IDENTILIN$$ F148B16|BedfShe|Add. 30982|ff.46v-47\JSC\mf\1-26-95\P:GAS\o\6-21-95\C:JSC '95; 10-00 148.B16.HE1 On the Lady Bedford. 148.B16.001 You that are shee, & you thats dubly shee 148.B16.002 In her dead face halfe of your selfe shall see 148.B16.003 shee was the other part, for soe they doe 148.B16.004 W%5ch%6 build them frindship become one of two 148.B16.005 Soe two that but themselues no third can fitt 148.B16.006 W%5ch%6 were to be soe when they were not yet 148.B16.007 Twins though their birth Cusco & Musco take 148.B16.008 As diuers starrs one constellation make 148.B16.009 Paird like two eyes haue equall motion soe 148.B16.010 Both but one meanes to see, & one way to goe 148.B16.011 had pou[sic] dyd first a carcasse you had beene 148.B16.012 and wee your rich tombe in her face had seene 148.B16.013 Shee like the soule is gone & you heare stay 148.B16.014 not a liue frind, but the other halfe of clay 148.B16.015 and since you are that part as men say here 148.B16.016 lyes such a prince when but one part is there 148.B16.017 and do all honor and deuotion due 148.B16.018 vnto the whore,[sic] so we all reuerence you 148.B16.019 for such a frindship who would not adore 148.B16.020 in you, who are all that %V[M:>%V(both)<] was before 148.B16.021 note all, as if some perished by this 148.B16.022 but so that in you all contracted is 148.B16.023 as of this all so many parts decay 148.B16.024 The pure which elemented it shall stay 148.B16.025 and though diffus'd & spread in infinite 148.B16.026 shall recollect & in one all vnite 148.B16.027 so madam & her soule to heauen is fled 148.B16.028 her flesh rests in the earth as in a bed 148.B16.029 her vertues do as to their proper spheares 148.B16.030 returne to dwell with you of whome they weare..[sic] [CW:none][miscatch] 148.B16.031 as perfect motions are all circular [f.47] 148.B16.032 So they to you their sea whence less *streames are 148.B16.033 Shee was all spices, you all nettals[sic] soe 148.B16.034 in you two wee did both the Indies knowe 148.B16.035 and as noe fire nor rust can spend nor waste 148.B16.036 One dram%Me of gold but what was first shall laste 148.B16.037 though it be forc't in water, earth, salt aire 148.B16.038 expos'd in infinite, none will impaire 148.B16.039 So to your selfe you may additions take 148.B16.040 but nothing can you lesse or changed make 148.B16.041 Seeke not in seeking newe to seeme to dout 148.B16.042 that you can match her, or not be without 148.B16.043 but let some faithfull booke in her name bee 148.B16.044 Yet but of Iudith no such booke as shee.|| 148.B16.0SS [horiz. line across page] 148.B16.0$$ %1No ind; 2nd-hand X to left of title; I've never seen an ampersand like the one in l.1, but he uses it throughout to mean "and"; the 2nd word in l.4 looks like "builts" but for a similar "ld" see "would" in l.19--in l.4 the "d" leans more to the left & has a longer tail; in l.20 "(both)" is wr. over a caret in the RM and a another caret (over a dot, which must be the dot for the "i" below) marks where to place it in the line; the [] beginning in l.31 represent letters in the binding's shadow on the mf. but which might be visible on the original (they are)%2