IDENTILIN$$  F15400G|Ham|1669|pp.327[29]-28[30]/P:MEL/(TxAM)/1-18-07
154.00G.HE1  %1An hymn to the Saints, and to Marquess /Hamylton.%2 [Y4]  
154.00G.001  WHether that soul which now comes up to you
154.00G.002  Fill any former rank, or make a new,
154.00G.003  Whether it take a name nam'd there before,
154.00G.004  Or be a name it self, and order more
154.00G.005  Than was in heaven till now; (for may not he
154.00G.006  Be so, if every several Angel be
154.00G.007  A kinde alone) What ever order grow
154.00G.008  Greater by him in heaven, we do not so;
154.00G.009  One of your orders grows by his access;
154.00G.010  But, by his loss grow all our orders less;
154.00G.011  The name of Father, Master, Friend, the name
154.00G.012  Of Subject and of Prince, in one is lame;
154.00G.013  Fair mirth is dampt, and conversation black,
154.00G.014  The Houshold widow'd, and the Garter slack;
154.00G.015  The Chappel wants an ear, Councel a tongue;
154.00G.016  Story a theame, and Musick lacks a song.
154.00G.017  Blest order that hath him, the loss of him
154.00G.018  Gangreen'd all Orders here; all lost a limb:
154.00G.019  Never made body such haste to confess
154.00G.020  What a soul was; all former comeliness
154.00G.021  Fled, in a minute, when the soul was gone,
154.00G.022  And having lost that beauty, would have none:
154.00G.023  So fell our Monasteries, in an instant grown
154.00G.024  Not to less houses, but to heaps of stone;
154.00G.025  So sent his body that fair form it wore
154.00G.026  Unto the sphear of forms, and doth (before
154.00G.027  His soul shall fill up his sepulchral stone,)
154.00G.028  Anticipate a Resurrection; [CW:For]
154.00G.029  For, as it is his fame, now his soul is here, [Y4v]
154.00G.030  So, in the form thereof his bodie's there,
154.00G.031  And if, fair soul, not with first %1Innocents%2
154.00G.032  Thy station be, but with the %1Penitents%2
154.00G.033  (And who shall dare to ask then when I am
154.00G.034  Dy'd scarlet in the blood of that pure Lamb,
154.00G.035  Whether that colour, which is scarlet then,
154.00G.036  Were black or white before in eies of men?)
154.00G.037  When thou remembrest what sins thou didst find
154.00G.038  Amongst those many friends now left behind,
154.00G.039  And seest such sinners as they are, with thee
154.00G.040  Got thither by repentance, let it be
154.00G.041  Thy wish to wish all there, to wish them clean;
154.00G.042  Wish %1him%2 a %1David%2, %1her%2 a %1Magdalen%2.
154.00G.SS   om
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