and end; 153.C08.035 Though God be trulie our glas, through w%5ch%6 wee see 153.C08.036 All, since the being of all things is hee, 153.C08.037 Yett are the truncks, w%5ch%6 doe to vs deriue, [cw:Things.] 153.C08.038 Things in proportion fitt by perspectiue, [f. 114] 153.C08.039 Deeds of good men, for by theire liuing heere, 153.C08.040 Virtues indeed remote, seeme to be neere; 153.C08.041 Butt where can I affirme, or where arrest 153.C08.042 My thoughts on his deeds? Which shall I call best? 153.C08.043 ffor fluid virtue cannot, be looked on, 153.C08.044 Nor can endure a Contemplation; 153.C08.045 As bodies change, And as I doe not weare, 153.C08.046 Those spirritts humors, blood, I did last yeere, 153.C08.047 And as if on a streame, I fix mine eye 153.C08.048 That drop w%5ch%6 I looked on, is presentlie 153.C08.049 Pusht with more waters from my sight and gone, 153.C08.050 So in this Sea of virtues; As Riuers passe, 153.C08.051 om. 153.C08.052 Yett still remaines that virtuous man there was: 153.C08.053 And as if man feeds on mans flesh, and so 153.C08.054 Part of his bodie, to an other owe, 153.C08.055 Yett att the last twoe perfect bodies rise, 153.C08.056 Because god knowes, where euery Atome lyes. 153.C08.057 So, if one knowledge were made of all those 153.C08.058 Whoe knew his minutes well, he might dispose 153.C08.059 His virtues vnto names and ranks; butt I 153.C08.060 Should iniure nature, virtue, and destenie 153.C08.061 Should I deuide and discontinew so, [cw:virtue./] 153.C08.062 Virtue w%5ch%6 did in one intirenes growe. [f. 114v] 153.C08.063 For as hee that would saie, Spiritts are fram'd 153.C08.064 Of all the purest parts that can be nam'd, 153.C08.065 Honnors, not spiritts half so much, as hee 153.C08.066 Which saies, they haue no parts, butt simple bee, 153.C08.067 So is't of virtue; ffor a point, and one, 153.C08.068 Are much intirer then a million. 153.C08.069 And had Fate meant to haue his virtues tould, 153.C08.070 Itt would haue lett him liue to haue bin old, 153.C08.071 So then, that virtue in season, and then this, 153.C08.072 Wee might haue seene, and said, that now he is 153.C08.073 Wittie, now wise, now temperate, now iust, 153.C08.074 In good short liues, virtues are faine to thrust, 153.C08.075 And to be sure, betimes to gett a place, 153.C08.076 When they would encrease, lack time and space. 153.C08.077 So was itt in this person, forc'd to bee 153.C08.078 For lack of tyme his owne Epitome. 153.C08.079 So to exhibit in few yeers as much 153.C08.080 As all the long breath'd chronicles can touch; 153.C08.081 As when an Angell, downe from heauen dooth fly, 153.C08.082 Our quick thought cannot keepe him companie, 153.C08.083 Wee cannot thinck, now he is att the Sunne [cw:now] 153.C08.084 Now through the moone, now he through y%5e%6 ayre dooth runn; [f. 115] 153.C08.085 Yett when he is come, wee knowe he did repaire 153.C08.086 To all twixt heauen and earth, Sunne, Moone and ayre, 153.C08.087 And as this Angell in an instant knowes, 153.C08.088 And yett wee know this suddaine knowledge growes, 153.C08.089 By quick amazing seuerall forms of things, 153.C08.090 Which he sucessiuelie to order brings. 153.C08.091 When they, whose slowpac'd lame thoughts cannot go 153.C08.092 So fast as hee, thinck, that he dooth not so; 153.C08.093 Iust as a perfect reader, dooth not dwell 153.C08.094 On euerie sillable, nor stay to spell, 153.C08.095 Yett without doubt, he dooth distinctlie see 153.C08.096 And lay together euerie A. and B. 153.C08.097 So in short liu'd good men, is not vnderstood 153.C08.098 Each seuerall virtue, butt the compound good. 153.C08.099 For they, all virtues paths, in that pace tread, 153.C08.100 As Angells go, and know, and as men read; 153.C08.101 O%C why should then these men, these lumps of balme, 153.C08.102 Sent hether, the worlds tempest to becalme 153.C08.103 Before by deeds, they are diffus'd and spredd, 153.C08.104 And so make vs aliue, themselues bee dead. 153.C08.105 O soule O circle, why so quicklie bee [cw:Thy] 153.C08.106 Thy ends, thy birth and death, clos'd vp in thee? [f. 115v] 153.C08.107 Since one foote of this compas, still was plac'd, 153.C08.108 In heaue'n, the other securelie might haue pac'd 153.C08.109 In the most large extent, through euerie path, 153.C08.110 W%5ch%6 the whole worlde, or man the Abridgment hath, 153.C08.111 Thou knowest, that though the Tropique circles haue, 153.C08.112 (yea and those small ones, which the Poles engraue) 153.C08.113 All the same roundnes, euennes, and all 153.C08.114 The endlesnes of the Equinoctiall. 