IDENTLINE$$  F153SP1|Har|49.B.43|Ff. 116v-22|EWS Original 6-5-86
153.SP1.0HE  %1obsequies%2 to the Lord Harrington, broth%5r%6 to the Countess of Bedford.
153.SP1.001  ffaire soule w%5ch%6 was not only as all soules be,  [f. 117v]
153.SP1.002  Then, when thou was infusd, harmony,
153.SP1.003  But didst continew so, and now dost beare
153.SP1.004  A part, in Gods great organ, this whole spheare,
153.SP1.005  If looking vp to God; or downe to vs,
153.SP1.006  Thou finde that any way is pervious
153.SP1.007  Twixt heauen and earth, and that mans Acco%Mns doe
153.SP1.008  Come to yo%5r%6 knowledge, and affections too,
153.SP1.009  See, and w%5th%6 joy, me, to that good degree [cw: of]
153.SP1.010  Of goodnes growen, that I can study thee;  [f. 118]
153.SP1.011  And by those meditaco%Mns refind
153.SP1.012  Can vnaparrell, and enlarge my minde,
153.SP1.013  And so can make by this soft extasie
153.SP1.014  This place a mapp of Heaven, myself of thee;
153.SP1.015  Thou seest me here at midnight, now all rest,
153.SP1.016  Times dead-lowe water, when all minds devest
153.SP1.017  To morrowes business; when the laborers haue
153.SP1.018  Such rest in bed, that their last churchyard graue,
153.SP1.019  Subject to change, will scarce be a Tipe of this,
153.SP1.020  Now when the clyent, whose last hearing is
153.SP1.021  To morrow, sleepes, when the condemnd man
153.SP1.022  (who when he opes his eyes, must shut them than
153.SP1.023  Againe by death) although sad watch he keepe,
153.SP1.024  doth practice dying by a little sleepe,
153.SP1.025  Thou at this midnight seest me, and as soone
153.SP1.026  As that Sunne rises to me, midnight is noone,
153.SP1.027  All the world growes transparent, and I see
153.SP1.028  Through all, both church and state, in seeing thee.
153.SP1.029  And I discerne by fauor of this light
153.SP1.030  My self, the hardest object of the sight.
153.SP1.031  God is the glass; As thou, when thou dost see
153.SP1.032  Him, who sees all, seest all concerning thee,  [cw: Soe]
153.SP1.033  So yett, vnglorified I comprehend  [f. 118v]
153.SP1.034  All, in theis mirrors of thy waies, and end.
153.SP1.035  Though God be truly our glass, through w%5ch%6 we see
153.SP1.036  All, since the beginning of all things is he,
153.SP1.037  Yett are the trunches w%5ch%6 doe to vs derive
153.SP1.038  Thinges, in proporco%Mn fitt, by perspectiue,
153.SP1.039  Deeds of good men; for by their living here
153.SP1.040  Vertues indeed remote, seeme to be neere;
153.SP1.041  But where can I affirme, or where arrest
153.SP1.042  My thoughts on his deeds; w%5ch%6 shall I call best?
153.SP1.043  ffor fluid vertue, cannot be looked on
153.SP1.044  Nor can endure a contemplation.
153.SP1.045  As bodies change, and as I doe not weare
153.SP1.046  Those spiritts, Humors, blood, I did last yeare;
153.SP1.047  And, as if on a streame, I fixe myne eye,
153.SP1.048  That dropp, w%5ch%6 I lookd on, is presently
153.SP1.049  Pusht w%5th%6 more waters, from my sight, and gone,
153.SP1.050  So in this Sea of vertues, can noe one
153.SP1.051  Be insisted on, virtues, as Rivers pass,
153.SP1.052  Yett still remaines, that vertuous man there was.
153.SP1.053  And, as if man feed on mans flesh, and soe
153.SP1.054  Parte of his body to an other owe.  [cw: Yett]
153.SP1.055  Yett at the last, two perfect bodies rise,  [f. 119]
153.SP1.056  Because god knowes, where every Atome lies,
153.SP1.057  So, if one knowledge were made of all those
153.SP1.058  Who knew his minutes well, he might dispose
153.SP1.059  His vertues into names, and ranks; but I
153.SP1.060  Should injure nature, vertue, and desteny,
153.SP1.061  Should I deuide, and discontinue soe
153.SP1.062  Vertue, w%5ch%6 did in one entirenes grow.
