IDENTILIN$$ F153HH4|Har|Huntington HM 198, I|pp.80-85 153.HH4.HE1 Obsequies of y%5e%6 Lo: Harrington Brother to y%5e%6 Countes of Bedford [80] 153.HH4.001 Faire soule w:%5ch%6 wast not onely, as all Soules bee, 153.HH4.002 then when thow wast infused, Harmony 153.HH4.003 but did'st continew soe and didest beare 153.HH4.004 A part in Gods great Organ, this whole spheare 153.HH4.005 of looking up to God, or downe to us 153.HH4.006 thow find y%5t%6 anny way is peruious 153.HH4.007 t'wixt heauen and Earth, & y%5t%6 mens actions doe 153.HH4.008 come to your knowledg and affections too 153.HH4.009 See and with ioye, me to that good degre 153.HH4.010 of goodnes growne, that I can study the 153.HH4.011 and by those meditations refin'd 153.HH4.012 come unaparrell and enlarg my minde 153.HH4.013 and soe can make by this soft extasye [81] 153.HH4.014 this place A Mapp of Heauen, my selfe of the: 153.HH4.015 thow seest mee heer att midnight (now all rest) 153.HH4.016 times dead lowe water; when all minds deuest 153.HH4.017 to morrow buisnes, when the Labourers haue 153.HH4.018 such rest in bed, y%5t%6 their last church yard gra|u|e 153.HH4.019 (subiect to change) will scarce be A Tipe of this 153.HH4.020 now when the Clyent whose Lawe hearing is 153.HH4.021 to morrowe, sleeps; when the condemned man 153.HH4.022 (who when he opes his eyes%Y)%Z must shutt them then 153.HH4.023 againe by death) although sad watch he keepe 153.HH4.024 doth practise dying by A little sleepe 153.HH4.025 thow art this Midnight, seest me, and as sone 153.HH4.026 as that Sunn rises to mee, Midnights noone 153.HH4.027 all y%5e%6 world growes transparant, and I see 153.HH4.028 through all, both Church and state in seing the 153.HH4.029 and I discerne by fauour of that light 153.HH4.030 my selfe the hardest >X[M:obiect] of this sight 153.HH4.031 God is the Glass, as thow, when thow do'st see 153.HH4.032 him, whoe sees all, sees all concerning the 153.HH4.033 soe yett unglorefyed I comprehend 153.HH4.034 all in those Mirrors of thy way and end 153.HH4.035 although God be truly ower glass through w:%5ch%6 wee see 153.HH4.036 all (since the being of all things is hee) 153.HH4.037 yett (are the Trunks which doe to us deriue 153.HH4.038 things in proportion fitt, by perspectiue) 153.HH4.039 deeds of good men, for by their being heer 153.HH4.040 vertues indeed remote, seeme to bee neere 153.HH4.041 but wheer can I affix|?| or whatt arrest 153.HH4.042 my thoughts on his deeds? which shall I call best? 153.HH4.043 for fluent vertue cannott bee lookt' on 153.HH4.044 Nor can Indure A Contemplation 153.HH4.045 as Boddyes change, and as I doe not weer 153.HH4.046 those Spiritts, Humours, blood, I did last yeare 153.HH4.047 and as if on A streame I fix mine eye 153.HH4.048 that dropp on w:%5ch%6 I loo'kt, is presently 153.HH4.049 dasht with more water from my sight & gone 153.HH4.050 soe in this sea of uertues, theer cann none 153.HH4.051 be insisted on, uertues as Riuers pass 153.HH4.052 yett still remaines that uerteous man ther was 153.HH4.053 as if Man feed on Mans flesh, and soe 153.HH4.054 part of his boddy to annother owe 153.HH4.055 yett att the last tow perfect boddyes rise 153.HH4.056 because God knowes wheer euery Attome lyes 153.HH4.057 soe if one knowledg weer made of all those 153.HH4.058 who knew his Minutes well, he might dispose 153.HH4.059 his uertue into Names and Rankes, but I 153.HH4.060 should iniure Nature, vertue, desteny 153.HH4.061 should I deuide & discontinnew soe 153.HH4.062 vertue w:%5ch%6 did in one Intirenes grow 153.HH4.063 for as he that would