IDENTILIN$$  F148B30|BedfShe|Harley 4064, ff. 285v-286v\GL\P:GAS\o\6-22-95\C:JSC '95; 10-00
148.B30.0HE  Elegie /To the Countes of Bedford
148.B30.001  You that are shee, and you thates double shee;
148.B30.002  In her dead face, halfe of yo%5r%6 selfe shall see,
148.B30.003  She was the other parte for soe they doe
148.B30.004  w%5ch%6 build them frendshipps, become one of two,
148.B30.005  Soe two that but themselues, no* third can fitt.
148.B30.006  w%5ch%6 were to be so, when they weare not yett
148.B30.007  Twins though there birth Cusco, & musco take,
148.B30.008  As diuers starrs one Constillation make.
148.B30.009  Payr'd like two eyes, haue equall motion>%Vs< soe
148.B30.010  both but one meanes to see, on way to goe
148.B30.011  Had you died first a Carcas she had beene
148.B30.012  And wee yo%5r%6 ritch tombe, in her face had seene.
148.B30.013  She like the soule is gon and you here stay
148.B30.014  not a liue frind, but the other halfe of Clay [CW:And.]
148.B30.015  And since you act that part as men say here [286]
148.B30.016  lies such a Prince, when but one Parte is theire
148.B30.017  And doe all honor and deuotion due
148.B30.018  vnto the whole, so we all reuerenc[sic] you
148.B30.019  such a frendship who would not adore
148.B30.020  In you, who are all, what both weare before.
148.B30.021  Not all, as if some perished by this
148.B30.022  But soe that in you all Contracted is
148.B30.023  As all this all though many partes decay.
148.B30.024  The Pure w%5ch%6 elemented them shall stay,
148.B30.025  And though diffus'd, and spread in infynite
148.B30.026  shall recollect, and in one all vnite.
148.B30.027  So madam, as her soule to heauen is fled
148.B30.028  Her flesh rest[sic] in the earth, as in a bed
148.B30.029  Her %Yve*%Z>%Vver<tues doe, as to their proper spheare 
148.B30.030  Retourn to dwell w%5th%6 you of whom they weare.
148.B30.031  As perfect motions are of[sic] Circular
148.B30.032  Soe they to you their %Ystreame%Z>%Vsea< whence lesse sea ar,
148.B30.033  She was all spices, you all mettalls, soe
148.B30.034  In you two, we did both rich Indyes knowe
148.B30.035  And as no fyre, nor rust, can spend and wast
148.B30.036  One dramme of gould, but w%5ch%6 was first shall last
148.B30.037  If it be forc'd in water, earth, salt, ayre,
148.B30.038  Expanc'd in infinite, none will impayre,
148.B30.039  Soe to yo%5r%6 selfe you may addition take
148.B30.040  But nothing can you lesse or chaundged make [CW:seeke#not]
148.B30.041  Seeke not in seeking new to seeme to doubt [286v]
148.B30.042  That you can match her, or not be w%5th%6out.
148.B30.043  But lett some fayth[sic] booke in her roome bee
148.B30.044  Yett but of Iudeth, no such booke as shee.|
148.B30.0SS  [om]
148.B30.0$$  %1Even no'd ll. ind 4 sp.; scribe numbers the poem%2 79 %1in LM at l.1%2