IDENTLINE$$ F153C01|Har|Smyth|ff. 11-13|Original EWS 6-13-85 153.C01.0HE Obsequies vpon the Lord Harringe y%5t%6 last dyed./ 153.C01.001 ffayre soule, w%5ch%6 wast not onely (as all soules be) [f. 11] 153.C01.002 then when thou wast infused, harmony, 153.C01.003 but didst continue soe: & now doest beare 153.C01.004 a part in gods great organ this whole spheare, 153.C01.005 yf lookinge vp to god or downe to vs 153.C01.006 thou find y%5t%6 any way is peruious 153.C01.007 twixt heauen & earth, & y%5t%6 mens actions doe 153.C01.008 come to yo%5r%6 knowing & affections too: 153.C01.009 see (& w%5th%6 ioy) me to y%5t%6 good degree 153.C01.010 Of goodnesse growne y%5t%6 I can study thee 153.C01.011 and by those meditations refinde 153.C01.012 can vnapparell & enlarge my mynde. 153.C01.013 and soe can make by this softe %Yextasie%Z [extasie] 153.C01.014 this place a map of heauen, my selfe of thee 153.C01.015 thou%Ye%Z seest me here at midnight now at rest 153.C01.016 times dead %Ylo%Z loe water when all mindes deuest 153.C01.017 to morowes busines. when the laborers haue 153.C01.018 such rest in bed y%5t%6 there last churchyard graue 153.C01.019 subiect to change will skarse be a tipe of this 153.C01.020 now when the Client (whose last hearinge is 153.C01.021 to morow) sleepes. when the condemned man 153.C01.022 who when he opes his eyes must shut them then 153.C01.023 agayne by death although sad watch he keepe 153.C01.024 doth practise death, by a little sleepe 153.C01.025 thou at this midnight seest me & as soone 153.C01.026 as y%5t%6 sonne rises to me midnights noone 153.C01.027 all the world growes transparent. & I see 153.C01.028 through all, both Church & state in seeing thee 153.C01.029 and I decerne by fauour of this Light 153.C01.030 my selfe (the hardest obiect of y%5e%6 sight) 153.C01.031 god is the glasse as thou when thou doest see 153.C01.032 him who sees all seest all concerninge thee: 153.C01.033 soe yet vnglorified I comprehend 153.C01.034 all in those mirrours of thy way & end 153.C01.035 though god be truly our glasse through w%5ch%6 wee see 153.C01.036 all (since the beeing of all thinges is hee:) 153.C01.037 yet are the trunckes w%5ch%6 doe to vs deriue 153.C01.038 thinges in proportions fitt (by p%Pspectiue) 153.C01.039 deedes of good men. for by there being heere 153.C01.040 virtues in deed remote, seem to be neere 153.C01.041 but where can I affirme, or where arest 153.C01.042 my thoughts on his deedes. w%5ch%6 shall I call bests? 153.C01.043 for sinced virtue cannot be looked on 153.C01.044 nor can endure a contemplation 153.C01.045 as bodyes change, & as I doe not weare 153.C01.046 those sperits, humors, blood, I did last yeare 153.C01.047 and as if on a streame I %Yfix myne eye%Z [fixe myne eye] 153.C01.048 that drop on w%5ch%6 I looked, is presently [cw:pusht] 153.C01.049 Pusht w%5th%6 more waters from my sight & gone [f. 11v] 153.C01.050 soe in this sea of virtues can noe one 153.C01.051 be insisted: virtues as wates passe, 153.C01.052 yet still remaynes y%5t%6 virtuous man there was. 153.C01.053 and as yf man feede on mans flesh & soe 153.C01.054 part of his body to an other owe 153.C01.055 yet at the last too perfect bodies rise 153.C01.056 because god knowes where euerie %Yatome lies%Z. [atome lies] 153.C01.057 soe yf one knowledge were made of all those 153.C01.058 who knew his minutes well, he might dispose 153.C01.059 his virtues into names & rankes, but I 153.C01.060 should iniure nature virtue & destinie 153.C01.061 should I deuide & discontinew soe 153.C01.062 virtue w%5ch%6 did in one intirenesse growe 153.C01.063 for