IDENTLINE$$ F153O20|Har|Dowden|ff. 138v-42v|Original EWS 7-30-85 153.O20.0HE Obsequies to the L%5d%6 Harrington, Brother to the Countesse of Bedford. 153.O20.001 Fayre Soule, w%5ch%6 was not only, as all Soules bee, [f. 138v] 153.O20.002 Then, when thou wast infused, Harmonie, 153.O20.003 But didst continue so, and now dost beare 153.O20.004 A Part, in Gods greate Organ, thys whole Spheare, 153.O20.005 If looking vp to God; or downe to Vs, 153.O20.006 Thou find that any way is pervious 153.O20.007 Twixt Heaun, and Earth, and that Mans Actions doe 153.O20.008 Come to your knowledge, and Affections too, 153.O20.009 See, and w%5th%6 Ioy, Mee, to that good Degree 153.O20.010 Of Goodnes Growen, that I can study Thee; 153.O20.011 And by those Meditations refind, 153.O20.012 Can vnapparrell, and Enlardge my Mind, 153.O20.013 And so can Make by thys soft Extasye 153.O20.014 Thys Place a Map of Heaun, myselfe of Thee; 153.O20.015 Thou seest mee here at Midnight, now all rest, 153.O20.016 Times dead-lowe water; when all minds devest 153.O20.017 To morrowes busines; when the Laborers haue 153.O20.018 Such rest in bed, that theyre last Church yard Graue, 153.O20.019 Subiect to Change, will scarce be a Type of thys, 153.O20.020 Now when the Clyent, whose last hearing is 153.O20.021 To morrowe, sleepes; when the Condemned Man 153.O20.022 (who when he opes hys Eyes, must shut them than [f. 139] 153.O20.023 Agayne by Death) although sad watch he keepe, 153.O20.024 Doth Practize Dying by a litle Sleepe, 153.O20.025 Thou at thys Midnight seest mee, and as sone 153.O20.026 As that Sunne rises to Mee, Midnight's noone, 153.O20.027 All the world growes transparent, and I see 153.O20.028 Through All, both Church and State, in seeing Thee. 153.O20.029 And I discerne by fauor of thys Light, 153.O20.030 Myselfe, the hardest Obiect of the sight. 153.O20.031 God is the Glasse; As thou, when thou dost see 153.O20.032 Him, who sees all, seest all concerning Thee, 153.O20.033 So yett vnglorifyed, I comprehend 153.O20.034 All, in these Mirrors of thy wayes, & End. 153.O20.035 Though God be truly our Glasse, through w%5ch%6 wee see 153.O20.036 All, since the beeing of all thinges is Hee, 153.O20.037 Yett are the Trunckes w%5ch%6 doe to vs derive 153.O20.038 Thinges, in Proportion fitt, by Perspectiue, 153.O20.039 Deedes of Good men; for by theyre living here 153.O20.040 Virtues indeed remote, seeme to be nere; 153.O20.041 But where can I affirme, or when Arrest 153.O20.042 My Thoughts on hys Deedes? w%5ch%6 shall I call Best? 153.O20.043 For fluid Vertu, cannot be looked on. 153.O20.044 Nor can endure a Contrmplation. 153.O20.045 As Bodies change, and as I doe not weare 153.O20.046 Those spirits, Humors, Blood, I did last yeare; 153.O20.047 And, as if on a Streame, I fixe myne Eye, 153.O20.048 That dropp, w%5ch%6 I looke'd on, is presently 153.O20.049 Pusht w%5th%6 more waters, from my sight, and %Ygote%Z gone, 153.O20.050 So in thys Sea of Vertues, Can no One 153.O20.051 Be'insisted on, Virtues, as Riuers passe, [f. 139v] 153.O20.052 Yett still remaynes, that Vertuous Man there was. 153.O20.053 And, as if Man feed on Mans flesh, and so 153.O20.054 Part of hys body, to an other owe. 153.O20.055 Yett at the last, two perfect bodyes rise, 153.O20.056 Because God knowes, where euery Atome lyes, 153.O20.057 So, if One knowledge were made of all those 153.O20.058 Who knewe hys Minuts well, he might dispose 153.O20.059 Hys Vertues into Names, and Rankes; but I 153.O20.060 Shold Iniure Nature, Vertue, and Destinee, 153.O20.061 Shold I devide, and discontinue soe 153.O20.062 Vertu, w%5ch%6 did in One entirenes growe. 