IDENTLINE$$ F153O16|Har|Eng. poet. e.14.|ff. 43-5v|Original EWS 7-29-85 153.O16.0HE Obsequies on the L%5d%6 Harrington brother to the Count: of bedford 153.O16.001 ffaire soule, which wast not soe as all soule bee, [f. 43] 153.O16.002 Then, when thou wast infused harmony, 153.O16.003 But didst continue soe: and now dost beare 153.O16.004 A part in gods great organ, this whole spheare, 153.O16.005 If looking vp to god and downe to %Yvs%Z vs, 153.O16.006 Thou findst that any way bee pervious 153.O16.007 Twixt heaven and %Yvs%Z earth: and that mens actions doe 153.O16.008 Come to your knowledge and affections too. 153.O16.009 Soe I wish; ioyne me to that good decree>degree, 153.O16.010 Of goodnese growne, that I may study thee: 153.O16.011 Once by those meditations refin'd, 153.O16.012 May vnapparell and and enlarge my mind: 153.O16.013 And soe can make by this soft extasy, 153.O16.014 This place a mape of heaven, my selfe of thee. 153.O16.015 Thou seest mee here at midnight. now att rest 153.O16.016 Times dead=low=water, when all men deyest>devest 153.O16.O17 To morowes businesses. When the laborours haue 153.O16.018 Such rest in bed that there last churchyard graue, 153.O16.019 Subiect to chance %Yschar%Z scarce is a tipe of this: 153.O16.020 Now when the client whose last hering is 153.O16.021 To morrow, sleeps; and the condemned man, 153.O16.022 Who when he opes his eyes, must shut them then 153.O16.023 Again to death, although sad watch hee keepe; 153.O16.024 Doth practice diing with a little sleepe 153.O16.025 Thou noe at midnight seest me, and as soone 153.O16.026 As the sunne riseth, midnights turnd to noone, 153.O16.027 The whole world growes transparent, and I see 153.O16.028 Through all, both church and state, by seeing thee. 153.O16.029 om 153.O16.030 om 153.O16.031 om 153.O16.032 om 153.O16.033 Soe yet vnglorified I comprehend, 153.O16.034 All in those mirrours, of the way, and end. 153.O16.035 Though god be our true glasse through which wee see 153.O16.036 All, since beginning of all things is hee. 153.O16.037 Yet ther bee trunkes which doe to vs deriue, [f. 43v] 153.O16.038 Things by proportion, fit by perspectiue 153.O16.039 The deeds of all good men: by whose being heere, 153.O16.040 Virtues (indeed) remote, seeme to bee nere. 153.O16.041 But wher can I assine, ore where arrest 153.O16.042 My thoughts on his deeds? which shall I call best? 153.O16.043 ffor fluent virtue cannot bee lookt on 153.O16.044 Nor will endure a contemplation. 153.O16.045 As bodys change, and as I doe not weare 153.O16.046 Those spirits, humors, bloud, I did last yeare, 153.O16.047 And as if on a streame I fixe my eye, 153.O16.048 That drope, on which I lookt, is presently 153.O16.049 Pusht with more waters from my sight and gone. 153.O16.050 Soe in this sea of virtue, can be none 153.O16.051 Insisted %Yhere%Z on; virtues as rivers pase; 153.O16.052 Yet still remains that virteous man that was. 153.O16.053 And as if man fed on mans flesh, and soe 153.O16.054 %YAnd%Z Part of ones body to anothers goe: 153.O16.055 Yet at the last two perfect bodys rise, 153.O16.056 Because god knowes wher every attome lyes. 153.O16.057 Soe if ones knowledge were made of all those 153.O16.058 Which knew his minats well, hee might despose 153.O16.059 His virtues into nams, and rankes, But I 153.O16.060 Should iniure nature, virtue, destiny, 153.O16.061 should I devide, and discontinue soe 153.O16.062 virtue, which did in one entirnesse grow. 153.O16.063 ffor as hee that should say spirits are fram'd, 153.O16.064 Of all the purest parts that can bee nam'd, 153.O16.065 Honours not spirits soe halfe soe much as %Yse%Z hee 153.O16.066 Who say they haue noe parts, but simple bee 153.O16.067 So ist of virtue; for a point or one 153.O16.068 Are more entire, then are a million. 