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155.LCC.HE1  %1The First Anniuersary%2.
155.LCC.HE2  %9A#N%0 A#N#A#T#O#M#Y %1of the World%2.
155.LCC.001  W%+he%M that rich soule which /to her heauen is gone,
155.LCC.001M %1The entrie /into the /vvorke%2.
155.LCC.002  Whom all doe celebrate, who /know they haue one
155.LCC.003  (For who is sure he hath a soule, /vnlesse [CW:It]
155.LCC.004  It see, and Iudge, and follow /worthinesse, [A6v]
155.LCC.005  And by Deedes praise it;  Hee /who doth not this,
155.LCC.006  May lodge an Inmate soule, but /tis not his.)
155.LCC.007  When that Queene ended here /her progresse time.
155.LCC.008  And, as t'her standing house, to /heauen did clymbe,
155.LCC.009  Where loath to make the Saints /attend her long,
155.LCC.010  Shee's now a part both of the /Quire, and Song.
155.LCC.011  This, world, in that great earth-/quake languished;
155.LCC.012  For in a common Bath of teares /it bled,
155.LCC.013  Which drew the strongest vitall /spirits out:
155.LCC.014  But succour'd then with a per-/plexed doubt, [CW:Whether]
155.LCC.015  Whether the world did loose /or gaine in this, [A7]
155.LCC.016  (Because since now no other /way there is,
155.LCC.017  But goodnesse, to see her, whom /all would see,
155.LCC.018  All must endeauour to bee good /as shee.)
155.LCC.019  This great consumption to a fe-/uer turn'd,
155.LCC.020  And so the world had fits; it /ioy'd, it mournd,
155.LCC.021  And, as men thinke, that Agues /Physicke are,
155.LCC.022  And th'Ague being spent, giue /ouer care, 
155.LCC.023  So thou sicke world, mistak'st /thy selfe to bee
155.LCC.024  Well, when alas, thou'rt in a Le-/targee.
155.LCC.025  Her death did wound, and tame /thee than, and than [CW:Thou] 
155.LCC.026  Thou mightst haue better spar'd /the Sunne, or Man. [A7v]
155.LCC.027  That wound was deepe, but 'tis /more misery,
155.LCC.028  That thou hast lost thy sense and /memory.
155.LCC.029  T'was heauy then to heare thy /voice of mone,
155.LCC.030  But this is worse, that thou art /speechlesse growne.
155.LCC.031  Thou hast forgot thy name, thou /hadst; thou wast 
155.LCC.032  Nothing but she, and her thou /hast o'repast. 
155.LCC.033  For as a child kept from the /Fount, vntill
155.LCC.034  A Prince, expected long, come /to fulfill
155.LCC.035  The Ceremonies, thou vnnam'd /hadst laid,
155.LCC.036  Had not her comming, thee her /Palace made: [CW:Her] 
155.LCC.037  Her name defin'd thee, gaue thee /forme and frame, [A8]
155.LCC.038  And thou forgetst to celebrate /thy name. 
155.LCC.039  Some moneths shee hath bene /dead (but being dead,
155.LCC.040  Measures of times are all deter-/mined)
155.LCC.041  But long shee'ath beene away, /long, long, yet none
155.LCC.042  Offers to tell vs who it is that's /gone.
155.LCC.043  But as in states doubtfull of /future heyres,
155.LCC.044  When sicknesse without reme-/dy, empayres
155.LCC.045  The present Prince, they're loth /it should be said, 
155.LCC.046  The Prince doth languish, or /the Prince is dead:
155.LCC.047  So mankinde feeling now a ge-/nerall thaw, [CW:A]
155.LCC.048  A strong example gone equall /to law. [A8v]
155.LCC.049  The Cyment which did faith-/fully compact
155.LCC.050  And glue all vertues, now re-/solu'd, and slack'd,
155.LCC.051  Thought it some blasphemy to /say sh' was dead;
155.LCC.052  Or that our weaknesse was dis-/couered
155.LCC.053  In that confession; therefore /spoke no more
155.LCC.054  Then tongues, the soule being /gonne, the losse deplore.
