IDENTILIN$$ F155LCD|FirAn|1625|sigs. A7-D4v, pp. 1-44 (C[missing A8,C6-D2],CSmH,CtY,MH,O); LCD means siglum d 155.LCD.0$$ text in roman; all lines overhang. 155.LCD.HE1 %1A#N%2 /A#N#A#T#O#M#I#E /%1of the World%2. 155.LCD.HE2 The first Anniuersarie. 155.LCD.001 W%+He%M that rich soule which /to her heauen is gone, 155.LCD.001M [om] 155.LCD.002 Whom all do celebrate /who know they haue one 155.LCD.003 (For who is sure he hath a soule, /vnlesse [CW:It] 155.LCD.004 It see and Iudge, and follow /worthinesse, [A7v] 155.LCD.005 And by Deedes praise it; Hee /who doth not this, 155.LCD.006 May lodge an Inmate soule, but /tis not his.) 155.LCD.007 When that Queene ended here /her progresse time. 155.LCD.008 And, as t'her standing house, to /heauen did clymbe, 155.LCD.009 Where loath to make the Saints /attend her long, 155.LCD.010 Shee's now a part both of the /Quire, and Song. 155.LCD.011 This, world, in that great earth-/quake languished; 155.LCD.012 For in a common Bath of teares /it bled, 155.LCD.013 Which drew the strongest vitall /spirits out: 155.LCD.014 But succour'd then with a per-/plexed doubt, [CW:Whether] 155.LCD.015 Whether the world did loose /or gaine in this, [A8] 155.LCD.016 (Because since now no other /way there is, 155.LCD.017 But goodnesse, to see her, whom /all would see, 155.LCD.018 All must endeuour to bee good /as shee.) 155.LCD.019 This great consumption to a fe-/uer turnd, 155.LCD.020 And so the world had fits; it /ioy'd it mournd, 155.LCD.021 And, as men thinke, that Agues /Physicke are, 155.LCD.022 And th'Ague being spent, giue /ouer care, 155.LCD.023 So thou sicke world, mistak'st thy /selfe to bee 155.LCD.024 Well, when alas, thou'rt in a Le-/[NoInd]targee. 155.LCD.025 Her death did wound, and tame /thee than, and than [CW:Thou] 155.LCD.026 Thou mightst haue better spar'd /the Sunne, or Man. [A8v] 155.LCD.027 That wound was deepe, but tis /more misery, 155.LCD.028 That thou hast lost thy sense and /memory. 155.LCD.029 Twas heauy then to heare thy /voice of mone, 155.LCD.030 But this is worse, that thou art /speechlesse growne. 155.LCD.031 Thou hast forgot thy name, thou /hadst; thou wast 155.LCD.032 Nothing but she, and her thou /hast o'repast. 155.LCD.033 For as a child kept from the /Fount, vntill 155.LCD.034 A prince, expected long, come /to fulfill 155.LCD.035 The Ceremonies, thou vnnam'd /hadst laid, 155.LCD.036 Had not her comming, thee her /Palace made: [CW:Her] 155.LCD.037 Her name defin'd thee, gaue thee /forme and frame, [B1] 155.LCD.038 And thou forgetst to celebrate /thy name. 155.LCD.039 Some moneths shee hath bene /dead (but being dead, 155.LCD.040 Measures of times are all deter-/mined) 155.LCD.041 But long shee'ath beene away, /long, long, yet none 155.LCD.042 Offers to tell vs who it is that's /gone. 155.LCD.043 But as in states doubtfull of /future heyres, 155.LCD.044 When sicknesse without reme-/dy, empayres 155.LCD.045 The present Prince, they're loth /it should be said, 155.LCD.046 The Prince doth languish, or /the Prince is dead: 155.LCD.047 So mankind feeling now a ge-/nerall thaw, [CW:A] 155.LCD.048 A strong example gone equall /to law. [B1v] 155.LCD.049 The Cyment which did faith-/fully compact 155.LCD.050 And glue all vertues, now re,/solu'd, and slack'd, 155.LCD.051 Thought it some blasphemy to /say sh'was dead; 155.LCD.052 Or that our weaknesse was dis-/couered 155.LCD.053 In that confession; therefore /spoke no more 155.LCD.054 Then tongues, the soule being /gone, the losse deplore. 