IDENTIFIL$$  F155LCB|FirAn|1612|sig. A5-D2v, pp. 1-44 C1,C2,CSmH,CtY1[missing C1,C8,D1,G3,H3,H6-7],CTY2[missingD2-7,H6-8],DFo,MH
155.LCB.HE1  %1The First Anniuersary%2.
155.LCB.HE2  %9A#N%0 /A#N#A#T#O#M#I#E /%1of the World%2.
155.LCB.001  W%+Hen that rich soule which /to her heauen is gone,
155.LCB.001M %1The entrie /into the /worke%2. 
155.LCB.002  Whom all they celebrate, who /know they haue one,
155.LCB.003  (For who is sure he hath a soule, /vnlesse
155.LCB.004  It see, and Iudge, and follow wor-/thinesse,
155.LCB.005  And by Deedes praise it?  He who /doth not this, [CW:May]
155.LCB.006  May lodge an In-mate soule, but /tis not his.) [A5v]
155.LCB.007  When that Queene ended here her /progresse time.
155.LCB.008  And, as t'her standing house, to /heauen did clymbe,
155.LCB.009  Where, loth to make the Saints /attend her long,
155.LCB.010  Shee's now a part both of the /Quire, and Song.
155.LCB.011  This, world, in that great earth-/quake languished;
155.LCB.012  For in a common Bath of teares /it bled,
155.LCB.013  Which drew the strongest vitall /spirits out:
155.LCB.014  But succour'd then with a perplex-/ed doubt,
155.LCB.015  Whether the world did loose or /gaine in this,
155.LCB.016  (Because since now no other way /there is [CW:But]
155.LCB.017  But goodnesse, to see her, whom /all would see, [A6]
155.LCB.018  All must endeuour to be good as /shee.)
155.LCB.019  This great consumption to a feuer /turn'd,
155.LCB.020  And so the world had fits; it ioy'd, /it mournd,
155.LCB.021  And, as men thinke, that Agues /physicke are,
155.LCB.022  And th'Ague being spent, giue /ouer care, 
155.LCB.023  So thou, sicke world, mistak'st thy /selfe to bee
155.LCB.024  Well, when alas, thou'rt in a Le-/targee.
155.LCB.025  Her death did wound, and tame /thee than, and than 
155.LCB.026  Thou mightst haue better spar'd /the Sunne, or Man;
155.LCB.027  That wound was deepe, but'tis /more misery, [CW:That]
155.LCB.028  That thou hast lost thy sense and /memory. [A6v]
155.LCB.029  T'was heauy then to heare thy /voyce of mone,
155.LCB.030  But this is worse, that thou art /speechlesse growne. 
155.LCB.031  Thou hast forgot thy name, thou /hadst; thou wast 
155.LCB.032  Nothing but she, and her thou hast /o'repast. 
155.LCB.033  For as a child kept from the Fount, /vntill
155.LCB.034  A Prince, expected long, come to /fulfill
155.LCB.035  The Ceremonies, thou vnnam'd /hadst laid,
155.LCB.036  Had not her comming, thee her /Palace made: 
155.LCB.037  Her name defin'd thee, gaue thee /forme and frame,
155.LCB.038  And thou forgetst to celebrate thy /name. [CW:Some] 
155.LCB.039  Some moneths she hath beene /dead (but being dead, [A7]
155.LCB.040  Measures of times are all determi-/ned)
155.LCB.041  But long shee'ath beene away, /long, long, yet none
155.LCB.042  Offers to tell vs who it is that's /gone.
155.LCB.043  But as in states doubtfull of future /heyres,
155.LCB.044  When sickenesse without remedy, /empayres
155.LCB.045  The present Prince, they're loth it /should be said, 
155.LCB.046  The Prince doth languish, or the /Prince is dead:
155.LCB.047  So mankind feeling now a generall /thaw,
155.LCB.048  A strong example gone equall to /law,
155.LCB.049  The Cyment which did faithfully /compact [CW:And]
155.LCB.050  And glue all vertues, now resolu'd, /and slack'd, [A7v]
155.LCB.051  Thought it some blasphemy to say /sh'was dead;
155.LCB.052  Or that our weaknesse was disco-/uered
155.LCB.053  In that confession; therefore spoke /no more
155.LCB.054  Then tongues, the soule being /gone, the losse deplore.