say spiritts are fram'd 153.HH4.064 of all the purest parts that can be nam'd 153.HH4.065 honnors not spiritts halfe soe much as hee 153.HH4.066 whoe sayes they haue no parts, butt simple be 153.HH4.067 soe i'st of uertue, for A point, and one [82] 153.HH4.068 are much intirer then A Million 153.HH4.069 and had fate meant to had his uertues tould 153.HH4.070 it would haue lett him liue to haue been ould 153.HH4.071 soe then y%5t%6 uertue in season, and then this 153.HH4.072 wee might haue seene, and saide, y%5t%6 now he is 153.HH4.073 witty, now wise, now temperate now Iust 153.HH4.074 in good short liues, uertues are faine to thrust 153.HH4.075 and to be sure betimes to gett A place 153.HH4.076 when they would exercise |e|ach |r|ome, & space 153.HH4.077 soe was itt in this person forst to bee 153.HH4.078 for lack of time his owne Epitomye 153.HH4.079 and to exhibite in few years as much 153.HH4.080 as all the long breathd Chronicles can tuch 153.HH4.081 As when an Angell downe from Heauen doth fly 153.HH4.082 ower quick thoughts cannot keepe him companny 153.HH4.083 wee cannott thinke now heis att the Sunn 153.HH4.084 now through the Moone, now through y%5e%6 Aire doth runn 153.HH4.085 yett when hee's come, we know hee did repaire 153.HH4.086 to all twixt Heauen and Earth, Sunn, Moone & Aire 153.HH4.087 and as this Angell in an Instant knowes 153.HH4.088 and yett we know his suddeine knowledg growes 153.HH4.089 by quick Amassing seuerall formes of things 153.HH4.090 which he successiuly to Order brings 153.HH4.091 when they whose slow pac'd lame thoughts cannott goe 153.HH4.092 soe fast as hee, thinke that they doe not soe 153.HH4.093 iust as A perfect Reader doth not dwell 153.HH4.094 on euery sillabell, nor stay to spell 153.HH4.095 yett (without doubt) hee doth distinctly see 153.HH4.096 and Lay to#gether euery A, and B, 153.HH4.097 soe in short liu'd, good mens not understood 153.HH4.098 each seuerall uertue, but the Compound good. 153.HH4.099 for they all uertues paths in that way tread 153.HH4.100 as Angels know, and goe, and as Men read 153.HH4.101 O why should then theis men those Lampes of Balme 153.HH4.102 (sent hether this worlds Tempest to be#calme) 153.HH4.103 before by deeds they are diffus'd and spread 153.HH4.104 and soe make us aliue, themselues be dead 153.HH4.105 O soule, o Circle why so quickly bee 153.HH4.106 thy birth, thy end, and death clos'd up in the 153.HH4.107 Since one foote of thy Compass still was plast 153.HH4.108 in Heauen th'other might securly haue past 153.HH4.109 in the most large extent, through euery path 153.HH4.110 which y%5e%6 whole world, or men the Abridgment hath 153.HH4.111 Thow knowest that though the Tropicks Circkles haue 153.HH4.112 (yea and those small ones which the Poles ingraue) 153.HH4.113 all the same roundnes, euennes and all 153.HH4.114 the Endlesnes of the Equinoctiall 153.HH4.115 yett when wee come to measure distances 153.HH4.116 how heer, how theer the Sunn affected is 153.HH4.117 wheer he doth faintly worke, and wher preuaile 153.HH4.118 only great Cirkles, then can be ower scale 153.HH4.119 soe though thy Circkle to the selfe express [83] 153.HH4.120 all tending to thy endles happines 153.HH4.121 And we by ower good use of itt may trye 153.HH4.122 both how to liue well young, and how to dye 153.HH4.123 yett since wee must be ould and, Age endures 153.HH4.124 his torred Zoane att Court, and Callentures 153.HH4.125 of hott Ambition, Irreligio|u|s Ice, 153.HH4.126 Zeales Ague, and hidroptique Auarice 153.HH4.127 Infirmytyes which need the schoole of truth 153.HH4.128 