155.LCD.055 But though it be too late to suc-/cour thee, 155.LCD.056 Sicke world, yea, dead, yea pu-/trified, since shee 155.LCD.057 Thy'ntrinsique Balme, and thy /preseruatiue, 155.LCD.058 Can neuer be renew'd, thou ne-/uer liue, [CW:I] 155.LCD.059 I (since no man can make thee /liue) will trie, [B2] 155.LCD.060 What we may gaine by thy /Anatomy. 155.LCD.061 Her death hath taught vs deare-/ly, that thou art 155.LCD.062 Corrupt and mortall in thy pu-/rest part. 155.LCD.063 Let no man say, the world it selfe /being dead, 155.LCD.064 Tis labour lost to haue disco-/uered. 155.LCD.065 The worlds infirmities, since /there is none 155.LCD.066 Aliue to studie this dissecti-/one; 155.LCD.067 For there's a kind of world re-/maining still, 155.LCD.067M [om] 155.LCD.068 Though shee which did inani-/mate and fill 155.LCD.069 The world, be gone, yet in this /last long night, [CW:Her] 155.LCD.070 Her Ghost doth walke; that is, a /glimmering light, [B2v] 155.LCD.071 A faint weake loue of vertue and /of good 155.LCD.072 Reflects from her, on them /which vnderstood 155.LCD.073 Her worth; And though she /haue shut in all day, 155.LCD.074 The twilight of her memory /doth stay; 155.LCD.075 Which, from the carkasse of the /old world, free 155.LCD.076 Creates a new world; and new /creatures bee 155.LCD.077 Produc'd: The matter and the /stuffe of this, 155.LCD.078 Her vertue, and the forme our /practise is: 155.LCD.079 And thought to be thus Ele-/mented, arme 155.LCD.080 These creatures, from hom-/borne intrinsique harme, [CW:(For] 155.LCD.081 (For all assum'd vnto this Dig-/nitee, [B3] 155.LCD.082 So many weedlesse Paradises /bee, 155.LCD.083 Which of themselues produce /no venemous sinne, 155.LCD.084 Except some forraine Serpent /bring it in) 155.LCD.085 Yet, because outward stormes /the strongest breake, 155.LCD.086 And strength it selfe by confi-/dence growes weake, 155.LCD.087 This new world may be safer, /being told. 155.LCD.088 The dangers and diseases of the /old: 155.LCD.088M %1The sicknes /of the Word%2 155.LCD.089 For with due temper men doe /then forgoe, 155.LCD.090 Or couet things, when they /their true worth know. 155.LCD.091 There is no health; Phisitians /say that we 155.LCD.091M %1Impossibili-/ty of ealth%^(CSmH,CtY,O)health%^(C,MH)%2 [CW:At] 155.LCD.092 At best, enioy, but a neutra-/litee. [B3v] 155.LCD.093 And can there bee worse sicknes, /then to know 155.LCD.094 That we are neuer well, nor can /be so? 155.LCD.095 Wee are borne ruinous: poore /mothers cry. 155.LCD.096 That children come not right, /nor orderly; 155.LCD.097 Except they headlong come and /fall vpon 155.LCD.098 An ominous precipita-/tion. 155.LCD.099 How witty's ruine? how impor-/tunate 155.LCD.100 Vpon mankinde? It labour'd to /frustrate 155.LCD.101 Euen Gods purpose; and made /woman, sent 155.LCD.102 For mans reliefe, cause of his lan-/guishment. [CW:They] 155.LCD.103 They were to good ends, and /they are so still, [B4] 155.LCD.104 But accessorie, and principall /in ill. 155.LCD.105 For that first marriage was our /funerall: 155.LCD.106 One woman at one blow, then /kild vs all, 155.LCD.107 And singly, one by one, they kill /vs now. 155.LCD.108 Wee doe delightfully our selues /allow 155.LCD.109 To that consumption; and pro-/fusely blinde, 155.LCD.110 We kill our selues, to propogate /our kinde. 155.LCD.111 And yet we doe not that; we are /not men: 155.LCD.112 There is not now that mankind, /which was then 155.LCD.113 When as the Sun, and man, did /seeme to striue, [CW:(Ioynt] 155.LCD.114 (Ioynt tenants of the world) who /should suruie. [B4v] 155.LCD.114M %1Shortnesse /of life%2. 