IDENTILIN$$ F153H05|Har|Harvard MS Eng 966.4 (Dobell MS)|ff.134-38, pp.271-79|mf T-LP 153.H05.HE1 Obsequies on the L: Harrington /bro: to y%5e%6 La: Lucy Countese of Bedford. [134] 153.H05.001 ffayre soule w%5ch%6 wast, not only, as all soules be 153.H05.002 then when thou wa'st infused Harmony 153.H05.003 but didst continue soe, and nowe dost beare 153.H05.004 a part in Gods greate Organ, this whole spheare, 153.H05.005 yf lookinge vp to God, or downe to vs 153.H05.006 thou find, that any way is pervious 153.H05.007 'twixt heav'n and earth, and that mens actions doe 153.H05.008 Come to your knowledge, and affections too; 153.H05.009 See, and with ioy, me to that good degree 153.H05.010 of goodnes growne, that I can study thee, 153.H05.011 and by these%>>those< meditao%Mns refind' 153.H05.012 can vn-apparell, and enlarge my mind, 153.H05.013 and soe can make by this soft Extasy 153.H05.014 this place a Mappe of heav'n, my selfe of thee. 153.H05.015 Thou seest me here at Mid-night, nowe all rest; [134v] 153.H05.016 times dead-lowe water when all mindes devest 153.H05.017 to morrows busines: when the labourers haue 153.H05.018 such rest in bed, that theire last Church-yard graue 153.H05.019 subiect to change, will scarse be a type of this; 153.H05.020 Nowe, when the Clyent whose last hearinge is 153.H05.021 to morrowe, sleepes: when the Condemned man 153.H05.022 (who, when he opes his eyes, must shutt them than 153.H05.023 againe by death) allthough sad watch he keepe, 153.H05.024 doth practise dyinge, by a litle Sleepe: 153.H05.025 Thou at this Mid-night seest me, and assoone 153.H05.026 as that Sunne rises to me, mid-night's Noone, 153.H05.027 all the World growes Transparent, and I see 153.H05.028 through all, both Church and State, in seing thee, 153.H05.029 and I discerne by favour of this light 153.H05.030 my selfe, the hardest obiect of the sight. 153.H05.031 God is the glasse, as thou when thou dost see 153.H05.032 him who sees all, seest all concerninge thee: 153.H05.033 Soe yet vn-glorified, I comprehend 153.H05.034 all, in those mirrours of thy way and end. 153.H05.035 Though God be truly our glasse, through w%5ch%6 we see 153.H05.036 all, since the beinge of all thinges is He; 153.H05.037 yet are the Trunkes w%5ch%6 doe to vs deriue 153.H05.038 thinges in proportion fitt, by perspectiue 153.H05.039 deeds of good men: for by theire being here, 153.H05.040 vertues indeede remote, seeme to be neere. 153.H05.041 but where can I affirme? or where arrest 153.H05.042 my thoughts on his deeds? w%5ch%6 shall I call Best? 153.H05.043 for fluid vertue cannot be lookd' %Yvp%Zon, 153.H05.044 nor can endure a Contemplation. 153.H05.045 As bodies change, and as I doe not weare 153.H05.046 those spirits, humors, bloud I did last yeare; 153.H05.047 and as yf on a streame I fixe mine eye 153.H05.048 that drop on which I lookt', is presently 153.H05.049 pusht with more waters from my sight, and gone. [135] 153.H05.050 soe in this sea of Vertues can noe one 153.H05.051 be insisted on; vertues, as rivers, passe, 153.H05.052 yet still remaines that vertuous man there was: 153.H05.053 And as yf man feede on mans flesh, and soe 153.H05.054 part of his body to another owe 153.H05.055 yet at the last two perfect bodies rise 153.H05.056 because God knowes where euery Atome lies. 153.H05.057 soe yf one knowledge were made of all those 153.H05.058 who knewe his minutes well, he might dispose 153.H05.059 her vertues into names and ranks: but I 153.H05.060 Should iniure Nature, vertue, Destiny, 153.H05.061 should I devide and discontinue soe 153.H05.062 vertue, w%5ch%6 did in one entirenes growe. 