IDENTILIN$$ F148H08|BedfShe|Utterson ms., Eng. 966.7|f. 90r-v|KJH\mf\6-28-94\P:DF\o\3-16-01\C:JSC\4-17-01
148.H08.HE1 %XI.D. An ELEGIE to the La: Bedford.
148.H08.001 You that are shee & yo%5u%6 that's double shee
148.H08.002 In her dead face half of yo%5r%6selfe shall see,
148.H08.003 Shee was the other part; for soe they doe
148.H08.004 W%5ch%6 build them freindshipps become one of two;
148.H08.005 So two that but themselues noe third can fitt
148.H08.006 W%5ch%6 were to bee soe, when they were not yet,
148.H08.007 Twinns, though their birth Cusco & Musco take,
148.H08.008 As diuers starrs one Constellation make
148.H08.009 Payr'd like two eyes haue equall motion, soe
148.H08.010 Both by one meanes to see, one way to goe.
148.H08.011 Had you dyed first a carcass she had beene
148.H08.012 And wee your rich Tombe in her face had seene;
148.H08.013 She like the Soule is gone, & you here stay
148.H08.014 Not a liue freind, but th' other halfe of clay.
148.H08.015 And since you act that part, as men say heere
148.H08.016 Lyes such a Prince, when but one part is there,
148.H08.017 And doe all hono%5r%6 & deuotion due
148.H08.018 Vnto the whole, soe wee all reuerence you. [f.90v]
148.H08.019 ffor such a freindshipp who would not adore
148.H08.020 In you who are all what both were before;
148.H08.021 Not all, as if some perished by this,
148.H08.022 But soe that in you all contracted is
148.H08.023 As of this all though many parts decay
148.H08.024 The pure w%5ch%6 elemented them shall stay,
148.H08.025 And though diffus'd & spread in infinite
148.H08.026 Shall recollect, & in one all vnite.
148.H08.027 Soe Madam as her soule to heauen is fledd
148.H08.028 Her flesh rests in the Earth as in a bedd:
148.H08.029 Her vertues doe as to their proper spheare
148.H08.030 Returne to dwell w%5th%6 yo%5u%6 of whom they were;
148.H08.031 As perfect motions are all circular
148.H08.032 So they to yo%5u%6 their Sea, whence less streames are;
148.H08.033 She was all spices, you all mettalls; soe
148.H08.034 In you two we did both rich Indyes know.
148.H08.035 And as noe fire nor rust can spend or wast
148.H08.036 One dramme of gold, but w%5t%6 was first shall last
148.H08.037 Though it be forc'd in water, earth, salt, aire,
148.H08.038 Expans'd in infinite none will impaire;
148.H08.039 Soe to your selfe you may additions take,
148.H08.040 But nothing can you less or changed make;
148.H08.041 Seeke not in seeking new to seeme to doubt
148.H08.042 That you can match her, or not be without,
148.H08.043 But let some faithfull booke in her roome bee,
148.H08.044 Yet, but of Iudeth, noe such booke as shee.
148.H08.0SS [Scribal flourish]
148.H08.0$$ No ind; no sts