IDENTILIN$$ F153H04|Har|Harvard MS Eng.966.3(Norton MS)|ff.81-84v,pp.161-68 153.H04.HE1 Elegie Lord: Harrington [81] 153.H04.001 Faire Soule w%5ch%6 was't not onely as all Soules be 153.H04.002 Then when thou was't infused Harmony [CW:But] 153.H04.003 But didst continue soe, and nowe dost beare [81v] 153.H04.004 A part in gods great Organ, this whole Spheare 153.H04.005 If looking vp to god, or downe to vs 153.H04.006 Thou finde that any waie is pervious 153.H04.007 Twixt Heauen, and Earth, and that mens Actions doe 153.H04.008 Come to yo%5r%6 knowledge, and affections too 153.H04.009 See, and w%5th%6 ioye me >to that good degree 153.H04.010 Of goodnes growne that I can studie thee. 153.H04.011 And by those meditations refinde 153.H04.012 Can vnapparrell, and inlarge my minde 153.H04.013 And soe can make by this soft Extasie 153.H04.014 This place a mapp of heauen, my selfe of thee. 153.H04.015 Thou seest me heere at Midnight, nowe all rest 153.H04.016 Tymes dead lowe water, when all mindes diuest. 153.H04.017 To morrowe busines, when the Labourers haue 153.H04.018 Such rest in bed, that their last Churchyard graue 153.H04.019 subiect to chaunge, will scarce be a T|e|pe of this 153.H04.020 Nowe when yo%5r%6[var:>>the<<] Client whose last hearing is 153.H04.021 To morrowe sleepes; when the condemned man 153.H04.022 (who when hee opes his eies) must shutt them than 153.H04.023 Againe by Death) allthough sad watch hee keepe 153.H04.024 Doth practise dyeing by a little Sleepe 153.H04.025 That at this Midnight see'st me, and as soone 153.H04.026 as this Sun rises to mee (Midnights Noone) 153.H04.027 All the world growes Transparent, and I see 153.H04.028 Through All, both Church, and state, in seing thee 153.H04.029 And I discerne by fauour of this light 153.H04.030 Myselfe the hardest obiect of the sight 153.H04.031 God is the glasse; As thou when thou doe'st see 153.H04.032 him, whoe sees all, seest all concerning thee 153.H04.033 Soe yet vnglorified, I comprehend 153.H04.034 All, in those mirrours of thy wayie, and end. 153.H04.035 Though god be truly our glasse, through w%5ch%6 we see 153.H04.036 All (since the being of all thinges is hee) 153.H04.037 yet are the Truncks, w%5ch%6 doe to vs derive 153.H04.038 Thinges in proportion fitt by Perspectiue [CW:Deedes#of] 153.H04.039 Deedes of good men; ffor by their living heere [82] 153.H04.040 Vertue indeed remote, seemes to be neare 153.H04.041 But where shall I affirme, or where arrest 153.H04.042 My thoughtes on his deedes, w%5ch%6 shall I call best? 153.H04.043 ffor fluied vertue cannot be looked on 153.H04.044 Nor can indure a%A Contemplation 153.H04.045 As bodies chaunge and as I doe not weare 153.H04.046 Those spiritts, humours, blood I did last yeere 153.H04.047 And as if on a%A streame I fix mine eie 153.H04.048 That drop on w%5ch%6 I look'd is presentlie 153.H04.049 Pusht w%5th%6 more waters from my sight and gone 153.H04.050 Soe in this Sea of vertues can noe one 153.H04.051 Be insisted on, Virtue, as Riuers passe 153.H04.052 yet still remaines that vertuous man there was 153.H04.053 And as if man feede on mans flesh, and soe 153.H04.054 Part of his bodie vnto another owe 153.H04.055 yet at the last two perfect bodies rise 153.H04.056 Because god knowes where euery Attome lies 153.H04.057 Soe, if one knowledge were made of all those 153.H04.058 who knew his minutes well he might dispose 153.H04.059 His vertue into names, and Ranks, but I 153.H04.060 should iniure nature, vertue, and destinie 153.H04.061 should I devide, and discontinue soe 153.H04.062 Vertue that did in one intirenesse growe. 