155.LCD.115 When Stag, and Rauen, and the /long liu'd tree. 155.LCD.116 Compar'd with man, dy'de in /minoritee. 155.LCD.117 When, if a slow-pac'd starre /had stolne away 155.LCD.118 From the obseruers marking, /he might stay 155.LCD.119 Two or three hundred yeeres /to see't againe, 155.LCD.120 And then make vp his obseruati-/on plaine; 155.LCD.121 When, as the age was long, the /sise was great: 155.LCD.122 Mans grouth confess'd, and /recompenced the meat: 155.LCD.123 So spacious and large, that euery /soule 155.LCD.124 Did a faire Kingdome, and large /Realme controule: [CW:And] 155.LCD.125 And when the very stature thus /erect, [B5] 155.LCD.126 Did that soule a good way to-/wards Heauen direct. 155.LCD.127 Where is this mankind now? /who liues to age, 155.LCD.128 Fit to be made %1Methusalem%2 his /page? 155.LCD.129 Alas, we scarse liue long enough /to trie; 155.LCD.130 Whether a true made clocke run /right, or lie. 155.LCD.131 Old Gransires talke of yester-/day with sorrow. 155.LCD.132 And for our children we reserue /to morrow. 155.LCD.133 So short is life, that euery pea-/sant striues, 155.LCD.134 In a torne house, or field, to haue /three liues, 155.LCD.135 And as in lasting, so in length is /man. [CW:Con-] 155.LCD.136 Contracted to an inch, who was /a span, [B5v] 155.LCD.136M %1Smalnesse /of stature%2. 155.LCD.137 For had a man at first, in Forrests /stray'd, 155.LCD.138 Or shipwrack'd in the Sea, one /would haue laid 155.LCD.139 A wager that an Elephant, or /Whale 155.LCD.140 That met him, would not hasti-/ly assaile 155.LCD.141 A thing so equall to him: /now alasse. 155.LCD.142 The Fayries, and the Pigmies /well may passe 155.LCD.143 As credible; mankinde decayes /so soone, 155.LCD.144 We're scarse our Fathers sha-/dowes cast at noone. 155.LCD.145 Onely death ads t'our length: /nor are we growne 155.LCD.146 In stature to be men, till wee are /none. [CW:But] 155.LCD.147 But this were light, did our lesse /volume hold [B6] 155.LCD.148 All the old Text; or had we /chang'd to gold 155.LCD.149 Their siluer or dispos'd into /lesse glas, 155.LCD.150 Spirits of vertue, which then /scattred was. 155.LCD.151 But tis not so: w'are not re-/tir'd, but dampt? 155.LCD.152 And as our bodies, so our minds /are crampt: 155.LCD.153 Tis shrinking, not close weaning /that hath thus, 155.LCD.154 In minde and bodie both be-/dwarfed vs. 155.LCD.155 Wee seeme ambitious, Gods /whole worke t'vndoe; 155.LCD.156 Of nothing he made vs, and wee /striue too, 155.LCD.157 To bring our selues to nothing /backe; and we [CW:Doe] 155.LCD.158 Doe what we can, to do't so /soone as he. [B6v] 155.LCD.159 With new diseases on our selues /we warre, 155.LCD.160 And with new Physicke, a worse /Engin farre. 155.LCD.161 Thus man, this worlds Vice-Em-/perour, in whom 155.LCD.162 All faculties, all graces are at /home; 155.LCD.163 And if in other creatures they /appeare, 155.LCD.164 They're but mans Ministers, and /Legats theres 155.LCD.165 To worke on their rebellions, /and reduce 155.LCD.166 Them to Ciuility, and to mans /vse. 155.LCD.167 This man, whom God did woo, /and loth't attend 155.LCD.168 Till man came vp, did downe to /man descend, [CW:This] 155.LCD.169 This man so great, that all that is, /is his, [B7] 155.LCD.170 Oh what a trifle, and poore thing /he is? 155.LCD.171 If man were any thing; he's no-/thing now: 155.LCD.172 Helpe, or at least some time to /wast, allow 155.LCD.173 T'his other wants, yet when he /did depart 155.LCD.174 With her whom we lament, hee /lost his heart. 