as he %Ywho%Z y%5t%6 would say sperits are framed 153.C01.064 of all the purest parts that can be named 153.C01.065 humors not sperits halfe soe much as he 153.C01.066 that sayes they haue noe parts, but simple be 153.C01.067 %Yso y%5t%6 of virtue%Z soe is't of virtue, for a poynt & one 153.C01.068 are much intirer then a million 153.C01.069 and how fate ment to haue his virtues toulde 153.C01.070 it would haue let him liue to haue beene oulde 153.C01.071 soe then y%5t%6 virtue in season, & then this 153.C01.072 we might haue seene. & sayd y%5t%6 now he is 153.C01.073 wittie, now wise, now temp%Pate, now iust, 153.C01.074 in good short liues virtues are fayne to thrust. 153.C01.075 and to be sure betymes to get a place 153.C01.076 when they would exercise lack, roome, & space, 153.C01.077 soe was it in thy p%Pson forced to be 153.C01.078 for lacke of tyme. his owne Epitomy, 153.C01.079 soe to exhibit, in feaw yeares as much 153.C01.080 as all the long breathed Cronicles can touch 153.C01.081 as when an Angell downe from heauen doth flie 153.C01.082 %Yor%Z>>our<< quicke thought cannot keepe him company 153.C01.083 we cannot thinke now he is %Yin%Z at the sonne 153.C01.084 now through the moone, now he through the ayre doth run%M 153.C01.085 yet he is come we know he did repayre 153.C01.086 to all twixt heauen & earth, sonne, moone, & Ayre 153.C01.087 and as this Angell in an instant knowes 153.C01.088 and yet we know this sodayne knowledge growes 153.C01.089 by quick amasing sev%5er%6all formes of thinges 153.C01.090 w%5ch%6 he successiuely to order bringes 153.C01.091 when they whose slow paced lame thought can not goe 153.C01.092 soe fast as he thinke y%5t%6 he doth not soe 153.C01.093 Iust as a p%Pfect reader doth not dwell 153.C01.094 on euerie sillable nor stay to spell 153.C01.095 yet w%5th%6out doubt he doth distinctly see 153.C01.096 and lay to geather euerie A. & B. 153.C01.097 Soe in short liued[var:>>liu'd<<] good men is vnderstood [f. 12] 153.C01.098 each seuerall virtue but the compound good 153.C01.099 ffor they all virtues paths pace breede 153.C01.100 as Angeles goe & know & as men reede. 153.C01.101 Oh why should thou these men these humps of balme 153.C01.102 sent hither this worldes tempests to %Ybe calme%Z [becalme] 153.C01.103 before by deedes they are diffus'd & spred 153.C01.104 and to make vs aliue them selues are dead. 153.C01.105 Oh soule, Oh circle why soe quickly bee 153.C01.106 thy end thy %Ybreath%Z [birthe], & death clos'd vp in thee? 153.C01.107 since one foote of thy compasse still was plac'de 153.C01.108 in heauen, the other might surely haue pac'de 153.C01.109 in the most large extent through eu%5er%6ie path 153.C01.110 om. 153.C01.111 thou knowest y%5t%6 though the Tropique circles haue 153.C01.112 yea & those smalls ones w%5ch%6 the pole engraue 153.C01.113 all the same euennesse, roundenes, & all 153.C01.114 the endlesnes of the Equinoctiall, 153.C01.115 yet when we come to measure distances 153.C01.116 how here how there the sonne affected is 153.C01.117 where he doth fayntly worke & where prevayle 153.C01.118 Only great circles then can be o%5r%6 %Yseale%Z [scale]. 