IDENTLINE$$ F153ES1|Har|RAF/F/13/1|pp. 157-62|EWS Microfilm 2-21-88 153.ES1.0HE %1Obsequies of the Lord Harrington brother to the Countesse of Bedforde%2. 153.ES1.001 ffaire Sowle, w%5ch%6 wast not onely as all Sowles bee 153.ES1.002 Then when thou wast infused harmonie 153.ES1.003 But didst continue soe, and now dost beare 153.ES1.004 A part in Godes great Organ, this whole %1Spheare%2 153.ES1.005 If looking vp to God, or downe to vs 153.ES1.006 Thou find, that any way is pervious 153.ES1.007 Twixt heauen, and earth, and that mens acco%Mns doe 153.ES1.008 Come to your knowledge, and affecco%Mns too 153.ES1.009 See, and wish ioye, mee, to that good degree 153.ES1.010 of goodnes growne, that I can studie thee. 153.ES1.011 And by thos meditaco%Mns refinde 153.ES1.012 Can vnapparrell, and enlarge the mynde 153.ES1.013 And so can make by this softe extasie 153.ES1.014 This place a Mapp of heauen, my self of thee 153.ES1.015 Thou seest mee heere at Midnight: Now all rest 153.ES1.016 %1Times%2 dead lowe-water when all mindes devest 153.ES1.017 To morrowes busines: when the labourers haue 153.ES1.018 Such rest in bedd, that their last %1Church-yard%2 graue 153.ES1.019 Subiect to change, will scarce bee a type of this 153.ES1.020 Now when the %1Client%2 whos last hearing is 153.ES1.021 To morrowe sleepes: when the condemned Man 153.ES1.022 (who when hee opes his Eies must shutt them than 153.ES1.023 Againe by death) althoughe sadd watch hee keepe 153.ES1.024 doth practize dying by a lyttle sleepe. 153.ES1.025 Thou at this Midnight seest mee, and as soone 153.ES1.026 As that %1Sonne%2 rises to mee, Midnight's noone. 153.ES1.027 All the world growes transparent, and I see 153.ES1.028 Throughe all, both State, and Church in seeing thee 153.ES1.029 And I discerne by fauour of this light 153.ES1.030 My self the hardest obiect of the sight. [cw: God] 153.ES1.031 God is the glasse, as thou when thou dost see 153.ES1.032 %1Him%2, who sees all, seest all concerning %1thee%2 153.ES1.033 Soe, yet vnglorified I comprehend 153.ES1.034 All in thos myrrors of thy way and end 153.ES1.035 Thoughe God bee truly our glasse throughe w%5ch%6 wee see 153.ES1.036 All, since thee beeing of all thinges, is %1hee%2 153.ES1.037 Yet are the %1Trunkes%2, w%5ch%6 doe to vs deriue 153.ES1.038 Thinges in proporco%Mn fitt, by perspectiue 153.ES1.039 Deedes of good men: for by their being heere 153.ES1.040 Vertue's indeede remote, seeme to bee neere. 153.ES1.041 But where can I affirme? or where arrest 153.ES1.042 My thoughtes on his deedes? w%5c%6h shall I call best? 153.ES1.043 ffor fluent %1vertue%2 cannot bee lookt on 153.ES1.044 Nor can endure a Contemplaco%Mn. 153.ES1.045 As bodies chang; and as I doe not weare 153.ES1.046 Thos Spirittes, humors, blood, I did last yeare: 153.ES1.047 And as if on a Streame I fixe mine Eie 153.ES1.048 That dropp on w%5ch%6 I look'd is presentlie 153.ES1.049 Push'd with more waters from my sight, and gone: 153.ES1.050 Soe in this Sea of %1vertues%2 can noe %1One%2 153.ES1.051 Bee insisted on, %1vertues%2 as %1Riuers%2 passe 153.ES1.052 Yet still remaines, that vertuous man their was 153.ES1.053 And as if Man fedd on Mans flesh, and soe 153.ES1.054 Part of his bodie to another owe. 153.ES1.055 Yet at the last two perfect bodies rise 153.ES1.056 Because God knowes where eu%5er%6ye Atome lyes. 153.ES1.057 So yf ones knowledge weare made of all those 153.ES1.058 Who knewe is Minutes well, %1hee%2 might dispose 153.ES1.059 His vertues into %Yrankes%Znames, and rankes, but I 153.ES1.060 Should iniure %1Nature, vertue%2, and %1Destenie%2 153.ES1.061 Should I devide, and discontinue soe 153.ES1.062 %1Vertue%2 w%5ch%6 did in one intirenes growe. 