153.O20.063 For as he that wold say, Spiritts are framd, 153.O20.064 Of all the Purest parts, that can be namd, 153.O20.065 Honors not Spiritts halfe so much, as Hee, 153.O20.066 W%5ch%6 says, they haue no Parts, but simple bee, 153.O20.067 So ist of Vertu; for a Pointe and One 153.O20.068 Are much entirer, then a Millione. 153.O20.069 And had Fate ment to haue hys Vertues told 153.O20.070 It wold haue lett him live, to haue bin old. 153.O20.071 So then that Vertu in Season, and then thys 153.O20.072 Wee might haue seene, and sayd, that now he is 153.O20.073 Witty, now wise, now temperate, now iust; 153.O20.074 In Good short liues, Vertues are faine to thrust, 153.O20.075 And to be sure, betymes to gett a Place, 153.O20.076 When they wold encrease, lacke Time, & Space. 153.O20.077 So was it in thys Person; forc'd to bee 153.O20.078 For lacke of Time, hys owne Epitomee: 153.O20.079 So to exhibitt in fewe yeares as much 153.O20.080 As all the long-breath'd Chronicles can touch [cw:As when] 153.O20.081 As when an Angell down from Heau'n doth flye, [f. 140] 153.O20.082 Our quicke thought cannot keepe him Companye 153.O20.083 Wee cannot thincke, now he is at the Sunne, 153.O20.084 Now through the Moone, now he through th'Ayre doth runne; 153.O20.085 Yett, when he is come, wee know, he did repayre 153.O20.086 To All, twixt Heaun, and Earth, Sunne, Moone, & Ayre, 153.O20.087 And as thys Angell, in an instant knowes, 153.O20.088 And yett wee knowe, thys sodayne knowledge growes 153.O20.089 By quicke amassing seuerall formes of thinges, 153.O20.090 W%5ch%6 he successively to Order bringes, 153.O20.091 When they, whose slowe-pac'd-lame thoughts cannot goe 153.O20.092 So fast as hee, thincke that he doth not soe: 153.O20.093 Iust as a Perfect reader doth not dwell 153.O20.094 On eu'ry Sillable, nor stay to spell, 153.O20.095 Yett w%5th%6out dobt he doth distinctly see 153.O20.096 And lay togeather euery A. and B, 153.O20.097 So in short liu'd Good men, is not vnderstood 153.O20.098 Each seuerall Vertu, but the Compound Good. 153.O20.099 For they, all Vertues Paths, in that pace tread 153.O20.100 As angells goe, and knowe, and as men read. 153.O20.101 O%C why shold then these me%M, these lumps of Balme, 153.O20.102 Sent heather, thys worlds tempests to becalme 153.O20.103 Before by Deedes, they are diffus'd, and spredd 153.O20.104 And so make vs Alive, themselues bee dead? 153.O20.105 O Soule, O Circle, why so quickly be %Ythy Ends%Z 153.O20.106 Thy Ends, thy Birth, and Death clos'd vp in Thee? 153.O20.107 Since One foote of thy Compas still was plac'd 153.O20.108 In Heau'n, the other might securely haue pac'd 153.O20.109 In the most large Extent, through eu'ry path 153.O20.110 W%5ch%6 the whole world, or Man, th'Abridgment hath? 153.O20.111 Thou knewst, that though the Tropique Circles haue [f. 140v] 153.O20.112 (yea and those small Ones, w%5ch%6 the Poles engraue) 153.O20.113 All the same roundnes, Euennes, and All 153.O20.114 The Endlesnes of the' Equinoctiall, 153.O20.115 Yett when wee come to measure distancys, 153.O20.116 How here, how there, the Sunne affected ys, 153.O20.117 When he doth faintly worke, and when preuayle, 153.O20.118 Only greate Circles, than can be our Scale; 153.O20.119 So though thy Circle to Thy selfe expresse 153.O20.120 All, tending to theyre Endles happines, 153.O20.121 And wee, by our Good vse of that, may trye 153.O20.122 Both how to liue well yonge, and how to dye, 153.O20.123 Yett since wee must be Olde, and Age endures 153.O20.124 Hys Torrid Zone at Court, and Calenture 153.O20.125 Of hott Ambitions Irreligions Ice, 153.O20.126 Zeales Agues, and Hydroptique Auarice, 153.O20.127 Infirmityes, w%5ch%6 need the Scale of Truith, 153.O20.128 As well as Lust, and Ignorance of youth. 