IDENTILIN$$  F149O21|Mark|Eng. poet. f. 9 Phillipps|Pp. 124-26|EWS  Original  7-31-85
149.O21.0HE  An Elegie ffunerall on the La: Markham./
149.O21.001  Man is this world and death the ocean [p. 124]
149.O21.002  to w%5c%6 god giues the lower part of ma%M
149.O21.003  this sea inviron'd all; and though as yett
149.O21.004  god hath sett marks and bounds, 'twixt vs & itt;
149.O21.005  yet doth it rage and knaw, and still p%Ptend
149.O21.006  and breaks o%5r%6 banks when as it takes a frind
149.O21.007  Then o%5r%6 land waters tears of passion vent
149.O21.008  O%5r%6 waters then aboue o%5r%6 firmament.
149.O21.009  Tears w%5c%6 o%5r%6 soules doe for o%5r%6 sins let fall
149.O21.010  take all a brackish tast and funerall
149.O21.011  and euen those tears w%5ch%6 should wash sinn ar sinne
149.O21.012  Wee after god doe drowne o%5r%6 world againe
149.O21.013  & Nothing but man of all envenomb'd things
149.O21.014  doth worke vppo%M himself w%5th%6 inborne stings
149.O21.015  Tears are false spectacles wee cannot see
149.O21.016  through passions mist, w%5t%6: wee are or w%5t%6: shee./
149.O21.017  In her this sea of death hath no breach [p. 125]
149.O21.018  but as the tide doth wash the slymie reach
149.O21.019  and leaue embroydred works vppon the sand
149.O21.020  so is her flesh refin'd by deaths cold hand
149.O21.021  as men of China after an ages stay
149.O21.022  doe take vp Purseline wher they buried clay
149.O21.023  so is the graue her lymbecke w%5t%6 refines,
149.O21.024  the diamonds, rubies, saphirs, pearles, & mines,
149.O21.025  of w%5ch%6 this flesh was, her soule shall inspire
149.O21.026  flesh of such stuffe, as god when his last fire
149.O21.027  annulls this world, to recompence it shall
149.O21.028  make and name y%5e%6 the Elixar of this all.
149.O21.029  The say the sea when it gaines looses too
149.O21.030  If carnall death the yonger brother doe
149.O21.031  Vsurpe the body o%5r%6 soule, w%5t%6 subiect is
149.O21.032  to the elder death by sinne, is free'd by this
149.O21.033  they p%Pish both when they attempte the iust
149.O21.034  for graues o%5r%6 trophees are and both deaths dust.
149.O21.035  so vnobnoxious now shee hath buried both
149.O21.036  for none to death sinns w%5ch%6 to sinne are loath
149.O21.037  nor doe they dy w%5t%6 are not loath to dye
149.O21.038  so shee hath this and that virginity
149.O21.039  grace was in her extreamely diligent
149.O21.040  y%5t%6 kept her from sinne yet made her repent.
149.O21.041  of what small spots pure white complains (alas)
149.O21.042  how little poysonne crackt a Cristall glasse
149.O21.043  She sinn'd but iust enough to let vs see
149.O21.044  y%5t%6 gods word must bee true, all sinners bee
149.O21.045  So much did zeale her conscience rarify:
149.O21.046  that extreame truth lackt little of a ly [p. 126]
149.O21.047  making Omission acts; laying the touch
149.O21.048  of sinns on things; w%5ch%6 may bee such
149.O21.049  As Moses Cherubins whose natures doe
149.O21.050  surpasse all speed, by him ar winged too
149.O21.051  so would her soule, allready in heauen; seeme then
149.O21.052  To climbe by teares (y%5e%6 common stairs of me%M) 
149.O21.053  how fitt she was for god, I am content
149.O21.054  to speake that death his vaine hast may repent
149.O21.055  How fitt for vs, how euen and how sweet
149.O21.056  how good in all her Titles, and how meete
149.O21.057  to haue refin'd y%5t%6 forward Heresy
149.O21.058  y%5t%6 women can no p%Pt of frindship bee
149.O21.059  how morrall; how diuine; shall not be told
149.O21.060  least they that heare her vertues thinke her old
149.O21.061  & least wee take deaths p%Pte and make him glad
149.O21.062  of such a prey and to his triumphs add.
149.O21.0SS  I D:  ffinis
149.O21.$$   Heading is scribal.