153.C08.115 Yett when we come to measure distances, 153.C08.116 How heere, how there, the Sunne affected is, 153.C08.117 When he dooth faintlie worke, and when preuaile, 153.C08.118 Onlie great circles, then can be our scale, 153.C08.119 So though thy Circle to thy self expres 153.C08.120 All, tending to thy endles happines, 153.C08.121 And wee by our good vse of that, maie try 153.C08.122 Both how to liue well young, and how to dye, 153.C08.123 Yett since wee must be olde, and age endures 153.C08.124 His torrid zoane att Court, and Calentures 153.C08.125 Of hott ambitions, Irreligions Ice, 153.C08.126 Zeales agues, and Hidroptique auarice, 153.C08.127 Infirmities w%5ch%6 need the scale of truth, [cw:As./] 153.C08.128 As well as lust, and ignorance of youth; [f. 116] 153.C08.129 Whie, didst thou not, for those, giue medicines too, 153.C08.130 And by thy doing tell vs whatt to doe,? 153.C08.131 Though, as small pockett clocks, whose euerie wheele, 153.C08.132 Dooth each mismotion and distemper feele, 153.C08.133 Whose hands getts shaking palsies, and whose string 153.C08.134 His synewes slacknes; And whose soule the spring 153.C08.135 Expires, or languishes, whose pulse the Fly 153.C08.136 Either beates not, or beates vneuenlie, 153.C08.137 Whose voice, the bell dooth rattle, or grow dumbe, 153.C08.138 Or Idle, as men, w%5ch%6 to theire last howers come. 153.C08.139 If theire clocks be not wound, or be wound still, 153.C08.140 Or be not sett, or sett att euerie will, 153.C08.141 So youth is easiest to destruction, 153.C08.142 If then wee followe all or followe none; 153.C08.143 Yett as in great clocks, w%5ch%6 in steeples chyme, 153.C08.144 Plac'd to enforme whole towns, to imploy theire tyme, 153.C08.145 An error dooth more harme being gennerall, 153.C08.146 When small clocks faults, onlie on the wearer fall. 153.C08.147 So works the faults of age, on w%5ch%6 the eye 153.C08.148 Of children, seruants, or the state rely. 153.C08.149 Why wouldst thou then, w%5ch%6 hadst such a soule, [cw:A./] 153.C08.150 A clock so true, as might the Sunne controll, [f. 116v] 153.C08.151 And dailie hadst from him, whoe gaue itt thee, 153.C08.152 Instructions, such as itt could neuer bee 153.C08.153 Disorderd, Stay heere, as a gennerall 153.C08.154 And great Sundiall, to haue sett vs all. 153.C08.155 O Why wouldst thou be an instrument 153.C08.156 To this vnnaturall course, or why consent 153.C08.157 To this not miracle butt prodigie, 153.C08.158 That when the ebbs longer then the flowing bee 153.C08.159 Virtue, whose flood was blowen in, by the first breath 153.C08.160 om. 153.C08.161 om. 153.C08.162 All is att once sunck in the whirlpoole death. 153.C08.163 Which word I would not name, butt that I see 153.C08.164 Death else a Desert, is a Court by thee. 153.C08.165 Now I grow sure, that if a man would haue, 153.C08.166 Good companie, his entrie is a graue, 153.C08.167 Me thincks all Citties now, butt Ant=hills bee, 153.C08.168 Where when, the seuerall laborers I see 153.C08.169 For children, house, prouision taking paine, 153.C08.170 They are all butt Ants carriyng eggs, straw and graine, 153.C08.171 And Churchyeards are your Citties, vnto which 153.C08.172 The most repaire, that are in goodnes ritch. 153.C08.173 There is the best concurse, and confluence, [cw:There] 153.C08.174 There are the holie Suburbs, and from thence [f. 117] 153.C08.175 Begins gods Cittie, new Ierusalem, 153.C08.176 Which dooth extend her vttmost gates to them; 153.C08.177 Att that gate then tryumphant soule dost thou 153.C08.178 Begin thy tryumph: Butt since lawes allowe 153.C08.179 That att the tryumph daie, the people maie 153.C08.180 All that they will, gainst the Triumpher saie, 153.C08.181 Lett me heere vse that freedom, and expres 153.C08.182 My greif, though not to make thy Tryumph lesse. 