IDENTILIN$$  F149C01|Mark|MS 29  Smyth|ff. 15v-16|EWS  Original  6-14-85
149.C01.0HE  An Elegye vpon the death of the Ladye markham./  
149.C01.001  Man is the world, and death the Ocean [f. 15v]
149.C01.002  to w%5ch%6 god gyves the lowar parts of man:
149.C01.003  this sea environs all: and though as yet
149.C01.004  god hath sett mark's, and bound's t'wixt vs & it
149.C01.005  yet doth it rore, and gnaw, and still pretend
149.C01.006  and breakes our bounds when ere it takes a frend
149.C01.007  then our lande watars teares of passion vent
149.C01.008  our waters then aboue our firmament
149.C01.009  teares w%5ch%6 our soule doth for her sines lett fall,
149.C01.010  haue all a brackishe taste, and funerall
149.C01.011  and euen those teares w%5ch%6 should washe sinne, are sinne
149.C01.012  wee after gods noe, drownde the world agen.
149.C01.013  noe thinge but man of all envenimde thinges,
149.C01.014  doth worke vpon him selfe w%5th%6 inborne thinges;
149.C01.015  teares are false spectackles, wee can not see
149.C01.016  through passions mist, what wee are, or what shee
149.C01.017  in her this sea of death, hath made noe breache
149.C01.018  but as the tyde doth washe the slymy beache,
149.C01.019  and leaues Imbrodred work's vpon the sande
149.C01.020  soe is her flesh refinde; by deathes could hande
149.C01.021  as men of China, after an ages staye
149.C01.022  doe take %Yvs%Z up pureland where they buried claye
149.C01.023  soe at this grave his lymbeck which refines
149.C01.024  the diamonds, saphirs, Rubies, pearle, & mynes
149.C01.025  of w%5ch%6 this flesh was, her soule shall inspire
149.C01.026  flesh of such stuffe, as god when his last fire
149.C01.027  annuls the worlde, to recompence it shall
149.C01.028  make, and name then the %1Elixar%2 of this all
149.C01.029  the saye the sea when it %Yis%Z gaines, loses too
149.C01.030  if carnall death, the yonger brother doe
149.C01.031  vsurpe the body:  our soule w%5ch%6 subiect is
149.C01.032  to theld'er.  by sinne, is freed by this
149.C01.033  they perish both, when they attempt the Iust
149.C01.034  for graves our trophies are, and both deathes dust
149.C01.035  so vnobnoxious now shee hath buried both
149.C01.036  for none to death sinns, that to synne is lothe
149.C01.037  nor doe they dye, w%5ch%6 are not loth to die.
149.C01.038  soe hath shee this, and that virginitie.
149.C01.039  grace was in her, extreamely diligent
149.C01.040  that kept' her from sinne; yet made her repent
149.C01.041  of what small spotts pure white complaines Alas
149.C01.042  how litle poyson cracks a christall glasse:
149.C01.043  shee sinnd but Iust soe much, to let vs see
149.C01.044  that gods worde must be trew, all sinners bee
149.C01.045  soe much did zeale her conscience rarefie,
149.C01.046  that extreame truth lack'd litle of a lye:
149.C01.047  makinge om%Missions acts, layinge the touch
149.C01.048  of sinne, on thinges, w%5ch%6 sometymes may bee such:
149.C01.049  as moyses Cherubins whose natures doe
149.C01.050  surpasse all speede by him winged too:
149.C01.051  soe would her soule allready in heaven, seeme then
149.C01.052  to clime by teares the common stayres of men./
149.C01.053  how fitt shee was for god, I am content
149.C01.054  to speake, that Death his vayne haste maye repent.
149.C01.055  how fitt for vs, how euen, and how sweete, [f. 16]
149.C01.056  how good in all her titles, and how meete,
149.C01.057  to haue reformd, that frowarde heresie
149.C01.058  that woemen cann, noe parts of frendshipp bee,
149.C01.059  how morrall, how devine, shall not be tolde
149.C01.060  least they that heare her virtue thinke her olde
149.C01.061  and least wee take deathes part, ^and make him gladd
149.C01.062  of such a pray, and to his triumph add./
149.C01.0SS  I.D/
149.C01.$$   Corrections are scribal