IDENTLINE$$  F153VA2|Har|Nedham 18.25.F.17|Ff. 49v-52v|EWS Original 5-29-86  
153.VA2.0HE  Obsequies of the L. Harrington.
153.VA2.001  Faire soule!  which wast not only as all soules be [f. 49v]
153.VA2.002  Then when thou was infused %1Harmonie%2
153.VA2.003  But didst continewe so and now dost beare
153.VA2.004  A part in gods greate Organ this whole Spheare.
153.VA2.005  If lookinge vp to God or downe to vs
153.VA2.006  Thou finde that any way is peruiouse
153.VA2.007  'Twixt heauen and earth, and that mens actions do
153.VA2.008  Come to your knowledge and affections too.
153.VA2.009  See (and with ioy) me to that good degree
153.VA2.010  Of goodnesse growne that I can studdy thee:
153.VA2.011  And by those meditations refind
153.VA2.012  Can vnapparell and enlarge my minde,
153.VA2.013  And so can make by this soft extasy
153.VA2.014  This place a Map of heauen, my selfe of thee.
153.VA2.015  Thou seest me here at midnight (now all rest)
153.VA2.016  Tymes dead low water when all mindes deuest
153.VA2.017  To morrowes businesse, when all labourers haue
153.VA2.018  Such rest in bed, that there last Churchyard graue
153.VA2.019  (Subiect to change) will scarce be a type of this
153.VA2.020  Now when the Client whose Law heareinge is
153.VA2.021  To morrow, sleeps:  When the condemned man
153.VA2.022  Who when he opes his eyes must shutt y%5m%6 than
153.VA2.023  Againe by death, although sad watch he keepe
153.VA2.024  Doth practice dyinge by a little sleepe)
153.VA2.025  Thou at this midnight seest me, and as soone
153.VA2.026  As that sunne riseth to me midnights noone
153.VA2.027  All the world growes transparant and I see
153.VA2.028  Through all both Church and state in missinge thee.
153.VA2.029  And I discerne by fauour of that light
153.VA2.030  My selfe the hardest obiect of this sight.
153.VA2.031  God is the glasse as thou when thou dost see
153.VA2.032  Him who sees all, sees all concerninge thee.
153.VA2.033  So yet vnglorified I do comprehend
153.VA2.034  All in those mirrors of thy life and end.
153.VA2.035  Though god be trewly our glasse through w%5ch%6 we see
153.VA2.036  All (since the beinge of all thinges is he)
153.VA2.037  Yett are the trunkes which do to vs deriue
153.VA2.038  Thinges in proportion fitt by Perspectiue)
153.VA2.039  Deeds of good men for by there beinge here
153.VA2.040  Vertues indeed remote seeme to be neare
153.VA2.041  But when can I affirme, or when arrest
153.VA2.042  My thoughts on his deeds?  which shall I call best? [f. 50]
153.VA2.043  For fluent vertue cannot be lookd on
153.VA2.044  Nor can endure a contemplation.
153.VA2.045  As bodies change and as I do not weare
153.VA2.046  Those speritts, humours, blood, I did last yeare,
153.VA2.047  And as if on a streame I fixe mine eye
153.VA2.048  That drop on which I looked is presently
153.VA2.049  Dasht with more water from my sight and gone
153.VA2.050  So in this sea of vertue there can none
153.VA2.051  Be insisted on.  Vertues as Rivers passe
153.VA2.052  Yet still remaines that vertuouse man there was.
153.VA2.053  And as if man feed on mans flesh and so
153.VA2.054  Part of his body to an other owe,
153.VA2.055  Yet at the last two perfect bodies rise
153.VA2.056  Because God knowes where euery Attome lies.
153.VA2.057  So if one knowledge were made of all those
153.VA2.058  Who knew his minutes well he might dispose
153.VA2.059  His vertues into names and rankes:  But I
153.VA2.060  Should iniure nature, vertue and destenie
153.VA2.061  Should I deuide and discontinew so
153.VA2.062  Vertue which did in one entirenesse growe.