155.LCC.055  But though it be too late to suc-/cour thee,
155.LCC.056  Sicke world, yea dead, yea pu-/trified, since shee
155.LCC.057  Thy'ntrinsique Balme, and thy /preseruatiue,
155.LCC.058  Can neuer be renew'd, thou ne-/uer liue, [CW:I]
155.LCC.059  I (since no man can make thee /liue) will trie, [B1]
155.LCC.060  What we may gaine by thy /Anatomy.
155.LCC.061  Her death hath taught vs deare-/ly, that thou art
155.LCC.062  Corrupt and mortall in thy pu-/rest part.
155.LCC.063  Let no man say, the world it selfe /being dead,
155.LCC.064  Tis labour lost to haue disco-/uered.
155.LCC.065  The worlds infirmities, since /there is none
155.LCC.066  Aliue to study this dissecti-/one;
155.LCC.067  For there's a kind of world re-/maining still,
155.LCC.067M %1VVhat life /the vvorld /hath stil%2. [keyed#to#line#66]
155.LCC.068  Though shee which did inani-/mate and fill
155.LCC.069  The world, be gone, yet in this /last long night, [CW:Her]
155.LCC.070  Her Ghost doth walke; that is, a /glimmering light, [B1v]
155.LCC.071  A faint weake loue of vertue and /of good 
155.LCC.072  Reflects from her, on them /which vnderstood
155.LCC.073  Her worth; And though she /haue shut in all day, 
155.LCC.074  The twi-light of her memory /doth stay;     
155.LCC.075  Which, from the carkasse of the /old world, free
155.LCC.076  Creates a new world; and new /creatures bee
155.LCC.077  Produc'd:  The matter and the /stuffe of this,
155.LCC.078  Her vertue, and the forme our /practise is.
155.LCC.079  And thought to be thus Ele-/mented, arme
155.LCC.080  These creatures, from hom-/borne intrinsique harme, [CW:(For]
155.LCC.081  (For all assum'd vnto this Dig-/nitee, [B2]
155.LCC.082  So many weedlesse Paradises /bee,
155.LCC.083  Which of themselues produce /no venemous sinne,
155.LCC.084  Except some forraine Serpent /bring it in) 
155.LCC.085  Yet, because outward stormes /the strongest breake,
155.LCC.086  And strength it selfe by confi-/dence growes weake,
155.LCC.087  This new world may be safer, /being told.  
155.LCC.088  The dangers and diseases of the /old:
155.LCC.088M %1The sicknesse /of the vvorld%2
155.LCC.089  For with due temper men doe /then forgoe,  
155.LCC.090  Or couet things, when they /their true worth know.
155.LCC.091  There is no health; Phisitians /say that we
155.LCC.091M %1Impossibility /of health%2. [CW:At]  
155.LCC.092  At best, enioy, but a neutra-/litee. [B2v]
155.LCC.093  And can there be worse sicknes, /then to know
155.LCC.094  That we are neuer well, nor can /be so?
155.LCC.095  We are borne ruinous:  poore /mothers cry,
155.LCC.096  That children come not right, /nor orderly;
155.LCC.097  Except they headlong come and /fall vpon
155.LCC.098  An ominous precipita-/tion.
155.LCC.099  How witty's ruine?  how impor-/tunate  
155.LCC.100  Vpon mankinde?  It labour'd to /frustrate
155.LCC.101  Euen Gods purpose; and made /woman, sent
155.LCC.102  For mans reliefe, cause of his lan-/guishment. [CW:They]
155.LCC.103  They were to good ends, and /they are so still, [B3]
155.LCC.104  But accessory, and principall /in ill.
155.LCC.105  For that first mariage was our /funerall:
155.LCC.106  One woman at one blow, then /kill'd vs all,
155.LCC.107  And singly, one by one, they /kill vs now.
155.LCC.108  We doe delightfully our selues /allow
155.LCC.109  To that consumption; and pro-/fusely blinde,
155.LCC.110  We kill our selues, to propagate /our kinde.
155.LCC.111  And yet we doe not that; we are /not men: 
155.LCC.112  There is not now that mankind, /which was then
155.LCC.113  When as the Sun, and man, did /seeme to striue, [CW:(Ioynt] 
155.LCC.114  (Ioynt tenats(L)tena%Mts(C,MH,O) of the world) who /should suruie. [B3v]
155.LCC.114M %1Shortnesse /of life%2.  
