IDENTILIN$$ F153H07|Har|Harvard MS Eng.966.6(Stephens)|ff.110-16v,pp.219-32 153.0H7.HE1 Obsequies of y%5e%6 Lord Harrington [110v] 153.H07.001 ffaire Sowle, w%5ch%6 was't not onlie as all Sowles bee, 153.H07.002 Then when thou wast infused harmonie 153.H07.003 But didst Contynue soe, and now dost beare 153.H07.004 A Part in gods Great Organ this whole Sphae%Lre. 153.H07.005 If lookeing vp to God or downe to vs 153.H07.006 Thou find, that any waie is pervyous 153.H07.007 Twixt heaven and Earth, & that mens Acco%Mns doe 153.H07.008 Come to yo%5r%6 knowledge, and Affections too. 153.H07.009 See, and wish Ioye, mee to that good degree 153.H07.010 Of Goodnes growne, that I can studie thee. 153.H07.011 And by those medytations refynde 153.H07.012 Can vn-apparrell, a%And enlarge the Mynde. 153.H07.013 And soe can make by this soft Extasie 153.H07.014 This place a Mapp of Heav'n, my selfe of thee. 153.H07.015 Thou seest mee here at Midnight, now all Rest 153.H07.016 Tymes dead-low-water when all myndes devest 153.H07.017 To Morrow-busynes when the Laboure%5rs%6 haue 153.H07.018 Such rest in Bed, that their last Churchyard Gra%Aue [CW:.Subject.] 153.H07.019 Subject to Change will scar%Ase be a%A tipe of this [111] 153.H07.020 Now who the Clyent, whose last hearinge is 153.H07.021 To Morrow sleeps, when the Conde%Mned man%A 153.H07.022 (who when he opes his eyes must shut them tha%M) 153.H07.023 Againe by death) Although sad watch he keep 153.H07.024 doth prac%Atize dyinge by a%A lyttle sleepe 153.H07.025 Thou at this Mydnight seest mee, & as soone 153.H07.026 As that Sunn Ryses to mee, Mydnight's Noone 153.H07.027 All y%5e%6 world growes transparent, & I see 153.H07.028 Through all, both state, & Churc%Ah in seeing thee 153.H07.029 And I disce%Arne by favo%5r%6 of this Light 153.H07.030 My selfe the hardest object of this sight. 153.H07.031 God is the Glasse, as thou when y%5u%6 dost see 153.H07.032 Him, who sees all, seest' all concerning thee, 153.H07.033 Soe yet vnglorifyde I Comp%5r%6hend 153.H07.034 All in those Myrro%5rs%6 of thy waie & end 153.H07.035 Though God be trulie o%5r%6 Glasse, through w%5ch%6 wee \(see 153.H07.036 All, since%A the beeinge of all things, is hee. 153.H07.037 Yet a%Are the Truncks, w%5ch%6 do to vs deryve 153.H07.038 Things in Proportyon fitt by Perspective [CW:.Deeds.] 153.H07.039 Deeds of good men, for by there beeing heere [111v] 153.H07.040 Virtues indeed Remote, seemd to be neere. 153.H07.041 But where can I affirme? Or where arrest 153.H07.042 My thoughts on his deeds? w%5ch%6 shall I ca%All best? 153.H07.043 ffor ffluent virtue cannot be lookt' on 153.H07.044 Nor can indure a %Ybodye's%Z#Contemplaco%Mnn. 153.H07.045 As Bodies Chaunge, And as I do not weare 153.H07.046 Those spirits, humo%5rs%6, Blood I did last yeare, 153.H07.047 And a%As if on A streame%A I fix myne Eye 153.H07.048 That dropp on w%5ch%6 I lookt' is p%5r%6sently 153.H07.049 Pusht w%5th%6 more waters from my sight, & gone 153.H07.050 Soe in this Sea of virtues cannot one 153.H07.051 Be insysted on; virtues, as Riu%5r%6s passe 153.H07.052 Yet still remay%Anes that virtuous man there was. 153.H07.053 And as if Man feed onn Mans flesh, & soe 153.H07.054 Part of his Body to Another owe 153.H07.055 Yet at the last 2 p%Pfect%A bodyes rise 153.H07.056 Beca%Ause God knowes where eu%5r%6y Atome lyes 153.H07.057 Soe if ones knowledge were made of all those 153.H07.058 Who knew his Mynutes well he might dispose [CW:.His.] 153.H07.059 His virtues into Na%Ames, and Rancks, but I [112] 153.H07.060 Shold Iniure nature, virtue, and Destenie 153.H07.061 Shold I devyde, and disco%Antynue soe 153.H07.062 Virtue, w%5ch%6 did in one intirenes growe: 153.H07.063 ffor as hee that wold say Spirits are fram'de 153.H07.064 Of all y%5e%6 purest parts that can be nam'de 153.H07.065 Honors not spyrits halfe so much as hee 153.H07.066 Who say they haue no parts, but symple bee 153.H07.067 Soe ist of virtue, for A Poynt, & one 153.H07.068 Are muc%Ah intyrer then a Mylyon. 