IDENTILIN$$  F148C09|BedfShe|Luttrell MS|ff. 66v-67v\E:GL\P:EWS\o\7-5-95\C:JSC\Sept'95;6-4-01
148.C09.0HE  %XTo the Lady Bedford.
148.C09.001  You that are Shee, & You, that's double shee
148.C09.002  In her dead face halfe of yourselfe shall see
148.C09.003  Shee was the other part, for so they doe
148.C09.004  which build them freindships, become one of two.
148.C09.005  So two that but themselues no third can fitt
148.C09.006  which were to be so when they were not yet
148.C09.007  Twinns though their birth Cusco & Musco take [RM:>>x<<]
148.C09.008  As diuers Starres one constellation make [CW:>>payr'd#like<<]
148.C09.009  Payr'd like two Eyes haue equall motion; so [67]
148.C09.010  Both but one meanes to see, one way to goe.
148.C09.011  Had you dy'd first a carcase shee had binne
148.C09.012  And wee her rich tombe in your face had seene
148.C09.013  Shee like the soule is gonne, & heere you stay,
148.C09.014  Not a liue freind, but th'other halfe of Clay.
148.C09.015  And since you Act that part, %Y(%Zas men say, Heere
148.C09.016  Lyes such a Prince, when but a part is there
148.C09.017  And do all honour & deuotion show
148.C09.018  Vnto the whole, So wee all reuerence you.
148.C09.019  for such a freindship who would not adore
148.C09.020  In you, who are all what both were before.
148.C09.021  Not All, as if some perished by this,
148.C09.022  But so as in you All contracted is.|
148.C09.023  As of this All, though many parts decay
148.C09.024  The pure which elemented them shall stay,
148.C09.025  And though diffus'd and spread in infinite
148.C09.026  Shall recollect & in one All vnite;
148.C09.027  So, Madame, as her Soule to heauen is fledd
148.C09.028  Her flesh rests in the earth as in a bed
148.C09.029  Her virtues doe as to their proper Sphere
148.C09.030  Returne to dwell with you of whom they were.
148.C09.031  As perfect Motions are all Circular
148.C09.032  So they to you the sea whence all Streames are.
148.C09.033  Shee was all Spices, you all Mettalls, so
148.C09.034  In you two wee did both rich Indyes know.
148.C09.035  And as no fire nor rust can spend nor wast
148.C09.036  One dram%Me of Gould, but what was first shall last
148.C09.037  Though it be forc'd in Water, Earth, Salt, Ayre
148.C09.038  Expans'd in infinite none will impaire:
148.C09.039  So to yourselfe you may additions take
148.C09.040  But nothing can you lesse or changed make [CW:om]
148.C09.041  Seeke not, in seeking new, to seeme to doubt [67v]
148.C09.042  That you can match her, or not be without
148.C09.043  But let some faithfull booke in her roome bee
148.C09.044  Yet but of Iudith no such booke as Shee.
148.C09.0SS  [horiz. lines]
148.C09.0$$  No ind; short, horiz. lines separate HE from body; among verse letters