IDENTILIN$$  149SA1/Mark/Grey/pp. 54-55/JTS/EWS proofed 12/31/88
149.SA1.HE1  An Elegye vpon y%5e%6 death of the /Lady Markham [p.54]
149.SA1.001  Man is y%5e%6 world, and death y%5e%6 Ocean,
149.SA1.002  to w%5ch%6 god giues y%5e%6 lower part of man,
149.SA1.003  this Sea invirons all, and though as yet
149.SA1.004  god hath set marks, and bounds twixt vs & itt,
149.SA1.005  yet doth it roare, and gnaw, and still portend,
149.SA1.006  & breakes our bankes; when ere it takes a friend,
149.SA1.007  then our land waters (teares of passion) vent
149.SA1.008  our waters high aboue our firmament,
149.SA1.009  Teares (w%5c%6h our soule doth for her Sin let fall)
149.SA1.010  take all a brackish tast and funerall,
149.SA1.011  And euen these teares which should wash Sin, are Sinne,
149.SA1.012  We after Gods %1Noah%2, drowne y%5e%6 world agen,
149.SA1.013  nothing but man, of all envenomed things
149.SA1.014  doth worke vpon it selfe, with inborne stings;
149.SA1.015  Teares are false spectacles, we cannot see
149.SA1.016  through passions mist, what we are, nor what shee;
149.SA1.017  In her this Sea of death hath made no breach,
149.SA1.018  but as y%5e%6 tyde doth wash y%5e%6 slymy beach,
149.SA1.019  And leaues v-->embroydered workes vpon y%5e%6 Sande;
149.SA1.020  so is her flesh refinde by deaths cold hand.
149.SA1.021  As men of China after an ages stay,
149.SA1.022  Do take vp purslane, where they buryed clay:
149.SA1.023  So at this graue, her limbeck, w%5c%6h refines
149.SA1.024  y%5e%6 Diamonds, Rubies, Saphires, Pearles, and Mines,
149.SA1.025  of w%5c%6h this flesh was, her Soule shall inspire
149.SA1.026  flesh of such stuffe, as god when his last fire
149.SA1.027  annulls y%5e%6 world, to recompence it shall
149.SA1.028  make and name then th ' Elixar of this all,
149.SA1.029  They say when y%5e%6 Earth gaines it looseth too,
149.SA1.030  if Carnall Death y%5e%6 yonger brother doe
149.SA1.031  vsurpe y%5e%6 bodye, her soule which subiect is
149.SA1.032  to th' elder death by Sinne, is freed by this,
149.SA1.033  They perish both when they attempt y%5e%6 iust, [p.55]
149.SA1.034  for graues our trophies are, & both deaths dust,
149.SA1.035  So vnobnoxious now sh' hath buryed both,
149.SA1.036  for none to death sinnes, w%5c%6h %Yare%Z to Sinne are loath;
149.SA1.037  nor do they dye w%5c%6h are not loath to dye,
149.SA1.038  So she hath this & that virginitye:
149.SA1.039  Grace was in her extremely diligent
149.SA1.040  y%5t%6 kept her from Sinne, yet made her repent,
149.SA1.041  of what small spots pure white complaynes,? alas
149.SA1.042  how little poyson breakes a Christall glasse?
149.SA1.043  Shee Sinn'd but iust enough, to let vs see
149.SA1.044  that gods word must be true, all Sinners be,
149.SA1.045  So much did Zeale her Conscience rarifye,
149.SA1.046  that extreame truth lackt little of a lye;
149.SA1.047  making Omissions acts, laying the %Ytruth%Z tuch
149.SA1.048  of Sinne on sinnes, w%5c%6h sometimes may be such;
149.SA1.049  as Moses Cherubims, whose nature doe
149.SA1.050  surpasse all speede, by him are winged too,
149.SA1.051  So would her soule, allready in heauen, seeme then
149.SA1.052  to clime by teares, the Common stayes-->stay%5r%6es of men;
149.SA1.053  how fitt she was for god, I am content
149.SA1.054  to speake, y%5t%6 Death his vayne hast may repent;
149.SA1.055  how fitt for vs, how euen, and how sweete,
149.SA1.056  how good in all her titles, & how meete
149.SA1.057  to haue reformd this froward heresye,
149.SA1.058  y%5t%6 woemen can no parts of friendship bee,
149.SA1.059  how morrall, how diuine, shall not be told,
149.SA1.060  Least they that heare her vertues thinke her old,
149.SA1.061  and least we takes death part, and make him glad
149.SA1.062  of such a prey, & to his triumphs adde.
149.SA1.0SS  finis.  J. D.
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