155.LCB.055  But though it be too late to suc-/cour thee,
155.LCB.056  Sicke world, yea dead, yea putrifi-/ed, since shee
155.LCB.057  Thy'ntrinsique Balme, and thy pre-/seruatiue,
155.LCB.058  Can neuer be renew'd, thou neuer /liue,
155.LCB.059  I (since no man can make thee liue) /will trie,
155.LCB.060  What we may gaine by thy Ana-/tomy. [CW:Her]
155.LCB.061  Her death hath taught vs dearely, /that thou art [A8]
155.LCB.062  Corrupt and mortall in thy purest /part.
155.LCB.063  Let no man say, the world it selfe /being dead,
155.LCB.064  'Tis labour lost to haue disco-/uered.
155.LCB.065  The worlds infirmities, since there /is none
155.LCB.066  Aliue to study this dissecti-/one;
155.LCB.067  For there's a kind of world remai-/ning still,
155.LCB.067M %1What life the /world hath /still%2. [keyed#to#line#66]
155.LCB.068  Though shee which did inanimate /and fill
155.LCB.069  The world, be gone, yet in this /last long night,
155.LCB.070  Her Ghost doth walke; that is, a /glimmerig light,
155.LCB.071  A faint weake loue of vertue and /of good [CW:Reflects] 
155.LCB.072  Reflects from her, on them which /vnderstood [A8v]
155.LCB.073  Her worth; And though she haue /shut in all day, 
155.LCB.074  The twi-light of her memory doth /stay;     
155.LCB.075  Which, from the carcasse of the /old world, free,
155.LCB.076  Creates a new world; and new /creatures bee
155.LCB.077  Produc'd: The matter and the /stuffe of this,
155.LCB.078  Her vertue, and the forme our /practise is.
155.LCB.079  And though to be thus Elemented, /arme
155.LCB.080  These Creatures, from hom-borne /intrinsique harme,
155.LCB.081  (For all assum'd vnto this Dig-/nitee,
155.LCB.082  So many weedlesse Paradises /bee, [CW:Which]
155.LCB.083  Which of themselues produce no /venemous sinne, [B1]
155.LCB.084  Except some forraine Serpent /bring it in) 
155.LCB.085  Yet, because outward stormes /the strongest breake,
155.LCB.086  And strength it selfe by confidence /growes weake,
155.LCB.087  This new world may be safer, be-/ing told  
155.LCB.088  The dangers and diseases of the /old:
155.LCB.088M %1The sick-/nesses of the /world%2.
155.LCB.089  For with due temper men do then /forgoe,  
155.LCB.090  Or couet things, when they their /true worth know.
155.LCB.091  There is no health; Phisitians say /that wee
155.LCB.091M %1Impossibility /of health%2.  
155.LCB.092  At best, enioy, but a neutra-/litee.
155.LCB.093  And can there be worse sicknesse, /then to know [CW:That]
155.LCB.094  That we are neuer well, nor can /beso? [B1v]
155.LCB.095  We are borne ruinous: poore mo-/thers crie,
155.LCB.096  That children come not right, nor /orderly,
155.LCB.097  Except they headlong come and /fall vpon
155.LCB.098  An ominous precipita-/tion.
155.LCB.099  How witty's ruine? how impor-/tunate  
155.LCB.100  Vpon mankinde?  It labour'd to /frustrate
155.LCB.101  Euen Gods purpose; and made /woman, sent
155.LCB.102  For mans reliefe, cause of his lan-/guishment.
155.LCB.103  They were to good ends, and they /are(C1-2,CtY2)ar#e(CSmH,CtY1,DFo,MH) sostill(CSmH,CtY1-2,DFo,MH)s#ostil(C1-2),
155.LCB.104  But accessory, and principall /in ill. [CW:For]
155.LCB.105  For that first mariage was our fu-/nerall: [B2]
155.LCB.106  One woman at one blow, then /kill'd vs all,
155.LCB.107  And singly, one by one, they kill vs /now.
155.LCB.108  We doe delightfully our selues al-/low
155.LCB.109  To that consumption; and pro-/fusely blinde,
155.LCB.110  We kill our selues, to propagate /our kinde.
