IDENTILIN$$ 149NY1/Mark/John Cave/pp. [96]-[97] of 2nd collect., i.e., Elegies & Epigrammes/orig., TLP, Ap. '88 149.NY1.HE1 An Elegie on y%5e%6 Ladie Markham. 149.NY1.001 Man is the World and Death the Ocean 149.NY1.002 to w%5ch%6 God giues y%5e%6 lower part of Man 149.NY1.003 The Sea enuirons all and though as yet 149.NY1.004 God hath sett bounds and marks t'wixt vs and it 149.NY1.005 Yet doth it weare and gnaw and still prae%Ltend 149.NY1.006 and breaks our banks when ere it takes a freind. 149.NY1.007 Then our land waters (teares of passion) vent 149.NY1.008 our waters then aboue our firmament 149.NY1.009 Teares w%5ch%6 our Soules doe for our sinns lett fall 149.NY1.010 take all a brackish taste and funerall 149.NY1.011 And euen these teares w%5ch%6 should wash sinn, are sinn 149.NY1.012 wee after Gods Noe drown'd y%5e%6 world againe. 149.NY1.013 Nothing but man of all enuenom'd things 149.NY1.014 doth worke vpon itself with inborne stings 149.NY1.015 Teares are false spectacles wee cannot see 149.NY1.016 Through passions mist what they are or what wee. 149.NY1.017 In her y%5e%6 Sea of Death hath made noe breack 149.NY1.018 but as y%5e%6 ty'de doth wast y%5e%6 slimye ditch-->M:beach 149.NY1.019 and leaues embroydered works vpon y%5e%6 sand 149.NY1.020 so is her flesh refin'd by Death cold hand. 149.NY1.021 As men in China after an ages stay 149.NY1.022 doe take vp Purceline where they buryed clay 149.NY1.023 So at y%5e%6 Graue, her Lymbeck w%5ch%6 refines 149.NY1.024 the Diamond, Rubies, Saphyres, Pearls and Myne 149.NY1.025 off w%5ch%6 this flesh was her Soule shall inspire 149.NY1.026 FFlesh of such stuff as God when his last fire 149.NY1.027 Annulls y%5e%6 world, to Recompense it shall 149.NY1.028 make and name them th'Elixar of this All 149.NY1.029 They say the Sea when it gaines looseth too 149.NY1.030 If carnall death y%5e%6 yonger brother doe 149.NY1.031 vsurp y%5e%6 bodie, our soule w%5ch%6 subiect is 149.NY1.032 to th'elder Death by Sinn is freed by this. 149.NY1.033 They perish both who attempt y%5e%6 iust [p.[97]] 149.NY1.034 for graues our trophies are, and both dead dust 149.NY1.035 So vnobnoxiouse no%5w%6 she hath buried both. 149.NY1.036 ffor none to Death sinns but to death is loath 149.NY1.037 Nor did they die w%5ch%6 are not loath to dye 149.NY1.038 so hath she this and y%5t%6 virginitie 149.NY1.039 Grace was in her extreamly dilligent 149.NY1.040 that kept her from sinn yet made her repent. 149.NY1.041 of w%5t%6 smale spotts pure white complayns? Alas 149.NY1.042 how little poison breaks a Christall glass 149.NY1.043 She sinn'd but iust enough to lett vs see 149.NY1.044 that Gods word must be trew %1All Sinners bee.%2 149.NY1.045 So much did zeale her conscience rectefie 149.NY1.046 that extreame truth lackd little of a lye 149.NY1.047 making omissions acts, laying the touch 149.NY1.048 of sinn on things y%5t%6 somtymes may be such 149.NY1.049 as Moses Cherubins whose natures doe 149.NY1.050 surpass all speed by him are winged too 149.NY1.051 So would her soule alreadye in heauen seem then 149.NY1.052 to climbe by teares y%5e%6 com%Mon stayres of men 149.NY1.053 Ho%5w%6 fitt she was for God I am content 149.NY1.054 to speak, y%5t%6 Death his vayne hast may repent 149.NY1.055 Ho%5w%6 fitt for vs, ho%5w%6 euen and ho%5w%6 sweet 149.NY1.056 ho%5w%6 good in all her titles and how meet, 149.NY1.057 to haue reford-->refor%5m%6d this forward heresie 149.NY1.058 that wome%M can noe parte of freindship bee 149.NY1.059 Ho%5w%6 morall, ho%5w%6 deuine shall not be told 149.NY1.060 Lest they y%5t%6 heare her vertues thinke her old 149.NY1.061 And lest we take Deaths parte and make him glad 149.NY1.062 of such a pray and to his tryumphs add./. 149.NY1.0SS Finis Io. Donn./. 149.NY1.0$$ Even number lines and line 15 indented. XLVIII %1in left margin of HE1%2. An extra space between lines 14 & 15. Lines 15 & 16 added in left margin, lengthwise, different pen and ink; maybe same hand. Line 18: ditch %1underscored and%2 beach %1given in right margin in hand of ll. 15-16%2. Heading and SS within double rules. Wr. in italic hand.