IDENTILIN$$ F148B40|BedfShe|ms. Lansdowne 740|f. 114r-v\GAS\o\6-20-95; re-chk 6-21-95 148.B40.HE1 %X%1An Elegie to the La: Bedford.%2 148.B40.001 Yo%5u%6 that are shee, and yo%5u%6, that's double shee 148.B40.002 In her dead face half of yo%5r%6 self shall see. 148.B40.003 Shee was the other part, fo%5r%6 soe they doe 148.B40.004 W%5ch%6 build them frend shipps, become one of two; 148.B40.005 Soe two, that but themselues noe third can fitt, 148.B40.006 W%5ch%6 were to bee soe, when they were not yett. 148.B40.007 Twines though their Birth Cusco, and Musco take 148.B40.008 as divers starrs one constellation make. 148.B40.009 Pair'd like two eyes, haue equall motion, soe 148.B40.010 both but one meanes to see, one waie to goe. 148.B40.011 Had you died first, a carcasse shee had beene, 148.B40.012 and wee yo%5r%6 rich tombe in her face had seene 148.B40.013 Shee like the soule is gon, and yo%5u%6 heare staie 148.B40.014 not aliue frend, but thother half of clay: 148.B40.015 And since yo%5u%6 acte that part, as men saie heare 148.B40.016 lies such a Prince, when but one part is there: 148.B40.017 And do all Honour, and devotion due 148.B40.018 Vnto the whole, soe we all reverence yo%5u%6. 148.B40.019 ffor such a frend ship, whoe would not adore 148.B40.020 in you, whoe are all what both was before? 148.B40.021 Not all, as if some perished by this, 148.B40.022 but soe that in yo%5u%6, all contracted is; 148.B40.023 As of this all, thoughe manie partes decaye 148.B40.024 the pure w%5ch%6 Elemented them shall staie; 148.B40.025 And though defusd, and spred in infinite 148.B40.026 shall recollect, and in one all vnite. 148.B40.027 Soe Maddam, as her soule to heaven is fled 148.B40.028 her flesh restes in the earth, as in a bed. 148.B40.029 Her vertues doe as to their proppe%5r%6 sphere 148.B40.030 returne to dwell wth you, of whom they wer. cw:om 148.B40.031 As perfect motions are all circulare f.144v 148.B40.032 soe they to yo%5u%6 their Sea, whence lesse stremes are. 148.B40.033 Shee was all spices, yo%5u%6 all mettales, soe 148.B40.034 in yo%5u%6 two, wee did both Rich Indies know. 148.B40.035 And as noe fire, nor ruste, can spend, or waste 148.B40.036 one drame of gold, but what was first shall last 148.B40.037 Though it be forc't in water, Earth, Salt, Ayre 148.B40.038 expans'd in infinite, none will impaire: 148.B40.039 Soe to yo%5r%6 self, yo%5u%6 may additions take, 148.B40.040 but nothing can yo%5u%6 lesse, or channged make. 148.B40.041 Seeke not, in seeking new to seeme to doubt 148.B40.042 that yo%u%6 can match her, or not be w%5t%6hout 148.B40.043 But lett some faithfull booke in her roome bee 148.B40.044 Yett but of Iudith noe such book as shee.| 148.B40.0SS %XFinis 148.B40.0$$ Even ll. ind 5 sp. Then follows BedfReas w/ M note that it is "Another to the/ Countis of Bed:" (a M note that makes sense in terms of the HE on this poem)