155.LCD.175 She, of whom th'Ancients /seem'd to prophesie, 155.LCD.176 When they call'd vertues by the /name of shee, 155.LCD.177 She in whom vertue was so /much refin'd, 155.LCD.178 That for Allay vnto so pure a /minde 155.LCD.179 Shee tooke the weaker Sex, shee /that could driue [CW:The] 155.LCD.180 The poysonous tincture, and the /stayne of %1Eue%2, [B7v] 155.LCD.181 Out of her thought, and deedes; /and purifie 155.LCD.182 All, by a true religious Alchi-/my; 155.LCD.183 Shee, shee is dead; shee's dead: /when thou knowest this, 155.LCD.184 Thou knowest how poore a tri-/fling thing man is. 155.LCD.185 And learn'st thus much by our /Anatomee, 155.LCD.186 The heart being perish'd, no /[NI]part can be free. 155.LCD.187 And that except thou feede (not /banquet) on 155.LCD.188 The supernaturall foode, Reli-/gion. 155.LCD.189 Thy better grouth growes whi-/thered, and scant; 155.LCD.190 Bee more than man, or thou'rt /lesse then an Ant. [CW:Then][miscatch] 155.LCD.191 Then, as mankinde, so is the /worlds whole frame [B8] 155.LCD.192 Quite out of ioynt, almost crea-/ted lame: 155.LCD.193 For, before God had made vp /all the rest, 155.LCD.194 Corruption entred, and de-/prau'd the best: 155.LCD.195 It seis'd the Angels, and then first /of all 155.LCD.196 The world did in her cradle /take a fall, 155.LCD.197 And turn'd her brains, and tooke /a generall maime 155.LCD.198 Wronging each ioynt of th'vni-/uersall frame. 155.LCD.199 The noblest part, man, felt it /first; and than 155.LCD.200 Both beasts and plants, curst in /the curse of man. 155.LCD.201 So did the world from the first /houre decay, [CW:That] 155.LCD.201M %1Decay of /nature in /other parts%2.[Keyed#to#line#200] 155.LCD.202 That euening was beginning of /the day, [B8v] 155.LCD.203 And now the Springs and Som-/mers which we see, 155.LCD.204 Like sonnes of women after /fiftie bee. 155.LCD.205 And new Philosophy calls all in /doubt, 155.LCD.206 The Element of fire is quite put /out; 155.LCD.207 The Sunne is lost, and th'earth, /and no mans wit 155.LCD.208 Can well direct him where to /looke for it. 155.LCD.209 And freely men confesse that /this world's spent, 155.LCD.210 When in the Planets, and the /firmament 155.LCD.211 They seeke so many new; they /see that this 155.LCD.212 Is crumbled out againe to his /Atomis. [CW:Tis] 155.LCD.213 Tis all in pieces, all cohae%Lrence /gone; [C1] 155.LCD.214 All iust supply, and all Rela-/tion: 155.LCD.215 Prince, Subiect, Father, Sonne, /are things forgot, 155.LCD.216 For euery man alone thinkes he /hath got 155.LCD.217 To be a Phoe%Lnix, and that then /can be 155.LCD.218 None of that kinde, of which he /is, but he. 155.LCD.219 This is the worlds condition /now, and now 155.LCD.220 She that should all parts to reuni/on bow, 155.LCD.221 She that had all Magnetique /force alone, 155.LCD.222 To draw, and fasten sundred /parts in one; 155.LCD.223 She whom wise nature had /inuented then [CW:When] 155.LCD.224 When she obseru'd that euery /sort of men [C1v] 155.LCD.225 Did in their voyage in this /worlds Sea stray, 155.LCD.226 And needed a new compasse /for their way; 155.LCD.227 Shee that was best, and first ori-/ginall 155.LCD.228 Of all faire copies and the /generall 155.LCD.229 Steward to Fate; she whose rich /eyes, and brest: 155.LCD.230 Guilt the West-Indies, and per-/fum'd the East, 155.LCD.231 Whose hauing breath'd in this /world, did bestow 155.LCD.232 Spice on those Iles, and bad /them still smell so, 155.LCD.233 And that rich Indie which doth /gold interre, 155.LCD.234 Is but as single money coyn'd /from her: [CW:She] 155.LCD.235 She to whom this world must it /selfe refer, [C2] 155.LCD.236 As Suburbs, or the Microcosme /of her, 155.LCD.237 Shee, shee is dead; shee's dead: /when thou knowest this, 155.LCD.238 Thou knowest how lame a crip-/ple this world is. 155.LCD.239 And learn'st thus much by our /Anatomy, 155.LCD.240 That this worlds generall sick-/nesse doth not lie 155.LCD.241 In any humour, or one certaine /part; 155.LCD.242 But as thou sawest it rotten at the /heart, 155.LCD.243 Thou seest a Hectique feuer hath /got hold 155.LCD.244 Of the whole substance, not to /be contrould. 