IDENTLINE$$  F153C09|Har|Luttrell|ff. 50-4|Original EWS 6-18-85
153.C09.0HE  Obsequies Vpon the L: Harrington the last that dyed.
153.C09.001  Faire Soule, w%5ch%6 wast not only, as all soules bee [f. 50]
153.C09.002  Then when thou wert infused, harmonye,
153.C09.003  But didst continew soe & now dost beare
153.C09.004  A part in gods great Organ, this whole sphere,
153.C09.005  If looking vp to heauen or downe to vs
153.C09.006  Thou findst that any way is pervious [f. 50v]
153.C09.007  Twixt heauon & earth, & that mens actions doe
153.C09.008  Come to your knowledge & affections too
153.C09.009  See, & with ioy me to that good degree
153.C09.010  Of goodnesse growne, y%5t%6 I can study thee,
153.C09.011  And by those meditations refind>refin'd
153.C09.012  Can vnapparell & enlarge my minde
153.C09.013  And so can make by this soft extasye
153.C09.014  This place a Mapp of heauen, myselfe of Thee.
153.C09.015  Thou seest me heere at Midnight. now all rest
153.C09.016  Times dead low water when all minds deuest
153.C09.017  To morrowes businesse, when the labourers haue
153.C09.018  Such rest in bed that their last Churchyard graue
153.C09.019  Subiect to change, will scarce be a Type of this;
153.C09.020  Now when the Clyent whose last hearing is
153.C09.021  To morrow, sleepes; when the condemned man
153.C09.022  (who when he opes his eyes must shutt them than
153.C09.023  Againe by death) although sadd watch he keepe
153.C09.024  Doth practise dying by a little sleepe.
153.C09.025  Thou at this Midnight see'st mee & assoone
153.C09.026  As that %1Sunne%2 rises to me (midnights noone)
153.C09.027  All the world growes transparent, & I see
153.C09.028  Through all both Church & State in seeing thee.
153.C09.029  And I discerne by favour of this Light
153.C09.030  Myselfe, the hardest Obiect of the sight.
153.C09.031  God is the glasse.  As thou when thou dost see
153.C09.032  Him who sees all, seest all concerning thee,
153.C09.033  So, yet vnglorifyd, I comprehend
153.C09.034  All, in those mirrours of thy way & End,
153.C09.035  Though God be truly our Glasse through which we see
153.C09.036  All, since the beeing of all thinges is hee,
153.C09.037  Yet are the Trunkes, which do to vs deriue
153.C09.038  Thinges in proportion fitt by perspectiue [cw:deeds of]
153.C09.039  Deeds of good men.  for by there beeing heere [f. 51]
153.C09.040  Virtues, indeed remote, seeme to be neere./
153.C09.041  But where can I affirme, or where arrest
153.C09.042  My thoughts on his deeds?  Which shall I call best?
153.C09.043  for fluid virtue cannot be lookt on
153.C09.044  Nor can endure a Contemplation.
153.C09.045  As bodyes change, & as I do not weare
153.C09.046  Those spiritts, humors, bloud, I did last yeare:
153.C09.047  And as if on a streame I fix mine eye
153.C09.048  That drop on which I lookd is presently
153.C09.049  Pusht with more waters from my sight & gonne
153.C09.050  So in this sea of virtues can no one
153.C09.051  Be insisted on: Virtues as riuers passe
153.C09.052  Yet still remaines that virtuous man there was. 
153.C09.053  And as if man feed on mans flesh, (& soe
153.C09.054  Part of his bodye to another %Ygoe%Z owe)
153.C09.055  Yet at the last two perfect bodyes rise
153.C09.056  Because god knowes where euery Atome lyes:
153.C09.057  So if one knowledge were made of all those
153.C09.058  who knew his minutes well, Hee might dispose
153.C09.059  His virtues into names & rankes, but I
153.C09.060  should iniure Nature, virtue, Destinye,
153.C09.061  should I diuide & discontinew so
153.C09.062  Virtue which did in one entirenesse grow.
