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148.00G.HE1 %X%1To the Countess of Bedford.%2
148.00G.001 Y%+Ou that are she, and you that's double she;
148.00G.002 In her dead face, half of your self shall see; [CW:She]
148.00G.003 She was the other part, for so they do [p.194]
148.00G.004 Which build them friendships, become one of the two;
148.00G.005 So two, that but themselves no third can fit
148.00G.006 Which were to be so, when they were not yet.
148.00G.007 Twins, though their birth %1Cusco%2, and %1Musco%2 take,
148.00G.008 As divers stars one Constellation make,
148.00G.009 Pair'd like two eyes, have equal motion, so
148.00G.010 Both but one means to see, one way to go;
148.00G.011 Had you dy'd first, a carcass she had been;
148.00G.012 And we your rich Tomb in her face had seen;
148.00G.013 She like the soul is gone, and you here stay,
148.00G.014 Not a live friend, but th'other half of clay;
148.00G.015 And since you act that part, As men say, here 
148.00G.016 Lies such a Prince, when but one part is there; 
148.00G.017 And do all honour and devotion due
148.00G.018 Unto the whole, so we all reverence you;
148.00G.019 For such a friendship, who would not adore
148.00G.020 In you, who are all what both were before,
148.00G.021 Not all as if some perished by this,
148.00G.022 But so, as all in you contracted is;
148.00G.023 As of this all, though many parts decay,
148.00G.024 The pure which elemented them shall stay;
148.00G.025 And though diffus'd, and spred in infinite,
148.00G.026 Shall recollect and in one All unite:
148.00G.027 So Madam, as her Soul to heaven is fled,
148.00G.028 Her flesh rests in the earth, as in the bed;
148.00G.029 Her vertues doe, as to their proper sphear,
148.00G.030 Return to dwell with you of whom they were:
148.00G.031 As perfect motions are all circular,
148.00G.032 So they to you, their sea, whence less streams are.
148.00G.033 She was all spices, you all metals; so
148.00G.034 In you two we did both rich Indies know.
148.00G.035 And as no fire nor rust can spend or waste
148.00G.036 One dramm of Gold, but what was first shall last; [CW: Though]
148.00G.037 Though it be forc'd in water, earth, salt, air, [p.195]
148.00G.038 Expans'd in infinite, none will impair;
148.00G.039 So, to your self you may additions take,
148.00G.040 But nothing can you less, or changed make.
148.00G.041 Seek not in seeking new, to seem to doubt;
148.00G.042 That you can match her, or not be without;
148.00G.043 But let some faithful book in her room be,
148.00G.044 Yet but of %1Judith%2 no such book as shee.
148.00G.0SSom
148.00G.0$$ No stanzas; no indentation; printed in Verse Letters