153.C08.183 By law to tryumphs, none admitted bee 153.C08.184 Till they as magistrates, gett victorie; 153.C08.185 Though then to thy force, all youths foes did yeild, 153.C08.186 Yett till fitt tyme had brought thee to that feild, 153.C08.187 To w%5ch%6 thy Ranke in this state defin'd ^[destind] thee, 153.C08.188 That there thy counsaile, might gett victorie, 153.C08.189 And so in that capacitie remooue 153.C08.190 All iealosies, twixt Prince, and Subiects loue, 153.C08.191 Thou coldst no title to this tryumph haue, 153.C08.192 Thou didst intrude on death, vsurp'st a graue. 153.C08.193 That (though victoriouslie) thou hadst fought as yett 153.C08.194 Butt with thine owne affections, with the heat 153.C08.195 Of youths desires, and colds of ignorance, [cw:Butt/] 153.C08.196 Butt, till thou shooldst successiuelie aduance [f. 117v] 153.C08.197 Thine armes gainst forraine Enemies, w%5ch%6 are 153.C08.198 Both enuy and acclamations popular, 153.C08.199 (For both theise engines equallie defeat 153.C08.200 Though by a diuers Myne, those w%5ch%6 are great) 153.C08.201 Till then, thy warr, was butt a ciuill warr, 153.C08.202 For which to tryumph, none admitted are; 153.C08.203 No more are they, whoe though with good succes, 153.C08.204 In a defensiue warr theire power expres; 153.C08.205 Before men tryumph, the dominion 153.C08.206 Must be enlarg'd, and not preseru'd alone; 153.C08.207 Why shooldst thou then, whose battailes were to winn 153.C08.208 Thy self from those straits, nature putt thee in, 153.C08.209 And to deliuer vp to god, that state 153.C08.210 Of which he gaue thee the vicariate, 153.C08.211 (which is thy soule and bodie) as intire 153.C08.212 As he whoe takes endeauors dooth require, 153.C08.213 Butt did'st not staie, t'inlarge his Kingdom too 153.C08.214 By making others what thou did'st to doe; 153.C08.215 Why shoold'st thou tryumph now, when heauen no more 153.C08.216 Hath gott by getting thee, then t'had before? 153.C08.217 For heau'n and thou, euen when thou liuedst there [cw:Of] 153.C08.218 Of one an other, in possession were; [f. 118] 153.C08.219 Butt this from tryumph, most disables thee, 153.C08.220 That that place, which is conquered must bee 153.C08.221 Left safe from present warr, and likelie doubt 153.C08.222 Of emminent Commotions to break out. 153.C08.223 And hath he left vs so? Or can itt bee 153.C08.224 His Territorie was no more then hee? 153.C08.225 No, wee weare all his charge, the Diocys 153.C08.226 Of euerie exemplar man, the whole world is 153.C08.227 And he was ioyned in Comission 153.C08.228 With tutelar Angells, sent to euerie one. 153.C08.229 Butt though this freedom to vpbraid and chide 153.C08.230 Him whoe tryumph'd, were lawfull, itt was tyde 153.C08.231 With this, that itt might neuer reference haue 153.C08.232 Vnto the Senate, whoe this triumph gaue, 153.C08.233 Men might att Pompey ieast, butt they might not 153.C08.234 Att that authoritie by w%5ch%6 he gott 153.C08.235 Leaue, to tryumph, before, by age he might; 153.C08.236 So though tryumphant soule, I dare to write 153.C08.237 Mou'd, with a reuerentiall anger, thus, 153.C08.238 That thou so earlie, wouldst abandon vs 153.C08.239 Yett I am farr from daring to dispute [cw:W%5th%6] 153.C08.240 With that great soueraigntie, whose absolute [f. 118v] 153.C08.241 Prerogatiue hath thus dispens'd for thee, 153.C08.242 Gainst natures lawes, which iust impugners bee 153.C08.243 Of earlie tryumphs. And I, though w%5th%6 paine 153.C08.244 Lessen our losse, to magnify thy gaine 153.C08.245 Of tryumph, when I saie, itt was more fitt, 153.C08.246 Thatt all men shoold lacke thee, then thou lack yt. 153.C08.247 Though then in our tyme, itt bee not suffered 153.C08.248 That testimonie of loue, vnto the dead, 153.C08.249 To dye with them, and in theire graues be hid. 153.C08.250 As Saxon wiues, and french Souldurii did; 153.C08.251 And though in no degre I can express 153.C08.252 Greif, in great Allexanders great exces, 153.C08.253 Whoe att his frends death, made whole townes deuest 153.C08.254 Theire walls, and bullwarks, which became them best. 153.C08.255 Doe not faire soule, this sacrifice refuse, 153.C08.256 That in thy graue, I doe interr my Muse, 153.C08.257 Whoe by my greif, great as thy worth, being Cast 153.C08.258 Behind hand, yett hath spoke, and spoker her last./ 153.C08.0SS om 153.C08.$$