IDENTILIN$$  F148B27|BedfShe|Harley 3910|f. 22r-v\JSC\mf\1-26-95\P:GAS\o\6-21-95\C:JSC '95; 10-00
148.B27.HE1  %XAn Elegie to the Lady Bedford
148.B27.001  You that are she>e<, & you y%5t%6 doble shee
148.B27.002  in her dead face, halfe of yo%5r%6 selfe shall see
148.B27.003  She was that other part, for so they doe
148.B27.004  W%5ch%6 builde their frendship, become one of twoe
148.B27.005  So two y%5t%6 but themselues, no third can fitt
148.B27.006  (w%5ch%6 were to be so when they were not yett)
148.B27.007  Twyns throughe their birth cusco & musco take
148.B27.008  as diuers starres one constellation make
148.B27.009  paird like two eyes, haue equall motio%M soe
148.B27.010  both but one meanes to see, one way to goe
148.B27.011  had you dyde first, a carcass she had ben
148.B27.012  & in you%5r%6 rich tomb, in her face had seene
148.B27.013  shee like the sowle is gon, & yo%5u%6 heer staye
148.B27.014  not, a liue fre%Md, but th'other half of claye
148.B27.015  And since you act the part, as men say here
148.B27.016  hes such a prince, when but one p%Pt is ther\e
148.B27.017  & do all honor, & devotion due:
148.B27.018  vnto the whole, so wee all reuerence you,
148.B27.019  for such a frendship who would not adore:
148.B27.020  in yo%5u%6, whoe are all, what both were before.
148.B27.021  not all as if some p%Pished by this:
148.B27.022  but so y%5t%6 in yo%5u%6 all contracted is
148.B27.023  as if this all, though many p%Pts decay:
148.B27.024  y%5e%6 part w%5ch%6 elemented them shall stay.
148.B27.025  & though diffusd & spred in infinyte
148.B27.026  shall recollect & in one all vnyte [CW:So#madam][miscatch]
148.B27.027  So Madam as her Soule to heaue%M is fledd [f.22v]
148.B27.028  her flesh rest's in the earth as in a bedd
148.B27.029  her virtues do as in her p%Pper sphere
148.B27.030  returne to dwell w%5th%6 yo%5u%6 of whome they were
148.B27.031  as p%Pfect motions are all circulere.
148.B27.032  So they to yo%5u%6 their sea where least streams /are
148.B27.033  she was all spices, yo%5u%6 all mettals, so
148.B27.034  in yo%5u%6 two, wee did both rich Indies know
148.B27.035  And as no fyer nor rust can spend or wast
148.B27.036  one dram%M of golde, but w%5t%6 was first, shall last
148.B27.037  though p%Pt be forc'd in water, earth, salt, aire,
148.B27.038  expans'd in infinyte, none will impa%Aire
148.B27.039  So to you%5r%6self yo%5u%6 may additions take
148.B27.040  but nothing yo%5u%6 less or cha%Anged make
148.B27.041  Seeke not in seeking new, to seeme to doubt
148.B27.042  Y%5t%6 you can match her, or not be without
148.B27.043  but lett some faithfull booke, in her room bee
148.B27.044  Yet but of Iudith, no such book as Shee
148.B27.0SS  [om]
148.B27.0$$  %1No ind; the last letter in l.16 is wr. directly above the 
             penultimate, which is at the edge of the page; the v/u in l.17 
             looks unlike scribe's v OR u, but looks to me more like his v; 
             in ll. 38 & 40 the "%A"s are unexplained diacritical marks over 
             the "a"s--the 2nd one is a crescent facing downward--GAS asks 
             whether they affect meter%2