IDENTILIN$$  F149H03|Mark|Harvard fMS Eng. 166.1 (Carnaby)|f.45r-v, pp.89-90|mf T-LP 3Sep87
149.H03.HE   A Funerall Elegie vppon the /Ladie Markeham [45]
149.H03.001  Man is the world and deathe the Ocean 
149.H03.002  To which God giues the lower parte of man
149.H03.003  This Sea environs all, and thoughe as yett 
149.H03.004  God hathe sett markes and boundes twixt vs and it
149.H03.005  Yet dothe it roare and Gnawe, and still pretend  
149.H03.006  And breakes our Bankes, where ere it takes a freind
149.H03.007  There our Land waters teares of passions vent
149.H03.008  Our waters then aboue the Firmament
149.H03.009  Teares which our Soules doe for our Sinnes lett fall
149.H03.010  Take all a brakeishe taste, and Funerall
149.H03.011  And euen those teares w%5c%6h should washe Sinne are Sinne
149.H03.012  Wee after Gods mercy drowne our Soules againe
149.H03.013  Noethinge but man of all inuenomn'd thinges
149.H03.014  Dothe worke vppon himself with inborne Stinges
149.H03.015  Teares are false Spectacles, wee cannot see
149.H03.016  Throughe Passions mists, what wee are, or what shee
149.H03.017  In her this Sea of deathe hathe made noe breache
149.H03.018  But as thee tyde dothe waiste, the slyme reache
149.H03.019  And leaue imbrodered workes vppon the Sande
149.H03.020  Soe is her fleshe refinde, by deathe's cold hand
149.H03.021  As men of Chyna after an ages staye
149.H03.022  Doe take vp Purslend where they buried clay
149.H03.023  Soe is the graue her Limbecke w%5c%6h refines   
149.H03.024  The Diamondes, Rubies, Saphires, Pearles and Mynes
149.H03.025  Of which this flesh was her Soule shall inspire 
149.H03.026  Flesh of suche Stuffe, as god when his laste fire  
149.H03.027  Anulls this world, to recompence it shall  
149.H03.028  Make and name you the'Elizar of this all
149.H03.029  They say the Sea when it gaines looses too 
149.H03.030  If carnall deathe the yonger brother doe
149.H03.031  Vsurpe the body our Soule Subiect is 
149.H03.032  To the elder deathe by Sinne is freed from this
149.H03.033  They perishe bothe when they attempt the iuste  
149.H03.034  For graues our Trophies are, and bothe dead Duste   
149.H03.035  Soe vnobnoxious nowe shee hathe buried bothe [45v]
149.H03.036  For none to deathe Sinnes, whiche to Sinne are lothe 
149.H03.037  Nor doe they dye which are not lothe to die
149.H03.038  Soe shee hathe this and that virginitie 
149.H03.039  Grace was in her extreamely dilligent 
149.H03.040  That kept her from Sinne, yet made her repent
149.H03.041  Of what small Spotts pure white complaines (allas) 
149.H03.042  Howe little poisone crakes a Christall glasse
149.H03.043  Shee Sinn'd but Iuste enoughe to let vs see
149.H03.044  That gods word muste be true; All Sinners bee 
149.H03.045  Soe muche did zeale her Conscience rarifie
149.H03.046  That extreame truthe lackt' little of lye 
149.H03.047  Makeinge omission actes, layinge the touche
149.H03.048  Of Sinnes, on thinges which sometymes may be suche
149.H03.049  As Moyses Cherubines whose nature doe
149.H03.050  Surpasse all speed by him are winged too,
149.H03.051  Soe would her Soule allready in heauen seeme then 
149.H03.052  To clyme by teares (the Common Staires of men) 
149.H03.053  Howe fitt shee was for God Iam content  
149.H03.054  To speake that deathe his vaine haist may repent
149.H03.055  Howe fitt for vs howe euen and %Ysoe%Z>howe sweet
149.H03.056  Howe good in all her titles and howe meet
149.H03.057  To haue reform'd that froward heresie
149.H03.058  That weoman can noe parte of freindship bee 
149.H03.059  Howe morall howe deuine, shall not be told
149.H03.060  Least they that heare her vertues thinke her old
149.H03.061  And least we take deaths' parte and make him glad
149.H03.062  Of suche a prey and to his triumphe add. 
149.H03.SS   J.D.
149.H03.0$$  No indentations.