155.LCC.115  When Stag, and Rauen, and the /long liu'd tree.
155.LCC.116  Compar'd with man, dy'de in /minoritee.
155.LCC.117  When, if a slow-pac'd starre /had stolne away
155.LCC.118  From the obseruers marking, /he might stay
155.LCC.119  Two or three hundred yeeres /to see't againe,
155.LCC.120  And then make vp his obseruati-/on plaine;
155.LCC.121  When, as the age was long, the /sise was great:
155.LCC.122  Mans grouth confcss'd, and /recompenc'd the meat:
155.LCC.123  So spacious and large, that euery /soule
155.LCC.124  Did a faire Kingdome, and large /Realme controule: [CW:And]
155.LCC.125  And when the very stature thus /erect, [B4]
155.LCC.126  Did that soule a good way to-/wards Heauen direct.
155.LCC.127  Where is this mankind now? /who liues to age,
155.LCC.128  Fit to be made %1Methusalem%2 his /page?
155.LCC.129  Alas, we scarse liue long enough /to trie;
155.LCC.130  Whether a true made clocke run /right, or lie. 
155.LCC.131  Old Grandsires talke of yester-/day with sorrow,
155.LCC.132  And for our children we reserue /to morrow.
155.LCC.133  So short is life, that euery pea-/sant striues,
155.LCC.134  In a torne house, or field, to haue /three liues,
155.LCC.135  And as in lasting, so in length is /man. [CW:Con-]
155.LCC.136  Contracted to an inch, who was /a span, [B4v]
155.LCC.136M %1Smalenesse /of stature%2.
155.LCC.137  For had a man at first, in Forrests /stray'd,
155.LCC.138  Or shipwrack'd in the Sea, one /would haue laid
155.LCC.139  A wager that an Elephant, or /Whale
155.LCC.140  That met him, would not hasti-/ly assaile
155.LCC.141  A thing so equall to him: /now alasse.
155.LCC.142  The Fayries, and the Pigmies /well may passe
155.LCC.143  As credible; mankind decayes /so soone,
155.LCC.144  We're searse our Fathers sha-/dowes cast at noone.
155.LCC.145  Onely death addes t'our length: /nor are we growne
155.LCC.146  In stature to be men, till we are /none. [CW:But]  
155.LCC.147  But this were light, did our lesse /volume hold [B5]
155.LCC.148  All the old Text; or had we /chang'd to gold
155.LCC.149  Their siluer or dispos'd into /lesse glas,
155.LCC.150  Spirits of vertue, which then /scattred was.
155.LCC.151  But 'tis not so:  w'are not re-/tir'd, but dampt? 
155.LCC.152  And as our bodies, so our minds /are crampt:
155.LCC.153  Tis shrinking, not close weaning /that hath thus,
155.LCC.154  In minde and body both be-/dwarfed vs.
155.LCC.155  We seeme ambitious, Gods /whole worke t'vndoe;
155.LCC.156  Of nothing he made vs, and we /striue too,
155.LCC.157  To bring our selues to nothing /backe; and we [CW:Doe]
155.LCC.158  Doe what we can, to do't so /soone as he. [B5v]
155.LCC.159  With new diseases on our selues /we warre,
155.LCC.160  And with new Physicke, a worse /Engin farre.
155.LCC.161  Thus man, this worlds Vice-Em-/peror, in whom
155.LCC.162  All faculties, all graces are at /home;
155.LCC.163  And if in other creatures they /appeare,
155.LCC.164  They'%Ire but mans Ministers, and /Legats thers,
155.LCC.165  To worke on their rebellions, /and reduce
155.LCC.166  Them to Ciuility, and to mans /vse.
155.LCC.167  This man, whom God did woo, /and loth t'attend
155.LCC.168  Till man came vp, did downe to /man descend, [CW:This]
155.LCC.169  This man so great, that all that is, /is his, [B6]
155.LCC.170  Oh what a trifle, and poore thing /he is?
155.LCC.171  If man were any thing; he's no-/thing now:
155.LCC.172  Helpe, or at least some time to /wast, allow
155.LCC.173  T' his other wants, yet when he /did depart
155.LCC.174  With her whom we lament, he /lost his heart.