153.O16.069 And fate ment to haue his virtue told, 153.O16.070 she would haue let him liu'd to haue been old: 153.O16.071 That virtue then in season, and now this, 153.O16.072 wee might haue seen, and said that now hee is 153.O16.073 Witty, now wise, now temperat, now iust%Y,%Z. 153.O16.074 In good short=liues are virtues faine to thrust, 153.O16.075 And to besure betimes to get a place, 153.O16.076 When they can exercise lest roome and space. 153.O16.077 soe was this person, forct to bee 153.O16.078 (ffor lake of time) his owne epittome 153.O16.079 soe to exhibet in few years as much, 153.O16.080 As all the long breathed cronicles can touch. 153.O16.081 As when an angell down from heaven doth fly 153.O16.082 Our quick thoughts cannot keepe him company; 153.O16.083 Wee cannot thinke, now hee is at the sunne, 153.O16.084 Now at the Moone, now through the aire doth runne: 153.O16.085 Yet when hee comes wee know hee made repaire [f. 44] 153.O16.086 Through all, twixt heaven and earth, sunne, moone, and aire; 153.O16.087 And as this angell in an instant knowes, 153.O16.088 And yet wee know his suddaine knowlege growes, 153.O16.089 ffrom quick amasing severall sort of things, 153.O16.090 which hee successiuely to order bringes; 153.O16.091 When they whose slow pac't lame thoughts cannot goe 153.O16.092 Soe fast as hee, thinks that hee doth non soe. 153.O16.093 Iust as a perfect reader doth not dwell 153.O16.094 On every sillable, nor stay to splell, 153.O16.095 Yet without doubt%Yd%Z he doth%Yli%Z distinctly see, 153.O16.096 And lay together every A and %YD%Z B. 153.O16.097 Soe in short liu'd good men's, not vnderstood 153.O16.098 Eeach severall virtue, but the common good: 153.O16.099 ffor they all virtues paths in one doe tread 153.O16.100 As' Angells goe and know, and as men read. 153.O16.101 Oh; why should then these men, these lamps of balme 153.O16.102 Sent hither, this worlds tempest to%Ye%Z becalme, 153.O16.103 Before by deeds they are diffusd and so read. 153.O16.104 And soe make vs aliue, themselues bee dead? 153.O16.105 O soul, O circle, why soe quickly bee 153.O16.106 Thy ends, thy birth and death closd vp in thee? 153.O16.107 Since one foot of compasse still had place 153.O16.108 In heaven, y%5e%6 other might securly %Ypase%Z pace 153.O16.109 In the most large extent, through every path 153.O16.110 %YOf%Z The world, or man, the worlds abrigment hath. 153.O16.111 Thou knowest y%5t%6 though y%5e%6 tropick circuls %Yhath%Z haue, 153.O16.112 Yea and those small ones that the pole ingraue, 153.O16.113 Ah the same roundnesse, evennesse and all, 153.O16.114 The endlesnesse of the %YEx%Z Aequinoctiall, 153.O16.115 Yet when wee come to measure distances, 153.O16.116 How here, how ther the same affected is; 153.O16.117 Wher hee doth faintly worke, where more prevaile, 153.O16.118 Only great circles then can bee the scale; 153.O16.119 Soe thou the circle of thy selfe exprese, 153.O16.120 All %Ylength%Z tending to the>thy endlese happynese, 153.O16.121 That wee by our good vse of thee may try, 153.O16.122 Both how to liue well young and how to dye, 153.O16.123 Yet since wee must bee old; and age endures 153.O16.124 The torrid Zone at court, hot calenturs 153.O16.125 Of quicke ambition, irreligious ice, 153.O16.126 Zeals ague, and hydroptique averice, 153.O16.127 Infirmitys which nbets the scale of truth, 153.O16.128 As well as lust, and ignorance of youth. 