IDENTILIN$$  F148H06|BedfShe|O'Flahertie MS; Eng. 966.5|pp. 208-09\JSC\mf\10-12-94\P:DF\6-25-97\C:JGW\4-10-00; JSC 6-13-00
148.H06.HE1  %XTo the Lady Bedford.|
148.H06.001  Yo%5u%6 that are shee, and yo%5u%6, that's double shee
148.H06.002  In her dead face halfe of yo%5r%6selfe shall see
148.H06.003  Shee was the other part; for so they doe
148.H06.004  Which build them frindships, become one of two.
148.H06.005  So two that but themselues no third can fitt
148.H06.006  W%5ch%6 were to bee so when they were not yet
148.H06.007  Twins though theyr birth Cusco and Musco take
148.H06.008  As diuers starrs one constellation make
148.H06.009  Payr'd like two eyes haue ae%Lquall motion: so
148.H06.010  Both but one meanes to see, one way to goe.
148.H06.011  Had yo%5u%6 dy'd first a carcasse shee had bin
148.H06.012  And wee yo%5r%6 rich Tombe in her face had seene
148.H06.013  Shee like the soule is gon, and heere yo%5u%6 stay,
148.H06.014  Not a Liue frind, but th'other halfe of Clay.
148.H06.015  And since yo%5u%6 act that part, As men say, Heere
148.H06.016  Lyes such a Prince when but a part is there
148.H06.017  And doe all hono%5r%6 and deuotion showe
148.H06.018  Vnto the whole: So wee all reverence yo%5u%6.
148.H06.019  ffor such a frindship who would not adore
148.H06.020  In yo%5u%6, who are all what both were before|.
148.H06.021  Not All, as if some perished by this,
148.H06.022  But so as in yo%5u%6 All contracted is.|
148.H06.023  As, of this All, though many parts decay,
148.H06.024  The pure w%5ch%6 elemented them shall stay,
148.H06.025  And though diffusd and spredd in infinite
148.H06.026  Shall recollect and in one all vnite:
148.H06.027  So, Madame, as her soule to heauen is fledd
148.H06.028  Her flesh rests in the Earth as in a bedd [CW:Her__]
148.H06.029  Her Vertues doe as to theyr proper spheare [p.209]
148.H06.030  Returne to dwell with you of whome they were.
148.H06.031  As perfect motions are all circular
148.H06.032  So they to yo%5u%6 %Jthe%K[Mvar:>>their<<] sea whence %Jall%K[Mvar:>>lesse<<] streames are.
148.H06.033  Shee was all spices, yo%5u%6 all mettalls, so
148.H06.034  In yo%5u%6 two wee did both rich Indyes know.
148.H06.035  And as no fire nor rust can spend nor wast
148.H06.036  One dram%M of gold, but what was first shall last
148.H06.037  Though it bee forc'd in water, earth, salt, Ayre
148.H06.038  Expansd in infinite none will impayre:
148.H06.039  So to your selfe yo%5u%6 may Additions take
148.H06.040  But nothing can yo%5u%6 lesse or changed make
148.H06.041  Seeke not, in seeking new, to seeme to doubt
148.H06.042  That you can match her, or not bee without
148.H06.043  But let some faythfull booke in her roome bee
148.H06.044  Yet but of Iudith no such booke as shee
148.H06.0SS  [six short lines across page as a single "dotted" line]
148.H06.0$$  %1No ind;%2 >>P.<< %1to left of HE, under which are 3 short horiz. lines forming a single "dotted" line; 
there's an X, maybe nonscribal, in the RM at l.7; for the T in Tombe, l.12, cf. first letter of l.24%2