IDENTILIN$$  F149SP1|Mark|MS 49. B. 43|Ff. [35v-37]|EWS  Original  6-4-86
149.SP1.0HE  %1Elegie.  On the Ladie Markham%2./
149.SP1.001  %1Man%2 is the %1World%2, and %1Death%2 the %1Ocean%2 [f. 35v]
149.SP1.002  To which %1God%2 giues the lower %1parts%2 of %1Man%2.
149.SP1.003  The %1Sea%2 invirons all, and though as yett
149.SP1.004  %1God%2 haue sett %1Markes%2, and %1Bounds%2 twixt vs, and it,
149.SP1.005  Yett doth it %1weare%2, and %1gnawe%2, and still pretend
149.SP1.006  And breakes our %1Banckes%2 when ere it takes a frend.
149.SP1.007  Then our land-%1waters%2 (Teares of passion) vent
149.SP1.008  Our %1Waters%2 there aboue our %1firmament%2.
149.SP1.009  (%1Teares%2 w%5ch%6 o%5r%6 %1Soule%2 doth for her %1Sinne%2 lett fall) [cw: Take]
149.SP1.010  Take all a %1brackish%2 tast, and %1funerall%2./ [f. 36]
149.SP1.011  And euen these %1Teares%2 w%5ch%6 should wash %1Sinn%2, are %1Sinn%2
149.SP1.012  Wee after %1Gods Noe%2, drowne our %1World%2 againe./
149.SP1.013  Nothing but %1Man%2 of all envenomed thinges
149.SP1.014  Doth worke vpon it self with %1inborne%2 stinges.
149.SP1.015  %1Teares are false Spectacles%2: wee cannot see
149.SP1.016  Through %1Passions%2 Myst what they are, or what %1Wee%2.
149.SP1.017  In %1her%2, this %1Sea%2 of %1death%2 hath made noe %1Breach%2
149.SP1.018  But as the %1Tyde%2 doth washe the slymie %1Beach%2
149.SP1.019  And leaues embroydered workes vpon the Sandes
149.SP1.020  Soe is her fleshe refynd by %1Deaths%2 cold hand.
149.SP1.021  As %1Men%2 of %1China%2 after an ages staie
149.SP1.022  Doe take vp %1Purslend%2, where they buried %1Claye%2.
149.SP1.023  Soe at this %1Graue%2 her %1lymbeck%2 w%5ch%6 refines
149.SP1.024  The %1Diamonds, Rubies, Saphyrs, Pearles%2 and %1Mynes%2
149.SP1.025  Of which this fleshe was:  her Soule shall inspire
149.SP1.026  %1Fleshe%2 of such Stuffe, as %1God%2 when his last fire
149.SP1.027  Annulles this %1world,%2 to recompence it shall
149.SP1.028  Make, and name them, th'%1Elixar%2 of this %1All%2.
149.SP1.029  They saie, the %1Sea%2 when it %1gaines%2, looseth too,
149.SP1.030  Of->If %1carnall death%2 (the younger %1Brother%2) doe
149.SP1.031  Vsurpe the %1Bodie%2, our Soule w%5ch%6 subiect is
149.SP1.032  To th'%1Elder Death%2 by %1Sinne%2, is freed by this. [cw: They]
149.SP1.033  They perish both, who attempt the %1iust%2 [f. 36v]
149.SP1.034  ffor %1Graves%2 our %1Trophees%2 are, & both dead, %1Dust%2.
149.SP1.035  Soe vnobnoxious now, %1Shee%2 hath buryed both
149.SP1.036  ffor %1none to Death sinnes, that to death is loth%2
149.SP1.037  Nor did they die, w%5ch%6 are not loth to die
149.SP1.038  Soe hath %1Shee%2 this, and that %1Virginitie%2.
149.SP1.039  %1Grace%2 was in her extreamelie diligent
149.SP1.040  That kept her from %1Sinne%2, yet made her %1repent%2.
149.SP1.041  Of what %1small Spottes, pure White%2 complaines?  Alas!
149.SP1.042  How little Poison breakes a %1Christall Glasse%2?
149.SP1.043  %1Shee%2 syn'd, but iust enoughe to lett vs see
149.SP1.044  That %1Gods Word%2 must bee true; %1All Synners bee%2.
149.SP1.045  Soe much did %1Zeale%2 her %1Conscience%2 rectefie
149.SP1.046  That extreame %1truth%2, lack't little of a %1Lie%2.
149.SP1.047  Making %1Omissions, Acts,%2 laying the touch
149.SP1.048  Of %1Sinne%2 on thinges, that sometimes maie bee such.
149.SP1.049  As %1Moses Cherubins%2, whose %1Natures%2 doe
149.SP1.050  Surpasse all speed, by him are %1winged%2 too.
149.SP1.051  Soe would her %1Soule%2 alreadie in %1Heaven%2, seeme then
149.SP1.052  To clymbe by %1Teares%2, the %1Com%Mon staires%2 of %1Men%2.
149.SP1.053  How fitt shee was for %1God%2 I am content
149.SP1.054  To speake, that %1Death%2 his vaine hast maie repent.
149.SP1.055  How fytt for vs, how eeven, and how sweete [cw: How]
149.SP1.056  How %1good%2 in all her %1Titles%2, and how %1meete%2 [f. 37]
149.SP1.057  To haue reform'd this forward %1Heresie%2
149.SP1.058  That %1Weomen can not Part of freindship bee.%2
149.SP1.059  How %1morrall%2, how %1deuine%2 shall not bee told,
149.SP1.060  Least they that heare her %1Vertues%2, think her %1old%2.
149.SP1.061  And least wee take %1Deaths%2 Part, and make him gladd
149.SP1.062  Of such a %1Pray%2, and to his %1tryumphe%2 add./
149.SP1.0SS  Signed with a flower
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