153.VA2.063  For as he that would say speritts are framd
153.VA2.064  Of all the purest parts that can be namd'
153.VA2.065  Honnors not speritts halfe so much as he
153.VA2.066  Who sayes they haue no parts but simples be,
153.VA2.067  So is't of vertue for a point and one
153.VA2.068  Are much entirer then a million
153.VA2.069  And had fate meant to haue his vertues told
153.VA2.070  It would haue lett him liue to haue beene old.
153.VA2.071  So then that vertue in season, and then this
153.VA2.072  We might haue seene and sayd that now he is
153.VA2.073  Witty, now wise, now temperate now iust.
153.VA2.074  In good short liues vertues are faine to thrust
153.VA2.075  And to be sure betimes to get a place
153.VA2.076  When they would exercise each roame and space.
153.VA2.077  So was it in this person forcd' to be
153.VA2.078  For lacke of time his owne Epitome
153.VA2.079  So to exhibite in few yeares as much
153.VA2.080  As all the longe-breathd Chroniclers can touch.
153.VA2.081  As when an Angell downe from heauen doth flye
153.VA2.082  Our quicke thoughts cannot keepe him companie  [f. 50v]
153.VA2.083  We cannot thinke now he is at the Sunne
153.VA2.084  Now through the Moone, now through the Ayre doth runne.
153.VA2.085  Yet when he's come we knowe he did repayre
153.VA2.086  To all 'twixt Heauen and Earth, Sunn, Moone, & Ayre.
153.VA2.087  And as this Angell in an instant knowes
153.VA2.088  And yet we knowe this suddaine knowledge growes
153.VA2.089  By quicke amassinge seuerall formes of thinges
153.VA2.090  Which he successiuely to order bringes;
153.VA2.091  When they whose slowe-pacd` lame thoughts cannot goe
153.VA2.092  So fast as he thinke that he doth not %Ygoe%Z soe.
153.VA2.093  Iust as a perfect reader doth not dwell
153.VA2.094  On euery sillable, nor stay to spell
153.VA2.095  Yet with out he doth distinctly see
153.VA2.096  And lay togeather euery A. B. C.
153.VA2.097  So in short liud' good men is not vnderstood
153.VA2.098  Each seuerall vertue, but the compound good
153.VA2.099  For they all vertues paths in that pace tread
153.VA2.100  As Angells goe, and knowe, and as men reade
153.VA2.101  O why should then these men these lampes of Balme
153.VA2.102  (sent hither this worlds tempests to be calme)
153.VA2.103  Before by deeds they are diffusd' and spread
153.VA2.104  And so make vs aliue, themselues be dead?
153.VA2.105  Oh soule!  oh circle why so quickly be
153.VA2.106  Thy birth, thy endes thy death closd' vp in thee?
153.VA2.107  Since one foot of thy compasse still was placd
153.VA2.108  In Heauen, the other might surely haue pacd'
153.VA2.109  In the most large extent through euery path
153.VA2.110  Which in the whole world or Man th`abridgment hath.
153.VA2.111  Thou knowest that though the Tropick circles haue
153.VA2.112  (Yea and those small ones which the Poles engraue)
153.VA2.113  All the same roundnesse, euennesse, and all
153.VA2.114  Th'end lesnesse of th'AE%Lquinoctiall,
153.VA2.115  Yet when we come to measure distances
153.VA2.116  How here, how there, the Sun affected is,
153.VA2.117  Where he doth faintly worke, and where preuaile,
153.VA2.118  Only greate circles then can be our scale.
153.VA2.119  So though thy circle to thy selfe expresse
153.VA2.120  All tendinge to thy endlesse happinesse
153.VA2.121  And we by our good vse of it may try  [f. 51]
153.VA2.122  Both how to liue well yonge, and how to dye:
153.VA2.123  Yet since we must be old and age endures
153.VA2.124  His torrid Zone at Court, and Calentures
153.VA2.125  Of hott Ambition, irreligiouse Ice,
153.VA2.126  Zeales Agues, and Hydropique Auarice,
153.VA2.127  Infirmities which need the seed of truth
153.VA2.128  As well as Lust and Ignorance of youth
153.VA2.129  Why didst not thou for those giue medcines too
153.VA2.130  And by thy doinge tell vs what to doe?