155.LCC.175  She, of whom th'Ancients /seem'd to prophesie,
155.LCC.176  When they call'd vertues by the /name of shee,
155.LCC.177  She in whom vertue was so /m%Iuch refin'd,
155.LCC.178  That for Allay vnto so pure a /minde
155.LCC.179  Shee tooke the weaker Sex, she /that could driue [CW:The]
155.LCC.180  The poysonous tincture, and the /stayne of %1Eue%2, [B6v]
155.LCC.181  Out of her thought, and deedes; /and purifie
155.LCC.182  All, by a true religious Alchi-/my;
155.LCC.183  Shee, shee is dead; shee's dead: /when thou knowest this, 
155.LCC.184  Thou knowest how poore a tri-/fling thing man is.
155.LCC.185  And learn'st thus much by our /Anatomee,          
155.LCC.186  The heart being perish'd, no /no part can be free.
155.LCC.187  And that except thou feed (not /banquet) on
155.LCC.188  The supernaturall food, Reli-/gion.
155.LCC.189  Thy better grouth growes whi-/thered, and scant;
155.LCC.190  Be more than man, or thou'rt /lesse then an Ant. [CW:Then]  
155.LCC.191  Then, as mankinde, so is the /worlds whole frame [B7]
155.LCC.192  Quite out of ioynt, almost crea-/ted lame:
155.LCC.193  For, before God had made vp /all the rest,
155.LCC.194  Corruption entred, and de-/prau'd the best:
155.LCC.195  It seis'd the Angels, and then first /of all
155.LCC.196  The world did in her Cradle /take a fall,
155.LCC.197  And turn'd her brains, and tooke /a generall maime
155.LCC.198  Wronging each ioynt of th'vni-/uersall frame.
155.LCC.199  The noblest part, man, felt it /first; and than
155.LCC.200  Both beasts and plants, curst in /the curse of man.
155.LCC.201  So did the world from the first /houre decay, [CW:That]
155.LCC.201M %1Decay of na-/ture in other /parts%2.[Keyed#to#line#200]
155.LCC.202  That euening was beginning of /the day, [B7v]
155.LCC.203  And now the Springs and Som-/mers which we see,
155.LCC.204  Like sonnes of women after /fifty bee.
155.LCC.205  And new Philosophy cals all in /doubt,
155.LCC.206  The Element of fire is quite put /out;
155.LCC.207  The Sunne is lost, and th'earth, /and no mans wit
155.LCC.208  Can well direct him where to /looke for it.
155.LCC.209  And freely men confesse that /this world's spent,
155.LCC.210  When in the Planets, and the /Firmament  
155.LCC.211  They seeke so many new; they /see that this
155.LCC.212  Is crumbled out againe to his /Atomis. [CW:'Tis]
155.LCC.213  'Tis all in pieces, all cohae%Lrence /gone; [B8]
155.LCC.214  All iust supply, and all Rela-/tion:
155.LCC.215  Prince, Subiect, Father, Sonne, /are things forgot, 
155.LCC.216  Eor euery man alone thinkes he /hath got
155.LCC.217  To be a Phoe%Lnix, and that then /can be
155.LCC.218  None of that kinde, of which he /is, but he.
155.LCC.219  This is the worlds condition /now, and now
155.LCC.220  She that should all parts to reuni-/on bow,
155.LCC.221  She that had all Magnetique /force alone,
155.LCC.222  To draw, and fasten sundred /parts in one;
155.LCC.223  She whom wise nature had /inu%Iented then [CW:When]
155.LCC.224  When she obseru'd that euery /sort of men [B8v]
155.LCC.225  Did in their voyage in this /worlds Sea stray,
155.LCC.226  And needed a new compasse /for their way;
155.LCC.227  Shee that was best, and first ori-/ginall
155.LCC.228  Of all faire copies and the /generall
155.LCC.229  Steward to Fate; shee whose /rich eyes, and brest:
155.LCC.230  Guilt the West-Indies, and per-/fum'd the East;
155.LCC.231  Whose hauing breath'd in this /world, did bestow
155.LCC.232  Spice on those Isles, and bad /them still smell so,
155.LCC.233  And that rich Indie which doth /gold interre, 
155.LCC.234  Is but as single money, coyn'd /from her: [CW:She]
155.LCC.235  She to whom this world must it /selfe refer, [C1]
155.LCC.236  As Suburbs, or the Microcosme /of her,
155.LCC.237  Shee, shee is dead; shee's dead: /when thou knowest this,
155.LCC.238  Thou knowst how lame a crip-/ple this world is.