as well as lust and Ignorance of youth 153.HH4.129 why didst not thow for theis giue medcines too 153.HH4.130 and by thy dying tell us what to doe 153.HH4.131 Though as small pockett Clocks, whose euery wheele 153.HH4.132 doth each mismottion and dis*>temper feele 153.HH4.133 whose hand gets shaking palsyes and whose string 153.HH4.134 (his sinnewes|,|) slackens, and whose soule the spring 153.HH4.135 expires or languishes, whose pulse the flye 153.HH4.136 eyther beats not, or beats uneuenly 153.HH4.137 whose uoice, the Bell, doth rattle or growe dumbe 153.HH4.138 or Idle as men who to their last howers come 153.HH4.139 if theis Clocks be not wound, or be wound still 153.HH4.140 or be not sett, or sett att euery will, 153.HH4.141 Soe youth be easiest to distruction 153.HH4.142 if then wee follow all, or followe none 153.HH4.143 yett as in great Clocks, w:%5ch%6 in steples shine 153.HH4.144 plac'd to informe whole Tounes, to imploy their time 153.HH4.145 an error doth more harme, being gennerall 153.HH4.146 when small Clocks faults, only on the wearer fall 153.HH4.147 soe worke the faults of Age, on w:%5ch%6 the Eye 153.HH4.148 of Children seruants, or the state relye 153.HH4.149 why wouldst not thow then (w:%5ch%6 hadst such A soule) 153.HH4.150 A clock soe true as might the sunn controule 153.HH4.151 And dayly hadst from him w:%5ch%6 gaue it the 153.HH4.152 instructions, such as neuer yett could bee 153.HH4.153 disorder'd) stay heer as A gennerall 153.HH4.154 and great sunn Diall, to haue sett us all? 153.HH4.155 O why shouldst thow be anny Instrument 153.HH4.156 to this unnaturall coarse? or why Consent, 153.HH4.157 to this not Miracle nor prodegy 153.HH4.158 that wheer the Ebs longer then flowings bee 153.HH4.159 uertue whose flood did with thy youth begin 153.HH4.160 should soe much faster ebb oute the flowe in 153.HH4.161 Though her flood weer bloune in by thy first breath 153.HH4.162 all is at once sunck in the whirle poole Death 153.HH4.163 w:%5ch%6 more I would not name but that I see 153.HH4.164 death, else A desart, growne A Court by the 153.HH4.165 now I am sure that if A man would haue 153.HH4.166 good Companny, his entry is A graue 153.HH4.167 me thinks all Cittyes now butt Ant hils bee 153.HH4.168 wheer when the seuerall laborors I doe see 153.HH4.169 for Children|,| house prouission, taking paine 153.HH4.170 they call but Ants carryinge Egs, straw or graine 153.HH4.171 And churchyards are ower Cittyes unto which 153.HH4.172 the most repaire who are in goodnes rich 153.HH4.173 ther is the best concourse, and Confluence [84] 153.HH4.174 theer are the holly suburbs, and from thence 153.HH4.175 begins Gods Citty new Ierusalem 153.HH4.176 and doth extend her Gates euen unto them 153.HH4.177 at that Gate then Triumphant soule dost thow 153.HH4.178 begin thy Triu*>mph: butt since Lawes allowe 153.HH4.179 that att y%5e%6 Triumph day the People may 153.HH4.180 all that they will gainst the Triumpher say 153.HH4.181 Lett me heer use that fredome to express 153.HH4.182 my greife, though not to make thy Triumph less 153.HH4.183 by Lawe, to Triumph none admitted bee 153.HH4.184 tell they as Magistrates gett victorye 153.HH4.185 153.HH4.186 153.HH4.187 153.HH4.188 153.HH4.189 and soe in that Capacety remoue 153.HH4.190 all Iealousy twixt Prince & subiects loue 153.HH4.191 thow couldst no Title to this Triumph haue 153.HH4.192 thow didst intrude on Death, usurp'st A graue 153.HH4.193 then (though victorious) thow hast fought as yett 153.HH4.194 but with thine owne Affections, with thy heate 153.HH4.195 Of youths desires, and