153.O20.129 Why didst thou not for those giue Medicines too, 153.O20.130 And by thy doeing tell Vs what to doe? 153.O20.131 Though as small pockett Clocks, whose eu'ry wheele 153.O20.132 Doth each Mismotion, and distemper feele, 153.O20.133 Whose hand getts shaking Palsyes, and whose stringe 153.O20.134 Hys Synewes, Slackens; And whose Soule, the Springe 153.O20.135 Expires, or languishes, whose Pulse the Flye 153.O20.136 Eyther beates not, or beates vneauenly, 153.O20.137 Whose Voice, the Bell, doth ratle, or growe dumbe, 153.O20.138 Or Idle, as men, w%5ch%6 to theyre last houres come; 153.O20.139 If theyre Clocks be not wound, or be wound still 153.O20.140 Or be not sett, or sett at eu'ry will, 153.O20.141 So Youth is Easyest to Destruction 153.O20.142 Yf then wee follow all, or follow none. 153.O20.143 Yett as in Greate Clocks, w%5ch%6 in Steeples chyme, [f. 141] 153.O20.144 Plac'd to informe whole townes, to imploy theyre Time; 153.O20.145 An Error doth more harme, beeing Generall; 153.O20.146 When small clocks falts, only on the wearer fall, 153.O20.147 So worke the falts of Age, on w%5ch%6 the Eye 153.O20.148 Of Children, Seruants, or the State relye. 153.O20.149 Why woldst Thou then, w%5ch%6 hadst such a Soule, 153.O20.150 A Clocke so true, as might the Sunne controule, 153.O20.151 And daily hadst from him, who gaue yt Thee 153.O20.152 Instructions, such as yt cold neuer bee 153.O20.153 Disorderd, stay here, as a Generall 153.O20.154 And Greate Sun-Dyall, to haue sett vs All? 153.O20.155 O why wouldst Thou bee any Instrument 153.O20.156 To thys Vnnaturall Course, or why consent 153.O20.157 To thys, not Miracle, but Prodigee, 153.O20.158 That where the Ebbs, longer then flowings bee, 153.O20.159 Vertu, whose flood were blowen in by thy first breath, 153.O20.160 om 153.O20.161 om 153.O20.162 All ys at once suncke in the Whirlepoole Death. 153.O20.163 W%5ch%6 word I wold not name, but that I see 153.O20.164 Death, Else a Desert, is a Court by Thee. 153.O20.165 Now I grow sure, that if a Man wold haue 153.O20.166 Good Companee, hys Entry is a Graue. 153.O20.167 Methinckes all Cityes, now but Anthills bee, 153.O20.168 Where when the seuerall laborers I see, 153.O20.169 For Children, House, Provision taking Payne, 153.O20.170 They are all but Ants, carying Eggs, Strawe, & graine. 153.O20.171 And Churchyards are our Cityes, vnto w%5ch%6 153.O20.172 The Most repayre, that are in Goodnes riche; 153.O20.173 There is the best Concourse, and Confluence, 153.O20.174 There are the holy Suburbs, and from thence [f. 141v] 153.O20.175 Begins Gods City, new Ierusalem, 153.O20.176 W%5ch%6 doth extend her vtmost Gates to them. 153.O20.177 At that Gate then Tryvmphant Soule, dost Thou 153.O20.178 Begin thy Tryumph. But since Lawes allowe 153.O20.179 That at the Tryumph day, the People may 153.O20.180 All that they will, gainst the Tryumpher say, 153.O20.181 Lett mee here vse that freedome, and Expresse 153.O20.182 My Griefe, though not to make thy Tryumph lesse. 153.O20.183 By Law to Tryumphs none admitted bee, 153.O20.184 Tyll they, as Magistrates, gott Victoree. 153.O20.185 Though then to thy force, all youths foes did yeilde, 153.O20.186 Yett tyll fitt time had brought Thee to that fielde, 153.O20.187 To w%5ch%6 thy Rancke in thys State destin'd Thee, 153.O20.188 That there thy Counsayle might gett Victoree, 153.O20.189 And so in that Capacitye remoue 153.O20.190 All Ielosyes, twixt Prince, and Subiects Loue, 153.O20.191 Thou coldst no Title, to thys Tryumph haue, 153.O20.192 Thou didst intrude on Death, vsurpdst a Graue. 