155.LCC.239  And learnst thus much by our /Anatomy,
155.LCC.240  That this worlds generall sick-/nesse doth not lie
155.LCC.241  In any humour, or one certaine /part;
155.LCC.242  But as thou sawest it rotten at the /heart,
155.LCC.243  Thou seest a Hectique feuer hath /got hold
155.LCC.244  Of the whole substance, not to /be contrould. 
155.LCC.245  And that thou hast but one way, /not t'admit [CW:The]
155.LCC.246  The worlds infection, to be /none of it. [C1v]
155.LCC.247  For the worlds subtilst imma-/teriall parts
155.LCC.248  Feele this consuming wound, /and ages darts.
155.LCC.249  Eor the worlds beauty is de-/cayd, or gone,
155.LCC.250  Beauty, that's colour, and pro-/portion.
155.LCC.250M %1Disformity /of parts%2.
155.LCC.251  We thinke the heauens enioy /their Sphericall
155.LCC.252  Their round proportion em-/bracing all.
155.LCC.253  But yet their various and per-/plexed course,
155.LCC.254  Obseru'd in diuerse ages doth /enforce
155.LCC.255  Men to find out so many Eccen-/trique parts,
155.LCC.256  Such diuers downe-right lines, /such ouerthwarts, [CW:As]
155.LCC.257  As disproportion that pure /forme.  It teares [C2]
155.LCC.258  The Firmament in eight and /forty sheeres,
155.LCC.259  And in these constillations then /arise
155.LCC.260  New starres, and old doe vanish /from our eyes:
155.LCC.261  As though heau'n suffered earth/quakes, peace or war,
155.LCC.262  When new Towers rise, and old /demolish't are.
155.LCC.263  They haue impayld within a /Zodiake
155.LCC.264  The free-borne Sun, and keepe /twelue signes awake
155.LCC.265  To watch his stepps; the Goat /and Crabbe controule,
155.LCC.266  And fright him backe, who els /to either Pole,
155.LCC.267  (Did not these Tropiques fetter /him) might runne: [CW:For]
155.LCC.268  For his course is not round; nor /can the Sunne [C2v]
155.LCC.269  Perfit a Circle, or maintaine his /way
155.LCC.270  One inche direct; but where he /rose to day
155.LCC.271  He comes no more, but with a /cousening line,
155.LCC.272  Steales by that point, and so is /Serpentine:
155.LCC.273  And seeming weary with his /reeling thus,
155.LCC.274  He meanes to sleepe, being now /falne nearer vs.
155.LCC.275  So, of the Starres which boast /that they doe runne.
155.LCC.276  In Circle still, none ends where /he begunne.
155.LCC.277  All their proportion's lame, it /sinckes, it swels.
155.LCC.278  For of Meridians, and Paral-/lels, [CW:Man]
155.LCC.279  Man hath weaued out a net, and /this net throwne [C3] 
155.LCC.280  Vpon the Heauens, and now /they are his owne.
155.LCC.281  Loth to goe vp the hill, or la-/bour thus
155.LCC.282  To goe to heauen, we make /heauen come to vs.
155.LCC.283  We spur, we raigne the stars, /and in their race
155.LCC.284  They're diuersly content t'obey /our peace,
155.LCC.285  But keepes the earth her round /proportion still?
155.LCC.286  Doth not a Tenarif, or higher /Hill
155.LCC.287  Rise so high like a Rocke, that /one might thinke
155.LCC.288  The floating Moone wold ship-/wracke there, and sinke?
155.LCC.289  Seas are so deepe, that Whales /being strooke to day, [CW:Per-]
155.LCC.290  Perchance too morrow, scarse /at middle way [C3v]
155.LCC.291  Of their wish'd iourneys ende, /the bottom, die.