153.H05.063 for as he that would say, spirits are fram'd 153.H05.064 of all the purest partes that can be nam'd, 153.H05.065 honours not spirits halfe soe much, as he 153.H05.066 who sayes, they haue no partes, but simple be. 153.H05.067 soe is't of vertue: for a point, and One 153.H05.068 are much entirer then a Million: 153.H05.069 And had ffate meant to haue his vertue told, 153.H05.070 it would haue let him liue to haue byn old; 153.H05.071 soe then that vertue in season, and then this 153.H05.072 we might haue seene; and sayd, that nowe he is 153.H05.073 witty, nowe wise, nowe temperate, nowe iust; 153.H05.074 In good short liues, vertues are faine to thrust 153.H05.075 and to be sure betimes to gett a place, 153.H05.076 when they would, exercisd', lacke roome and space: 153.H05.077 Soe was it in this Person, forc'd to be 153.H05.078 for lacke of time his owne Epitome: 153.H05.079 Soe to exhibite in fewe yeares, as much [135v] 153.H05.080 as all the longe-breathd' Chronicles can touch. 153.H05.081 As when an Angell downe from heav'n doth fly, 153.H05.082 our quicke thought cannot keepe him company; 153.H05.083 we cannot thinke, nowe he is at the sunne; 153.H05.084 nowe through the Moone, nowe he through th#ayre doth runne; 153.H05.085 yet when hee's come, we knowe he did repaire 153.H05.086 to all 'twixt heav'n and earth, sunne, Moone, and ayre: 153.H05.087 And as this Angell, in an instant, knowes 153.H05.088 and yet we knowe this sudden knowledge growes 153.H05.089 By quicke amassing seuerall formes of thinges, 153.H05.090 w%5ch%6 he, successiuely, to order bringes, 153.H05.091 when they, whose slowe-pac'd lame thoughts cannot goe 153.H05.092 So fast as he, thinke that he doth not soe. 153.H05.093 iust as a perfect reader doth not dwell 153.H05.094 on euery syllable, nor stay to spell, 153.H05.095 yet without doubt he doth distinctly see, 153.H05.096 and lay together euery A and B: 153.H05.097 Soe in short-liu'd good men is not vnderstood 153.H05.098 each seuerall vertue, but the Compound, Good: 153.H05.099 for they all vertues paths in that pace tread, 153.H05.100 as Angells goe, and knowe, and as men read. 153.H05.101 O, why should then these men, these lumpes of Balme 153.H05.102 sent hither, this worlds Tempest to becalme, 153.H05.103 before by deedes they are diffusd and spread, 153.H05.104 and soe make vs aliue, themselues be dead? 153.H05.105 O Soule, O Circle, why soe quickly be 153.H05.106 thy endes, thy birth and Death closd' vp in thee? 153.H05.107 Since one foote of thy compasse still was plac'd 153.H05.108 in heav'n, th'other might securely haue pac'd 153.H05.109 in the most large extent, through euery path, 153.H05.110 w%5ch%6 the whole world, or Man, th'Abridgement, hath. 153.H05.111 Thou knowest that though the Tropique Circles haue [136] 153.H05.112 (yea and those small ones w%5ch%6 the Poles ingraue) 153.H05.113 all the same roundnes, evennes, and all 153.H05.114 the endlesnes of th'#AE%Lquinoctiall; 153.H05.115 yet when we come to measure distances 153.H05.116 howe here, howe there the Sunne affected is. 153.H05.117 where he doth faintly worke and where p%5r%6vaile, 153.H05.118 only greate Circles then can be our scale: 153.H05.119 Soe though thy Circle to thy selfe expresse 153.H05.120 all, tendinge to thy endles happines, 153.H05.121 and we by our good vse of it, may try 153.H05.122 both howe to liue well younge, and howe to dy. 153.H05.123 yet since we must be old; and age endures 153.H05.124 his Torrid Zone at Court, and Calentures 153.H05.125 of hott ambitions, irrelegious ice, 153.H05.126 zeales agues, and Hydroptique avarice, 153.H05.127 Infirmities w%5ch%6 neede the scale of Truth, 153.H05.128 as well as lust and Ignorance of youth, 153.H05.129 why didst thou not for these giue Medicine too, 153.H05.130 and by thy doinge sett vs what to doe? 153.H05.131 Though as