IDENTILIN$$ F14800B|BedfShe|1635|pp. 204-05\JMK\mf(CtY)\2-22-01\P:EWS\o(CSmH 60123;MH[STC7046(A)])\6-13-01;8-2-02\C:JMK\7-13-01;JSC\7-27-01;8-26-02
148.00B.HE1 %X%1To the Lady Bedford.%2
148.00B.001 Y%+Ou that are she, and you that's double she;
148.00B.002 In her dead face, halfe of your selfe shall see;
148.00B.003 Shee was the other part, for so they doe
148.00B.004 Which build them friendships, become one of two;
148.00B.005 So two, that but themselves no third can fit,
148.00B.006 Which were to be so, when they were not yet
148.00B.007 Twinnes, though their birth %1Cusco%2, and %1Musco%2 take,
148.00B.008 As divers starres one Constellation make,
148.00B.009 Pair'd like two eyes, have equall motion, so
148.00B.010 Both but one meanes to see, one way to goe;
148.00B.011 Had you dy'd first, a carcasse she had beene;
148.00B.012 And we your rich Tombe in her face had seene;
148.00B.013 She like the Soule is gone, an%Id[sic] you here stay
148.00B.014 Not a live friend, but th'other halfe of clay;
148.00B.015 And since you act that part, As men say, here
148.00B.016 Lies such a Prince, when but one part is there;
148.00B.017 And doe all honour and devotion due
148.00B.018 Vnto the whole, so we all reverence you;
148.00B.019 For, such a friendship, who would not adore
148.00B.020 In you, who are all what both were before,
148.00B.021 Not all, as if some perished by this,
148.00B.022 But so, as all in you contracted is;
148.00B.023 As of this all, though many parts decay,
148.00B.024 The pure which elemented them shall stay;
148.00B.025 And though diffus'd, and spred in infinite,
148.00B.026 Shall recollect, and in one All unite:
148.00B.027 So Madame, as her Soule to heaven is fled,
148.00B.028 Her flesh rests in the earth, as in the bed; [CW:Her]
148.00B.029 Her vertues doe, as to their proper spheare, [p.205]
148.00B.030 Returne to dwell with you, of whom they were.
148.00B.031 As perfect motions are all circular,
148.00B.032 So they to you, their sea, whence lesse streames are.
148.00B.033 Shee was all spices, you all metals; so
148.00B.034 In you two we did both rich Indies know.
148.00B.035 And as no fire, nor rust can spend or wast
148.00B.036 One dramme of Gold, but what was first shall last,
148.00B.037 Though it be forc'd in water, earth, salt, aire,
148.00B.038 Expans'd in infinite, none will impaire;
148.00B.039 So, to your selfe you may additions take,
148.00B.040 But nothing can you lesse, or changed make.
148.00B.041 Seeke not in seeking new, to seeme to doubt,
148.00B.042 That you can match her, or not be without;
148.00B.043 But let some faithfull booke in her roome bee,
148.00B.044 Yet but of %1Iudith%2 no such booke as shee.
148.00B.0SSom
148.00B.0$$ no sts; no ind; l.13: "and" looks like "aud" because of inverted "n"; printed with "%1Letters%2."