153.SP1.063  ffor as he that would say, spiritts are framd,
153.SP1.064  Of all the purest parts, that can be namd,
153.SP1.065  Honors not spiritts half soe much as he
153.SP1.066  W%5ch%6 saies, they haue noe parts, but simple be,
153.SP1.067  So ist of vertue, for a pointe and one
153.SP1.068  Are much entirer, then a millione.
153.SP1.069  And had fate ment to haue his vertues told
153.SP1.070  It would haue lett him live, to haue been old.
153.SP1.071  So then that vertue in season, and then this
153.SP1.072  We might haue seene, and said, that now he is
153.SP1.073  Witty, now wise, now temperate, now iust;
153.SP1.074  In good short lives, vertues are faine to thrust,
153.SP1.075  And to be sure, betimes to gett a place,
153.SP1.076  When they would encrease, lacke tyme, and space.  [cw: Soe]
153.SP1.077  Soe was it in this person, forcd to be  [f. 119v]
153.SP1.078  ffor lacke tyme, his owne Epitomee:
153.SP1.079  So to exhibitt in few yeares as much
153.SP1.080  As all the long-breathd chronicles can touch.
153.SP1.081  As when an Angell downe from heaven doth flye,
153.SP1.082  Our quicke thought cannott keepe him company
153.SP1.083  We cannott thinke, now he is at the Sunne,
153.SP1.084  Now through the Moone, now he through thaire doth runn;
153.SP1.085  Yett when he is come, we know, he did repaire
153.SP1.086  To all twixt heaven, and earth, Sunne, Moone, & aire,
153.SP1.087  And as this angell, in an instant knowes
153.SP1.088  And yett we know, this sodeine knowledge growes
153.SP1.089  By quick amasing severall formes of thinges,
153.SP1.090  W%5ch%6 he successively to order bringes,
153.SP1.091  When they, whose slow-pacd lame thoughts cannot goe
153.SP1.092  So fast as he thinke that doth not soe:
153.SP1.093  Iust as a perfect reader doth not dwell
153.SP1.094  On every sillable, nor stay to spell,
153.SP1.095  Yett without doubt he doth %Yhe doth%Z distinctly see
153.SP1.096  And lay togeather every A, and B,
153.SP1.097  So in short liud good men, is not vnderstood
153.SP1.098  Each severall vertue, but the compound good;  [cw: ffor]
153.SP1.099  ffor why, all vertues pathes, in that pace tread  [f. 120]
153.SP1.100  As angells goe, and know, and as men read.
153.SP1.101  O why should then theis men, theis lumps of balme,
153.SP1.102  Sent hither, this worlds tempest to becalme
153.SP1.103  Before by deeds, they are diffusd, and spred
153.SP1.104  And soe make vs alive, themselues be dead?
153.SP1.105  O Soule, O Circle, why soe quickly be
153.SP1.106  Thy ends, thy birth, and death closd vp in thee?
153.SP1.107  Since one foote of thy compass still was placd
153.SP1.108  In Heaven, thother might securely haue pacd
153.SP1.109  In the most large extent, through euery path
153.SP1.110  W%5ch%6 the whole world, or man, thabridgment hath?
153.SP1.111  Thou knewst that though the Tropique Circles haue
153.SP1.112  (Yea, and those small ones, w%5ch%6 the Poles engrave)
153.SP1.113  All the same roundnes, evennes, and all
153.SP1.114  The endlesnes of the equenoctiall,
153.SP1.115  Yett when we come to measure distancs,
153.SP1.116  How here, how there, the Sunne affected is,
153.SP1.117  When he doth faintly worke, and when prevaile,
153.SP1.118  Only great Circles, then can be our scale;
153.SP1.119  So though thy Circle to thyself express
153.SP1.120  All tending to their endless happines,
153.SP1.121  And we, by our good vse of that, may trie,  [cw:  Both]
153.SP1.122  Both how to live well young, and how to die,  [f. 120v]
153.SP1.123  Yett since we must be old, and age endures
153.SP1.124  His Torrid zone at Courte, and Calenture
153.SP1.125  Of hott ambitions Irreligions Ice,
153.SP1.126  Zeales Agues, and Hid%5r%6optique avarice,
153.SP1.127  Infermities, w%5ch%6 need the scale of truith,
153.SP1.128  As well as lust, and ignorance of youth.
