IDENTILIN$$  F147B46/ Stowe 961, f. 17v/GAS BL 3-30-90\Rechecked GAS\o\6-27-95\C:JSC
147.B46.0HE  %XTo the Countesse of /%XBedforde.
147.B46.001  Madame.[LM] /That I might make your Cabinet my Tombe
147.B46.002  And for my fame, (which I loue next my Soule)
147.B46.003  Next to my Soule prouide the happiest roome
147.B46.004  Admit to that place this last funerall Scroule
147.B46.005  Others by testaments giue Legacies, but I
147.B46.006  Dyinge, of you doe beg a Legacie.
147.B46.HE2om
147.B46.007  My fortune and my will this Custome breake
147.B46.008  When I am Speachles growne to make stones speake
147.B46.009  Though no stone tell thee, what I was, yet thou
147.B46.010  In my Graues inside See, >t%>w<hat thou art now.
147.B46.011  Nay th'art not yet So good; till Death us laye
147.B46.012  To ripen and mellowe there, w'are stubborne Claye.
147.B46.013  Parents make us, earth and Soules dignifie
147.B46.014  Vs to be Glasse, here to growe golde, we lie
147.B46.015  Whilst in our Soules, Sin bred and pampred is
147.B46.016  Our Soules become worme=eaten Carcases
147.B46.017  So, we, our selues miraculously destroy.
147.B46.018  Here, bodies, with lesse miracle inioye
147.B46.019  Such Priuiledges, enabled here to Scale
147.B46.020  Heauen, when the Trumpets Aire shall them exhale.
147.B46.021  Heare this, and mend thy Selfe, and thou mend'st me
147.B46.022  By makinge me being dead, doe good to thee.
147.B46.023  And thincke me well Compos'd that I could now
147.B46.024  A last sicke houre, to sillables allowe.
147.B46.0SS  Finis /+ 2 grape clusters
147.B46.0$$  ll. 2 & 4 ind 4 sp; ll. 5, 6, 23, 24 ind 10 sp