155.LCB.111  And yet we doe not that; we are /not men: 
155.LCB.112  There is not now that mankinde, /which was then
155.LCB.113  When as the Sunne, and man, did /seeme to striue, 
155.LCB.114  (Ioynt tenants of the world) who /should suruie. 
155.LCB.114M %1Shortnesse of /life%2.  
155.LCB.115  When Stag, and Rauen, and the /long-liu'd tree. [CW:Compar'd]
155.LCB.116  Compar'd withman, dy'de in mi-/noritee. [B2v]
155.LCB.117  When, if a slow-pac'd starre had /stolne away
155.LCB.118  From the obseruers marking, he /might stay
155.LCB.119  Two or three hundred yeeres to /see't againe,
155.LCB.120  And then make vp his obseruation /plaine;
155.LCB.121  When, as the age was long, the /the sise was great:
155.LCB.122  Mans grouth confess'd, and recom-/penc'd the meat:
155.LCB.123  So spacious and large, that euery /soule
155.LCB.124  Did a faire Kingdome, and large /Realme controule:
155.LCB.125  And when the very stature thus /erect,
155.LCB.126  Did that soule a good way to-/wards Heauen direct. [CW:Where]
155.LCB.127  Where is this mankind now? who /liues to age, [B3]
155.LCB.128  Fit to be made %1Methusalem%2 his /page?
155.LCB.129  Alas, we scarse liue long enough to /trie;
155.LCB.130  Whether a true[Err:nevv] made clocke run /right, or lie. 
155.LCB.131  Old Grandsires talke of yester-/day with sorrow,
155.LCB.132  And for our children we reserue to /morrow.
155.LCB.133  So short is life, that euery peasant /striues,
155.LCB.134  In a torne house, or field, to haue /three liues,
155.LCB.135  And as in lasting, so in length is /man.
155.LCB.136  Contracted to an inch, who was a /span,
155.LCB.136M %1Smalnesse of /stature%2. 
155.LCB.137  For had a man at first, in Forrests /stray'd, [CW:Or]
155.LCB.138  Or shipwrack'd in the Sea, one /would haue laid [B3v]
155.LCB.139  A wager that an Elephant, or /Whale
155.LCB.140  That met him, would not hastily /assaile
155.LCB.141  A thing so equal to him: now /alas.
155.LCB.142  The Fayries, and the Pigmies well /may passe
155.LCB.143  As credible; mankind decayes so /soone,
155.LCB.144  We're searse[Err:scarse] our Fathers shadowes /cast at noone.
155.LCB.145  Onely death addes t'our length: /nor are we growne
155.LCB.146  In stature to be men, till we are /none.  
155.LCB.147  But this were light, did our lesse /volume hold
155.LCB.148  All the old Text; or had we chang'd /to gold [CW:Their]
155.LCB.149  Their siluer; or dispos'd into lesse /glas, [B4]
155.LCB.150  Spirits of vertue, which then scat-/tred was.
155.LCB.151  But 'tis not so: w'are not retir'd, /but dampt? 
155.LCB.152  And as our bodies, so our mindes /are cramp't:
155.LCB.153  'Tis shrinking, not close-weaning, /that hath thus,
155.LCB.154  In minde and body both bedwarfed /vs.
155.LCB.155  We seeme ambitious, Gods whole /worke t'vndoe;
155.LCB.156  Of nothing he made vs, and we /striue too,
155.LCB.157  To bring our selnes to nothing /backe; and we
155.LCB.158  Do what we can, to do't so soone /as hee.
155.LCB.159  With new diseases on our selues /we warre, [CW:And]
155.LCB.160  And with new phisicke, a worse /Engin farre. [B4v]
155.LCB.161  Thus man, this worlds Vice-Empe-/ror, in whom
155.LCB.162  All faculties, all graces are at /home;
155.LCB.163  And if in other Creatures they ap-/peare,
155.LCB.164  They're but mans ministers, and /Legats there,
155.LCB.165  To worke on their rebellions, and /reduce
155.LCB.166  Them to Ciuility, and to mans /vse.
155.LCB.167  This man, whom God did wooe, /and loth t'attend
155.LCB.168  Till man came vp, did downe to /man descend,
155.LCB.169  This man, so great, that all that is, /is his,
155.LCB.170  Oh what a trifle, and poore thing /he is? [CW:If]
155.LCB.171  If man were any thing, he's no-/thing now: [B5]
155.LCB.172  Helpe, or at least some time to /wast, allow
155.LCB.173  T'his other wants, yet when he did /depart
155.LCB.174  With her whom we lament, he /lost his heart.
