IDENTILIN$$ F149H04|Mark|Harvard, fMS 966.3 (Norton)|ff. 25v-26v, pp. 50-52|mf T-LP 5Sep87 149.H04.HE An Elegie vpon the death of the Lady: Marckham: [25v] 149.H04.001 Man is the world, and death the Ocean 149.H04.002 To w%5ch6 god giues the lower parts of man, 149.H04.003 This Sea invirons all, and though as yet 149.H04.004 God hath sett marks, and boundes twixt vs, & it 149.H04.005 yet doth it roare, and gnawe, and still pretend 149.H04.006 And breakes o%5r%6 bancks when e're it takes a%A ffreind 149.H04.007 Then our Land=waters (teares of Passion) vent 149.H04.008 our water's then aboue our firmament 149.H04.009 (Teares w%5ch%6 our Soule doth for her sinne let fall) 149.H04.010 take all a brackish tast, and funerall; 149.H04.011 And euen those tear%Aes w%5ch%6 should wash sin, are sinne 149.H04.012 We after Gods Noah drowne our world agen. [CW:Nothing#but] 149.H04.013 Nothing but man of all envenom'd thinges [26] 149.H04.014 doth worke vpon itselfe w%5th%6 in=borne stinges 149.H04.015 Teares a%Are false spectac%Ales we cannot see 149.H04.016 Through passions mistes what we a%Are, nor what shee, 149.H04.017 In *her this Sea of death hath made noe brea%Ach 149.H04.018 But a%As the tyde doth wash the slimye bea%Ach 149.H04.019 And leaues embroidered workes vpon the sand, 149.H04.020 Soe is her flesh refin'de by deathes cold hand; 149.H04.021 As men of Chyna after an ages staie 149.H04.022 doe take vp Purslan where they buried claye 149.H04.023 Soe at this graue, her Limbeck, w%5ch%6 refines 149.H04.024 The diamonds, Rubies: Saphyres, Pearles, and Mynes, 149.H04.025 of w%5ch%6 this flesh wa%As; her Soule shall inspire 149.H04.026 fflesh of such stuffe, as god when his last fire 149.H04.027 Annulls this world, to recompence it, shall 149.H04.028 Ma%Ake|,| and name then the Elixar of this All 149.H04.029 They saie, when the sea gaines, it looseth too 149.H04.030 If Carnall death the yonger brother doe 149.H04.031 Vsurpe the bodie, Our soule w%5ch%6 subiect is 149.H04.032 To th'elder death by sinne, is fre'ed by this: 149.H04.033 They perish both when they attempt the Iust 149.H04.034 ffor Graues our Trophees are, and both deaths dust 149.H04.035 Soe vn=obnoxious nowe she hath buried both 149.H04.036 ffor none to death sinnes, w%5ch%6 to sinne are loa%Ath 149.H04.037 Nor doe they die, w%5ch%6 are not loa%Ath to die 149.H04.038 Soe she hath this, and that virginitie 149.H04.039 Grace wa%As in her extremely dilligent 149.H04.040 That kept her from sinne, yet made her repent 149.H04.041 Of what small spottes pure white complaines; Alass 149.H04.042 Howe little poison breakes a%A Cristall glasse? 149.H04.043 She sinnd but iust enough to let vs see 149.H04.044 That gods word must be true; All Sinners bee; 149.H04.045 Soe much did zeale her conscience ratifie [M:raref|ie|] 149.H04.046 That extreame truth lackt little of a%A lie; 149.H04.047 Making omissions actes, laying the touch [26v] 149.H04.048 Of sin on thinges, w%5ch%6 sometymes maie be such 149.H04.049 As Moses Cherubins whose nature doe 149.H04.050 Surpasse all speed, by him are winged too; 149.H04.051 Soe would her soule, allready in heaue'n, seeme then 149.H04.052 To clyme by teares (the Como%Mn staires of men) 149.H04.053 Howe fitt she wa%As for God I am content 149.H04.054 To speake, that dea%Ath his vayne hast may repent. 149.H04.055 Howe fitt for vs, howe euen, and howe sweete 149.H04.056 Howe good in all her titles, and howe meete 149.H04.057 To haue reformd this forward heresie 149.H04.058 That women can noe partes of frendshipp be: 149.H04.059 Howe morall, howe deuine shall not be toulde 149.H04.060 Least they that hea%Are her vertues thinke her olde; 149.H04.061 And least we take deaths pa%Art, and make him glad 149.H04.062 of such a%A prey, and to his Trivmphes adde. 149.H04.SS Finis 149.H04.0$$ Lines 2,4,6,8,10,12 indented 2sp.; line 58 indented 3sp.; marginal variant, in a second hand(?), partially trimmed away, l.45; some syllables accented in the scribal hand.