IDENTILIN$$  F147B26/ (Harl. 3511), f. 49/GAS BL 3-22-90\Rechecked GAS\o\6-24-95\C:JSC
147.B26.0HE  %XElegy
147.B26.001  Madam[LM] /That I might make your cabinet my tombe
147.B26.002  And for my fame which I love next my soule
147.B26.003  Next to my soule provide the happiest roome
147.B26.004  Admit to that place this last funerall scroll
147.B26.005  Others by will give legacies but I
147.B26.006  Dying, of you doe beg a legacy
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147.B26.007  My fortune & my will this custome breake
147.B26.008  When we are sencelesse growne, to make stones speake.
147.B26.009  Though no ston tell thee what I was yet thou
147.B26.010  In my graves inside see what thou art now
147.B26.011  Yet th'art not so good; till us death lay
147.B26.012  To ripe & mellow thee w'are stubborne clay;
147.B26.013  Parents make us earth & soules dignifie
147.B26.014  Us to be glasse, here to grow gold %Yxx%Z>we< lie.
147.B26.015  Whilst in our soules sin bread & pampered is
147.B26.016  Our soules become worme eaten carcases.
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147.B26.0$$  2nd & 4th ll. ind 3 sp; 5 & 6 ind 10 sp; ll. 17-26 om