155.LCB.175  She, of whom th'Ancients seem'd /to prophesie,
155.LCB.176  When they call'd vertues by the /name of shee,
155.LCB.177  She in whom vertue was so much /refin'd,
155.LCB.178  That for Allay vnto so pure a /minde
155.LCB.179  Shee tooke the weaker Sex, she /that could driue
155.LCB.180  The poysonous tincture, and the /stayne of %1Eue%2,
155.LCB.181  Out of her thoughts, and deeds; /and purifie [CW:All,]
155.LCB.182  All, by a true religious Alchi-/my; [B5v]
155.LCB.183  Shee, shee is dead; shee's dead: /when thou knowest this, 
155.LCB.184  Thou knowest how poore a trifling /thing man is.
155.LCB.185  And learn'st thus much by our /Anatomee,          
155.LCB.186  The heart being perish'd, no part /can be free.
155.LCB.187  And that except thou feed (not /banquet) on
155.LCB.188  The supernaturall food, Reli-/gion.
155.LCB.189  Thy better Grouth growes withe-/red, and scant;
155.LCB.190  Be more than man, or thou'rt lesse /then an Ant.   
155.LCB.191  Then, as mankinde, so is the worlds /whole frame
155.LCB.192  Quite out of ioynt, almost created /lame: [CW:For,]
155.LCB.193  For, before God had made vp all /the rest, [B6]
155.LCB.194  Corruption entred, and deprau'd /the best:
155.LCB.195  It seis'd the Angels, and then first /of all
155.LCB.196  The world did in her Cradle take a /fall,
155.LCB.197  And turn'd her brains, and tooke a /generall maime
155.LCB.198  Wronging each ioynt of th'vniuer-/sall frame.
155.LCB.199  The noblest part, man, felt it first; /and than
155.LCB.200  Both beasts and plants, curst in the /curse of man.
155.LCB.201  So did the world from the first /houre decay,
155.LCB.201M %1Decay of na-/ture in other /parts%2. [Keyed#to#line#200]
155.LCB.202  That euening was beginning of /the day,
155.LCB.203  And now the Springs and Som-/mers which we see, [CW:Like]
155.LCB.204  Like sonnes of women after fifty /bee. [B6v]
155.LCB.205  And new Philosophy cals all in /doubt,
155.LCB.206  The Element of fire is quite put /out;
155.LCB.207  The Sunne is lost, and th'earth, and /no mans wit
155.LCB.208  Can wel direct him where to looke /for it.
155.LCB.209  And freely men confesse that this /world's spent,
155.LCB.210  When in the Planets, and the Fir-/mament  
155.LCB.211  They seeke so many new; they see /that this
155.LCB.212  Is crumbled out againe to his /Atomis.
155.LCB.213  'Tis all in pieces, all cohae%Lrence /gone;
155.LCB.214  All iust supply, and all Rela-/tion: [CW:Prince^][miscatch]
155.LCB.215  Prince, Subiect, Father, Sonne, /are things forgot, [B7] 
155.LCB.216  For euery man alone thinkes he /hath got
155.LCB.217  To be a Phoe%Lnix, and that then[Err:there] can /bee
155.LCB.218  None of that kinde, of which he is, /but hee.
155.LCB.219  This is the worlds condition now, /and now
155.LCB.220  She that should all parts to reuni-/on bow,
155.LCB.221  She that had all Magnetique force /alone,
155.LCB.222  To draw, and fasten sundred parts /in one;
155.LCB.223  She whom wise nature had inuen-/ted then
155.LCB.224  When she obseru'd that euery sort /of men
155.LCB.225  Did in their voyage in this worlds /Sea stray, [CW:And]
155.LCB.226  And needed a new compasse fo /their way; [B7v]
155.LCB.227  Shee that was best, and first origi-/nall
155.LCB.228  Of all faire copies; and the /generall
155.LCB.229  Steward to Fate; shee whose rich /eyes, and brest:
155.LCB.230  Guilt the West Indies, and per-/fum'd the East;
155.LCB.231  Whose hauing breath'd in this /world, did bestow
155.LCB.232  Spice on those Isles, and bad them /still smell so,
155.LCB.233  And that rich Indie which doth /gold interre, 
155.LCB.234  Is but as single money, coyn'd /from her:
155.LCB.235  She to whom this world must it /selfe refer,
155.LCB.236  As Suburbs, or the Microcosme of /her, [CW:Shee,]
155.LCB.237  Shee, shee is dead; shee's dead: /when thou knowest this, [B8]
155.LCB.238  Thou knowst how lame a cripple /this world is.
