IDENTILIN$$ F152C09|Henry|Luttrell MS|ff. 55-56v|T-LP/mf/24Jul87 152.C09.0HE Elegye on Prince Henry, since in print /but out of print./ [55] 152.C09.001 Looke to me faith, & looke to my faith, God, 152.C09.002 for both my Centers feele this Period. 152.C09.003 of weight one Center, one of greatnesse is 152.C09.004 And Reason is that Center, faith is this. 152.C09.005 For into our Reason flowe, & there do end 152.C09.006 All that this naturall world doth comp%5r%6hend 152.C09.007 Quotidian thinges, & equi-distant hence 152.C09.008 Shutt in for Man in one Circumference. 152.C09.009 But for th'enormous Greatnesses w%5ch%6 are 152.C09.010 So disproportion'd & so angulare 152.C09.011 As is Gods essence, place, & prouidence, [55v] 152.C09.012 Where, when, how, what, Soules doe, departed hence 152.C09.013 These thinges (Excentrique else) on faith do strike 152.C09.014 Yet neither all, nor vpon all alike. 152.C09.015 For Reason putt to her best extension 152.C09.016 Almost meets faith, & makes both Centers one. 152.C09.017 And nothing euer came so neere to this 152.C09.018 As Contemplation of that Prince we misse. 152.C09.019 For all that faith might credit mankind could 152.C09.020 Reason still seconded that this Prince would. 152.C09.021 If, then, least mouings of the Center make 152.C09.022 more then if whole hell belcht, the Earth to quake 152.C09.023 What must this doe, Centers distracted so 152.C09.024 That wee see not what to beleeue or know? 152.C09.025 Was it not well beleeu'd, till now, that Hee 152.C09.026 (Whose reputation was an Extasye 152.C09.027 on neighbour States which knew not why to wake 152.C09.028 Till he discouerd what wayes he would take 152.C09.029 ffor whom what Princes angled when they tryd 152.C09.030 mett a Torpedo & were stupifyd, 152.C09.031 And others studyes how he would be bent 152.C09.032 were his great fathers greatest instrument 152.C09.033 And actiu'st Spiritt to convay & tye 152.C09.034 This Soule of peace to Christianitye) 152.C09.035 Was it not well beleeud that he would make 152.C09.036 This generall peace th'eternall ouertake 152.C09.037 And that his times might haue stretchd out so farre 152.C09.038 As to touch those of which they Emblemes are? 152.C09.039 ffor, to confirme this iust beleife, that now 152.C09.040 The last dayes came, wee saw heauen did allow 152.C09.041 That but from his Aspect & Exercise [CW:>>In#peace:<<] 152.C09.042 In peacefull times, rumors of warre should rise [56] 152.C09.043 But now this faith is Heresye, wee must 152.C09.044 Still stay, & vex o%5r%6 great#grandmother, Dust. 152.C09.045 oh, is god prodigall? hath he spent his store 152.C09.046 of Plagues on us/ & only now when more 152.C09.047 would ease as much, doth he grudge Misery 152.C09.048 And letts vs not enioy our Curse, to dye? 152.C09.049 As, for the Earth throwne lowest downe of all 152.C09.050 T'were an Ambition to desire to fall 152.C09.051 So God, in o%5r%6 desire to dye, doth know 152.C09.052 our plott for ease in being wretched so. 152.C09.053 Therfore we liue though such a life we haue 152.C09.054 As but so many Mandrakes on his graue. 152.C09.055 What had his growth & generation donne 152.C09.056 When what wee are, his putrefaction 152.C09.057 Sustaynes in vs, Earth, w%5ch%6 greifes animate? 152.C09.058 nor hath our world now, other Soule then that. 152.C09.059 And could greif|e| gett so high as heauen, that Quire 152.C09.060 Forgetting this their new Ioy, would desire 152.C09.061 With greife to see him, he had stayd below 152.C09.062 To rectifye our Errors they foreknow. 152.C09.063 Is th'other Center Reason, faster then? 152.C09.064 Where should we looke for that now w'are not men? 152.C09.065 for if o%5r%6 Reason be our Connexion 152.C09.066 of causes, now to vs there can be none. 152.C09.067 For as, if all the Substances were spent 152.C09.068 Twere madnes to inquire of Accident 152.C09.069 So ist to looke for Reason, hee beeing gonne 152.C09.070 The only Subiect reason wrought vpon. 152.C09.071 If fate hath such a chaine whose diuers Linkes 152.C09.072 Industrious man discerneth as he thinkes, 152.C09.073 When Miracle doth come & so steale in 152.C09.074 A new Linke, man knowes not where to begin, [56v] 152.C09.075 At a much deader fault must Reason bee 152.C09.076 Death hauing broke off such a Linke as Hee. 152.C09.077 But now for vs with busy profe to come 152.C09.078 That w'haue no reason, would proue we had some. 152.C09.079 So would iust Lamentations. Therfore wee 152.C09.080 May safelyer Say that Wee are dead then Hee: 152.C09.081 So if o%5r%6 greifes wee do not well declare 152.C09.082 W'haue double excuse, hee's not dead, & wee are. 152.C09.083 Yet I would not dye yet, for though I bee 152.C09.084 Too narrow to thinke him as hee is Hee 152.C09.085 (our soules best bayting & mid-period 152.C09.086 In her Long iourney of considering God) 152.C09.087 Yet (no dishonour) I may reach him thus 152.C09.088 As he embracd the fires of Loue with vs. 152.C09.089 oh may I, since I Liue, but see &[Mvar:>or<] heare 152.C09.090 That Shee-Intelligence which mou'd this Sphere 152.C09.091 (I pardon fate my Life) who ere thou ***->bee 152.C09.092 That hast the noble Conscience, thou art shee, 152.C09.093 I coniure thee by all the charmes he spoke 152.C09.094 By th'othes which only you two neuer broke 152.C09.095 By all the soules you sighd, that if you see 152.C09.096 These Lines, you wish I knew your historye 152.C09.097 So much as you two mutuall heauens were, heere, 152.C09.098 I were an Angell singing what you were. 152.C09.0SSom 152.C09.0$$ CW 55v in a 2nd hand (?); l. 63 indented 4 sp; marginal variant in the scribal hand, l. 89.