153.H07.069 And had Fate meant to haue his virtues told 153.H07.070 It wold haue let him Live to have bene old. 153.H07.071 Soe, that virtue in season, and then this 153.H07.072 We might haue seene, and said y%5t%6 now he is 153.H07.073 Wyttie, now wise, now temp%Pate, now Iust 153.H07.074 In good short Lives virtues are faine to thrust 153.H07.075 And to be sure betymes to gett a place 153.H07.076 When they wold exercise: they want Roome & \(spa%Ace 153.H07.077 Soe was it in this Person forc'te to bee 153.H07.078 ffor lac%Ake of tyme his owne Epitome. [CW:.Soe.] 153.H07.079 Soe to Exhibitt in few years as muc%Ah [112v] 153.H07.080 As all the lonng breathd Chronicles can%A touc%Ah 153.H07.081 As when an%A Angell downe from heaven doth flye 153.H07.082 Our quick thought can%Anot keepe him Company; 153.H07.083 We cannot think now he is at the Sunne 153.H07.084 Now through y%5e%6 Moone, now through y%5e%6 Aire doth runn 153.H07.085 Yet when hees co%Ame, we know he did repaire 153.H07.086 To all, twixt heav'ne and Earth, sunn, Moone & Aire 153.H07.087 And a%As this Angell in an Instant knowes 153.H07.088 And yet we know this suddaine knowledg growes 153.H07.089 By quick Amazinge[var:Ama>>ss>all<<] virtues Paths, in that Path[var:>>pace<<] tread [113] 153.H07.100 As Angells goe, and know, and as Men Read. 153.H07.101 Oh why shold then these men, these Lumps of ba%Alme 153.H07.102 Sent hithe%5r%6 this worlds Tempest to be#ca%Alme 153.H07.103 Before by deeds they are%A diffusde an%Ad sprea%Ad 153.H07.104 And soe make vs alive, themselues be dead. 153.H07.105 O Sowle, o Circle, why so quickly bee 153.H07.106 Thy Ends, thy byrth, & death Clos'de vpp in thee 153.H07.107 Since%A one foote of thy Compasse still was place%Ad 153.H07.108 In heav'n th'other might sec%Aurely haue pace%Ad 153.H07.109 In the most large Extent, through eu%5r%6y Path 153.H07.110 W%5ch%6 the whole world, or Man th'Abridgem%5t%6 hath. 153.H07.111 Thou know'st that though y%5e%6 Tropique Circles hau%Ae 153.H07.112 Yea, and those small ones w%5ch%6 the Poles engraue 153.H07.113 All the same Rowndnes, evennes, and all 153.H07.114 The endlesnes of the'Equynoctiall; 153.H07.115 Yet when we come to measure Destenies 153.H07.116 How heere, how there the Sunn affected is 153.H07.117 Where he doth fayntly work, & where p%5r%6va%Ayle 153.H07.118 Only great Circles |thou| can bee ou%5r%6 Scale. [CW:.Soe.] 153.H07.119 Soe though thy Circle to thy selfe expresse [113v] 153.H07.120 All tendinge to thy endles happynes 153.H07.121 And we by o%5r%6 good vse of yt may trye 153.H07.122 Both how to Live well yonge; and how to Dye: 153.H07.123 Yet since%A we must be old, and Age endures 153.H07.124 This Torrid Zone at Court y%5e%6 Calentures 153.H07.125 Of hott Ambytiousnes, Irrelegious Ice 153.H07.126 Zeals Agues, and Hydroptique Avarice. 153.H07.127 Infirmyties, w%5ch%6 need the seale of truth 153.H07.128 As well as%A Lust, and Ignorance of yowth: 153.H07.129 Why dost not y%5w%6 for flesh give%A medcy%Ane too 153.H07.130 And by thy doinge tell vs what to doe, 153.H07.131 Though as sma%All Pocket-Clocks whose eu%5r%6y wheel 153.H07.132 doth eac%Ah mis-motion, an%Ad distemp%P feele 153.H07.133 Whose han%Ad gets shaking palsies, & whose string 153.H07.134 His synnewes slackens, and whose Sowle y%5e%6 Spring 153.H07.135 Expires or Lan%Aguishes, whose Pulse the Fly 153.H07.136 Eathe%5r%6 Beat%As not, or Beats vnevenly. 