155.LCB.239  And learnst thus much by our /Anatomy,
155.LCB.240  That this worlds generall sickenes /doth not lie
155.LCB.241  In any humour, or one certaine /part;
155.LCB.242  But as thou sawest it rotten at the /heart,
155.LCB.243  Thou seest a Hectique feuer hath /got hold
155.LCB.244  Of the whole substance, not to be /contrould. 
155.LCB.245  And that thou hast but one way, /not t'admit
155.LCB.246  The worlds infection, to be none /of it.
155.LCB.247  For the worlds subtilst immaterial /parts [CW:Feele]
155.LCB.248  Feele this consuming wound, and /ages darts. [B8v]
155.LCB.249  For the worlds beauty is decayd, /or gone,
155.LCB.250  Beauty, that's colour, and propor-/tion.
155.LCB.250M %1Disformity /of parts%2.
155.LCB.251  We thinke the heauens enioy their /Sphericall
155.LCB.252  Their round proportion embracing /all.
155.LCB.253  But yet their various and perplexed /course,
155.LCB.254  Obseru'd in diuers ages doth en-/force
155.LCB.255  Men to finde out so many Eccen-/trique parts,
155.LCB.256  Such diuers downe-right lines, /such ouerthwarts,
155.LCB.257  As disproportion that pure forme. /It teares
155.LCB.258  The Firmament in eight and forty /sheeres, [CW:And]
155.LCB.259  And in these constillations then[Err:there] /arise [C1]
155.LCB.260  New starres, and old doe vanish /from our eyes:
155.LCB.261  As though heau'n suffred earth-/quakes, peace or war,
155.LCB.262  When new Towers[Err:townes] rise, and old /demolish'd are.
155.LCB.263  They haue empayld within a Zo-/diake
155.LCB.264  The free-borne Sunne, and keepe /twelue signes awake
155.LCB.265  To watch his steps; the Goat and /Crabbe controule,
155.LCB.266  And fright him backe, who els to /eyther Pole,
155.LCB.267  (Did not these Tropiques fetter /him) might runne:
155.LCB.268  For his course is not round; nor can /the Sunne
155.LCB.269  Perfit a Circle, or maintaine his /way [CW:One]
155.LCB.270  One inche direct; but where he /rose to day [C1v]
155.LCB.271  He comes no more, but with a /cousening line,
155.LCB.272  Steales by that point, and so is Ser-/pentine:
155.LCB.273  And seeming weary with his reele-/ing thus,
155.LCB.274  He meanes to sleepe, being now /falne nearer vs.
155.LCB.275  So, of the starres which boast that /they doe runne
155.LCB.276  In Circle still, none ends where he /begunne.
155.LCB.277  All their proportion's lame, it sinks, /it swels.
155.LCB.278  For of Meridians, and Paral-/lels,
155.LCB.279  Man hath weau'd out a net, and /this net throwne 
155.LCB.280  Vpon the Heauens, and now they /are his owne. [CW:Loth]
155.LCB.281  Loth to goe vp the hill, or labour /thus [C2]
155.LCB.282  To go to heauen, we make heauen /come to vs.
155.LCB.283  We spur, we raigne the stars, and /in their race
155.LCB.284  They're diuersly content t'obey /our peace[Err:pace].
155.LCB.285  But keepes the earth her round /proportion still?
155.LCB.286  Doth not a Tenarif, or higher /Hill
155.LCB.287  Rise so high like a Rocke, that one /might thinke
155.LCB.288  The floating Moone would ship-/wracke there, and sinke?
