IDENTILIN$$  F149VA2|Mark|V&A MS 18.25.F17|Ff. 48-49|EWS   Original 5-29-86 
149.VA2.0HE  An Elegie on the Lady Markham.
149.VA2.001  Man is the world and death the Ocean [f. 48]
149.VA2.002  To which god giues the lower part of Man
149.VA2.003  The sea inuirons all, and though as yet
149.VA2.004  God hath set bounds and markes 'twixt vs and it,
149.VA2.005  Yet doth it weare and gnawe and still prae%Ltend
149.VA2.006  And breaks our bankes when e're it takes a frend.
149.VA2.007  Then our Landwaters (teares of passion) vent
149.VA2.008  Our waters then aboue our firmament [f. 48v]
149.VA2.009  Teares which our soules doe for our sinns let fall
149.VA2.010  Take all a bracksh tast and funerall,
149.VA2.011  And euen these teares which should wash sin are sin
149.VA2.012  We after Gods-Noe drownd the world againe.
149.VA2.013  Nothinge but man of all inuenomd' thinges
149.VA2.014  Doth worke vpon it selfe with inborne stinges.
149.VA2.015  om
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149.VA2.017  In hir the sea of death hath made no breach
149.VA2.018  But as the Tyde doth wast the slymie ditch
149.VA2.019  And leaues embroydred workes vpon the sand
149.VA2.020  So is hir flesh refind by deaths cold hand.
149.VA2.021  As men in China after an ages stay
149.VA2.022  Do take vp Purseline where the buried clay
149.VA2.023  So at the graue, her Limbecke which refines
149.VA2.024  The Diamond, Rubies, Saphires, Pearles & Mine
149.VA2.025  Of which this flesh was, hir soule shall enspire
149.VA2.026  Flesh of such stufe as God when his last fire
149.VA2.027  Annulls the world, to recompence it shall
149.VA2.028  Make and name them the Elixar of this all.
149.VA2.029  The say the Sea when it gaines looseth too
149.VA2.030  If carnall death the yonger brother doe
149.VA2.031  Vsurpe the bodie, our soule which subiect is
149.VA2.032  To th'elder Death by sinne, is freed by this.
149.VA2.033  They perish both who attempt the iust
149.VA2.034  For graues our Trophies are, and both dead dust
149.VA2.035  So vnobnoxiouse now she hath buried both
149.VA2.036  For none to death sinnes but %Ydo%Z to death are loath
149.VA2.037  Nor did they dye which are not loath to dye
149.VA2.038  So hath she this and that virginitie
149.VA2.039  Grace were in hir extreamly diligent
149.VA2.040  That kept hir from sinn yet made hir repent.
149.VA2.041  Of what smale spotts pure white complaines?  Alas
149.VA2.042  How little poyson breakes a Christall glasse?
149.VA2.043  She sinnd' but iust enough to lett vs see
149.VA2.044  That gods word must be trew %1All sinners be%2.
149.VA2.045  So much did zeale hir conscience rectifie
149.VA2.046  That extreame truth lackd' little of a lye
149.VA2.047  Makinge omissions acts, layinge the touch
149.VA2.048  Of sinne on thinges that some times may be such,
149.VA2.049  As Moses Cherubines whose natures doe
149.VA2.050  Surpasse all speed by him are winged too
149.VA2.051  So would hir soule already in heauen seeme then [f. 49]
149.VA2.052  To climbe by teares the common stayres of men.
149.VA2.053  How fitt she was for God I am content
149.VA2.054  To speake, y%5t%6 death his vaine hast may repent,
149.VA2.055  How fitt for vs, how euen and how sweet
149.VA2.056  How good in all hir titles and how meete
149.VA2.057  To haue reformd' this forward heresie
149.VA2.058  That women can no part of frenship be
149.VA2.059  How morrall, how deuine shall not be told
149.VA2.060  Least they that heare her vertues thinke hir old
149.VA2.061  And lest we take Deaths part and make him glad
149.VA2.062  Of such a pray and to his triumph adde.
149.VA2.0SS  Ioh:  Donn.
149.VA2.$$   cf. NP1 and NY1