153.H04.063 ffor as he that would saie, spiritts are framd 153.H04.064 Of all the purest parts that can be nam'd 153.H04.065 Honours, not spiritts halfe soe much as he 153.H04.066 w%5ch%6 saies they haue noe spiritts[var:parts] but simple be 153.H04.067 Soe is't of virtue; ffor a point and one 153.H04.068 are much intirer then a Million 153.H04.069 And had fate meant to haue his vertues told 153.H04.070 It would haue let him liue to haue bin old 153.H04.071 Soe then, that vertue in season, and then %Yis%Z>this 153.H04.072 we might haue seene, and said that nowe he is|,| 153.H04.073 wittie, nowe wise, nowe temperate, nowe iust. 153.H04.074 In good short lives vertues a%Are faine to thrust [CW:And] 153.H04.075 And to be sure betimes to gett a place [82v] 153.H04.076 when they would exercise, l%Aack roome, and space. 153.H04.077 Soe was it in this person forc'd to be 153.H04.078 ffor lacke of tyme his owne Epitomye 153.H04.079 Soe to exhibitt in fewe yeares as much 153.H04.080 As all the long=breathde Chronocles can touch 153.H04.081 And when all[var:>>an<<] Angell downe from heauen doth flie 153.H04.082 Our quick thought cannot keepe him companie 153.H04.083 We can not thinke nowe he is at the Sun 153.H04.084 Now through the Moone, nowe he through th'ayre doth run 153.H04.085 yet when hees come, we knowe he did repaire 153.H04.086 To all twixt heauen, and Earth, Sun Moone, & Aire 153.H04.087 And as this Angell in an instant knowes 153.H04.088 And yet we knowe this suddaine knowledge growes 153.H04.089 By quick amasing seuerall formes of thinges 153.H04.090 w%5ch%6 he successiuely to order bringes 153.H04.091 When they whose slowe=pac'd lame thoughts cannot goe 153.H04.092 soe fast as he, thinke that he doth not soe 153.H04.093 Iust as a%A perfect Reader doth not dwell 153.H04.094 On euery sillable to staie to spell, 153.H04.095 yet w%5th%6out doubt he doth distinctly see 153.H04.096 and lay together euerie A: and B: 153.H04.097 Soe in short liud good men is not vnderstood 153.H04.098 Each seuerall vertue, but the Compound, Good 153.H04.099 ffor they all vertues pathes in that pace tread 153.H04.100 As Angells goe, and knowe, and as men reade: 153.H04.101 O why should then theis men, theis Lumpes of Balme 153.H04.102 Sent hither this worlds tempests to becalme 153.H04.103 Before thy deedes they are diffusd and spread 153.H04.104 And soe make vs aliue, themselues be dead? 153.H04.105 O Soule, O circle why soe quicklie be 153.H04.106 Thy end>>s<< thy birth, and death closd' vp in thee? 153.H04.107 Since one foote of thy Compass still was plac'd 153.H04.108 In *heauen the other might securely haue pac'd 153.H04.109 In the most large extent through euery path 153.H04.110 w%5ch%6 the whole,[var:>world] |a| Man, the Abbridgment hath. [CW:Thou] 153.H04.111 Thou knowst that though the Tropick circles haue [83] 153.H04.112 (yea in[var:and] those small ones, w%5ch%6 the Poles ingrave) 153.H04.113 All the same roundnes, euenesse, and all 153.H04.114 The endlessnes of th'Equinoctiall. 153.H04.115 yet when we come to measure distances 153.H04.116 Howe heere, howe there the sun affected is 153.H04.117 where he doth faintly worke, and where prevaile 153.H04.118 Onely great Circles then can be our Scale 153.H04.119 Soe though thy circle to thy selfe expresse 153.H04.120 All tending to thy endlesse happines 153.H04.121 And we by our good vse of that may trie 153.H04.122 Both howe to liue well young, and howe to dye 153.H04.123 yet since we must be old, and age indures 153.H04.124 his torrid Zone at Co%5rt%6, and Calentures 153.H04.125 Of hott Ambition, Irrelegious Ice 153.H04.126 Zeales ague, and Hidroptique Auarice 153.H04.127 (Infirmities w%5ch%6 neede the scale of truth 153.H04.128 as well as Lust, and ignorance of youth) 153.H04.129 Why didst thou not for theis giue medcines too 153.H04.130 And by thy doing tell vs what to doe? 153.H04.131 Though as small pockett clocks whose euery wheele 153.H04.132 Doth each messemotion, and distemper feele 153.H04.133 whose hand getts shaking Palsies, and whose stringe 153.H04.134 his Sinnewes, slackens|,| and whose Soule the springe 153.H04.135 Expires, or languishes, whose pulse the fflye 153.H04.136 Either beates not, or beates vnevenlye. 