155.LCB.289  Seas are so deepe, that Whales be-/ing strooke to day,
155.LCB.290  Perchance to morrow, scarse at /middle way
155.LCB.291  Of their wish'd iourneys end, the /bottom, dye. [CW:And]
155.LCB.292  And men, to sound depths, so /much line vntie, [C2v]
155.LCB.293  As one might iustly thinke, that /there would rise
155.LCB.294  At end thereof, one of th'Anti-/podies:
155.LCB.295  If vnder all, a Vault infernall /be,
155.LCB.296  (Which sure is spacious, except /that we
155.LCB.297  Inuent another torment, that there /must
155.LCB.298  Millions into a strait hot roome be /thrust)
155.LCB.299  Then solidnesse, and roundnesse /haue no place.
155.LCB.300  Are these but warts, and pock-/holes in the face
155.LCB.301  Of th'earth? Thinke so: But yet /confesse, in this
155.LCB.302  The worlds proportion disfigured /is, [CW:That]
155.LCB.303  That those two legges whereon it /doth rely, [C3]
155.LCB.303M %1Disorder in /the world%2. 
155.LCB.304  Reward and punishment are bent /awry. 
155.LCB.305  And, Oh, it can no more be questi-/oned,
155.LCB.306  That beauties best, proportion, is /dead,
155.LCB.307  Since euen griefe it selfe, which /now alone
155.LCB.308  Is left vs, is without propor-/tion.
155.LCB.309  Shee by whose lines proportion /should bee 
155.LCB.310  Examin'd, measure of all Symme-/tree,
155.LCB.311  Whom had that Ancient seene, /who thought soules made
155.LCB.312  Of Harmony, he would at next /haue said
155.LCB.313  That Harmony was shee, and /thence infer, [CW:That]
155.LCB.314  That soules were but Resultances /from her, [C3v]
155.LCB.315  And did from her into our bodies /go,
155.LCB.316  As to our eyes, the formes from /obiects flow:
155.LCB.317  Shee, who if those great Douctors /truely said
155.LCB.318  That th'Arke to mans proportions /was made,
155.LCB.319  Had beene a type for that, as that /might be
155.LCB.320  A type of her in this, that con-/trary
155.LCB.321  Both Elements, and Passions liu'd /at peace
155.LCB.322  In her, who caus'd all Ciuill war to /cease.
155.LCB.323  Shee, after whom, what forme /soe're we see,
155.LCB.324  Is discord, and rude incongrui-/tee, [CW:Shee,]
155.LCB.325  Shee, shee is dead, shee's dead; /when thou knowest this, [C4]
155.LCB.326  Thou knowst how vgly a monster /this world is:
155.LCB.327  And learnst thus much by our /Anatomee,
155.LCB.328  That here is nothing to enamor /thee:
155.LCB.329  And that, not onely faults in in-/ward parts,
155.LCB.330  Corruptions in our braines, or in /our harts.
155.LCB.331  Poysoning the fountaines, whence /our actions spring,
155.LCB.332  Endanger vs: but that if euery /thing
155.LCB.333  Be not done fitly'nd in propor-/tion,
155.LCB.334  To satisfie wise, and good lookers /on,
155.LCB.335  (Since most men be such as most /thinke they bee) [CW:They're]
155.LCB.336  They're lothsome too, by this De-/formitee. [C4v]
155.LCB.337  For good, and well, must in our /actions meete; 
155.LCB.338  Wicked is not much worse then /indiscreet.
155.LCB.339  But beauties other second Ele-/ment,
155.LCB.340  Colour, and lustre now, is as neere /spent.
155.LCB.341  And had the world his iust propor-/tion,
155.LCB.342  Were it a ring still, yet the stone is /gone.
155.LCB.343  As a compassionate Turcoyse /which doth tell
155.LCB.344  By looking pale, the wearer is not /well,
155.LCB.345  As gold fals sicke being stung with /Mercury,
155.LCB.346  All the worlds parts of such com-/plexion bee. [CW:When]
155.LCB.347  When nature was most busie, the /first weeke, [C5]
155.LCB.348  Swadling the new-borne earth, /God seemd to like,
155.LCB.349  That she should sport herselfe /sometimes, and play,
155.LCB.350  To mingle, and vary colours euery /day.