153.ES1.063 ffor as hee that would say spirittes are framed 153.ES1.064 Of all the purest partes that can bee named 153.ES1.065 Honors not spirittes half so much as hee 153.ES1.066 Who saies they haue no partes but simple bee. 153.ES1.067 So 'ist of vertue, for a point, and %1One%2 153.ES1.068 Are much intirer then a Myllione. 153.ES1.069 And had fate ment to haue his %1vertues%2 told 153.ES1.070 It would haue lett him lyue to haue bene old 153.ES1.071 So %Ythen%Z, that %1vertue%2 in season, and then this 153.ES1.072 Wee might haue seene, and saide, that now hee is 153.ES1.073 %1Wittie%2, now %1wise%2, now %1temperate%2, now %1iust%2 153.ES1.074 In good short Lyues %1vertues%2 are faine to thrust 153.ES1.075 And to bee sure betymes to gett a place 153.ES1.076 When they would excercise ^they ^want least %1roome%2, and place. 153.ES1.077 So was it in this person forc'ed to bee 153.ES1.078 ffor lack of tyme his owne %1Epitome%2. 153.ES1.079 So to exhibytte in few yeares as much [cw:As] 153.ES1.080 As all the long-breathd %1Chronicles%2 can touch [p. 159] 153.ES1.081 As when an Angell downe from heauen doth flye 153.ES1.082 Our quick thought cannot keepe him companie 153.ES1.083 Wee cannot think now hee is at the Sunne 153.ES1.084 Now throughe the %1Moone%2, now throughe the ayre doth runne 153.ES1.085 Yet when hee's come, wee know hee did repayre 153.ES1.086 To all twixt heauen, and %1earth%2, %1Sunn%2, %1Moone%2, and %1Ayre%2. 153.ES1.087 And as this %1Angell%2 in an instant knowes 153.ES1.088 And yet wee know this sudden knowledg growes 153.ES1.089 By quicke amazing seuerall formes of thinges 153.ES1.090 W%5ch%6 hee successiuelie to order bringes 153.ES1.091 When they whos slowe-pac'de lame-thoughtes cannot go 153.ES1.092 So fast as hee thinks that hee doth not soe. 153.ES1.093 Iust as a perfect %1Reader%2 doth not dwell 153.ES1.094 On euery sillable, nor stay to spell 153.ES1.095 Yet without doubt hee doth distinctlie see 153.ES1.096 And lay together euerie A. and B. 153.ES1.097 So in short-lyued good men is not vnderstood 153.ES1.098 Each seuerall vertue but the compound good 153.ES1.099 ffor they all %1vertues%2 pathes in that path tread 153.ES1.100 As %1Angelles%2 goe, and knowe, and as men read. 153.ES1.101 O why should then thes men, thes lumpes of Balme 153.ES1.102 Sent hither this worldes tempest to be-calme 153.ES1.103 Before by deedes they are diffusde, and spread 153.ES1.104 And so make %1vs%2 alyue themselues bee Dead. 153.ES1.105 %1O Sowle, O Circle%2 why so quicklie bee 153.ES1.106 Thy endes, thy birth, and death closde vp in thee 153.ES1.107 Since one ffoote of thy compasse still was placed 153.ES1.108 In heauen th'other might securelie haue paced 153.ES1.109 In the most larg extent throughe euerie path 153.ES1.110 With the whole world or man th' abrigment hath. 153.ES1.111 Thou knowest that thoughe the %1tropick%2 Circles haue 153.ES1.112 Yea, and thos small ones w%5ch%6 the %1poles%2 engraue 153.ES1.113 All the same roundnes, euennes, and all 153.ES1.114 The endlessnes of th' Equinoctiall, 153.ES1.115 Yet when wee come to measure %1destinies%2 153.ES1.116 How heere, how there the Sunn affected is 153.ES1.117 Where hee doth faintlye worke, and where preuaile 153.ES1.118 Onely great %1Circles%2 then can bee our scale 153.ES1.119 So thoughe thy %1Circle%2 to thy self expresse 153.ES1.120 All tending to thy endlesse happines 153.ES1.121 And wee by our good vse of it may trye 153.ES1.122 Both how to lyue well young, and how to dye 153.ES1.123 Yet since %1wee%2 must bee old, and age indures 153.ES1.124 This torrid L>Zone at Court y%5e%6 %1Calentures%2 153.ES1.125 Of hott %1ambitiousnes, Irreligious Ice%2 153.ES1.126 %1Zeales Agewes%2, and %1hydroptique auarice%2 153.ES1.127 %1Infirmities%2 w%5ch%6 neede the %1scale%2 of %1Truth%2 153.ES1.128 As well as %1Lust%2, and %1Ignorance%2 of %1Youth%2 [cw:why] 153.ES1.129 Why didst not thou for flesh giue Medicine too [p. 160] 153.ES1.130 And by thy doing tell vs what to doe 153.ES1.131 Thoughe as small Pocketts Clockes whos eu%5er%6ie wheele 153.ES1.132 Doth each misse-motion, and distemper feele 153.ES1.133 Whos hand gett shaking %1Palseies%2, and whos String 153.ES1.134 His Sinewes slackens, and whos Sowle the Spring 153.ES1.135 Expires or languishes whos Pulse the flye 153.ES1.136 Either beates not, or beates vneuenlie. 