153.O20.193 Tha%M (though victoriously) thou hadst fought as yett 153.O20.194 But w%5th%6 thyne owne Affections, w%5th%6 the heat %Yof youths%Z 153.O20.195 Of youths desires, and Colds of Ignorance, 153.O20.196 But tyll thou sholdst successfully aduance 153.O20.197 Thyne Armes gaynst forayne Enimyes, w%5ch%6 are 153.O20.198 Both Envy,' and acclamations popular, 153.O20.199 (For both these Engines equally defeate 153.O20.200 Though by a diuerse Mine, those w%5ch%6 are greate) 153.O20.201 Tyll then thy Warr, was but a Civill Warr 153.O20.202 For w%5ch%6 to Tryumphe, none admitted are. 153.O20.203 No more are they, who though w%5th%6 Good Successe [f. 142] 153.O20.204 In a defensiue Warr, theyre Power expresse. 153.O20.205 Before Men Tryumphe, the Dominione 153.O20.206 Must be enlarged, and not preseru'd alone. 153.O20.207 Why sholdst Thou then, whose Battayles were, to win 153.O20.208 Thyselfe, from those strayts, Nature put Thee in 153.O20.209 And to deliuer vp to God, that State, 153.O20.210 Of w%5ch%6 he gaue Thee, the Vicariate 153.O20.211 (w%5ch%6 is thy Soule and Body) as intire 153.O20.212 As he, who takes Endeauors, doth require, 153.O20.213 But didst not stay, t'enlardge hys kingdome too, 153.O20.214 By making Others, what thou didst, to doe. 153.O20.215 Why sholdst Thou Tryumphe now, when Heaun no more 153.O20.216 Hath gott, by getting Thee, then't had before? 153.O20.217 For Heaun, and Thou, euen when thou liudst here, 153.O20.218 Of One Another in Possession were. 153.O20.219 But thys from Tryumphe most disables Thee, 153.O20.220 That that Place w%5ch%6 is conquered, must bee 153.O20.221 Left safe from present Warr, and likely doubt 153.O20.222 Of imminent Commotions to breake out. 153.O20.223 And hath he left Vs so? Or can it bee 153.O20.224 Hys Territorye was no more but Hee? 153.O20.225 No, wee were all hys Charge; The Dyocys 153.O20.226 Of eu'ry Exemplar Ma%M; the whole worlde ys. 153.O20.227 And he was ioynd in Commissione 153.O20.228 W%5th%6 Tutelar Angells, sent to eu'ry One. 153.O20.229 But though thys freedome to vpbrayd, and chyde 153.O20.230 Him, who Tryumphd, were lawfull, yt was tyde 153.O20.231 W%5th%6 thys, that yt might neuer reference haue 153.O20.232 Vnto the Senate, who thys Tryumph gaue. 153.O20.233 Men might at Pompey iest, but they might not [f. 142v] 153.O20.234 At that Autoritye, by w%5ch%6 he gott 153.O20.235 Leaue to tryumph, before by Age he might. 153.O20.236 So though Tryvmphant Soule, I dare to wright 153.O20.237 Mou'd w%5th%6 a reuerentiall Anger, thus 153.O20.238 That Thou so early woldst abandon vs, 153.O20.239 Yett am I farr from daring to dispute 153.O20.240 W%5th%6 that greate Soueraigntye, whose absolute 153.O20.241 Prerogatiue hath thus dispens'd for Thee, 153.O20.242 Gainst Natures lawes, w%5ch%6 iust impugners bee 153.O20.243 Of Early Tryumphes. And, I, though w%5th%6 paine 153.O20.244 Lessen our Losse, to magnifye thy gayne 153.O20.245 Of Tryumph, when I say, it was more fitt 153.O20.246 That all Men shold lacke Thee, the%M thou lacke yt. 153.O20.247 Though then in our Time, be not suffred 153.O20.248 That testimonye of loue, vnto the dead 153.O20.249 To dye w%5th%6 them, and in theyre Graues be'hid, 153.O20.250 As Saxon wiues, and french Soldurij did, 153.O20.251 And though in no Degree, I can expresse 153.O20.252 Griefe, in Greate Alexanders greate Excesse, 153.O20.253 Who at hys frendes death, made whole townes deuest 153.O20.254 Theyre Walls, and Bullwarkes w%5ch%6 became the%M best; 153.O20.255 Doe not, Fayre Soule, thys Sacrifice refuse, 153.O20.256 That In thy Graue, I doe enterr my Muse; 153.O20.257 Who by my Griefe, Greate as thy worth, beeing Cast 153.O20.258 Behind hand, yett hath spoke, and spoke her last. 153.O20.0SS om 153.O20.$$ Possible copytext