IDENTILIN$$  File F147C09/ BedfCab, C9 (Lut., Add. 8468),f. 45/GAS CUL 3-23-90 EWS/6-17-85/o
147.C09.0HE  To the Countesse of Bedford.
147.C09.001  Madame \That I might make your Cabinet my Tombe,
147.C09.002  And for my fame which I loue next my soule
147.C09.003  Next to my soule prouide the happiest roome
147.C09.004  Admitt to y%5t%6 place this last funerall scroule
147.C09.005  Others by wills giue legacyes, but I
147.C09.006  Dying, of you do begge a legacye.
147.C09.HE2om
147.C09.007  My fortune & my will this custome breake
147.C09.008  When we are sencelesse growne to make stones speake
147.C09.009  Though no stone tell thee what I was, yet thou
147.C09.010  In my graues Inside see what thou art now
147.C09.011  Yet th'art not yet so good; till vs death lay
147.C09.012  To ripe & mellow there w'are stubborne clay
147.C09.013  Parents make vs Earth & soules dignifye
147.C09.014  Vs to be glasse, heere to grow gold we lye.
147.C09.015  Whilst in o%5r%6 soules sin bred & pamperd is
147.C09.016  Our soules become worm-eaten carcases,
147.C09.017  So wee ourselues miraculously destroy
147.C09.018  Heere bodyes, with lesse miracle, enioy
147.C09.019  Such priuiledge enabled heere to scale
147.C09.020  Heauen, when the Trumpetts Ayre shall them exhale
147.C09.021  Heare this, & mend thyselfe, & thou mendst me
147.C09.022  By making me, being dead, doe good to thee
147.C09.023  And thinke me well composd y%5t%6 I could now
147.C09.024  A last sicke howre to sillables allow./
147.C09.0SSom
147.C09.0$$  1st poem under gen HE Epicedes and Obsequies.[/] Vpon the 
Deathes of seuerall Personages. ll. 2, 4, 23, 24 ind 4 sp; 5 & 6 ind 10 sp; 
broken ll. separates general heading from all poems and another the 1st 6 ll. 
from rest of poem.