153.ES1.137 Whos voice the Bell doth rattle, or grow dumbe 153.ES1.138 Or idle as men who to their last howers come. 153.ES1.139 If thes %1Clockes%2 bee not wound, or bee wound still 153.ES1.140 Or bee not sett, or sett at euery will 153.ES1.141 So %1youth%2 bee easiest to destruction 153.ES1.142 If then wee followe all, or follow none. 153.ES1.143 Yet as in great %1Clockes%2 w%5ch%6 in Steeples chyme 153.ES1.144 Placed to informe whole Townes to employ their tyme 153.ES1.145 An %1Error%2 doth more harme being generall 153.ES1.146 When small %1Clockes%2 faltues onely on the wearer fall 153.ES1.147 So worke the faltues of age on w%5ch%6 the Eie 153.ES1.148 Of %1children, seruants%2, or the %1state%2 relye. 153.ES1.149 Why wouldst not thou then, w%5ch%6 hadst such a Sowle 153.ES1.150 A %1Clock%2 so true as might the Sunne controwle 153.ES1.151 And dayly hadst from him who gaue it thee 153.ES1.152 %1Instructions%2 such as yet could neuer bee 153.ES1.153 Disordered. Stay heere as a %1Generall%2 153.ES1.154 And great %1Sun-Diall%2 to haue sett vs all. 153.ES1.155 O why wouldst thou bee anie %1Instrument%2 153.ES1.156 To this vnnaturall Course or why consent 153.ES1.157 To this not %1Miracle%2, but %YPedigree%Z %1prodigee%2 153.ES1.158 That where the Ebbes longer then %1Flowing%2 bee 153.ES1.159 %1Vertue%2 whos flood did with thy youth beginn 153.ES1.160 Should so much faster ebbe out then %1flow%2 in. 153.ES1.161 Thoughe her %1flood%2 were blowne in by thy first breath 153.ES1.162 All is at once sunk in the %1Whirlepoole Death%2. 153.ES1.163 W%5ch%6 word I would not name but that I see 153.ES1.164 %1Death%2, else a %1desart%2, growne a %1Court%2 by thee. 153.ES1.165 Now I am sure that yf a Man would haue 153.ES1.166 Good Companie, his Entrie is a Graue. 153.ES1.167 Mee thinkes all Citties now but %1Ant-hilles%2 bee 153.ES1.168 Wher when the seuerall Labours>Labourers I do see 153.ES1.169 ffor %1Children, howse, prouision%2 taking paine 153.ES1.170 They are all but %1Antes%2 carrying %1Egges, straw%2 or %1graine%2 153.ES1.171 And %1Church-yardes%2 are our Citties vnto which 153.ES1.172 The most repaire who are in goodnes riche. 153.ES1.173 There is the best concurse, and confluence 153.ES1.174 There are the holy Suburbs, and from thence 153.ES1.175 Beginnes Gods Cittie new %1Ierusalem%2 153.ES1.176 Who doth extend her gates to them [cw: at] 153.ES1.177 At that Gate then %1triumphant Sowle%2 dost thou [p. 161] 153.ES1.178 Begin by %1triumphe%2. But since Lawes allowe 153.ES1.179 That at the %1triumphe%2 day the %1people%2 may 153.ES1.180 All that they will gainst the %1Triumpher%2 say 153.ES1.181 Let mee %Yvse%Z heere vse that freedome, and expresse 153.ES1.182 My greife thoughe not to make thy %1triumphe%2 lesse. 153.ES1.183 By law, to %1triumphe%2 none admitted bee 153.ES1.184 Till they as Magistrates gett %1victorie%2. 153.ES1.185 Thoughe then to thy force, all %1youthes%2 foes did yeild 153.ES1.186 Yet till fitt time had brought thee ^to that feild 153.ES1.187 To w%5ch%6 thy ranke in this state destin'de thee 153.ES1.188 That there thy Counselles might gett %1victorie%2 153.ES1.189 And so in that Capacitie remoue 153.ES1.190 All Iealosies twixt Prince, and Subiectes loue 153.ES1.191 Thou couldst not title to this %1triumphe%2 haue 153.ES1.192 Thou didst intrude on %1Death%2, vsurpst a %1Graue%2 153.ES1.193 Then thoughe victoriouslie thou hadst fought as yet 153.ES1.194 But with thy owne affecco%Mns, wyth the heate 153.ES1.195 Of youthes desires, and %Ycoulds%Z^colds of %1Ignorance%2 153.ES1.196 But till thou %M shouldst successiuely aduance 153.ES1.197 Thine armes gainst forraine Enemies w%5ch%6 are 153.ES1.198 Both envi*>e, and acclamaco%Mns popular. 