153.VA2.131  Though as small-pockett-clockes whose euery wheele
153.VA2.132  Doth each mis-motion and distemper feele
153.VA2.133  Whose hand gets shakinge palsyes and whose stringe
153.VA2.134  His sinnewes slacknesse, and whose soule the springe
153.VA2.135  Expires our languishes, and whose pulse the Fly
153.VA2.136  Either beats not, or beates vneuenly:
153.VA2.137  Whose voice the bell doth rattle and growe dumbe
153.VA2.138  Or idle as men who to there last howers come
153.VA2.139  If these Clockes be not wound, or be wound still
153.VA2.140  Or be not sett, or sett at euery will,
153.VA2.141  So youth be easiest to distruction;
153.VA2.142  If then we follow all or follow none
153.VA2.143  Yet as in greate Clockes which in Steeples chyme
153.VA2.144  Placd' to employ whole Townes t`employ there time,
153.VA2.145  An error doth more harme beinge generall
153.VA2.146  When small Clockes faults only on the wearers fall
153.VA2.147  So worke the faults of Age on which the eye
153.VA2.148  Of children seruants or the state relye.
153.VA2.149  Why wouldst not thou then (who hadst such a Soule)
153.VA2.150  A clocke so trew as might the Sun controule;
153.VA2.151  And dayly hadst from him which gaue it thee
153.VA2.152  Instructions (such as neuer yet could be %Yde%Z
153.VA2.153  Disordered) stay here as generall
153.VA2.154  And great Sun-diall to haue sett vs all?
153.VA2.155  Oh why shouldst thou be any instrument
153.VA2.156  To this vnnaturall course?  or why consent
153.VA2.157  To this not miracle, not prodegie?
153.VA2.158  That when the ebbs longer then flowinge be
153.VA2.159  Vertue whose flood doth with thy youth begin
153.VA2.160  Should so much faster ebbe out then flow in
153.VA2.161  Though hir flood were blowne in by thy first birth
153.VA2.162  All is at once sunke in the whirle-poole Death.  [f. 51v]
153.VA2.163  Which word I would not name but that I see
153.VA2.164  Death els a Desart, growne a Court by thee:
153.VA2.165  Now I am sure that if a man would haue
153.VA2.166  Good company, his entrie is the graue.
153.VA2.167  Me thinkes all Cittyes now but Ant-hills be
153.VA2.168  Where when the seuerall labours I do see
153.VA2.169  For Children, howse, prouision takinke paine
153.VA2.170  Th'are all but Ants carryinge eggs, straw & graine.
153.VA2.171  And Churchyards are our Cytties vnto which
153.VA2.172  The most repayre who are in goodnesse rich.
153.VA2.173  There is the best concourse and confluence:
153.VA2.174  There are the holy Suburbs and from thence
153.VA2.175  Begins Gods Cyttye new Ierusalem
153.VA2.176  And doth extend hir gates euen vnto them.
153.VA2.177  At that gate then triumphant soule dost thou
153.VA2.178  Begin thy triumph:  but since lawes allowe
153.VA2.179  That at the triumph day the people may
153.VA2.180  All that they will 'gainst the triumpher say,
153.VA2.181  Let me here vse that freedome to expresse
153.VA2.182  My greife, though not to make thy triumph lesse.
153.VA2.183  By Lawe to triumph none admitted be
153.VA2.184  Till they as magistrates gett victorye,
153.VA2.185  om
153.VA2.186  om
153.VA2.187  om
153.VA2.188  om
153.VA2.189  And so in that capacitye remoue
153.VA2.190  All ielousyes 'twixt Prince and Subiects loue.
153.VA2.191  Thou couldst no title to this Tryumph haue,
153.VA2.192  Thou didst intrude on death vsurpe a Graue.