small pockett-Clockes, whose euery wheele 153.H05.132 doth each mis-motion and distemper feele, 153.H05.133 whose hand getts shakinge palsyes, and whose stringe, 153.H05.134 His sinewes, slackens, and whose soule, the springe 153.H05.135 expires or languishes, whose pulse, the fly, 153.H05.136 eyther beates not or beates vn-evenly, 153.H05.137 whose voyce, the Bell, doth rattle or growe dumbe, 153.H05.138 or idle, as men who to theire last houres come; 153.H05.139 yf these Clockes be not wound, or be wound still; 153.H05.140 or be not sett, or sett at euery will: 153.H05.141 Soe youth be easyest to destruction; 153.H05.142 yf then wee followe all, or followe none: 153.H05.143 yet as in greate Clockes, w%5ch%6 in steeples chime, [136v] 153.H05.144 plac'd to informe whole townes t' imploy theire time, 153.H05.145 an errour doth more harme, beinge generall, 153.H05.146 when small clockes faultes only on the wearer fall; 153.H05.147 soe worke the faultes of age, on w%5ch%6 the eye 153.H05.148 of children, servantes, and the State doth[M:re]#lye: 153.H05.149 why wouldst not thou then, w%5ch%6 hadst such a soule, 153.H05.150 a clocke soe true, as might the Sunne controule, 153.H05.151 and daily hadst from him that gaue it thee 153.H05.152 Instructions, such as never yet cold be 153.H05.153 disorder'd, stay here, as a Generall 153.H05.154 and greate Sunne-Diall to haue sett vs all? 153.H05.155 O why wouldst thou be any instrument 153.H05.156 to this vnnaturall course,>? or why consent 153.H05.157 to this, not miracle, but prodigy? 153.H05.158 that where the Ebbs longer then flowinges be 153.H05.159 vertue, whose floud did with thy youth beginne, 153.H05.160 should soe much faster ebbe out, then flowe in? 153.H05.161 though her floud were blowne in, by thy first breath, 153.H05.162 all is at once sunke in the whirle-poole, Death: 153.H05.163 w%5ch%6 word I would not name, but that I see 153.H05.164 Death, els a Desart, growne a Court by thee: 153.H05.165 Nowe I am sure, that yf a man would haue 153.H05.166 good company, his entry is a Graue. 153.H05.167 me thinkes all Citties nowe but Ant-hills be, 153.H05.168 where when the seuerall labourers I see, 153.H05.169 for children, house-provision, takinge paine 153.H05.170 th' are all but Antes, carryinge eggs, strawe, or graine; 153.H05.171 and church-yards are our cittyes, vnto w%5ch%6 153.H05.172 the most repaire who are in goodnes rich. 153.H05.173 there is the best concourse and confluence, 153.H05.174 there are the holy Suburbs, and from thence 153.H05.175 begin%Ms Gods citty, newe Hierusalem, [137] 153.H05.176 who doth extend her walles and gates to them: 153.H05.177 At that gate then, triumphant Soule, dost thow 153.H05.178 beginne thy triumph; but since lawes allowe 153.H05.179 that at the Triumph day, the people may 153.H05.180 all that they will 'gainst the Triumpher say; 153.H05.181 let me heere vse that freedome, and expresse 153.H05.182 my greife, though not to make thy Triumph lesse. 153.H05.183 By lawe, to Triumph none admitted be, 153.H05.184 till they, as Magistrates, gett victorie: 153.H05.185 Though then to thy force all youths foes |did>doe| yeild 153.H05.186 yet till fitt time had brought thee to that feild, 153.H05.187 to w%5ch%6 thy rancke in this State, destin'd thee, 153.H05.188 that theire thy Counsailes might gett victorie 153.H05.189 And soe, in that capacity remoue 153.H05.190 all Iealousyes, 'twixt Prince and Subiects loue; 153.H05.191 thou c[var:sh]ould noe title to this Triumph haue, 153.H05.192 thou didst intrude on Death, vsurpd'st a Graue. 