155.LCD.245 And that thou hast but one way, /not t'admit [CW:The] 155.LCD.246 The worlds infection, to be /none of it. [C2v] 155.LCD.247 For the worlds subtilst imma-/teriall parts 155.LCD.248 Feele this consuming wound, /and ages darts. 155.LCD.249 For the worlds beauty is de-/cayd, or gone, 155.LCD.250 Beauty, thats colour, and pro-/proportion. 155.LCD.250M %1Disformity /of parts%2. 155.LCD.251 We thinke the heauens enioy /their Sphericall 155.LCD.252 Their round proportion em-/bracing all. 155.LCD.253 But yet their various and per-/plexed course, 155.LCD.254 Obseru'd in diuerse ages doth /enforce 155.LCD.255 Men to finde out so many Eccen/[NoInd]trique parts, 155.LCD.256 Such diuers downe-right lines, /such ouerthwarts, [CW:As] 155.LCD.257 As disproportion that pure /forme. It teares [C3] 155.LCD.258 The Firmament in eight and /forty sheeres, 155.LCD.259 And in these constillations then /arise 155.LCD.260 New starres, and olde doe vanish /from our eyes: 155.LCD.261 As though heau'n suffered earth/quakes, peace or war, 155.LCD.262 When new Towers rise, and old /demolish't are. 155.LCD.263 They haue impayld within a /Zodiake 155.LCD.264 The free-borne Sun, and keepe /twelue signes awake 155.LCD.265 To watch his steppes; the Goat /and Crabbe controule, 155.LCD.266 And fright him backe, who else /to either Pole, 155.LCD.267 (Did not these tropiques fetter /him) might runne: [CW:For] 155.LCD.268 For his course is not round; nor /can the Sunne [C3v] 155.LCD.269 Perfit a Circle, or maintaine his /way 155.LCD.270 One inche direct; but where he /rose to day 155.LCD.271 He comes no more, but with a /cousening line, 155.LCD.272 Steales by that point, and so is /Serpentine: 155.LCD.273 And seeming wearie with his /reeling thus, 155.LCD.274 He meanes to sleepe, being now /falne nearer vs. 155.LCD.275 So, of the Starres which boast /that they doe runne. 155.LCD.276 In Circle still, none ends where /he begunne. 155.LCD.277 All their proportion's lame, it /sinckes, it swels. 155.LCD.278 For of Meridians, and Paral-/lels, [CW:Man] 155.LCD.279 Man hath weaued out a net, and /this net throwne [C4] 155.LCD.280 Vpon the Heauens, and now /they are his owne. 155.LCD.281 Loth to goe vp the hill, or la-/bour thus 155.LCD.282 To goe to heauen, we make /heauen come to vs. 155.LCD.283 We spur, we raigne the starres, /and in their race 155.LCD.284 They're diuersly content t'obey /our peace, 155.LCD.285 But keepes the earth her round /proportion still? 155.LCD.286 Doth not a Tenarif, or higher /Hill 155.LCD.287 Rise so high like a Rocke, that /one might thinke 155.LCD.288 The floating Moone would ship-/wracke there and sinke? 155.LCD.289 Seas are so deepe, that Whales /being strooke to day, [CW:Per-] 155.LCD.290 Perchance to morrow, scarse at /middle way [C4v] 155.LCD.291 Of their wish'd iourneys ende, /the bottom die. 155.LCD.292 And men, to sound depths, so /much line vntie, 155.LCD.293 As one might iustly thinke, that /there would rise 155.LCD.294 At end thereof, one of th'Anti-/podies: 155.LCD.295 If vnder all, a Vault infernall /bee, 155.LCD.296 (Which sure is spacious, except /that we 155.LCD.297 Inuent another torment, that /there must 155.LCD.298 Millions into a strait hot roome /be thrust) 155.LCD.299 Then solidnesse, and roundnesse /haue no place. 