155.LCB.351  And then, as though she could not /make inow,
155.LCB.352  Himselfe his various Rainbow did /allow,
155.LCB.353  Sight is the noblest sense of any /one,
155.LCB.354  Yet sight hath onely colour to /feed on,
155.LCB.355  And colour is decayd: summers /robe growes
155.LCB.356  Duskie, and like an oft dyed gar-/ment showes.
155.LCB.357  Our blushing redde, which vs'd in /cheekes to spred, [CW:Is]
155.LCB.358  Is inward sunke, and onely our /soules are redde. [C5v]
155.LCB.359  Perchance the world might haue /recouered,
155.LCB.360  If she whom we lament had not /beene dead:
155.LCB.361  But shee, in whom all white, and /red, and blew 
155.LCB.362  (Beauties ingredients) voluntary /grew,
155.LCB.363  As in an vnuext Paradise; from /whom
155.LCB.364  Did all things verdure, and their /lustre come,
155.LCB.365  Whose composition was miracu-/lous,
155.LCB.366  Being all colour, all Diapha-/nous,
155.LCB.367  (For Ayre, and Fire but thicke /grosse bodies were,
155.LCB.368  And liueliest stones but drowsie, /and pale to her,) [CW:Shee,]
155.LCB.369  Shee, shee, is dead; shee's dead: /when thou knowst this, [C6]
155.LCB.370  Thou knowest how wan a Ghost /this our world is:
155.LCB.371  And learnst thus much by our /Anatomee,
155.LCB.372  That it should more affright, then /pleasure thee.
155.LCB.373  And that, since all faire color then /did sinke,
155.LCB.374  Tis now but wicked vanity to /thinke,
155.LCB.375  To colour vitious deeds with good /pretence,
155.LCB.375M %1Weaknesse /in the want /of corres-/pondence of /heauen and /earth%2%^
155.LCB.376  Or with bought colors to illude /mens sense.
155.LCB.377  Nor in ought more this worlds de-/cay appeares,
155.LCB.378  Then that her influence the heau'n /forbeares,
155.LCB.379  Or that the Elements doe not feele /this, [CW:The]
155.LCB.380  The father, or the mother barren /is. [C6v]
155.LCB.381  The clouds conceiue not raine, or /doe not powre
155.LCB.382  In the due birth-time, downe the /balmy showre.
155.LCB.383  Th'Ayre doth not motherly sit on /the earth,
155.LCB.384  To hatch her seasons, and giue all /things birth.
155.LCB.385  Spring-times were common cra-/dles, but are toombes;
155.LCB.386  And false-conceptions fill the ge-/nerall wombs.
155.LCB.387  Th'Ayre showes such Meteors, as /none can see,
155.LCB.388  Not onely what they meane, but /what they bee.
155.LCB.389  Earth such new wormes, as would /haue troubled much, 
155.LCB.390  Th'Egyptian Mages to haue made /more such. [CW:What]
155.LCB.391  What Artist now dares boast that /he can bring [C7]
155.LCB.392  Heauen hither, or constellate any /thing,
155.LCB.393  So as the influence of those starres /may bee
155.LCB.394  Imprisoned in an Hearbe, or /Charme, or Tree,
155.LCB.395  And doe by touch, all which those /starres could doe?
155.LCB.396  The art is lost, and correspondence /too.
155.LCB.397  For heauen giues little, and the /earth takes lesse,
155.LCB.398  And man least knowes their trade, /and purposes.
155.LCB.399  If this commerce twixt heauen and /earth were not
155.LCB.400  Embarr'd, and all this trafique /quite forgot,
155.LCB.401  Shee, for whose losse we haue la-/mented thus, [CW:Would]
155.LCB.402  Would worke more fully'and /pow'rfully on vs. [C7v]
155.LCB.403  Since herbes, and roots by dying, /lose not all,
155.LCB.404  But they, yea Ashes too, are me-/dicinall,
155.LCB.405  Death could not quench her ver-/tue so, but that
155.LCB.406  It would be (if not follow'd) won-/dred at:
155.LCB.407  And all the world would be one /dying Swan,
155.LCB.408  To sing her funerall praise, and va-/nish than.
