IDENTILIN$$ F153Y02|Har|Yale Osborn b 114 (King MS)|pp.318-36 [322 left out in the numbering; 329 misn 239; 331 misn 332]| mf T-LP 14-15Aug87 153.Y02.HE1 Obsequies on y%5e%6 Lord Harrington /brother to y%5e%6 Countesse /of /Bedford. /[single rule] [318] 153.Y02.001 Faire soule w%5ch%6 was not only as all soules bee 153.Y02.002 Then when thou wa'ste infused harmonie 153.Y02.003 But didst continue so, & now dost beare 153.Y02.004 A part in gods great Organ, this whole Spheere 153.Y02.005 If looking vp to god, or downe to vs 153.Y02.006 Thow find y%5t%6 any way is p%Pvious 153.Y02.007 Twixt heauen & %Yvs%Z earth: & y%5t%6 mens actions doe 153.Y02.008 come to your knowledge, & affections too [CW:see] 153.Y02.009 See, & wish, ioy me to y%5t%6 good degree [319] 153.Y02.010 of goodness growen, y%5t%6 I may studdy thee 153.Y02.011 And by thos meditations refynde 153.Y02.012 can vnapparell & inlarge y%5e%6 mind 153.Y02.013 And so can make by this soft extasie 153.Y02.014 This place a Map of heauen my selfe of %Ythe%Zthee 153.Y02.015 Thou seest me here at Midnight: Now all y%5e%6 rest 153.Y02.016 times dead low water when all things deceast 153.Y02.017 To morrowes busines, when all y%5e%6 laborers-haue 153.Y02.018 such rest in bed, that their last Churchyard graue 153.Y02.019 (subiect to change) will scarce be a tipe of this 153.Y02.020 Now when y%5e%6 Clyent (whose last hearing is 153.Y02.021 to morrow) sleepes, when y%5e%6 condemned man 153.Y02.022 and when he opes his eies must shutt them than. 153.Y02.023 againe by death, although sad watch he keepes [320] 153.Y02.024 doth practice dying w%5th%6 a little sleepe 153.Y02.025 Thou att this midnight seest me & assone 153.Y02.026 as y%5t%6 sun rises to me, midnights none 153.Y02.027 All y%5e%6 world growes transparent, and I see 153.Y02.028 through all both state & Church in seeing thee 153.Y02.029 and I discerne by fauour of this light 153.Y02.030 my selfe y%5e%6 hardest obiect of this sight 153.Y02.031 God is y%5e%6 glass, as thou when thou dost see 153.Y02.032 time who sees all, seeth all concerning thee 153.Y02.033 so yet vnglorified, I comprehend 153.Y02.034 all in whose mirrors of thy way & end 153.Y02.035 Though god be our true glass through w%5ch%6 we see 153.Y02.036 all since y%5e%6 being of all things is hee: [CW:yett] 153.Y02.037 yett are they trunks w%5ch%6 doe to vs deriue [321] 153.Y02.038 Things in proportion, sitt by p%Pspectiue 153.Y02.039 deedes of good men; for by their being here 153.Y02.040 virtues indeede remote seeme to be nere 153.Y02.041 But where can I affirme, or where arrest 153.Y02.042 my thoughts on his deedes, w%5ch%6 shall I call blest 153.Y02.043 for fluent virtue can#not be lookt on 153.Y02.044 nor can indure a Contemplation 153.Y02.045 as bodies change, and as I doe not weare 153.Y02.046 thos spiritts, humors, blood, I did %Yha%Z last yeare 153.Y02.047 And as if one a streame I fix mine eie 153.Y02.048 That dropt on w%5ch%6 I tooke itt presently 153.Y02.049 pusht w%5th%6 more waters from my sight & gone 153.Y02.050 so in this sea of virtue can none [CW:Be] 153.Y02.051 Be insisted on; virtue as riuers pass [323sic] 153.Y02.052 yett still remaines, y%5t%6 virtuous man there was 153.Y02.053 And as if man fed on mans flesh & so 153.Y02.054 part of his bodie to an#other owe 153.Y02.055 yet att y%5e%6 last two p%Pfect bodies rise 153.Y02.056 because god knowes where euery Atome lies 153.Y02.057 so if our knowledg were made of all thos 153.Y02.058 who knowe his minuts well he may dispose 153.Y02.059 his virtues into names and rankes: but I 153.Y02.060 should iniure nature virtue & destinie 153.Y02.061 should I devide & discontinue