155.LCD.300 Are these but warts, and pock-/holes in the face [CW:Of] 155.LCD.301 Of th'earth? Thinke so: but yet /confesse, in this [C5] 155.LCD.302 The worlds proportion disfigu-/red is, 155.LCD.303 That those two legges whereon /it doth rely, 155.LCD.303M %1Disorder in /the World%2. 155.LCD.304 Reward and punishment are /bent awry. 155.LCD.305 And, Oh, it can no more be que-/stioned, 155.LCD.306 That beauties best, proportion, is /dead, 155.LCD.307 Since euen griefe it selfe, which /now alone 155.LCD.308 Is left vs, is without propor-/tion. 155.LCD.309 Shee by whose lines proportion /should bee 155.LCD.310 Examin'd, measure of all Sym-/metree, 155.LCD.311 Whom had that Ancient seene, /who thought soules made [CW:Of] 155.LCD.312 Of Harmony, hee would at next /haue said [C5v] 155.LCD.313 That Harmony was shee, and /thence infer. 155.LCD.314 That soules were but Resultan-/ces from her, 155.LCD.315 And did from her into our bo-/dies goe, 155.LCD.316 As to our eyes, the formes from /obiects flow: 155.LCD.317 Shee, who if those great Doctors /truely said 155.LCD.318 That the Arke to mans propor-/tion was made, 155.LCD.319 Had beene a type for that, as /that might be 155.LCD.320 A type of her in this, that con-/trary 155.LCD.321 Both Elements and Passions /liu'd at peace 155.LCD.322 In her, who caus'd all Ciuill /war to cease. [CW:Shee][miscatch] 155.LCD.323 Shee, after whom, what forme /soe're we see, [C6] 155.LCD.324 Is discord, and rude incongrui-/tee, 155.LCD.325 Shee, shee is dead, shee's dead; /when thou knowest this, 155.LCD.326 Thou knowest how vgly a mon-/ster this world is: 155.LCD.327 And learnst thus much by our /Anatomee, 155.LCD.328 That here is nothing to enamour /thee: 155.LCD.329 And that, not onely faults in in-/ward parts, 155.LCD.330 Corruptions in our braines, or in /our hearts. 155.LCD.331 Poysoning the fountaines, /whence our actions spring, 155.LCD.332 Endanger vs: but that if euery /thing 155.LCD.333 Be not done fitly'nd in propor-/tion, [CW:To] 155.LCD.334 To satisfie wise, and good loo-/kers on, [C6v] 155.LCD.335 (Since most men be such as most /thinke they bee) 155.LCD.336 They're lothsome too, by this /Deformitee. 155.LCD.337 For good, and well, must in our /actions meete; 155.LCD.338 Wicked is not much worse then /indiscreet. 155.LCD.339 But beauties other second Ele-/ment, 155.LCD.340 Colour, and lustre now, is as /neere spent. 155.LCD.341 And had the world his iust pro-/portion, 155.LCD.342 Were it a ring still, yet the stone /is gone. 155.LCD.343 As a compassionate Turcoyse /which doth tell 155.LCD.344 By looking pale, the wearer is /not well, [CW:As] 155.LCD.345 As gold falls sicke being stung /with Mercury, [C7] 155.LCD.346 All the worlds parts of such /complexion bee. 155.LCD.347 When nature was most busie, the /first weeke, 155.LCD.348 Swadling the new borne earth /God seemd to like, 155.LCD.349 That she should sport her selfe /sometimes, and play, 155.LCD.350 To mingle, and vary colours e-/uery day: 155.LCD.351 And then, as though shee could /not make inow, 155.LCD.352 Himselfe his various Rainbow /did allow, 155.LCD.353 Sight is the noblest sense of any /one, 155.LCD.354 Yet sight hath onely colour to /feede on, 155.LCD.355 And colour is decayd: summers /robe growes [CW:Duskie][miscatch] 155.LCD.356 