153.H05.193 w[var:T]hen (though victoriously) th' had'st fought as yet, 153.H05.194 but with thine owne affections, with the heate 153.H05.195 of youth's desires, and cold of Ignorance: 153.H05.196 but till thou shouldst successiuely advance 153.H05.197 thine armes 'gainst forreine enemies, w%5ch%6 are 153.H05.198 both Envy, and acclamaco%Mns Popular; 153.H05.199 (for both these Engines equally defeate, 153.H05.200 though by a diuers mine, those that are greate) 153.H05.201 till then, thy Warre was but a Civill warre, 153.H05.202 for w%5ch%6, to Triumph, none admitted are; 153.H05.203 Noe more are they, who (though with good successe 153.H05.204 in a Defensiue Warre theire power expresse: 153.H05.205 before men Triumph, the Dominion 153.H05.206 must be enlarg'd, and not preseru'd alone: 153.H05.207 why shouldst thou then, whose battailes were to winne [137v] 153.H05.208 thy selfe from those streights[var:ifes] nature put thee in, 153.H05.209 and to deliuer vp to God, that state, 153.H05.210 of w%5ch%6 he gaue thee the vicariate, 153.H05.211 w%5ch%6 is thy soule and body, as entire 153.H05.212 as he, who takes endeavours, doth require; 153.H05.213 but didst not stay t'#enlarge his kingdome too, 153.H05.214 by makinge others, what thou didst, to doe; 153.H05.215 why shouldst thou Triumph nowe, when heav'n no more 153.H05.216 hath gott, by gettinge thee, then 't had before? 153.H05.217 for heav'n and thou, euen when thou liued'st heere 153.H05.218 of one another in possession were: 153.H05.219 But this from Triumph most disables thee 153.H05.220 that, that place w%5ch%6 is conquered, must be 153.H05.221 left safe, from p%5r%6sent warre, and likely doubt 153.H05.222 of Im%Minent com%Motions to breake out: 153.H05.223 and hath he left vs soe? or can it be 153.H05.224 his Territory was noe more, but he? 153.H05.225 Noe: we were all his charge; the Diocesse 153.H05.226 of euery Exemplar Man, the whole world is; 153.H05.227 and he was ioyned in Com%Mission 153.H05.228 with Tutelar Angells, sent to euery one. 153.H05.229 But though theire freedome, to vpbraide and chide 153.H05.230 him who Triumphd', were lawfull, it was ty'de 153.H05.231 with this, that it might neuer reference haue 153.H05.232 vnto the Senate, who the Triumph gaue: 153.H05.233 Men might at Pompey iest, but they might not 153.H05.234 at that authority, by w%5ch%6 he gott 153.H05.235 leaue to Triumph, before, by age, he might: 153.H05.236 Soe though (Triumphant Soule) I dare to write 153.H05.237 mou'd with a reverentiall anger, thus, 153.H05.238 that thou, soe earely, would#st abandon vs; 153.H05.239 yet am I farre from daringe to dispute 153.H05.240 with that greate Soveraignety, whose absolute 153.H05.241 Prerogatiue hath thus dispensd' with thee [138] 153.H05.242 'gainst Natures lawes, w%5ch%6 iust impugners be 153.H05.243 of earthly Triumphs|:| and I (though with paine) 153.H05.244 lessen our losse, to magnify thy gaine 153.H05.245 of Triumph; when, I say it was more fitt 153.H05.246 that all men should lacke thee, then thou lacke it. 153.H05.247 though then, in our times, be not suffered 153.H05.248 the Testimony of loue vnto the Dead, 153.H05.249 to dy with them and in theire graues be hid, 153.H05.250 as Saxon wiues and ffrench Solda[var:>u<]rij did; 153.H05.251 and though in noe degree I can expresse 153.H05.252 greife, in great Alexanders great excesse, 153.H05.253 who at his ffrends Death, made whole Townes devest 153.H05.254 theire walles and Bull-warkes, that became them best: 153.H05.255 Doe not, Faire Soule, this Sacrifice refuse, 153.H05.256 that, in thy Graue, I doe interre my Muse, 153.H05.257 who, by my greife, greate, as thy worth, beinge cast 153.H05.258 behind hand, yet hath spoke, and spoke her last. 153.H05.SS om [3 3-leaf clovers] 153.H05.0$$ X beside l.30; variant written in margin, l.148; variants written above words or letters, ll.191, 193, 208, & 250; ll.257-58 indented 5 sp.