153.VA2.193  Then (though victoriouse) thou hast fought as yett
153.VA2.194  But with thine affections, with the heate
153.VA2.195  Of youths desires, and cold of ignorance
153.VA2.196  But till thou shouldst successiuely aduance
153.VA2.197  Thine armes 'gainst forraine enimies, which are
153.VA2.198  Enuye and Acclamations popular
153.VA2.199  For both these Engines equallye defeat
153.VA2.200  Though by a diuerse myne those that are great.
153.VA2.201  Till then thy warre was but a ciuill warre
153.VA2.202  For which to triumph none admitted are
153.VA2.203  No more are theye who though with good successe
153.VA2.204  In a defensiue warre there powers expresse.
153.VA2.205  Before men Tryumph there dominion
153.VA2.206  Must be enlarged and not preserud alone
153.VA2.207  Why shouldst thou then whose battayles were to win  [f. 52]
153.VA2.208  Thy selfe from these straights Nature put thee in
153.VA2.209  And to deliuer vse to god that state
153.VA2.210  Of which he gaue thee the Vicariate
153.VA2.211  Which is thy soule and bodye as entire
153.VA2.212  As he who takes endeuours did require.
153.VA2.213  But didst not stay t'enlarge his kingdomes too
153.VA2.214  By makinge others what thou didst to doe.
153.VA2.215  Why shouldst thou triumph now when Heauen no more
153.VA2.216  Hath gott by gettinge thee then 't had before.
153.VA2.217  For heauen and thou euen when thou liuedst here
153.VA2.218  Of one an other in possession were
153.VA2.219  But this from Tryumphe most disables thee
153.VA2.220  That y%5t%6 place which is conquered must be
153.VA2.221  Left safe from present warre and likely doubt
153.VA2.222  Of immanent commotions to breake out.
153.VA2.223  And hath he left vs too?  or can it be
153.VA2.224  This territorye was no more but he?
153.VA2.225  No we are all his charge, the Diocesse
153.VA2.226  Of euery exemplar Man the World is;
153.VA2.227  And he was ioyned in Commission
153.VA2.228  With tutelar Angels sent to euery one
153.VA2.229  But though thy freedome to vpbrayde and chyde
153.VA2.230  Hym that Tryumpht was lawfull, it was tyd'e
153.VA2.231  With this that it might neuer reference haue
153.VA2.232  Vnto the Senate who the Tryumph gaue.
153.VA2.233  Men might at Pompey iest but they might not
153.VA2.234  At that authorytye by which he got
153.VA2.235  Leaue to Triumph, before by age he might:
153.VA2.236  So though (Tryumphant Soule!) I dare to write
153.VA2.237  (Moud' by a reuerentiall anger) thus
153.VA2.238  That thou so early wouldst abandon vs;
153.VA2.239  Yet am I far from daringe to dispute
153.VA2.240  With that greate Soueraigntye whose absolute
153.VA2.241  Prae%Lrogatiue hath thus dispensd' with thee
153.VA2.242  'Gainst natures lawes which iust impugners be,
153.VA2.243  Of earthly Tryumphs, and I (though with payne).
153.VA2.244  Lessen our losse to magnifie thy gaine
153.VA2.245  Of Tryumph, when I say it was more fit
153.VA2.246  That all men should lacke thee, then thou lacke it.
153.VA2.247  Though then in our times be not suffered
153.VA2.248  That testemony of loue vnto the dead
153.VA2.249  To dye with them and in there graues be hid  [f. 52v]
153.VA2.250  As Saxons wiues, and past French ladyes did.
153.VA2.251  And though in no degree I can expresse
153.VA2.252  Greife in great Alexanders great excesse
153.VA2.253  Who 'at his freinds death made whole Towers deuest
153.VA2.254  There Walls and steeples that became them best.
153.VA2.255  Doe not (fayre Soule) this sacrifice refuse
153.VA2.256  That in thy graue I do interre my muse,
153.VA2.257  Who by my greife (great as thy worth) being cast
153.VA2.258  Behind hand, yet hath spoke, and spoke it's last.
153.VA2.0SS  Ioh:  Donn.
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