155.LCC.292  And men, to sound depths, so /much line vntie,
155.LCC.293  As one might iustly thinke, that /there would rise
155.LCC.294  At end thereof, one of th'Anti-/podies:
155.LCC.295  If vnder all, a Vault infernall /be,
155.LCC.296  (Which sure is spacious, except /that we
155.LCC.297  Inuent another torment, that /there must
155.LCC.298  Millions into a strait hot roome /be thrust)
155.LCC.299  Then solidnesse, and roundnesse /haue no place.
155.LCC.300  Are these but warts, and pock-/holes in the face [CW:Of]
155.LCC.301  Of th'earth?  Thinke so:  But yet /confesse, in this [C4]
155.LCC.302  The worlds proportion disfigu-/red is,  
155.LCC.303  That those two legges whereon /it doth rely,
155.LCC.303M %1Disorder in /the vvorld%2. 
155.LCC.304  Reward and punishment are /bent awry. 
155.LCC.305  And, Oh, it can no more be que-/stioned,
155.LCC.306  That beauties best, proportion, is /dead,
155.LCC.307  Since euen griefe it selfe, which /now alone
155.LCC.308  Is left vs, is without propor-/tion.
155.LCC.309  Shee by whose lines proportion /should bee 
155.LCC.310  Examin'd, measure of all Sym-/metree,
155.LCC.311  Whom had that Ancient seene, /who thought soules made [CW:Of]
155.LCC.312  Of Harmony, he would at next /haue said [C4v]
155.LCC.313  That Harmony was shee, and /thence infer.
155.LCC.314  That soules were but Resultan-/ces from her,
155.LCC.315  And did from her into our bo-/dies goe,
155.LCC.316  As to our eyes, the formes from /obiects flow:
155.LCC.317  Shee, who if those great Doctors /truely said
155.LCC.318  That the Arke to mans propor-/tion was made,
155.LCC.319  Had beene a type for that, as /that might be
155.LCC.320  A type of her in this, that con-/trary
155.LCC.321  Both Elements and Passions /liu'd at peace
155.LCC.322  In her, who caus'd all Ciuill /war to cease. [CW:Shee][miscatch]
155.LCC.323  Shee, after whom, what forme /soe're we see, [C5]
155.LCC.324  Is discord, and rude incongrui-/tee,
155.LCC.325  Shee, shee is dead, she's dead; /when thou knowest this,
155.LCC.326  Thou knowst how vgly a mon-/ster this world is:
155.LCC.327  And learnst thus much by our /Anatomee,
155.LCC.328  That here is nothing to enamor /thee:
155.LCC.329  And that, not onely faults in in-/ward parts,
155.LCC.330  Corruptions in our brains, or in /our hearts.
155.LCC.331  Poysoning the fountaines, /whence our actions spring,
155.LCC.332  Endanger vs:  but that if euery /thing
155.LCC.333  Be not done fitly'nd in propor-/tion, [CW:To]
155.LCC.334  To satisfie wise, and good loo-/kers on, [C5v]
155.LCC.335  (Since most men be such as most /thinke they bee)
155.LCC.336  They're lothsome too, by this /Deformitee.
155.LCC.337  For good, and well, must in our /actions meete; 
155.LCC.338  Wicked is not much worse then /indiscreet.
155.LCC.339  But beauties other second Ele-/ment,
155.LCC.340  Colour, and lustre now, is as /neere spent.
155.LCC.341  And had the world his iust pro-/portion,
155.LCC.342  Were it a ring still, yet the stone /is gone.
155.LCC.343  As a compassionate Turcoyse /which doth tell
155.LCC.344  By looking pale, the wearer is /not well, [CW:As]
155.LCC.345  As gold fals sicke being stung /with Mercury, [C6]
155.LCC.346  All the worlds parts of such /complexion bee. 
155.LCC.347  When nature was most busie, /the first weeke,
155.LCC.348  Swadling the new borne earth /God seemd to like,
155.LCC.349  That she should sport herselfe /sometimes, and play,
155.LCC.350  To mingle, and vary colours e-/uery day.