153.H07.137 Whose voyce%A the Bell doth rattle, or grow Dumbe 153.H07.138 Or Idle as men who to their last howres co%Ame. [CW:.If.] 153.H07.139 If these Cloc%Aks be not wound, or be wound still [114] 153.H07.140 Or be not sett, or sett at every will. 153.H07.141 So yow%5th%6 be easiest to destruc%Atyon. 153.H07.142 If then we follow a%All, or followe none 153.H07.143 Yet as in great Cloc%Aks, w%5ch%6 in steeples Chyme 153.H07.144 Placed to informe whole Towns to'imploy their time 153.H07.145 An Erro%5r%6 doth more harme, being genera%All 153.H07.146 When sma%All Clocks faults only %Yonly%Z#on y%5e%6 weare%5r%6 fa%All 153.H07.147 So work the ffaults of Age on w%5ch%6 the Eye 153.H07.148 Of Children, Servan%5ts%6, or y%5e%6 State relye. 153.H07.149 Why woldst not thou then w%5ch%6 hadst such%A a Sowle 153.H07.150 A Clocke soe true as%A might the Sunn Controle 153.H07.151 And daylie hadst from him, who gaue it thee 153.H07.152 Instruc%Atyons such, as yet co%Ald neuer bee 153.H07.153 Disordered. Stay here as Generall%A, 153.H07.154 And great%A Sunn-dya%All to haue%A sett vs a%All. 153.H07.155 O why wouldst y%5w%6 be any Instrument 153.H07.156 To this vnnaturall Course, or why Consent 153.H07.157 To this not Myrac%Ale but Prodigee 153.H07.158 That where the Ebbs longe%5r%6 then flowings bee 153.H07.159 Virtue whose fflood did w%5th%6 thy yowth begin 153.H07.160 Should so much%A faste%5r%6 ebb out, then flowe in. [CW:.Though.] 153.H07.161 Though her flood were blowne in by the first brea%Ath [114v] 153.H07.162 All is at once%A sunc%Ake in the whirle-poole Deat%Ah. 153.H07.163 W%5ch%6 word I wold not name but that I see 153.H07.164 Death, els a%A desart growne a Court by thee. 153.H07.165 Now I am%A sure, that if A man wold haue 153.H07.166 Good Compan%Aie, his Entrie is a%A Grave. 153.H07.167 Mee thinks a%All Cytties now but Ant-hills bee 153.H07.168 Where when y%5e%6 seuera%All Labourers I do see 153.H07.169 ffor Chyldren, howse, Provision, takinge paine 153.H07.170 Th'are all but Au%Mts, Carying Eggs, straw, or grain 153.H07.171 And Churchyards are o%5r%6 Cytties; vnto which 153.H07.172 The most repaire, who are in Goodnes rich. 153.H07.173 There is the best Concu%Arse, & Confluence%A 153.H07.174 There ar%Ae the holy Suberbes, and from thence%A 153.H07.175 Begins Gods Cytty, New Ierusalem, 153.H07.176 Who doth Extend her Gates to them 153.H07.177 At that Gate then Tryvmpha%Mt Sowle dost y%5w%6 153.H07.178 Begynn thy Tryvmph, But since Lawes allowe 153.H07.179 That all y%5e%6 Tryvmph day y%5e%6 People may 153.H07.180 All that they will, gain'st the Tryvmphe%5r%6 say, [CW:.Lett.] 153.H07.181 Let me here vse, that ffreedom, & expresse [115] 153.H07.182 My Griefe, though not to make thy Tryvmphe lesse; 153.H07.183 By Lawe to Tryvmph, none Admytted bee 153.H07.184 Till they as Maiestrates get victorie. 153.H07.185 Then though to thy fforce%A, all yo.%5wths%6 foes did yeild 153.H07.186 Yet till fitt time had brought thee to that field 153.H07.187 To w%5ch%6 thy Ran%Acke in this state destynd'e thee 153.H07.188 That their thy Counce%Als might get victorie. 153.H07.189 And soe in that Capaci%Aty remove 153.H07.190 All Iealosies, twixt Prince, & subjec%Ats Loue 153.H07.191 Thou Coldst not Tytle to this Tryvmph haue%A 153.H07.192 Thou didst intrude on death, vsurpt a Grav%Ae 153.H07.193 Then, though vic%Atoryously, thou hadst fought as \(yett 153.H07.194 But w%5th%6 thy owne Affectyons, w%5th%6 the heat%Ae 153.H07.195 Of yow%5t%6hs desyres, & Colds of Ignora%Ance%A 153.H07.196 But till thou shouldst suc%Ace%Assive[var:>>ful<<]ly Advance%A 153.H07.197 Thines Armes gainst foraigne Enemies, w%5ch%6 are 153.H07.198 Both Envie, and Acclamaco%Mns popula%5r%6 153.H07.199 (ffor both these Engines ae%Lqually defeate%A 153.H07.200 Though by A dyvers Myne, those y%5t%6 are great, [CW:/.Till./] 153.H07.201 Till then thy warr, was but a%A Civill Warr, [115v] 153.H07.202 ffor w%5ch%6 to Tryvmph none Admytted are, 153.H07.203 No more are they, who though w%5th%6 good suc%Ace%Asse 153.H07.204 In A defensive warr, their Powre expresse. 