Duskie, and like an oft dyed /garment showes. [C7v] 155.LCD.357 Our blushing redde, which vs'd /in cheekes to spred, 155.LCD.358 Is inward sunke and onely our /soules are red. 155.LCD.359 Perchance the world might /haue recouered, 155.LCD.360 If shee whom we lament had /not beene dead: 155.LCD.361 But shee, in whom all white, and /red, and blew 155.LCD.362 (Beauties ingredients) volunta-/ry grew, 155.LCD.363 As in an vnuext Paradise; from /whom 155.LCD.364 Did all things verdure, and their /lustre come, 155.LCD.365 Whose composition was mira-/culous, 155.LCD.366 Being all colour, all Diapha-/nous, [CW:(For] 155.LCD.367 (For Ayre, and Fire but thicke /grosse bodies were, [C8] 155.LCD.368 And liueliest stones but drow-/sie, and pale to her,) 155.LCD.369 Shee, shee is dead; shee's dead: /when thou knowst this, 155.LCD.370 Thou knowest how wan a Ghost /this our world is: 155.LCD.371 And learnst thus much by our /Anatomee, 155.LCD.372 That it should more affright, /then pleasure thee. 155.LCD.373 And that, since all faire colour /then did sinke, 155.LCD.374 Tis now but wicked vanitie to /thinke, 155.LCD.375 To colour vicious deeds with /good pretence, 155.LCD.375M %1Weaknesse /in the want /of corre-/spondence /of heauen /and earth%2. 155.LCD.376 Or with bought colors to illude /mens sense. 155.LCD.377 Nor in ought more this worlds /decay appeares, [CW:Then] 155.LCD.378 Then that her influence the /heau'n forbeares, [C8v] 155.LCD.379 Or that the Elements doe not /feele this, 155.LCD.380 The father, or the mother bar-/ren is. 155.LCD.381 The cloudes conceiue not raine, /or doe not powre 155.LCD.382 In the due birth time, downe the /balmy showre. 155.LCD.383 Th'ayre doth not motherly sit /on the earth, 155.LCD.384 To hatch her seasons, and giue /all things birth. 155.LCD.385 Spring-times were common /cradles, but are toombes; 155.LCD.386 And false-conceptions fill the /generall wombes. 155.LCD.387 Th'ayre showes such Meteors, /as none can see, 155.LCD.388 Not onely what they meane, but /what they bee. [CW:Earth] 155.LCD.389 Earth such uew wormes, as /would haue troubled much, [D1] 155.LCD.390 Th'Egyptian %1Mages%2 to haue /made more such. 155.LCD.391 What Artist now dares boast /that he can bring 155.LCD.392 Heauen hither, or constellate /any thing, 155.LCD.393 So as the influence of those /starres may bee 155.LCD.394 Imprisoned in an Hearbe, or /Charme or Tree, 155.LCD.395 And doe by touch, all which /those starres could doe? 155.LCD.396 The art is lost, and correspon-/dence too. 155.LCD.397 For heauen giues little, and the /earth takes lesse, 155.LCD.398 And man least knowes their /trade and purposes. 155.LCD.399 If this commerce twixt heauen /and earth were not [CW:Em-] 155.LCD.400 Embarr'd, and all this traffique /quite forgot, [D1v] 155.LCD.401 Shee, for whose losse wee haue /lamented thus, 155.LCD.402 Would worke more fully and /pow'rfully on vs. 155.LCD.403 Since herbs and roots by dying, /lose not all, 155.LCD.404 But they, yea Ashes too, are /medicinall, 155.LCD.405 Death could not quench her ver-/tue so, but that 155.LCD.406 It would be (if not follow'd) /wondred at: 155.LCD.407 And all the world would bee one /dying Swan, 155.LCD.408 To sing her funerall praise, and /vanish than. 155.LCD.409 But as some Serpents poyson /hurteth not, 155.LCD.410 Except it be from the liue Ser-/pent shot, [CW:So] 155.LCD.411 So doth her vertue need her /here, to fit [D2] 155.LCD.412 That vnto vs; she working more /then it. 155.LCD.413 But she, in whom, to such matu-/rity, 155.LCD.414 Vertue was grown, past grouth, /that