155.LCC.351  And then, as though she could /not make inow,(C,MH,O)~^(L)
155.LCC.352  Himselfe his various Rainbow /did allow,
155.LCC.353  Sight is the noblest sense of any /one,
155.LCC.354  Yet sight hath onely colour to /feede on,
155.LCC.355  And colour is decayd:  summers /robe growes [CW:Duskie,]
155.LCC.356  Duskie, and like an oft dyed /garment showes. [C6v]
155.LCC.357  Our blushing redde, which vs'd /in cheekes to spred,
155.LCC.358  Is inward sunke and onely our /soules are redde.
155.LCC.359  Perchance the world might /haue recouered,
155.LCC.360  If shee whom we lament had /not bene dead:
155.LCC.361  But shee, in whom all white, and /red, and blew 
155.LCC.362  (Beauties ingredients) volunta-/ry grew,
155.LCC.363  As in an vnuext Paradise; from /whom
155.LCC.364  Did all things verdure, and their /lustre come,
155.LCC.365  Whose composition was mira-/culous,
155.LCC.366  Being all colour, all Diapha-/nous, [CW:(For]
155.LCC.367  (For Ayre, and Fire but thicke /grosse bodies were, [C7]
155.LCC.368  And liueliest stones but drow-/sie, and pale to her,)
155.LCC.369  Shee, shee, is dead; she's dead: /when thou knowst this,
155.LCC.370  Thou knowest how wan a Ghost /this our world is:
155.LCC.371  And learnst thus much by our /Anatomee,
155.LCC.372  That it should more affright, /then pleasure thee.
155.LCC.373  And that, since all faire colour /then did sinke,
155.LCC.374  'Tis now but wicked vanitie to /thinke,
155.LCC.375  To colour vicious deeds with /good pretence,
155.LCC.375M %1VVeaknesse /in the vvant /of correspon-/dence of hea-/uen & earth%2.
155.LCC.376  Or with bought colors to illude /mens sense.
155.LCC.377  Nor in ought more this worlds /decay appeares, [CW:Then]
155.LCC.378  Then that her influence the /heau'n forbeares, [C7v]
155.LCC.379  Or that the Elements doe not /feele this,
155.LCC.380  The father, or the mother bar-/ren is.
155.LCC.381  The clouds conceiue not raine, /or doe not powre
155.LCC.382  In the due birth-time, down the /balmy showre.
155.LCC.383  Th'Ayre doth not motherly sit /on the earth,
155.LCC.384  To hatch her seasons, and giue /all things birth.
155.LCC.385  Spring-times were common /cradles, but are toombes,
155.LCC.386  And false-conceptions fill the /generall wombes.
155.LCC.387  Th'ayre showes such Meteors, /as none can see,
155.LCC.388  Not onely what they meane, but /what they bee. [CW:Earth]
155.LCC.389  Earth such new wormes, as /would haue troubled much, [C8]
155.LCC.390  Th'Egyptian %1Mages%2 to haue /made more such.
155.LCC.391  What Artist now dares boast /that he can bring
155.LCC.392  Heauen hither, or constellate /any thing,
155.LCC.393  So as the influence of those /starres may bee
155.LCC.394  Imprisoned in an Hearbe, or /Charme, or Tree,
155.LCC.395  And doe by touch, all which /those starres could doe?
155.LCC.396  The art is lost, and correspon-/dence too.
155.LCC.397  For heauen giues little, and the /earth takes lesse,
155.LCC.398  And man least knowes their /trade and purposes.
155.LCC.399  If this commerce twixt heauen /and earth were not [CW:Em-]
155.LCC.400  Embarr'd, and all this trafique /quite forgot, [C8v]
155.LCC.401  Shee, for whose losse we haue /lamented thus,
155.LCC.402  Would worke more fully and /pow'rfully on vs.
155.LCC.403  Since herbes and roots by dy-/ing, lose not all,
155.LCC.404  But they, yea Ashes too, are /medicinall,
155.LCC.405  Death could not quench her ver-/tue so, but that
155.LCC.406  It would be (if not follow'd) /wondred at:
155.LCC.407  And all the world would be one /dying Swan,
155.LCC.408  To sing her funerall praise, and /vanish than.
155.LCC.409  But as some Serpents poyson /hurteth not,
155.LCC.410  Except it be from the liue Ser-/pent shot, [CW:So]
155.LCC.411  So doth her vertue need her /here, to fit [D1]
155.LCC.412  That vnto vs; she working more /then it.
