IDENTILIN$$  F147AF1|Mapletoft Vol.|pp. [437-38]\E:JMK\mf\2-8-01\P:JSC\mf\8-9-01\p&c:mvf\mf(AF1)\2-26-07
147.AF1.HE1  %XElegie [p.438]
147.AF1.001  Madam /That I might make your Cabinet my Tomb,
147.AF1.002  And for fame, which I love next my Soul,
147.AF1.003  Next to my Soul provide the happiest room,
147.AF1.004  Admit to that place this last funeral scrowl.
147.AF1.005  Others by wills give Legacies, but I
147.AF1.006  Dying, of You do beg a Legacy.
147.AF1.HE2  %XOn Himself. [p.437]
147.AF1.007  My Fortune and my choice thy custome break,
147.AF1.008  When we are speechless grown, to make stones speak:
147.AF1.009  Though no stone tell Thee what I was, yet Thou
147.AF1.010  In my graves inside seest what Thou art now:
147.AF1.011  Yet Thou art not yet so good, till death us lay
147.AF1.012  To ripe and mellow here, we are stubborn clay.
147.AF1.013  Parents make us earth, and souls dignifie [p.438]
147.AF1.014  Us to be glass; here to grow gold we lie;
147.AF1.015  Whilst in our souls sin bred, and pamper'd is,
147.AF1.016  Our soules become worm-eaten carcasses;
147.AF1.017  So we our selves miraculously destroy,
147.AF1.018  Here bodies with less miracle enjoy
147.AF1.019  Such priviledges, enabled here to scale
147.AF1.020  Heaven, when the Trumpets ayre shall them exhale.
147.AF1.021  Hear this, and mend thy self, and thou mendst me,
147.AF1.022  By making me being dead, do good for thee,
147.AF1.023  And think me well-compos'd, that I could now
147.AF1.024  A last-sick hour to syllables allow.
147.AF1.0SSom
147.AF1.0$$  Ll. HE2 & 7-24 entered on pp. [437-38], & ll. HE1 & 1-6 immediately follow on p. [438]; the salutation (above l.1) & ll. 2 & 4 ind 2 sps, ll. 5 & 6 ind c. 8 sps, & ll. 7-24 not ind; no sts; running head is "Poems"; NB: l. HE2 btw 6 & 7 is needed for collating