153.SP1.129  Why didst thou not for those give medecines too,
153.SP1.130  And by thy doing tell vs what to doe?
153.SP1.131  Though as small pockett clocks, whose every wheele
153.SP1.132  Doth each mismotion, and distemper feele,
153.SP1.133  Whose hand getts shaking palsies and whose stringe
153.SP1.134  His sinewes, slackens; And whose soule, the springe
153.SP1.135  Expires, or languishes, whose pulse the flie
153.SP1.136  Either beats not or beats vnevenly,
153.SP1.137  Whose voice the bell doth rattle, or grow dombe,
153.SP1.138  Or Idle, as men, w%5ch%6 to their last houres come;
153.SP1.139  If their clocks be not wound, or wound still
153.SP1.140  Or be not sett, or sett at every will,
153.SP1.141  So youth is easiest to destruction,
153.SP1.142  If then we follow all, or follow none.
153.SP1.143  Yett as in great clocks, w%5ch%6 in steeples chime, [cw:Placd]
153.SP1.144  Placd to informe whole townes, to imploy their tyme; [f. 121]
153.SP1.145  An error doth more harme, being Generall;
153.SP1.146  When small clocks faults, only on the wearer fall;
153.SP1.147  Soe worke the faults of age, on w%5ch%6 the eye
153.SP1.148  Of Children, Servaunts, or the state relye.
153.SP1.149  Why wouldst thou then, w%5ch%6 hadst such a soule,
153.SP1.150  A Clock soe true, as might the Sunne controule,
153.SP1.151  And daily hadst from him, who gaue it thee
153.SP1.152  Instructions, such as it could never be
153.SP1.153  Disorderd, stay here, as a gennerall
153.SP1.154  And great Sun-diall, to haue sett vs all?
153.SP1.155  O why wouldst thou be any instrument
153.SP1.156  To this vnnaturall course, or why consent
153.SP1.157  To this, not miracle, but prodigee
153.SP1.158  That where the ebs, longer then flowings be,
153.SP1.159  Vertue, whose flood were blowen in by thy first breath,
153.SP1.160  om
153.SP1.161  om
153.SP1.162  All is at once suncke in the whirlepoole death.
153.SP1.163  W%5ch%6 word I would not name, but that I see
153.SP1.164  Death, else a desarte, is a Courte by thee.
153.SP1.165  Now I grow sure, that if a man would haue
153.SP1.166  Good Company his entry is a graue.
153.SP1.167  Me thinkes all Citties, now but Anthills be,
153.SP1.168  Where when the seuerall laborers I see,
153.SP1.169  ffor children, house, provico%Mn takinge paine,  [cw: They]
153.SP1.170  They are all but ants, carrying eggs, straw, & graine.  [f. 121v]
153.SP1.171  And Churchyardes are our Citties, vnto w%5ch%6
153.SP1.172  The most repaire, that are in goodnes rich;
153.SP1.173  There is the best Concourse, and confluence;
153.SP1.174  There are the holy subberbs, and from thence
153.SP1.175  Begins Gods Citty, new Ierusalem,
153.SP1.176  W%5ch%6 doth extend her vtmost gates to them.
153.SP1.177  At that gate then tryumphant soule, dost thou
153.SP1.178  Begin thy Tryumph.  But since lawes allowe
153.SP1.179  That at the tryumph day the people may
153.SP1.180  All that they will gainst the Tryumpher say,
153.SP1.181  Lett me here vse that freedome, and express
153.SP1.182  My greif, though not to make thy tryumph less.
153.SP1.183  By lawe to tryumphs none admitted be,
153.SP1.184  Till they, as Mag%Yr%Zistrates gott victorie;
153.SP1.185  Though then to thy force, all youths foes did yeild,
153.SP1.186  Yett till fitt tyme had brought thee to that feild,
153.SP1.187  To w%5ch%6 thy rancke in this state destind thee,
153.SP1.188  That there thy counsaile might gett victory,
153.SP1.189  And so in that capacity remove
153.SP1.190  All Iellosies, twixt Prince, and subjects loue,
153.SP1.191  Thou couldst noe title to this tryumph haue,
153.SP1.192  Thou didst intrude on death, vsurpdst a graue.