153.H07.205 Before Men Tryvmph, the Domynion 153.H07.206 Must be enlarged, and not p%5r%6serued alone. 153.H07.207 Why shouldst thou then whose Battels were to wyn 153.H07.208 Thy selfe from these Straights, Nature put thee in 153.H07.209 And to delive%5r%6 vpp to God that State 153.H07.210 Of w%5ch%6 he gave thee the viccariate 153.H07.211 W%5ch%6 is thy Sowle and Body as entyre 153.H07.212 As he (who takes Endevo%5rs%6[var:Endentures]) doth requyre, 153.H07.213 But didst not stay to enlarge his kingdome too 153.H07.214 By makinge othe%5rs%6 what thou didst to doe. 153.H07.215 Why sholdst y%5w%6 Tryvmph now when Heav'n no more 153.H07.216 Hath gott by getting thee, then it had before. 153.H07.217 ffor Heav'n and thou even when thou Livedst here 153.H07.218 Of one a%Another in Possessyon were, 153.H07.219 But this from Tryvmph most disables thee 153.H07.220 That, that place w%5ch%6 is Conquered must be free. [CW:.Left.] 153.H07.221 Left safe from p%5r%6sent warr%A, and likely doubt [116] 153.H07.222 Of imminent Commotions to breake out?/ 153.H07.223 And hath he left vs soe? Or can yt bee 153.H07.224 This Teritorie was noe more but hee? 153.H07.225 No we are all his Charge. The dy|oo|esse 153.H07.226 Of euery Exemplar Man the whole world is, 153.H07.227 And he was joyned in Comission 153.H07.228 W%5th%6 Tutular Angels sent to eu%5r%6y one, 153.H07.229 But though thy[var:this] freedom to vpwraid, and Chyde 153.H07.230 Him who Tryvmphed was Lawfull: It was tyde 153.H07.231 w%5th%6 this, that it might nere Reflectyon ha%Ave 153.H07.232 vnto the Senate, who the Tryvmph gav%Ae. 153.H07.233 Men might at Pompey Iest, but they might not 153.H07.234 At that Authority by w%5ch%6 he gott 153.H07.235 Leave to Tryvmph before by Age he might 153.H07.236 Soe though (Tryvmpha%Mt Sowle) I dare to wright 153.H07.237 Mov'de w%5th%6 A Reverentia%All Anger thus 153.H07.238 That thou soe earlie wouldest abandon vs 153.H07.239 Yet am I farr from daring to dispute 153.H07.240 W%5th%6 that great Soveraignty, whose absolute [CW:Prerogative./] 153.H07.241 Prerogative hath thus dispenc'd w%5th%6 thee [116v] 153.H07.242 Gainst Natures Lawes, w%5ch%6 Iust Impugne%5rs%6 bee 153.H07.243 Of early Tryvmphs and (though I wish paine 153.H07.244 Lessen o%5r%6 Losse to mag%Anify thy ga%Ayne 153.H07.245 Of Tryvmph, when I say it was more fytt 153.H07.246 That all men shold lack thee then thou lacke it 153.H07.247 Though then in o%5r%6 tymes be not suffered 153.H07.248 That testymony of Love vnto y%5e%6 Dead 153.H07.249 To dye w%5th%6 them in their Graue%As be hydd 153.H07.250 As Saxon-wives, and french Soldarij did 153.H07.251 And though in noe degree I ca%An expresse 153.H07.252 Griefe in great Alexanders great Excesse. 153.H07.253 Who at his friends death made whole Towres devest 153.H07.254 There walls, and Bulwarks that beca%Ame them best 153.H07.255 Doe not fay%Are sowle this Sacrifize refuse 153.H07.256 That in thy Grave%A, I doe interr my Muse, 153.H07.257 Who by my greife, great as thy worth being ca%Ast 153.H07.258 Behynd hand, yet hath spoke, & spoke her last. 153.H07.SS ffinis [decorative swirl] 153.H07.0$$ Poem begins here. 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