153.C01.119 soe though thy circle to thy selfe expresse 153.C01.120 all tendinge to thine endlesse happinesse 153.C01.121 and we'by that good vse by that maye trye 153.C01.122 both now to liue well yonge & how to dye, 153.C01.123 yet since we must be ould & age endures 153.C01.124 his torrid zone at Court & Calentures 153.C01.125 Of hot ambitions, irreligious eyce 153.C01.126 Zeale agues & hydroptigue auarice 153.C01.127 (Infirmities w%5ch%6 neede the scale of truth) 153.C01.128 as well as Lust & Ignorance of youth 153.C01.129 why didst thou not for these giue medcines too? 153.C01.130 and by thy doeinge tell vs what to doe. 153.C01.131 though as small pockett clocks whose eu%5er%6ie wheele 153.C01.132 dooth each mismotion & distemp%P feele, 153.C01.133 whose hand gets shakinge palsies, & whose stringe 153.C01.134 (his sinewes) shaken & whose soule the springe 153.C01.135 expires or languishes whose pulse the flye 153.C01.136 either beates not or beates %Yvneuenlye%Z,>>vneuenlie<< 153.C01.137 whose voyce the bell doth rattle or grow dumb 153.C01.138 Or idle as mons who to these last howers come 153.C01.139 yf these Clockes be not wound or be %Ywund%Z [wound] still 153.C01.140 Or be not set, or set at eu%5er%6ie will 153.C01.141 soe youth be easiest to destruction 153.C01.142 yf then we follow all or follow none 153.C01.143 yet as in great clockes w%5th%6in steples %Ychyme%Z [chime] 153.C01.144 plac'd to informe whose townes to imploy there tyme 153.C01.145 an error doth more harme beinge generall 153.C01.146 when small clockes faults onely on the bearers fall 153.C01.147 soe worke the faults of age one w%5ch%6 the eye 153.C01.148 of children seruants or the state rely 153.C01.149 why would she not thou then y%5t%6 had'st such a soule 153.C01.150 a clock soe true as might the sonne controule./ [cw:and] 153.C01.151 And dayly had'st from him %Yy%5t%6%Z [y%5t%6] gaue it thee [f. 12v] 153.C01.152 Instructions such as it could neau%5er%6 bee, 153.C01.153 disordered, stay here as a generall 153.C01.154 and graue sonne diall to haue set vs all 153.C01.155 Oh why would'st thou be any instrument 153.C01.156 to this vnnaturall course why content 153.C01.157 to this not miracle but prodegie 153.C01.158 that where the ebbe longer then the flowinge bee 153.C01.159 virtue (whose flood did w%5th%6 thy youth beginne) 153.C01.160 should too much faster ebb out then flow in 153.C01.161 though her flood was blowne in by thy first breath 153.C01.162 all is at once sunck in the whirle poole death, 153.C01.163 w%5ch%6 word I would not name but that I see 153.C01.164 Death els a desert, growne a Court by thee: 153.C01.165 now I am sure y%5t%6 yf a man would haue 153.C01.166 good company his entry is a graue 153.C01.167 me thinks all Citties now but anthills bee 153.C01.168 where when the seu%5er%6all laborers I see 153.C01.169 for children house prouision takinge payne 153.C01.170 they are all but ants carringe eggs, straw, or grayne 153.C01.171 and Church yardes are o%5r%6 Citties vnto %Yth%Z w%5ch%6 153.C01.172 the moste repayre, who are in goodnesse rich 153.C01.173 there is the best, concourse & confluence 153.C01.174 there are the holy suburbes, & from thence 153.C01.175 beginnes gods Cittie new Ierusalem 153.C01.176 w%5ch%6 doth extend her vtmost gates to them 153.C01.177 at that gate then triumphant soule doest thow 153.C01.178 begin thy tryumph. but since lawes allow 153.C01.179 that at the tryumph day the people may 153.C01.180 all that they will agaynst the tryumpher say 153.C01.181 Let me here vse y%5t%6 freedome, & expresse 153.C01.182 my greefe, though not to make thy tryumphe lesse 153.C01.183 by law to tryumph none admitted be 153.C01.184 till they as majestrate, get victorie. 153.C01.185 om. 153.C01.186 om. 153.C01.187 om. 153.C01.188 om. 153.C01.189 and so in that capassitie remoue prince & subiects loue 153.C01.190 om. 153.C01.191 thou could'st noe title to his triumph haue 153.C01.192 thou did'st intrude %Yone%Z [on] death vsurpe a graue 153.C01.193 then though victoriously thou had'st fought (as yet 153.C01.194 but w%5th%6 thyne owne affections) w%5th%6 the heate 153.C01.195 of youths desires & colnes>colder of ignorance 153.C01.196 yet till thou should'st successiuely aduance 153.C01.197 thyne armes agaynst forrayne enimyes w%5ch%6 are 153.C01.198 both enuie & acclamations popular. 