153.O16.129 Why didst not thou for flesh giue medecine too, 153.O16.130 And by thy dying teach vs what too doe. 153.O16.131 Though as small pocket clocks whose every wheell 153.O16.132 Doth each mismotion and mistemper feell 153.O16.133 Whose hands get shaking palsies, and his string, [f. 44v] 153.O16.134 Is sinewes broken, and whose soul the spring, 153.O16.135 Expirs ore languishes, whose pulse the fly, 153.O16.136 Ether beats not ore beats vnevenly, 153.O16.137 Whose voice the bell, doth %Yrabl%Z ratle, %Yand%Z or grow dumbe, 153.O16.138 Or idle, as men to ther last houre come: 153.O16.139 If these clocks be not %Yy%Z wound, or bee wound still, 153.O16.140 Or be not set, or set to euery will; 153.O16.141 Soe youths the easyest to distruction, 153.O16.142 If then wee follow all, ore follow none, 153.O16.143 Yet as in great clocks which in steeples chime, 153.O16.144 Plac't to informe whole townes to spend ther time, 153.O16.145 An error doth more harme being generall, 153.O16.146 when small clocks faults but on the wearer fall: 153.O16.147 Soe works the faults of age, on which the eye 153.O16.148 Of children, servaunts, or the state relie. 153.O16.149 Why %Yhadst not thou%Z wouldst not thou y%5u%6, w%5ch%6 hadst such a soule, 153.O16.150 A clocke true which might the sunn controule 153.O16.151 And dayly hadst from him, (%Ywhich%Z>y%5t%6< gaue it thee,) 153.O16.152 Instructions, such as yet never could bee 153.O16.153 Disordred, stay here as a generall, 153.O16.154 Or great sunn dyall to haue set vs all? 153.O16.155 Oh, why wouldst thou bee any instrument 153.O16.156 To this vnnaturall course? giue consent 153.O16.157 To this not miracle, but prodigie, 153.O16.158 That wher the ebbe's longer then the flouds bee. 153.O16.159 Virtue whose flow did with thy youth begine, 153.O16.160 Should soe much faster ebbe out then flow in? 153.O16.161 Though her floud were vnknowne at thy first breath, 153.O16.162 All is at once suncke in that wherle=poole death: 153.O16.163 Which word I should not name, but that I see 153.O16.164 Death els a desart, growne a court by thee; 153.O16.165 Now I am sure if y%5t%6 a man would haue 153.O16.166 Good company, his entry is a graue 153.O16.167 Mee thinks all cittys now but Anthills bee, 153.O16.168 Wher when their severall labour I doe see; 153.O16.169 ffor children, house, provision taking paine, 153.O16.170 Are but like ants, that cary eggs, straw, graine. 153.O16.171 And church yeards are our cittys, into which 153.O16.172 The most repaire that are in goodnese rich. 153.O16.173 Ther is the last *** concarse and %Yconsbrlence%Z confluence 153.O16.174 Ther are the lidy subvrbbs, and from %Ytherce%Z thence 153.O16.175 Begins gods city new yerusalem 153.O16.176 Which doth all ways extend ther gats to them 153.O16.177 And at that gate trivmphant soule dost thou 153.O16.178 Beginne thy triumph but since lawes alow 153.O16.179 That at the trumpit day all people may 153.O16.180 All that they will gainst the triumpher say. 153.O16.181 Let me here vse that fredome and exprese 153.O16.182 my greife though not to make thy trivmph lese. 153.O16.183 By law to triumph none admitted %Yis is%Z bee 153.O16.184 Till they by magistrats get victory 153.O16.185 Though then by thy force all youths foes did yeild, 153.O16.186 Yett till fitt time had brought thee to the feild, 153.O16.187 To which thy ranke %Ythy%Z in this state destind thee, 153.O16.188 That thov thy councell might get victory 153.O16.189 And soe in that capacity remoue 153.O16.190 All iealouses twixt prince and peoples loue 153.O16.191 Thou wuldst not title to thy triumph haue [f. 45] 153.O16.192 But didst intrude on death, vsurpst a graue, 153.O16.193 Then though victoriously th'hast fought, as yet 153.O16.194 But with thin affections, with the heat 153.O16.195 Of youth's desirs, and coulest of ignorance 153.O16.196 Triumph, yet not successiuely advance 153.O16.197 Thine arms 'gainst forraigne enemies, which are 153.O16.198 Enuie and acclamations popular. 