IDENTILIN$$  F150H04||BoulRec|Harvard, fMS 966.3 (Norton)|ff.26v-27v, pp.52-54|mf T-LP 5Sep87
150.H04.HE   An Elegie vpon the death: of M%5rs%6 Bulstrod [26v]
150.H04.001  Dea%Ath I recant, and saie, vnsaid by me  
150.H04.002  What e're hath slipt, that might diminish thee
150.H04.003  Spirituall Treason, Atheisme tis to saie  
150.H04.004  that any can thy sumo%Mns disobey
150.H04.005  Th'earths fa%Ace is but thy table, and the mea%Ate  
150.H04.006  Plants, cattle, men, dishd%>dish>%5e%6<d for death to eate 
150.H04.007  In a%A rude hunger nowe he Millions drawes 
150.H04.008  Into his bloudie, or plaguie, or starved iawes,
150.H04.009  Nowe he will seeme to spa%Are, and doth more wast
150.H04.010  Ea%Ating the best fruite, well preservd to last
150.H04.011  Nowe wantonly he spoiles, and eates vs not
150.H04.012  but breakes of ffrends, and lets vs peicemeale rott;
150.H04.013  Nor will this Earth serue him, he sinckes the deepe 
150.H04.014  Where harmelesse fish Monastick silence keepe [CW:Who#(were]
150.H04.015  Who, (were death dead) by rowes of liuing sand [27]
150.H04.016  might spurge that Element, a%And make it land
150.H04.017  He roundes the a%Ayre, and breakes the Him%Mique notes 
150.H04.018  In birdes|,| Heauens quiristers organick throates
150.H04.019  W%5ch%6 (if they did not dye) might seeme to be
150.H04.020  a tenth rank in the Haeu'nly Hierarchye
150.H04.021  O strong, and long liv'd death|,| howe cams't thou in?
150.H04.022  and howe w%5th%6out Creation didst begin?
150.H04.023  Thou has't, a%And shalt see dead before thou diest 
150.H04.024  All the 4 Monarchies, and Antichrist.
150.H04.025  Howe could I thinke thee nothing that see nowe
150.H04.026  in all this All nothing els is but thou
150.H04.027  Our birthes, and life[var:ves], vices, and vertues be
150.H04.028  Wastfull consumptions, and degrees of thee.
150.H04.029  ffor we to liue our bellowes were, and breath
150.H04.030  nor are we mortall dying, dead, but death 
150.H04.031  And though thou bee'st (Oh mighty Bird of prey
150.H04.032  Soe much reclaym'd of god that thou must laye
150.H04.033  All that thou killest at his feete; yet doth he
150.H04.034  reserue but fewe, and leaues the most to thee;
150.H04.035  And of those fewe thou nowe has't ouerthrowne 
150.H04.036  One, whom thy blowe makes not ours, not thine owne
150.H04.037  She was more stories high, hoplesse to come 
150.H04.038  To her soule thou ha'st offred at her lower roome
150.H04.039  Her soule, and body was a%A king, and Court 
150.H04.040  But thou ha'st both of Captaine mist, and ffort'
150.H04.041  All[var:As] houses fall not though the king remoue
150.H04.042  bodies of Saints rest, ffor their soule's aboue
150.H04.043  death getts twixt soules and bodies, such a%A pla%Ace
150.H04.044  as sinne insinuates twixt Iust men, and Grace:
150.H04.045  Both workes a%A seperation, noe divorce
150.H04.046  Her Soule is gone to vsher vp her Corse 
150.H04.047  W%5ch%6 shallbe allmost another Soule|;| ffor there
150.H04.048  bodies are purer, then best Soules are heere:
150.H04.049  Because in her, her vertues did outgoe [27v]
150.H04.050  her yeares; wouldst thou oh emulous death doe soe?
150.H04.051  And kill her yong to thy losse? must the cost
150.H04.052  of beautie, and witt, apt to doe harme be lost?
150.H04.053  What though thou found'st her prooffe 'gainst sins of youth?
150.H04.054  O euerie age a diuers sinne pursu'eth
150.H04.055  Thou should'st haue staid, and taken better hold 
150.H04.056  shortly ambitious, covetous, when ould 
150.H04.057  she might haue prov'd; And such devotion
150.H04.058  might once haue strayd to superstition;
150.H04.059  If all her vertues must haue growne, yet might
150.H04.060  abundant vertue haue bred a%A prowd delight
150.H04.061  Had she perseverd Iust, there would haue growne[var:bin] 
150.H04.062  Some that would sinne, misthinking she did sinne;
150.H04.063  Such as would call her ffrendship loue, and faine
150.H04.064  to sociablenesse a name prophane:
150.H04.065  Or sinn by tempting, or not daring that
150.H04.066  by wishing, though they neuer told her what;
150.H04.067  Thus mighs't thou haue slaine more soules, hadst thou not crost
150.H04.068  thy selfe, and to trivmph thy army lost:
150.H04.069  Yet though theis waies be lost, thou ha'st lest one
150.H04.070  w%5ch%6 is, imo%Mderate greife that she is gone
150.H04.071  But we may scape that sinne, yet weepe as much
150.H04.072  Our tea%Ares ar%Ae due because we ar%Ae not such
150.H04.073  Some teares that knott of ffreinds, her death must cost
150.H04.074  Because the chaine is broke, though noe linck lost:
150.H04.SS   Finis
150.H04.0$$  Alternate lines indented except l.2; variants above words/letters in a later hand; some syllables accented in the scribal hand.