IDENTILIN$$ F149B40|Mark|BL Lansdowne 740|f. 113r-v|Original EWS 5 May 1983 149.B40.0HE %1An Elegie vppon the death of the La: Markham%2./ 149.B40.001 Man is the world, and death the Ocean [f. 113] 149.B40.002 to w%5ch%6 god giues the lower partes of man. 149.B40.003 This Sea environs all, and though as yett 149.B40.004 God hath sett markes, and boundes twixt vs, & it, 149.B40.005 Yett doth it roare, & gnaw, and still pretend 149.B40.006 and breakes our Banck, when ere it takes a frend. 149.B40.007 Then our land waters (teares of passion) vent 149.B40.008 our water's then aboue our firmament. 149.B40.009 (Teares w%5ch%6 our soule doth fo%5r%6 her sin lett fall 149.B40.010 take all a brakish taste, & funerall: 149.B40.011 And euen those teares w%5ch%6 should wash sin, are sin: 149.B40.012 wee after Godes Noe, drowne our world agen. 149.B40.013 Noething but man of all envenomb'd thinges 149.B40.014 doth worke vppon it, ^[selfe] w%5ch%6 in-borne stinges. 149.B40.015 Teares are falce spectacles: we cannot see 149.B40.016 through passions mistes, what we are, nor what shee. 149.B40.017 In her, this Sea of Death hath made noe breach 149.B40.018 but as the tide doth wash the slymie beach, 149.B40.019 And leaues ymbrothered workes vppon the sand, 149.B40.020 soe is her flesh refind by deathes cold hand. 149.B40.021 As men of China, after an ages staie 149.B40.022 doe take vpp purslane, where they buried clay. 149.B40.023 Soe at this Graue, he%5r%6 Lymbeck w%5ch%6 refines 149.B40.024 the Diamondes, Rubies, Saphires, Pearles, and mynes, 149.B40.025 (Of w%5ch%6 this flesh was), her soule shall enspire 149.B40.026 flesh of such stuffe, as God, (when his last fire 149.B40.027 Annulls this world) to recompence it shall 149.B40.028 Make, and name then the Elixar of this all. 149.B40.029 They say, when the Sea gaines, it looseth too; 149.B40.030 if Carnall death the youger brother doo 149.B40.031 Vsurpe the bodie, our soule w%5ch%6 %Yis%Z subiect is 149.B40.032 to th'elder %Ybrother%Z death by sin, is freed by this; 149.B40.033 They perish both, when they attempt the Iust, 149.B40.034 for Graues, our Trophies are, and both, deathes dust 149.B40.035 Soe vnobnoxious[M:note] now shee hath buried both [f. 113v] 149.B40.036 fo%5r%6 none to death Sins, w%5ch%6 to sin are loth. 149.B40.037 Nor doe they Die, w%5ch%6 are not loth to Die 149.B40.038 soe shee hath this, and that %1virginitie%2. 149.B40.039 Grace was in her extreamlie diligent 149.B40.040 That kept her from sin, yett made her repent. 149.B40.041 Of what smale spotts pure white complaines? Alasse 149.B40.042 how little poyson breakes a cristall glasse? 149.B40.043 Shee sin'd but Iust enoughe to lett vs see 149.B40.044 that Gods word must be true, All sinners bee. 149.B40.045 So much Did zeale hir conscience rarefie 149.B40.046 that extreame truth lack'd little of a lie. 149.B40.047 Makeing omissions actes, laying the tuch 149.B40.048 of Sin, one thinges w%5ch%6 somtimes may be such. 149.B40.049 As Moses Cherubines, whose nature doe 149.B40.050 surpasse all speed, by him are winged to. 149.B40.051 Soe would her soule alredie in heaven, seeme then 149.B40.052 to clyme %Ythen%Z by teares; (the com%Mon staires of men). 149.B40.053 How fitt shee was fo%5r%6 god, I am content 149.B40.054 to speake, that death his vayne-hast may repent: 149.B40.055 How fitt fo%5r%6 vs, how euen, and how sweet, 149.B40.056 how good in all her titles, and how meet 149.B40.057 To haue reform'd this forward heresie, 149.B40.058 That women can noe %1parts%2 of %1frendshipp%2 bee: 149.B40.059 How Morrall, how devine, shall not be tould, 149.B40.060 Least they that heare her vertues, thinke her olde; 149.B40.061 And least we take Deathes part, and make him glad 149.B40.062 of such a pray, and to his tryumphes add./ 149.B40.0SS 149.B40.$$ Heading is scribal, even lines are indented 2 spaces. 35m "ot %1subiect%2 to danger" ("n" lost to trim) 36m [not subiect]