153.C09.063  For as he that should say spiritts are fram'd
153.C09.064  Of all the purest parts that can be nam'd,
153.C09.065  Honours not spiritts halfe so much as hee
153.C09.066  Who sayes they haue /no/ parts, but simple bee;
153.C09.067  So is't of virtue; for a point, & one,
153.C09.068  Are much entirer then a Million.
153.C09.069  And had fate meant t'haue had his virtues told
153.C09.070  It would haue lett him liue to haue beene old,
153.C09.071  So, then that virtue in season, & then this
153.C09.072  We might haue seene, & said that now he is
153.C09.073  witty, now wise, now temperate, now iust, [f. 51v]
153.C09.074  In good short liues virtues are faine to thrust
153.C09.075  And to be sure betime to gett a place,
153.C09.076  When they would exercise, want roone>roome & space.
153.C09.077  So was it in this person, forc'd to bee
153.C09.078  for want of time his owne epitome,
153.C09.079  So to exhibit, in few yeares, as much
153.C09.080  As all the long-breath'd Chronicles can touch.
153.C09.081  As when an Angell downe from heauen doth flye
153.C09.082  Our quicke thought can not keepe him companye
153.C09.083  Wee cannot thinke, now hee is at the Sunne
153.C09.084  now through the moone, now through the ayre doth runne
153.C09.085  Yet, when hee's come, we know he did repaire
153.C09.086  To all 'twixt heauen & earth, sunne, moone, & ayre.
153.C09.087  And as this Angell in an instant knowes
153.C09.088  And yet we know this suddaine knowledge growes
153.C09.089  By quicke amassing seuerall shapes of thinges
153.C09.090  which he successiuely to order bringes
153.C09.091  when they whose slow-pac'd lame thoughts can%Mot goe
153.C09.092  So fast as he, thinke y%5t%6 he can%Mot soe.
153.C09.093  Iust as a perfect reader, doth not dwell
153.C09.094  On euery syllable, nor stay to spell
153.C09.095  Yet without doubt he doth distinctly see
153.C09.096  And lay together euery A and B;
153.C09.097  So in short liu'd good men's not vnderstood
153.C09.098  Each seuerall virtue, but the compound good;
153.C09.099  for they all virtues paths in that pace tread
153.C09.100  As Angells goe & know, and as men reade.
153.C09.101  O%C why should then these men, these lumpes of balme 
153.C09.102  sent hither this worlds tempest to becalme
153.C09.103  Before by deedes they are diffus'd & spread
153.C09.104  And so make vs aliue, themselues be dead?
153.C09.105  O%C Soule, O Circle, why so quickly bee
153.C09.106  Thy Ends, thy birth, thy death, clos'd vp in thee?
153.C09.107  Since one foote of thy Compasse still was plac'd
153.C09.108  In heauen, the other might securely haue pac'd [cw:In the]
153.C09.109  In the most large extent, through euery path [f. 52]
153.C09.110  That the whole world, or man the 'Abridgment, hath.
153.C09.111  Thou knowst that though the Tropique Circles haue
153.C09.112  (yea & those small ones which the Poles engraue)
153.C09.113  All, the same roundnesse, Euennesse, & all
153.C09.114  The Endlesnesse of th'Equinoctiall:
153.C09.115  yet when we come to measure distances
153.C09.116  How heere, how there the Sunne affected is 
153.C09.117  Where he doth faintly worke, & where prevaile
153.C09.118  Only great Circles then, can be our scale.
153.C09.119  So though thy Circle to thy selfe expresse
153.C09.120  All tending to thy endlesse happines
153.C09.121  And wee by our good vse of it may try
153.C09.122  Both how to liue well yong, & how to dye,
153.C09.123  Yet, since we must be old, & age endures
153.C09.124  His Torrid zone at Court, & Calentures
153.C09.125  Of hott ambitions, irreligious Ice
153.C09.126  Zeales agues, & hydropicke auarice
153.C09.127  Infirmities which need the scale of truth
153.C09.128  As well as lust & ignorance of youth,
153.C09.129  why didst thou not for these giue med'cine too
153.C09.130  And by thy doing, sett vs what to doe?