it must die, 155.LCD.415 She from whose influence all /Impression came, 155.LCD.416 But by receiuers Impotencies, /lame, 155.LCD.417 Who, though she could not /transubstantiate 155.LCD.418 All states to gold, yet guilded /euery state, 155.LCD.419 So that some Princes haue some /temperance; 155.LCD.420 Some Counsellors some purpose /to aduance 155.LCD.421 The common profite; and some /people haue [CW:Some] 155.LCD.422 Some stay, no more then Kings /should giue, to craue; [D2v] 155.LCD.423 Some women haue some taci-/turnity, 155.LCD.424 Some Nunneries, some graines /of chastity. 155.LCD.425 She that did thus much, & much /more could doe, 155.LCD.426 But that our age was Iron, and /rusty too, 155.LCD.427 Shee, shee is dead; shee's dead: / when thou knowest this, 155.LCD.428 Thou knowest how drie a Cir-/der[sic] this world is. 155.LCD.429 And learnst thus much by our /Anatomie, 155.LCD.430 That'tis in vaine to dew, or mol-/lifie 155.LCD.431 It with thy Teares, or Sweat, or /Blood: no thing 155.LCD.432 Is worth our trauaile, griefe, or /perishing, [CW:But] 155.LCD.433 But those rich ioyes, which did /possesse her heart, [D3] 155.LCD.434 Of which shee's now partaker, /and a part. 155.LCD.435 But as in cutting vp a man thats /dead, 155.LCD.435M %1Conclu%Ision%2. 155.LCD.436 The body will not last out to /haue read 155.LCD.437 On euery part, and therefore /men direct 155.LCD.438 Their speech to parts, that are of /most effect; 155.LCD.439 So the worlds carkasse would /not last, if I 155.LCD.440 Were punctuall in this /Anatomy. 155.LCD.441 Nor smels it well to hearers, if /one tell 155.LCD.442 Them their disease, who faine /would thinke they're well. 155.LCD.443 Here therefore be the end: And, /blessed maid. [CW:Of] 155.LCD.444 Of whom is meant what euer /hath beene said, [D3v] 155.LCD.445 Or shall be spoken well by any /tongue, 155.LCD.446 Whose name refines course /lines, and makes prose song. 155.LCD.447 Accept this tribute, and his first /yeeres rent, 155.LCD.448 Who till his darke short tapers /end be spent, 155.LCD.449 As oft as thy feast sees this wi-/dowed earth, 155.LCD.450 Will yeerely celebrate thy se-/cond birth, 155.LCD.451 That is, thy death. For though /the soule of man 155.LCD.452 Be got when man is made, tis /borne but than 155.LCD.453 When man doth die, Our bodi's /as the wombe, 155.LCD.454 And as a Mid-wife death directs /it home. [CW:And] 155.LCD.455 And you her creatures, whom /she workes vpon [D4] 155.LCD.456 And haue your last, and best /concoction 155.LCD.457 From her example, and her ver-/tue, if you 155.LCD.458 In reuerence to her, doe thinke /it due, 155.LCD.459 That no one should her prayses /thus rehearse, 155.LCD.460 As matter fit for Chronicle, not /verse, 155.LCD.461 Vouchsafe to call to minde that /God did make 155.LCD.462 A last, and lastingst piece, a song. /He spake 155.LCD.463 To %1Moses%2, to deliuer vnto /all, 155.LCD.464 That song: because he knew /they would let fall. 155.LCD.465 The Law, the Prophets, and the /Historie, [CW:But] 155.LCD.466 But keepe the song still in their /memory. [D4v] 155.LCD.467 Such an opinion (in due mea-/sure made 155.LCD.468 Me this great Office boldly to in-/uade. 155.LCD.469 Nor could incomprehensible-/nesse deterre 155.LCD.470 Me, from thus trying to empri-/son her. 155.LCD.471 Which when I saw that a strict /graue could doe, 155.LCD.472 I saw not why verse might not /doe so too. 155.LCD.473 Verse hath a middle nature: /Heauen keepes soules, 155.LCD.474 The Graue keepes bodies, /Verse the same enroules. [CW:A] 155.LCD.0SS [om]