so 153.Y02.062 virtue w%5ch%6 did in one intiernes grow 153.Y02.063 for as he y%5t%6 would say spiritts are framde 153.Y02.064 of all y%5e%6 purest pts y%5t%6 can be namde. [CW:Honors] 153.Y02.065 Honors not spiritts halfe so much as he [324] 153.Y02.066 who sayes they haue no parts, but simple be 153.Y02.067 so itts of virtue; for a poynt, or one 153.Y02.068 are much intierer then a million 153.Y02.069 And had fate ment to haue his virtues tould 153.Y02.070 It would haue lett him liue to haue bin old 153.Y02.071 So then y%5t%6 virtue in season, & then this 153.Y02.072 we might haue seen, & sayd y%5t%6 now he is 153.Y02.073 wittie, now wise, now temperate, now iust 153.Y02.074 In good short lines virtues are faine to thrust 153.Y02.075 And to be sure betimes to gett a place 153.Y02.076 when they would exercise last rome & place 153.Y02.077 so was itt in this p%Pson forc'd to be 153.Y02.078 for lack of time his owne Epitome. [CW:So] 153.Y02.079 So to exhibit in few yeares as much [325] 153.Y02.080 as all y%5e%6 long breathd Croniclers can touch 153.Y02.081 As when an Angle downe from heauen doth fly 153.Y02.082 our quick thoughts can#not keepe him companie 153.Y02.083 we can#not thinke, now he is all the sun 153.Y02.084 Now through y%5e%6 Mone, now through y%5e%6 Aire doth run 153.Y02.085 yett when he'es come, we know he did repaire 153.Y02.086 To all twixt heauen & yearth sun Mone & Aire 153.Y02.087 And as this Angle in one instant knowes 153.Y02.088 (and yett we knowe thy sodaine knowledg growes 153.Y02.089 by quick amasing seuerall formes of things 153.Y02.090 w%5ch%6 he succesfully to order brings) 153.Y02.091 when they whose slow pact lame thoughts cannot goe 153.Y02.092 So fast as he, thinke y%5t%6 he doth not sowe: [CW:Iust] 153.Y02.093 Iust as a p%Pfect doth not dwell [326] 153.Y02.094 on euery sillable nor stay to spell 153.Y02.095 yett w%5th%6 out doubt he doth distincktly see 153.Y02.096 and lay together euery a & B 153.Y02.097 so in short liud good men is not vnderstood 153.Y02.098 each severall virtue, but y%5e%6 compound good 153.Y02.099 for they all virtues paths in y%5t%6 path treade 153.Y02.100 as Angells goe & know, and as men reade 153.Y02.101 oh: why then should thes men, thes lampes of balme 153.Y02.102 sent hither this worlds tempest to be#calme 153.Y02.103 before by deedes they are diffused & spread 153.Y02.104 And so make vs aliue, themselues be dead 153.Y02.105 O soule, Oh %Ys%Z#circle! why so quicklie be 153.Y02.106 Thy ends thy birth thy death closd vp in thee: [CW:since] 153.Y02.107 Since one foote of thy compass still was placd [327] 153.Y02.108 In heauen, y%5e%6 other might securely haue pacd 153.Y02.109 in y%5e%6 most large extent through euery path 153.Y02.110 w%5ch%6 y%5e%6 whole world or men y%5e%6 abridgm%5t%6 hath 153.Y02.111 Thou knowest y%5t%6 though the Tropique circles haue 153.Y02.112 yea and thos small ones w%5ch%6 y%5e%6 Poles ingraue 153.Y02.113 All y%5e%6 same roundnes euenness and all 153.Y02.114 The end#less of y%5e%6 AE%Lquinoctiall 153.Y02.115 yett, when we come to measure destinies 153.Y02.116 how here how there the sunne affected is 153.Y02.117 since he doth faintly worke & where prevaile 153.Y02.118 only great circles then can be our scale 153.Y02.119 So thou thy circle to thy selfe express 153.Y02.120 All tending to thy endless happines. [CW:And] 153.Y02.121 And we by our good vse of itt may try [328] 153.Y02.122 both how to liue well young & how to die 153.Y02.123 yett since we must be old, and age indures 153.Y02.124 This Torrid zone at Court y%5e%6 Canlentures 153.Y02.125 of hott Ambitions, Irrelegious Ice 153.Y02.126 Zeale Agues & Hydropique