153.C09.131  Though, as small pockett clockes whose euery wheele
153.C09.132  Doth each mis-motion & distemper feele
153.C09.133  Whose handes gett shaking palsyes, & whose string
153.C09.134  (his sinewes) slacken, & whose soule, the springe,
153.C09.135  Expires or lauguishes>languishes, whose pulse, the fly,
153.C09.136  Either beates not, or beates vneuenlye,
153.C09.137  Whose voyce, the bell, doth rattle or grow dumbe
153.C09.138  Or idle, as mens who to their last houre come;
153.C09.139  If these clockes be not wound, or be wound still
153.C09.140  Or bee not sett, or sett at euery will:
153.C09.141  So youth be easiest to destruction
153.C09.142  If, then, we follow all, or follow none:
153.C09.143  Yet as in great Clocks which in steeples chime
153.C09.144  Plac'd to informe whole Tounes t'employ their time
153.C09.145  An Error doth more harme beeing generall [f. 52v]
153.C09.146  when small clockes faults only on the wearers fall:
153.C09.147  So worke the faults of Age, on which the Eye
153.C09.148  of children, servants, or the state, relye.
153.C09.149  Why wouldst not thou then w%5ch%6 hadst such a soule
153.C09.150  A clocke so true, as might the sun controle,
153.C09.151  And dayly hadst from him who gaue it thee
153.C09.152  Instructions, such as neuer yet could bee
153.C09.153  Disordred, stay heere, as a generall
153.C09.154  And great Sun-dyall to haue sett vs all?
153.C09.155  O%C why wouldst thou be any instrument
153.C09.156  To this vnnaturall course? or why consent
153.C09.157  To this, not miracle, but Prodigye
153.C09.158  That (where the ebbs longer then flowings bee)
153.C09.159  Virtue, whose floud did with thy youth beginne
153.C09.160  should so much faster ebbe out then flow in?
153.C09.161  Though her floud were blowne in by %Yhe%Z thy first breath
153.C09.162  All is at once sunke in the whirlepoole, Death.
153.C09.163  Which word I would not name but y%5t%6 I see
153.C09.164  Death, else a Desart, growne a Court by thee.
153.C09.165  Now I am sure that if a man would haue
153.C09.166  Good companye, his entry is a Graue.
153.C09.167  Me thinkes all Cittyes now but Ant-hills bee
153.C09.168  Where when the seuerall labourers I see
153.C09.169  for house, prouision, children, taking paine
153.C09.170  Th'are all but Ants, carrying eggs, straw or graine.
153.C09.171  And Churchyardes are our %Ybut%Z Cittyes, vnto which
153.C09.172  The most repayre which are in goodnes rich.
153.C09.173  There is the best concurse & confluence
153.C09.174  There are the holy Suburbes, & from thence
153.C09.175  Beginnes gods citty new Ierusalem
153.C09.176  Which doth extend her vtmost gates to them.
153.C09.177  At that gate, then, triumphant Soule dost thou
153.C09.178  Begin thy Triumph: but since Lawes allow
153.C09.179  That at the Triumph day the people may
153.C09.180  All that they will 'gainst the Triumpher say [cw:lett me]
153.C09.181  lett me heere vse that freedome & expresse [f. 53]
153.C09.182  my greefe, though not to make thy Triumph lesse.
153.C09.183  By law to Triumph none admitted bee
153.C09.184  Till they as magistrates gett victorye,
153.C09.185  Though, then, to thy force, all youths foes did yeald
153.C09.186  Yet till fitt time had brought thee to that feild
153.C09.187  To which thy ranke in this state destin'd thee
153.C09.188  That there thy Counsells might gett victorye
153.C09.189  And so, in y%5t%6 Capacitye, remoue
153.C09.190  All Iealouslies 'twixt Prince & subiects Loue
153.C09.191  Thou shouldst no title to thy Triumph haue
153.C09.192  Thou didst intrude on Death, vsurpe a graue.