cold of Ignorance 153.HH4.196 but tell thow shouldst sucsessiuly aduance 153.HH4.197 thines Ar|ni|es gainst forraigne Ennemyes w%5ch%6 are 153.HH4.198 enuy and Acclamations Popular 153.HH4.199 for both theis Engins equally defeate 153.HH4.200 minds by A Diuers meanes, those that are greate, 153.HH4.201 till then thy warr, was butt A Ciuell warr 153.HH4.202 for w:%5ch%6 to Triumph none admitted are 153.HH4.203 no more are they >who (though with good success 153.HH4.204 in A defensiue warr their power express) 153.HH4.205 Before men Triumph, their dominion 153.HH4.206 must be enlarg'd, and not preseru'd alone 153.HH4.207 why shouldst thow then whose Battles weer to winn 153.HH4.208 thy selfe from theis streights Nature putt the Inn 153.HH4.209 and to deliuer up to God that state 153.HH4.210 of w:%5ch%6 he gaue the the vicariate 153.HH4.211 (w:%5ch%6 is thy soule and boddy) as intire 153.HH4.212 as he who takes indeuors did inquire 153.HH4.213 but didst not stay t'inlarge his Kingdome too 153.HH4.214 by making others what thow didst to doe 153.HH4.215 why shouldst thow Triumph now when Heauen no more 153.HH4.216 hath gott, by getting thee, then't had before 153.HH4.217 for Heauen and thow, euen when thow livedst heer 153.HH4.218 of one another in possession weer 153.HH4.219 but this from Triumph most disables the 153.HH4.220 that that place w:%5ch%6 is Conquered must bee 153.HH4.221 Left safe from present warr, and likly doubt 153.HH4.222 of Iminent Comotions to breake out 153.HH4.223 and hath he left us too? or cann it bee 153.HH4.224 this Territory was no more %Ythen%Z>butt[M:butt] hee 153.HH4.225 Noe, wee are all his charge, the Diocess 153.HH4.226 of euery exampler Man the whole world is 153.HH4.227 and he was Ioyned in Comission 153.HH4.228 with Tutular Angels, sent to euery one 153.HH4.229 but though thy fredome to upbraide & chide 153.HH4.230 him who Triumph'd weer lawfull, it was tide 153.HH4.231 with this that it might neuer reference haue 153.HH4.232 unto the senate who the Triumph gaue 153.HH4.233 men might att Pompy Iest, but they might not 153.HH4.234 att that Authorety by w.%5ch%6 he gott 153.HH4.235 Leaue to Triumph, before by Age he might [85] 153.HH4.236 soe (though Triumphant soule) I dare to write 153.HH4.237 (mou'd with A reuerentiall Angar) thus 153.HH4.238 thatt thow soe Early shouldst abandon us 153.HH4.239 yett I am farr from daring to dispute 153.HH4.240 with that great soueraingty whose absolute 153.HH4.241 prerogatiue shall thus dispence with the 153.HH4.242 gainst Natures Lawes w.%5ch%6 Iust impugners bee 153.HH4.243 of Earthly Triumphes, and I though with paine) 153.HH4.244 lessen ower loss to magnefy thy gaine 153.HH4.245 Of Triumphes when I say it was more fitt 153.HH4.246 that all men should lack the, then thow lack itt 153.HH4.247 though then in ower times be not suffered 153.HH4.248 that testemony of loue unto the dead 153.HH4.249 to dy with them and in theyr Graues be hid 153.HH4.250 as Saxons wiues, and french soldary did 153.HH4.251 and though in no degree I can express 153.HH4.252 greife in Great Alexanders great excess 153.HH4.253 who att his freinds Death, made whole Townes deuest 153.HH4.254 their wals and steples that became them best 153.HH4.255 doe not faire soule this sacrafice refuse 153.HH4.256 that In thy Graue I doe enterr my Muse 153.HH4.257 who by thy greife, (great as the North being Cast 153.HH4.258 behind hand, yet hath spoke, and spoke her last 153.HH4.SS om 153.HH4.0$$ Lines numbered by 10s in the left margin; ll.185-88 omitted; corrections & insertions in the scribal hand.