IDENTILIN$$  F149B16|Mark|BL Add. 30982 Leare|f. 47v-48v|EWS  Original  6-5-85
149.B16.0HE  D%5r%6 Donne on the Lady Markhame.
149.B16.001  Man is the world & death the Ocean [f. 47v]
149.B16.002  to w%5c%6h god giues the lower parts of man
149.B16.003  this sea inuirons all.  & though as yitt
149.B16.004  god hath sett marks & bounds twixt vs & itt
149.B16.005  yet doth it roare & gnaw & still pretend
149.B16.006  and breake our banks where eare it hath a freind
149.B16.007  then our land waters teares of passion vent
149.B16.008  Our waters then a bout the firmament
149.B16.009  Teares w%5ch%6 our soule doth for hir sins lett fall
149.B16.010  take all a brakish tast & funerall
149.B16.011  and euen those teares w%5ch%6 should wash sine are sine
149.B16.012  wee after gods Noah drowne the world agine
149.B16.013  nothing but man of all inuenomed things
149.B16.014  doth worke vppon it selfe w%5th%6 inborne strings 
149.B16.015  om.
149.B16.016  om.
149.B16.017  In hir this sea of death hath made no breach [f. 48]
149.B16.018  but as the tyde doth wash the slimy beach
149.B16.019  and leaues imbroyderd worke vpon the sand
149.B16.020  So is hir flesh refinde by deaths cold hand
149.B16.021  as men of china after ages stay
149.B16.022  doth take vp purslan where they buried clay
149.B16.023  So att this graue hir limbreck which refines
149.B16.024  the diamond, rubies, sapphers, pearles & mines
149.B16.025  Of w%5ch%6 this flesh was. her soule shall inspire
149.B16.026  flesh of such stufe, as god when his last fire
149.B16.027  annulls the world, to recompence it shall
149.B16.028  make man ether the |E|lixirck of this all
149.B16.029  they say when the sea it gaines looseth too
149.B16.030  if carnall death the younger brother doe
149.B16.031  Vsurp the body, our soule w\c/h subiect is
149.B16.032  to the elder death by sine, is freed by this
149.B16.033  they perish both when they attempt the iust
149.B16.034  for graues their Trophies are, & both deaths dust
149.B16.035  So vnobnoxious shee hath purged both
149.B16.036  for none to death sines, that to sines are loath
149.B16.037  nor doe they dy, who are not loath to dy
149.B16.038  So shee hath this and that virginity
149.B16.039  grace was in her extreamely diligent
149.B16.040  that kept hir from him, yet made her repent
149.B16.041  Of w%5t%6 small spots puer white complains: alass
149.B16.042  how little poyson breakes a christall glass
149.B16.043  Shee sind but iust enough to lett vs see
149.B16.044  That gods word must be trew, all siners bee
149.B16.045  So much did zeal hir conscience rariefie
149.B16.046  that extreame truth lackt little of a lie
149.B16.047  making omissions acts.  Layeing the touch
149.B16.048  Of sine, one things w%5ch%6 sometines may be such 
149.B16.049  as Moses cherubins, whoe by nature doe
149.B16.050  Surpass all speed, are by him winged toe
149.B16.051  So would hir soule allready in heauen see%Me then
149.B16.052  to clime by teares the com%Mon stayers of men
149.B16.053  how fitt shee was for god I am content
149.B16.054  to speake, y%5t%6 death his vaine hast may repent
149.B16.055  how fitt for vs how euen & how sweet [f. 48v]
149.B16.056  how good in all her tittles & how meet 
149.B16.057  to haue reformed, this forward heresie 
149.B16.058  that woeman can noe part of frindship bee
149.B16.059  how morall, how diuine shall not be tould
149.B16.060  Least they that heare hir virtues thinke her old
149.B16.061  and least we take deaths part & make him glad
149.B16.062  Of such a prey, & to his truimphs add./
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