153.SP1.193  Tha%M (though victoriously) thou hadst fought as yett [cw:  But]
153.SP1.194  But with thine owne affecco%Mns, w%5ch%6 the heate [f. 122]
153.SP1.195  Of youthes desires, and colds of ignorance,
153.SP1.196  But till thou shouldst succesfully advance
153.SP1.197  Thine armes gainst foraigne enemies, w%5ch%6 are
153.SP1.198  Both envy, and acclamations popular,
153.SP1.199  (for both theis engines equally defeate
153.SP1.200  Though by a divers Mine, those w%5ch%6 are great)
153.SP1.201  Till then thy warr, Was but a civill warr
153.SP1.202  for w%5ch%6 to tryumph, none admitted are.
153.SP1.203  No more are they, who though w%5th%6 good successe
153.SP1.204  In a defensive warr their power express.
153.SP1.205  Before men tryumph the dominion
153.SP1.206  Must be enlarged, and not preservd alone.
153.SP1.207  Why shouldst thou then, whose battailes were, to winne
153.SP1.208  Thy self, from those straites nature put thee in
153.SP1.209  And to deliver vp to god, that state,
153.SP1.210  Of w%5ch%6 he gaue thee, the vicariate
153.SP1.211  (w%5ch%6 is thy soule and body) as intire
153.SP1.212  As he, who takes endeavors, doth require,
153.SP1.213  But didst not stay, to enlarge his kingdom too,
153.SP1.214  By making others, what thou didst, to doe;
153.SP1.215  Why shouldst thou tryumph now, when Heaven no more
153.SP1.216  Hath gott, by getting thee, thent had before?  [cw: ffor]
153.SP1.217  ffor heaven, and thou, even when thou livedst here, [f. 122v]
153.SP1.218  Of one another in posscssion were.
153.SP1.219  But this from tryumph most disables thee,
153.SP1.220  That that place w%5ch%6 is conquered, must be
153.SP1.221  Left saif from present warr, and likely doubt
153.SP1.222  Of emminent commotions to breake out.
153.SP1.223  And hath he left vs soe?  or can it be
153.SP1.224  His Territory was noe more but he?
153.SP1.225  No, we were all his charge, The diocis
153.SP1.226  Of every Exemplar man; the whole world is.
153.SP1.227  And he was joyned in commission
153.SP1.228  W%5th%6 Tutelar angells, sent to every one.
153.SP1.229  But though this freedome to vpbraid, and chide
153.SP1.230  Him, whom tryumphd, were lawfull, it was tide
153.SP1.231  W%5th%6 this, that it might never reference haue
153.SP1.232  Vnto the Senate, who this tryumph gaue.
153.SP1.233  Men might at Pompey jest, but they might not
153.SP1.234  At that Authority, by w%5ch%6 he gott
153.SP1.235  Leaue to tryumph, before by age he might
153.SP1.236  So though tryumphant soule, I dare not write
153.SP1.237  Moued w%5th%6 a reverentiall anger, thus
153.SP1.238  That thou soe early wouldst abandon vs;
153.SP1.239  Yett am I farr from daring to dispute
153.SP1.240  W%5th%6 that great Soveraignity, whose absolute  [cw: Pre]
153.SP1.241  Prerogative hath thus dispensd for thee, [f. 123]
153.SP1.242  Gainst natures lawes, w%5ch%6 iust impugners be.
153.SP1.243  Of early Tryumphs.  And, I, though w%5th%6 paine
153.SP1.244  Lessen our loss, to magnify thy gaine
153.SP1.245  Of Tryumph, when I say, it was more fitt
153.SP1.246  That all men should lacke thee, then thou lacke it.
153.SP1.247  Though then in our time, be not suffred
153.SP1.248  That testimony of loue, vnto the dead
153.SP1.249  To die w%5th%6 them, and in their graues be hid,
153.SP1.250  As Saxon wives, and french soldurij did,
153.SP1.251  And though in noe degree, I can express
153.SP1.252  Greif, in great Allexanders greate excess,
153.SP1.253  Who at his freinds death, made whole towne devest
153.SP1.254  Their walls, and bulwarks w%5ch%6 became them best;
153.SP1.255  Doe not, faire soule, this sacrifice refuse,
153.SP1.256  That in thy grave I doe enter my muse;
153.SP1.257  Who by my greif, great as thy worth, being cast
153.SP1.258  Behinde hand, yett hath spoke, and spoke her last.
153.SP1.0SS  Whirlwind flourish
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