155.LCB.409  But as some Serpents poison hurt-/eth not,
155.LCB.410  Except it be from the liue Serpent /shot,
155.LCB.411  So doth her vertue need her here, /to fit
155.LCB.412  That vnto vs; she working more /then it. [CW:But]
155.LCB.413  But she, in whom, to such matu-/rity, [C8]
155.LCB.414  Vertue was growne, past growth, /that it must die,
155.LCB.415  She from whose influence all Im-/pression came,
155.LCB.416  But, by Receiuers impotencies, /lame,
155.LCB.417  Who, though she could not tran-/substantiate 
155.LCB.418  All states to gold, yet guilded eue-/ry state,
155.LCB.419  So that some Princes haue some /temperance;
155.LCB.420  Some Counsaylors some purpose /to aduance
155.LCB.421  The common profite; and some /people haue
155.LCB.422  Some stay, no more then Kings /should giue, to craue;
155.LCB.423  Some women haue some tacitur-/nity, [CW:Some]
155.LCB.424  Some Nunneries, some graines of /chastity. [C8v]
155.LCB.425  She that did thus much, and much /more could doe,
155.LCB.426  But that our age was Iron, and ru-/sty too,
155.LCB.427  Shee, shee is dead; shee's dead: / when thou knowest this,
155.LCB.428  Thou knowest how drie a Cinder /this world is.
155.LCB.429  And learnst thus much by our /Anatomy,
155.LCB.430  That'tis in vaine to dew, or mol-/lifie
155.LCB.431  It with thy Teares, or Sweat, or /Bloud:  no thing
155.LCB.432  Is worth our trauaile, griefe, or pe-/rishing,
155.LCB.433  But those rich ioyes, which did pos-/sesse her heart,
155.LCB.434  Of which shee's now partaker, and /a part. [CW:But]
155.LCB.435  But as in cutting vp a man that's /dead, [D1]
155.LCB.435M %1Conclusion%2.
155.LCB.436  The body will not last out to haue /read
155.LCB.437  On euery part, and therefore men /direct
155.LCB.438  Their speech to parts, that are of /most effect;
155.LCB.439  So the worlds carcasse would not /last, if I
155.LCB.440  Were punctuall in this Anato-/my.
155.LCB.441  Nor smels it well to hearers, if one /tell
155.LCB.442  Them their disease, who faine /would thinke they're wel.
155.LCB.443  Here therefore be the end: And, /blessed maid,
155.LCB.444  Of whom is meant what euer hath /beene said,     
155.LCB.445  Or shall be spoken well by any /tongue, [CW:Whose]
155.LCB.446  Whose name refines course lines, /and makes prose song, [D1v]
155.LCB.447  Accept this tribute, and his first /yeeres rent,
155.LCB.448  Who till his darke short tapers end /be spent,
155.LCB.449  As oft as thy feast sees this wi-/dowed earth,
155.LCB.450  Will yearely celebrate thy second /birth,
155.LCB.451  That is, thy death.  For though the /soule of man
155.LCB.452  Be got when man is made, 'tis /borne but than
155.LCB.453  When-man doth die.  Our body's /as the wombe,
155.LCB.454  And as a mid-wife death directs it /home.
155.LCB.455  And you her creatures, whom she /workes vpon
155.LCB.456  And haue your last, and best con-/coction [CW:From]
155.LCB.457  From her example, and her vertue, /if you [D2]
155.LCB.458  In reuerence to her, doe thinke it /due,
155.LCB.459  That no one should her prayses /thus reherse,
155.LCB.460  As matter fit for Chronicle, not /verse,
155.LCB.461  Vouchsafe to call to minde, that /God did make
155.LCB.462  A last, and lastingst peece, a song. /He spake
155.LCB.463  To %1Moses%2, to deliuer vnto /all,
155.LCB.464  That song: because he knew they /would let fall,
155.LCB.465  The Law, the Prophets, and the /History,
155.LCB.466  But keepe the song still in their /memory.
155.LCB.467  Such an opinion (in due measure) /made [CW:Me]
155.LCB.468  Me this great Office boldly to in-/uade. [D2v]
155.LCB.469  Nor could incomprehensiblenesse /deterre
155.LCB.470  Me, from thus trying to emprison /her.
155.LCB.471  Which when I saw that a strict /graue could doe,
155.LCB.472  I saw not why verse might not doe /so too.
155.LCB.473  Verse hath a middle nature: Hea-/uen keepes soules,
155.LCB.474  The Graue keepes bodies, Verse /the same[Err:fame] enroules. [CW:A] 
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