153.H04.137 whose voice the Bell doth rattle, or growe dumb 153.H04.138 Or idle as men w%5ch%6 to their last howers come. 153.H04.139 If theis clocks be not wound, or be wound still, 153.H04.140 Or be not sett, or sett at euerie will|.| 153.H04.141 Soe youth be[var:>>is<<] easiest to destruction 153.H04.142 If then we followe all, or followe none. 153.H04.143 yet as in great Clocks w%5ch%6 in Steeples chime 153.H04.144 placd to informe whole Townes to'imploye their tyme 153.H04.145 An errour doth more harme being generall 153.H04.146 when small Clockes faultes onely in[var:>>on<<] the wether [var:>>wearer<<] fall [CW:Soe] 153.H04.147 Soe worke the faultes of Age, on w%5ch%6 the eye [83v] 153.H04.148 Of Children, seruants, or the State relie, 153.H04.149 why shouldst not thou then, w%5ch%6 hadst such a Soule 153.H04.150 A Clock soe true as might the Sun controule 153.H04.151 And dailie hadst from him who gaue it thee 153.H04.152 Instruction, such as it could neuer be 153.H04.153 Disordred, staie heere as a Generall 153.H04.154 And great Sun=diall to haue sett vs All? 153.H04.155 Oh why wouldst thou be any Instrument 153.H04.156 To this vnnaturall course, or why consent 153.H04.157 To this (not Miracle but Prodegie) 153.H04.158 There[var:>>That<<] where the Ebbs longer then fflowinges be 153.H04.159 Vertue whose flood did w%5th%6 thy youth beginne 153.H04.160 Should soe much faster ebb out then flowe in? 153.H04.161 Though her floud were blowne in by thy first breath 153.H04.162 All is at once sunck in the whirlpoole; Death. 153.H04.163 But[var:>>Which<<] nowe I would not name but that I see 153.H04.164 Death (else a Desart) growne a Court by thee?>. 153.H04.165 Nowe I am sure that if a man would haue 153.H04.166 Good companie, his Entry is a Graue 153.H04.167 Methinkes all Citties nowe but Anthills be 153.H04.168 where when the seuerall labourers I see 153.H04.169 ffor Children house, provision taking paine 153.H04.170 They are all but Ants carrying Egges, strawe or graine. 153.H04.171 And Churchyardes are our Citties vnto which 153.H04.172 The most repaire who are in goodnes rich 153.H04.173 There is the best concurse, and confluence 153.H04.174 There are the holy Suburbs, and from thence 153.H04.175 Beginnes Gods Cittie no[var:e]we Ierusalem 153.H04.176 w%5ch%6 doth extend her vtmost gates to them. 153.H04.177 At that Gate then Triumphant Soule doe'st thou 153.H04.178 Begin thy triumph: But since lawes allowe 153.H04.179 That at the triumph day the People may 153.H04.180 All that they will 'gainst the Triumpher saie 153.H04.181 Let me here vse this freedome, and expresse 153.H04.182 my griefe, though not to make thy trivmph lesse. [CW:By#lawe.] 153.H04.183 By lawe to triumph none admitted be [84] 153.H04.184 till they as Magistrates gett victorie 153.H04.185 Though then to thy force all youthes foes did yeild 153.H04.186 yet till fitt time had brought thee to the field 153.H04.187 To w%5ch%6 thy Rank in this State destind thee 153.H04.188 That there thy Councells might gett victorye. 