155.LCC.413  But she, in whom, to such matu-/rity,
155.LCC.414  Vertue was grown, past grouth, /that it must die,
155.LCC.415  She from whose influence all /Impression came,
155.LCC.416  But by receiuers impotencies, /lame,
155.LCC.417  Who, though she could not /transubstantiate 
155.LCC.418  All states to gold, yet guilded /euery state,
155.LCC.419  So that some Princes haue some /temperance;
155.LCC.420  Some Counsellors some pur-/pose to aduance
155.LCC.421  The common profite; and some /people haue [CW:Some]
155.LCC.422  Some stay, no more then Kings /should giue, to craue; [D1v]
155.LCC.423  Some women haue some taci-/turnity,
155.LCC.424  Some Nunneries, some graines /of chastity.
155.LCC.425  She that did thus much, & much /more could doe,
155.LCC.426  But that our age was Iron, and /rusty too,
155.LCC.427  Shee, shee is dead; shee's dead: /when thou knowest this,
155.LCC.428  Thou knowest how drie a Cin-/der this world is.
155.LCC.429  And learnst thus much by our /Anatomy,
155.LCC.430  That 'tis in vaine to dew, or mol-/lifie
155.LCC.431  It with thy Teares, or Sweat, or /Blood:  no thing
155.LCC.432  Is worth our trauaile, griefe, or /perishing, [CW:But]
155.LCC.433  But those rich ioyes, which did /possesse her heart, [D2]
155.LCC.434  Of which shee's now partaker, /and a part.
155.LCC.435  But as in cutting vp a man that's /dead,
155.LCC.435M %1Conclusion%2.
155.LCC.436  The body will not last out to /haue read
155.LCC.437  On euery part, and therefore /men direct
155.LCC.438  Their speech to parts, that are of /most effect;
155.LCC.439  So the worlds carcasse would /not last, if I
155.LCC.440  Were punctuall in this /Anatomy.
155.LCC.441  Nor smels it well to hearers, if /one tell
155.LCC.442  Them their disease, who faine /would thinke they're well.
155.LCC.443  Here therefore be the end:  And, /blessed maid, [CW:Of]
155.LCC.444  Of whom is meant what euer /hath beene said, [D2v]
155.LCC.445  Or shall be spoken well by any /tongue,
155.LCC.446  Whose name refines course /lines, and makes prose song,
155.LCC.447  Accept this tribute, and his first /yeeres rent,
155.LCC.448  Who till his darke short tapers /end be spent,
155.LCC.449  As oft as thy feast sees this wi-/dowed earth,
155.LCC.450  Will yeerely celebrate thy se-/cond birth,
155.LCC.451  That is, thy death.  For though /the soule of man
155.LCC.452  Be got when man is made, 'tis /borne but than
155.LCC.453  When man doth die, Our bodi's /as the wombe,
155.LCC.454  And as a Mid-wife death directs /it home. [CW:And]
155.LCC.455  And you her creatures, whom /she workes vpon [D3]
155.LCC.456  And haue your last, and best /concoction
155.LCC.457  From her example, and her ver-/tue, if you
155.LCC.458  In reuerence to her, doe thinke /it due,
155.LCC.459  That no one should her prayses /thus reherse,
155.LCC.460  As matter fit for Chronicle, not /verse,
155.LCC.461  Vouchsafe to call to minde, that /God did make
155.LCC.462  A last, and lastingst peece, a song. /He spake
155.LCC.463  To %1Moses%2, to deliuer vnto /all,
155.LCC.464  That song:  because he knew /they would let fall,
155.LCC.465  The Law, the Prophets, and the /History, [CW:But]
155.LCC.466  But keepe the song still in their /memory. [D3v]
155.LCC.467  Such an opinion (in due mea-/sure) made
155.LCC.468  Me this great Office boldly to in-/uade.
155.LCC.469  Nor could incomprehensible-/nesse deterre
155.LCC.470  Me, from thus trying to empri-/son her.
155.LCC.471  Which when I saw that a strict /graue could doe,
155.LCC.472  I saw not why verse might not /doe so too.
155.LCC.473  Verse hath a middle nature: /Heauen keepes soules,
155.LCC.474  The Graue keepes bodies, /Verse the same enroules. [CW:A] 
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