Auarice 153.Y02.127 Infirmities w%5ch%6 neede y%5e%6 Scale of truth 153.Y02.128 as well as lust and ignorance of youth 153.Y02.129 why didst not thou for %Ylust%Z#flesh giue medicine too 153.Y02.130 And by thy dying tell vs what to doe 153.Y02.131 Though as small pockett clocks whose euery wheele 153.Y02.132 doth teach miss#motions and distemp%P feele 153.Y02.133 whose hand getts shaking Palsies, & whose string 153.Y02.134 his synews shaken, and whose soule y%5e%6 spring [CW:Expiers] 153.Y02.135 Expiers or languishes, whose pulse y%5e%6 fly [239sic] 153.Y02.136 either beates not or beates vneuenly 153.Y02.137 whose voyce y%5e%6 bell doth rattle, or grow dumbe 153.Y02.138 or idle, as men who to their last hower run 153.Y02.139 if thes clocks be not wound, or be wound still 153.Y02.140 or be not sett, or sett at euery will 153.Y02.141 to youth y%5e%6 easiest to distruction 153.Y02.142 if then we follow all or follow none 153.Y02.143 yet as in great clocks w%5ch%6 in steeples chyme 153.Y02.144 plact to informe whole Townes t'imploy ther time 153.Y02.145 An error doth more harme being generall 153.Y02.146 when small Clocks faults only in y%5e%6 wearer fall 153.Y02.147 so worke y%5e%6 faults of age, on w%5ch%6 y%5e%6 eie 153.Y02.148 of children, servants, or y%5e%6 state relie: [CW:why] 153.Y02.149 why shouldst not thou then, w%5ch%6 hadst such a soule [330] 153.Y02.150 A clock so true as might y%5e%6 sun controule 153.Y02.151 and dalie hadst from him y%5t%6 gaue itt thee 153.Y02.152 Instruction such as yett could neuer bee 153.Y02.153 disordered: stay here is a generall 153.Y02.154 and great Sundialls to haue sett vs all 153.Y02.155 oh why shouldst thou be any instrum%5t%6 153.Y02.156 To this vnnaturall course, or why consent 153.Y02.157 to this not miracle, but prodigie 153.Y02.158 That where y%5e%6 ebb longer then flowings be 153.Y02.159 virtue whose flud did w%5th%6 thy youth begin 153.Y02.160 should so much faster ebb out, then flowe in 153.Y02.161 Th%Yr%Zough her blood were blowen in by thy first /breath 153.Y02.162 All is at once suncke in y%5t%6 whirlepoole death 153.Y02.163 w%5ch%6 word I would not name, but y%5t%6 I see 153.Y02.164 Death, ells a desart growen a Court by thee: [CW:Now] 153.Y02.165 Now I am sure y%5t%6 if a man would haue [332sic] 153.Y02.166 good companie his entrye is a graue 153.Y02.167 me thinks all Citties now but Ant#hills be 153.Y02.168 where when their seuerall labours I doe se 153.Y02.169 for children, house, provision taking paine 153.Y02.170 they are all but Ants, carrying eggs straw & graine 153.Y02.171 And Church#yards are our citties vnto w%5ch%6 153.Y02.172 they most repaire who are in goodnes rich 153.Y02.173 There is y%5e%6 last concourse & confluence 153.Y02.174 there are y%5e%6 holie subburbs & from thence 153.Y02.175 begins god Cittie, new Heirusalem 153.Y02.176 who doth allwayes extend her gates to them 153.Y02.177 At y%5t%6 gate y%5e%6 Tryvmphant soule dost thou 153.Y02.178 begin thy tryumphe: but since lawes allowe [CW:That] 153.Y02.179 That at y%5e%6 Tryumphe day y%5e%6 people may [332] 153.Y02.180 all y%5t%6 they will gainst y%5e%6 Tryumpher say 153.Y02.181 Lett me here vse y%5t%6 freedome & express 153.Y02.182 my greife though not to make thy tryumphe less 153.Y02.183 By law to tryumphe none admitted be 153.Y02.184 till they by magistrats gett victorie 153.Y02.185 Though then by thy force all youths foes did yeeld 153.Y02.186 yett till fitt time had brought y%5ee%6 to y%5e%6 feild 153.Y02.187 To w%5ch%6 thy ranke in this state destined thee 153.Y02.188 y%5t%6 there thy councells might victorie 153.Y02.189 and so in y%5t%6 capacitie remoue 153.Y02.190 