153.O16.199 ffor both these ensignes equally defeate, 153.O16.200 Though by a diverse mind, those that bee great, 153.O16.201 Till then ther ware was but a ciuill warre 153.O16.202 ffor which to triumph none admitted are. 153.O16.203 Noe more then they, who though with good successe 153.O16.204 In a defensiue warre theire force expresse. 153.O16.205 Ere captains triumph, the dominion 153.O16.206 Must bee enlargd, and not preserved alone. 153.O16.207 Why shouldst thou then whose baittails were to winne 153.O16.208 Thy selfe, from these %Ystraits,%Z straits nature put the in, 153.O16.209 And to deliver vp to god thy state 153.O16.210 Of which he gaue the vicariate 153.O16.211 Which is thy soule and body, as intire 153.O16.212 As hee that taks intentars doth require 153.O16.213 And didst not stay to enlarge his kingdome too 153.O16.214 By making other doo what thou didst doe? 153.O16.215 Why shouldst thou triumph now, when heaven %Ybefore%Z noe more 153.O16.216 By gitting thee, gaines then it had before? 153.O16.217 ffor heaven and thou, even when thou liuedst here 153.O16.218 Of one another in possession were. 153.O16.219 But this of triumph most disables thee 153.O16.220 That that place which is conquered, must bee 153.O16.221 Leaft safe from present warres, and likly doubt 153.O16.222 Of imminent commotions to burst out. 153.O16.223 And hath he left %Yis%Z vs too? and can it bee 153.O16.224 This terrotory was no more but hee? 153.O16.225 Wee were all his charge, the diocesse. 153.O16.226 Of each exampler man the whole world is, 153.O16.227 And hee was ioynned in commision 153.O16.228 With tutelars angells sent to every one 153.O16.229 And though thee fredome to vpbraid and chide 153.O16.230 Him that triumph were lawfull, it was tide 153.O16.231 To him, so that it might noe reference haue 153.O16.232 unto the senate, that that honour gaue. 153.O16.233 Men might at pompei iest, but they might not 153.O16.234 At that authority by which hee got 153.O16.235 Leaue to triumph, before by age hee might 153.O16.236 Soe though triumphant soull I dare not write 153.O16.237 Vrgd by a reuerentiall anger thus, 153.O16.238 That thou soe early wouldst abandon vs. 153.O16.239 Yet %YI%Z am I farr from daringe to dispute 153.O16.240 With that great soueraignty, whose absolute 153.O16.241 prerogatiue hath thus dispenct with thee, 153.O16.242 'Gainst naturs lawe, which iust oppugnars bee 153.O16.243 Of earthly **** triumphs? and wee though with paine 153.O16.244 Lessen our lose to magnifie thy gaine/ 153.O16.245 Of triumph: when I say it is more fitt 153.O16.246 That all men shouldest thee, then thou lak it. 153.O16.247 Though then in our times be not suffered 153.O16.248 The testimonies of loue to the dead, 153.O16.249 To dye with them and in ther graues be hidd [f. 45v] 153.O16.250 As saxons %Ywif%Z wiues and french soldaries did 153.O16.251 And though in noe degree I can expresse 153.O16.252 Greife in great alexandrs great excesse 153.O16.253 Who at his friend's death made whole townes devest 153.O16.254 Ther walls and bulwarks that became them best 153.O16.255 doe not faire soule this secrifice>sacrifice refuse 153.O16.256 That in thy graue I doe enterre my muse 153.O16.257 Who by my great greife and thy worth being cast 153.O16.258 Behind hand yet hath spoke, and spoke his last 153.O16.0SS om 153.O16.$$ Line 182 is in margin, but scribal.