153.ES1.199 ffor both thes Engines equallie defeate 153.ES1.200 Thoughe by a diuers Myne, thos that are great. 153.ES1.201 Till then thy %1warre%2, was but a %1Civill-warre%2 153.ES1.202 ffor w%5ch%6 to %1triumphe%2 none admitted are 153.ES1.203 No more are they who thoughe with good successe 153.ES1.204 In a defensiue %1warre%2 their power expresse. 153.ES1.205 Before Men %1triumphe%2 the %1Dominion%2 153.ES1.206 Must bee enlarged, and not preserued alone. 153.ES1.207 Why shouldst thou then whos %1Battles%2 were to wynn 153.ES1.208 Thy self from thes straites %1Nature%2 put thee in 153.ES1.209 And to deliuer vp to God that State 153.ES1.210 Of w%5ch%6 hee gaue thee the viuariate 153.ES1.211 W%5ch%6 is thy Sowle, and bodie as entire 153.ES1.212 As hee (who takes endeuours) doth require 153.ES1.213 But didst not staie to enlarge his kingdome to 153.ES1.214 By making others what thou didst to do 153.ES1.215 Why shouldst thou %1triumphe%2 now when %1Heauen%2 no more 153.ES1.216 Hath gott by getting thee then it had before. 153.ES1.217 ffor Heauen, and thou euen when thou liuedst heere 153.ES1.218 Of one another in possession were 153.ES1.219 But this from %1triumphe%2 most disables thee 153.ES1.220 That that place w%5ch%6 is conquered must bee free, 153.ES1.221 Left safe from present %1Warre%2, and lykely doubt 153.ES1.222 Of ymminent Com%Moco%Mns to breake out. 153.ES1.223 And hath hee left vs soe? Or can it bee 153.ES1.224 This territorie was no more but %1hee%2? [cw:No] 153.ES1.225 Noe wee are all his Charge; The %1Diocesse%2 [p. 162] 153.ES1.226 Of euerie exemplar Man the whole world is 153.ES1.227 And hee was ioyned in Comission 153.ES1.228 With tutular %1Angelles%2 sent to eu%5er%6ie one. 153.ES1.229 But thoughe thy freedome to vpbrayde, and chide 153.ES1.230 Him who tryumphed w**%>>>was<< lawfull, It was tide 153.ES1.231 With this, that it might neuer reference[Mvar:>>refleco%Mn<<] haue. 153.ES1.232 Vnto the %1Senate%2 who the %1triumphe%2 gaue. 153.ES1.233 Men might at %1Pompei%2 iest but they might not 153.ES1.234 At that %1authoritie%2 by w%5ch%6 hee gott 153.ES1.235 Leaue to triumphe before by age hee might. 153.ES1.236 So thoughe (%1triumphall Sowle%2) I dare to wryte 153.ES1.237 Mou'ed w%5th%6 a reuerenciall Anger thus 153.ES1.238 That thou so earlie wouldst abandon vs 153.ES1.239 Yet am I farre from daring to dispute 153.ES1.240 With that great Soueraignetye whos absolute 153.ES1.241 Prerogatiue hath thus dispenced with thee 153.ES1.242 Gainst %1Natures%2 lawes w%5ch%6 iust Impugners bee 153.ES1.243 Of earthly%>>>early<< %1triumphes%2, and %YI%Z (thoughe >>I<< with%>>>with<< paine 153.ES1.244 Lessen our losse to magnifie thy gaine 153.ES1.245 Of %1triumphe%2 when I say it was more fitt 153.ES1.246 That all men should lacke thee then thou lack yt 153.ES1.247 Thoughe then in our times bee not suffered 153.ES1.248 That testimonie of Love vnto the dead 153.ES1.249 To dye with them and in their graues bee hidd 153.ES1.250 As %1Saxon%2 wyues, and %1french Soldarij%2 did 153.ES1.251 And thoughe in noe degree I can expresse 153.ES1.252 %1Greefe%2 in great %1Alexanders%2 great excesse 153.ES1.253 Who at his freinds death made whole Toweres>Townes deuest 153.ES1.254 Their walles, and %1Bulwarks%2 that became them best. 153.ES1.255 Do not fayre Sowle this %1Sacrifize%2 refuse 153.ES1.256 That in thy graue I do enterre my %1Muse%2. 153.ES1.257 Who by my %1greefe%2, great as thy worth being cast 153.ES1.258 Behind hand, yet hath spoke, and spoke her last. 153.ES1.0SS ffinis. 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