All ielosies twixt princes & subiects loue 153.Y02.191 Thou couldst not title to this Tryumphe haue 153.Y02.192 thou didst intrude on death vsurpt a graue [CW:Then] 153.Y02.193 Then though victoriously thou hast fought, as yett [333] 153.Y02.194 but w%5th%6 thine owne affections, w%5th%6 y%5e%6 heate 153.Y02.195 of youths desiers, & couldst of ignorance 153.Y02.196 but this tryumphe shouldst successiuely advance 153.Y02.197 Thine armes gainst forraigne enimies, w%5ch%6 are 153.Y02.198 both envious and acclamations popular 153.Y02.199 for both thes engins equallie defeate 153.Y02.200 though by a diverse mine, thos y%5t%6 are great 153.Y02.201 Till then they warr was but a civell warr 153.Y02.202 for w%5ch%6 to tryumphe none admitted are 153.Y02.203 No more then they, who though w%5th%6 good success 153.Y02.204 in a defensiue warr their power express. 153.Y02.205 Before men tryumphe y%5e%6 dominion 153.Y02.206 must be inlargd, And not preserud alone. [CW:Why] 153.Y02.207 why shouldst thou then whose battailes were to win [334] 153.Y02.208 %Ymust#be#inlargd%Z Thy selfe from thes strayts nature putt y%5ee%6 in 153.Y02.209 And to deliuer vp to god y%5t%6 state 153.Y02.210 of w%5ch%6 he gaue thee y%5e%6 vivariate 153.Y02.211 w%5ch%6 is thy soule & bodie as intier 153.Y02.212 As he (who takes indeauours) doth requier 153.Y02.213 and didst not stay to#inlarge his kingdome too 153.Y02.214 by making others what thou didst to doe 153.Y02.215 why shouldst thou tryvmphe now when heauen no more 153.Y02.216 hath gott by getting thee, then itt had before 153.Y02.217 for heauen & thou, euen when thou liuest here 153.Y02.218 of one and other in possession were 153.Y02.219 but this from Tryumphe not disables thee 153.Y02.220 That that place w%5ch%6 is conquerd, must not be [CW:lest] 153.Y02.221 Lest safe from present warr & likely doubt [335] 153.Y02.222 of imi%Mnent como%Mtions to breake out 153.Y02.223 And had he left vs too; or can itt be 153.Y02.224 This tirritory was no more but thee 153.Y02.225 No we were all his charge: The Diocesse 153.Y02.226 of euery exemplary man y%5e%6 whole world is 153.Y02.227 And he was ioyned in Comission 153.Y02.228 w%5th%6 Tutular Angles sent to euery one 153.Y02.229 But though thy freedome to vpbrayd & chide 153.Y02.230 him who tryumphd were lawfull, itt was tied 153.Y02.231 w%5th%6 him y%5t%6 itt might neuer Reference haue 153.Y02.232 vnto y%5e%6 Senate, who y%5e%6 Tryvmphe gaue 153.Y02.233 Men might at Pompey ieast, but they might not 153.Y02.234 At that authoritie by w%5ch%6 he gott [CW:Leaue] 153.Y02.235 Leaue to tryvmphe by w%5ch%6 he might [336] 153.Y02.236 so though tryvmphant soule, I dare to writte 153.Y02.237 moud w%5th%6 a reuerentiall anger thus 153.Y02.238 that thou so earlie would abandon vs 153.Y02.239 yett I am farr from daring to dispute 153.Y02.240 w%5th%6 y%5t%6 great soueraintie, whose absolute 153.Y02.241 p%Ye%Zrerogatiue, hath thus dispenst w%5th%6 thee 153.Y02.242 gainst natures lawes, w%5ch%6 iust oppugners be 153.Y02.243 of earthly tryumphes: And we though w%5th%6 paine 153.Y02.244 Lessen our loss to magnifie thy gaine 153.Y02.245 of tryvmphs, when I say itt was more fitt 153.Y02.246 that all men should lack thee then thou lack itt 153.Y02.247 Though then in our times be not suffered 153.Y02.248 that testimonie of loue, vnto y%5e%6 dead [CW:To] 153.Y02.249 om. 153.Y02.250 om. 153.Y02.251 om. 153.Y02.252 om. 153.Y02.253 om. 153.Y02.254 om. 153.Y02.255 om. 153.Y02.256 om. 153.Y02.257 om. 153.Y02.258 om. 153.Y02.SS om. 153.Y02.0$$ Ll.160-61 originally omitted & then written down the left margin with caret to mark their place; leaf containing ll. 249-58 missing.