153.C01.199 (for both there engins equaly defeate 153.C01.200 though by a diuers mynd those w%5ch%6 are greate) 153.C01.201 till then thy warr was but a Ciuill warr 153.C01.202 for w%5ch%6 to tryumph none admitted ar 153.C01.203 om. 153.C01.204 om. 153.C01.205 before men tryumph the dominion 153.C01.206 might be enlarg'de & not preserued alone 153.C01.207 Why should'st thow then whose battle weare to win 153.C01.208 free thee from those straights nature put thee in 153.C01.209 and to deliu%5er%6 vp to god that state 153.C01.210 of w%5ch%6 he gaue thee the %Yvicari%Z vicariate [cw:which] 153.C01.211 W%5h%6ich is thy soule and body so intire [f. 13] 153.C01.212 as he (who takes endeauours) doth require 153.C01.213 but did'st thou staye %Yt'in large%Z to inlarge his kingdom too 153.C01.214 by makinge %Yothers%Z others what thow didest to doe 153.C01.215 why should'st thou tryumph now when heauen noe more 153.C01.216 hath gott by getting the then it had before? 153.C01.217 for heauen & thow euen when thou liued'st heare 153.C01.218 of one an other in possession were 153.C01.219 but this from tryumph most disables thee 153.C01.220 that y%5t%6 place w%5ch%6 is %Ycompared%Z conquered must bee 153.C01.221 Left safe from present war & likely doubt 153.C01.222 of iminent comotions to beake out 153.C01.223 and hath he lefte vs soe? & can it bee 153.C01.224 his territorie was no more but hee 153.C01.225 no: we were all his charge, the diocesse 153.C01.226 of eu%5er%6ie example man the whole world is. 153.C01.227 and he, was ioyned in Commission 153.C01.228 w%5th%6 tutelar Angells sent to eu%5er%6ie on 153.C01.229 but though the freedome to vpbrayde & chide 153.C01.230 him who tryumphed were lawfull: yet twas tyde 153.C01.231 w%5th%6 this y%5t%6 it might neu%5er%6 reference haue 153.C01.232 vnto the senate who the tryumph%Ya%Z gaue. 153.C01.233 men myght at Pompey iest, but they might not 153.C01.234 at y%5t%6 authoritie by w%5ch%6 he got 153.C01.235 leaue to tryumph before by age he might 153.C01.236 soe thou tryumphant soule I dare to right 153.C01.237 mou'd w%5th%6 a reu%5er%6entiall anger thus 153.C01.238 that thou soe early would'st a bandon vs, 153.C01.239 yet am I far from daringe to dispute 153.C01.240 w%5th%6 that great sou%5er%6aintie 153.C01.241 Prerogatiue hath thus dispenc'd for thee 153.C01.242 Gaynst natures lawes w%5ch%6 must impugnes be 153.C01.243 of early tryumphs: & I (thought w%5th%6 payne) 153.C01.244 lessen %Yor%Z>our< losse to magnifie thy gayne 153.C01.245 Of tyrumph, when I say it was more fit 153.C01.246 that all men should lack thee, then thou lack it. 153.C01.247 though thou then in o%5r%6 tyme be not suffered 153.C01.248 that testymonie of loue vnto the dead 153.C01.249 to dye w%5th%6 them & in there graue be hid 153.C01.250 as Saxons wifes and ffrench [did] 153.C01.251 and though in noe degree I can expresse, 153.C01.252 greefe in great Alexanders great excesse 153.C01.253 Who at his freindes death made whole towenes deuest 153.C01.254 there walls & bulwarkes y%5t%6 became them best 153.C01.255 doe not fayre soule theire sacrafise refuse 153.C01.256 that in thy graue I doe inter my muse 153.C01.257 who by my greife great as thy workes beinge cast 153.C01.258 behind hand: yet hath spoke & spoke her last. 153.C01.0SS I. D. 153.C01.0$$ Cf. B13, l. 250