153.C09.193  Then (though victoriously) th'hadst fought as yet
153.C09.194  But with thine owne Affections, with the heate
153.C09.195  of youths desires, & colds of Ignorance:
153.C09.196  But till thou shouldst successiuely advance
153.C09.197  Thine Armes 'gainst forraigne Enemies, w%5ch%6 are
153.C09.198  Both Enuy & Acclamations popular
153.C09.199  (for both these engines equally defeate
153.C09.200  though by a diuerse mine those y%5t%6 are great)
153.C09.201  Till then, thy warre was but a Ciuill warre
153.C09.202  for which to triumph none admitted are.
153.C09.203  No more are they %Y(%Zwho (though w%5th%6 good successe)
153.C09.204  In a defensiue warre their power exp%5r%6sse.
153.C09.205  Before men Triumph, the dominion
153.C09.206  must be enlarg'd, & not p%5r%6seru'd alone.
153.C09.207  Why shouldst thou then (whose battells were to winne
153.C09.208  Thyselfe from those straights nature putt thee in
153.C09.209  And to deliuer vp to God y%5t%6 state
153.C09.210  of which he gaue thee the Vicariate
153.C09.211  Which is thy Soule & bodye, as entire
153.C09.212  As he, who takes endeuours, doth require,
153.C09.213  But didst not stay to enlarge his kingdome too
153.C09.214  By making others what thou didst, to doe)
153.C09.215  why shouldst thou truimph now, when heauen no more [f. 53v]
153.C09.216  hath gott by getting thee then't had before?
153.C09.217  For heauen & thou euen when thou liuedst heere
153.C09.218  of one another in possession were.
153.C09.219  But this from Triumpn most disables thee
153.C09.220  That that place which is conquered, must bee
153.C09.221  left safe from present warre & likely doubt
153.C09.222  Of im%Minent com%Motions to breake out.
153.C09.223  And hath he left vs so?  Or can it bee,
153.C09.224  His Territory was no more but Hee?
153.C09.225  No: we are all his charge, the %Yhis%Z Diocesse
153.C09.226  Of euery Exemplar man, the whole world is.
153.C09.227  And he was ioyned in Com%Mission
153.C09.228  With tutelar Angells sent to euery one./
153.C09.229  But though their freedome to vpbraid & chide
153.C09.230  Him who triumphd, were lawfull, it was ty'd
153.C09.231  With this, that it might neuer reference haue
153.C09.232  Vnto the Senate who the Triumph gaue.
153.C09.233  Men might at Pompey iest, but they might not
153.C09.234  At that Authoritye, by which he gott
153.C09.235  Leaue to triumph before by Age he might.
153.C09.236  So, though, (Triumphant Soule) I dare to write
153.C09.237  (Moou'd with a reuerentiall anger) thus
153.C09.238  That thou so early wouldst abandon vs,
153.C09.239  Yet am I farre from daring to dispute
153.C09.240  With that great Soueraignety whose absolute
153.C09.241  Prerogatiue hath thus dispenc'd with thee
153.C09.242  'Gaynst Natures lawes which iust impugners bee
153.C09.243  of earthly triumphs.  And I, (though with paine)
153.C09.244  Lessen our losse to magnifye thy gaine
153.C09.245  Of Triumph, when I say it was more fitt
153.C09.246  That all men should lack thee, then thou lack it.
153.C09.247  Though then in o%5r%6 times bee not suffered
153.C09.248  That testimony of loue vnto the dead [cw:To dye]
153.C09.249  To dye with them, & in their graues be hidd [f. 54]
153.C09.250  As Saxon wiues & French Soldurii did:
153.C09.251  And though in no degree I can expresse
153.C09.252  Greefe in great Alexanders great excesse
153.C09.253  Who at his freinds death made whole Townes deuest
153.C09.254  Their walls & bulwarks that became them best,
153.C09.255  Doe not, faire Soule, this sacrifice refuse
153.C09.256  That in thy graue I doe interre my Muse
153.C09.257  Which by my greife, great as thy worth, beeing cast
153.C09.258  Behind hand; yet hath spoke, & spoke her Last.
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