153.H04.189 And soe in that capacitie **>%5re%6moue 153.H04.190 All Iealousie twixt Prince, and Subiects loue 153.H04.191 Thou couldst not title to this triumph haue 153.H04.192 Thou didst intrude on death, vsurpdst a Graue 153.H04.193 Then (though victoriouslie) thou haddest fought [var:%1adds%2 as yet] 153.H04.194 But w%5th%6 *thine owne affections w%5th%6 the heate%Ys%Z 153.H04.195 Of youthes desire, and colds of Ignorance 153.H04.196 But till thou doe successiuely advance 153.H04.197 Thine armes gainst forraigne Enimies w%5ch%6 are 153.H04.198 both Envy, and a%Acclamations Popular. 153.H04.199 (ffor both theis Engines* equallie defeate 153.H04.200 Though by a diuers myne those w%5ch%6 are great) 153.H04.201 Till then thy warre was but a Ciuill warre 153.H04.202 ffor w%5ch%6 to Triumphes none admitted are 153.H04.203 noe more are they who (though w%5th%6 good successe) 153.H04.204 In a defensiue warre their power expresse, 153.H04.205 Before men triumph, the Dominion 153.H04.206 must be inlargd, and not preseru'd alone 153.H04.207 Why shouldst thou then whose battailes were to winne 153.H04.208 Thy selfe from those streightes nature putt thee in. 153.H04.209 And to deliuer vp to God that State 153.H04.210 of w%5ch%6 he gaue thee the Vicariate 153.H04.211 (w%5ch%6 is thy Soule and bodie) as intire 153.H04.212 As he (who takes indeauours) doth require 153.H04.213 But didst not staie t'inlarge his kingdome too 153.H04.214 By making others what thou didst to doe. 153.H04.215 Why shouldst thou triumph nowe, when heaue'n noe more 153.H04.216 Hath gott by getting thee then it had before? 153.H04.217 [M:Two#verses#omitted] 153.H04.218 153.H04.219 But this from triumph most disables thee 153.H04.220 That the[var:>>that<<] place w%5ch%6 is conquered must be.[CW:left] 153.H04.221 Left safe from present warre, and likely doubt [84v] 153.H04.222 Of Eminent Commotions to breake out. 153.H04.223 And hath he left vs soe? Or can it be 153.H04.224 His Territory was noe more then hee? 153.H04.225 Noe, we were all his Charge, The Diocess 153.H04.226 Of euery Exemplar man, the whole world is 153.H04.227 And he was ioyned in Comission 153.H04.228 w%5th%6 Tutelar Angells sent to euerie ****one. 153.H04.229 But though thy[var:this] freedome to vpbraide, and chide 153.H04.230 him that triump'h|d| were lawfull, it was tie'd 153.H04.231 w%5th%6 this that yt might neuer reference haue 153.H04.232 Vnto the Senate who this triumph gaue 153.H04.233 Men might at Pompey ieast but they might not 153.H04.234 Att that authority by w%5ch%6 he gott|.| 153.H04.235 Leaue to triumph before by age he might 153.H04.236 Soe though Triumphant Soule I dare %Ynot%Z>to< write 153.H04.237 (Movd w%5th%6 a reuerentiall anger) thus 153.H04.238 That thou soe earlie wouldst abandon vs. 153.H04.239 yet I am farre from daring to dispute 153.H04.240 w%5th%6 that great Soueraigntie, whose absolute 153.H04.241 Prerogatiue, hath thus dispens'd for thee 153.H04.242 Gainst natures lawes, w%5ch%6 iust impugners be 153.H04.243 of early triumphes, and I though w%5th%6 paine 153.H04.244 lessen o%5r%6 losse to magnifie thy gaine 153.H04.245 Of triumph when I saie it was more fitt 153.H04.246 That all men should lack thee, then thou lacke it 153.H04.247 Though then in our tymes be not suffered 153.H04.248 The testimony of Loue vnto the dead 153.H04.249 To die with them, and in their graves be hid 153.H04.250 As Saxon wiues, and French Soldarij did 153.H04.251 And though in noe degree I can expresse 153.H04.252 Greife in great Alexanders great excesse 153.H04.253 who at his ffrends death, made whole Townes divest 153.H04.254 Their walles, and bullw*>%5a%6rks w%5ch%6 became them best 153.H04.255 doe not Faire Soule this sacrifice refuse 153.H04.256 That in thy grave I doe interre my Muse 153.H04.257 Who by my greife, great as thy worth being cast 153.H04.258 Behinde hand yet hath spoke, and spoke her last. 153.H04.SS om [CW:Infinitatj] 153.H04.0$$ Variants and a marginal note in a later hand; ll. 217-18 omitted.