IDENTILIN$$  F153HH1|Har|Huntington EL6893 (Bridgewater)|ff.110v-14v|mf T-LP
153.HH1.HE1  Obsequies /To y%5e%6 Lord Harrington, brother /to y%5e%6 Lady Lucy countesse of Bedford [110]
153.HH1.001  ffayre soule, w%5ch%6 was't, not only, as all soules bee,
153.HH1.002  then, when thou was't infused, harmonye,
153.HH1.003  but did'st continue soe; & nowe doe'st beare
153.HH1.004  a part, in Gods greate Organ, this whole sphere.
153.HH1.005  If, looking up to God, or downe to us,
153.HH1.006  thou finde y%5t%6 any way is p%Pvious
153.HH1.007  'twixt heav'en & earth, & y%5t%6 mens actions doe
153.HH1.008  come to y%5r%6 knowledge & affections too:
153.HH1.009  see, & w%5th%6 joy, mee, to y%5t%6 good degree
153.HH1.010  of goodnesse growne, y%5t%6 I can study thee,
153.HH1.011  & by those meditations refin'de,
153.HH1.012  can unaparrel & enlarge my minde,
153.HH1.013  & so can make, by this softe extasye,
153.HH1.014  this place a map of heav'en, my selfe, of thee.
153.HH1.015  Thou see'st me heere at midnight, now all rest
153.HH1.016  tymes dead=lowe water, when all mindes devest
153.HH1.017  to=morrowes businesse, when y%5e%6 laborers have
153.HH1.018  such rest in bed, y%5t%6 theire last, churchyard, grave
153.HH1.019  subject to chaunge, will scarse be a type of this.
153.HH1.020  Nowe, when y%5e%6 clyent, whose last hearing is
153.HH1.021  to=morrowe, sleepes|:| when y%5e%6 condemned man
153.HH1.022  (whoe when he ope's his eyes must shut them than
153.HH1.023  againe by death) allthough sad watche hee keepe,
153.HH1.024  doth practise dijng by a little sleepe.
153.HH1.025  Thou, y%5t%6 at midnight see'st me, & (assoone [110v]
153.HH1.026  as y%5t%6 sunne rises to mee) midnight's noone
153.HH1.027  all y%5e%6 world growes transparant, & I see
153.HH1.028  through all, both state & church, in seeing thee:
153.HH1.029  & I discerne by favour of this light,
153.HH1.030  my selfe, y%5e%6 hardest object of y%5e%6 sight.
153.HH1.031  God is y%5e%6 glasse, as thou, when thou doe'st see
153.HH1.032  him w%5ch%6 sees all, see'st all concerning thee,
153.HH1.033  so, yet unglorify'de, I comprehend
153.HH1.034  all, in those mirrors of thy way and end.
153.HH1.035  Though God bee truly o%5r%6 glasse through w%5ch%6 we see
153.HH1.036  all, seince y%5e%6 being of all thinges is hee,
153.HH1.037  yet are y%5e%6 trunkes (w%5ch%6 doe to us derive
153.HH1.038  thinges in p%Pportion fitt by p%Pspective)
153.HH1.039  deeds of good men: for, by theire being heere,
153.HH1.040  virtues, indeed remote, seeme to be neere.
153.HH1.041  But where can I affirme? or where arest
153.HH1.042  my thoughts on his deeds?  w%5ch%6 shall I call best?
153.HH1.043  ffor fluide virtue cannot be look'd on,
153.HH1.044  nor can endure a contemplation:
153.HH1.045  As bodyes chaunge, & as I doe not weare
153.HH1.046  those spirits, humors, blood, I did last yeare;
153.HH1.047  & as, if on a streame I fixe mine eye,
153.HH1.048  y%5t%6 drop, on w%5ch%6 I look'd, is presently
153.HH1.049  push'd w%5th%6 more waters from my sight & gone,
153.HH1.050  so in this sea of virtues can no one
153.HH1.051  b'insisted on: virtues, as rivers, passe [111]
153.HH1.052  yet still remaines y%5t%6 virtuos man there was.
153.HH1.053  And, as, if man feed on mans flesh, & soe
153.HH1.054  part of his body to another owe,
153.HH1.055  yet at y%5e%6 last two p%Pfect bodyes ryse
153.HH1.056  because God knowes where every atome lyes;
153.HH1.057  so, if one knowledge were made of all those
153.HH1.058  who knewe his minutes well, he might dispose
153.HH1.059  his virtues into names & rankes|!| but I
153.HH1.060  should injure Nature, Virtue & Desteny
153.HH1.061  should I divide, & discontinue soe
153.HH1.062  Virtue, w%5ch%6 did in one intirenesse growe.
153.HH1.063  ffor, as hee, y%5t%6 would say spirits are fram'd
153.HH1.064  of all y%5e%6 purest parts y%5t%6 can be nam'd,
153.HH1.065  honours not spirits, halfe so much, as hee
153.HH1.066  who sayes they have no parts but simple bee,
153.HH1.067  so if of Virtue; ffor, a point, & One
153.HH1.068  are much entirer, than a Million.
153.HH1.069  And had ffate meant t'have had his virtues told
153.HH1.070  it would have let him live to have beene old:
153.HH1.071  so then, y%5t%6 virtue, in season, & then This,
153.HH1.072  wee might have seene, & sayde. y%5t%6, nowe he is
153.HH1.073  witty, nowe wise, nowe Temp%Pate, nowe Iust.
153.HH1.074  In good short life, Virtues are fayne to thrust
153.HH1.075  &, to be sure, betymes to get a place,
153.HH1.076  when they would exercise, lacke roome & space:
153.HH1.077  So was it in this p%Pson, forc'd to bee, [111v]
153.HH1.078  for lacke of tyme, his owne Epitome;
153.HH1.079  so to exhibit in fewe yeares asmuch
153.HH1.080  as all y%5e%6 long=breth't chronicles can touch.
153.HH1.081  As, when an Angel, downe from heav'n doth fly
153.HH1.082  o%5r%6 quicke thought cannot keepe him company;
153.HH1.083  wee cannot thinke, nowe hee's at y%5e%6 sunne
153.HH1.084  nowe through y%5e%6 Moone, nowe hee through th'ayre doth runne|:| 
153.HH1.085  yet when hees come, wee knowe he did repayre
153.HH1.086  to all, twixt heav'n & earth, sunne, moone & ayre:
153.HH1.087  And, as this Angel, in an instant, knowes;
153.HH1.088  & yet, wee knowe, this suddaine knowledge growes
153.HH1.089  by quick amassing severall formes of thinges,
153.HH1.090  w%5ch%6 he successively to order bringes,
153.HH1.091  when they, whose slow=pac'd lame thoughts cannot goe
153.HH1.092  so fast as hee, thinke y%5t%6 hee doth not soe:
153.HH1.093  Iust as a p%Pfect reader doth not dwell
153.HH1.094  on every syllable, nor stay to spell,
153.HH1.095  yet w%5th%6out doubt, he doth distinctly see
153.HH1.096  & lay together every A & B,
153.HH1.097  so, in short liv'd good men is not under|s|tood
153.HH1.098  each severall virtue, but y%5e%6 compound good.
153.HH1.099  ffor they all virtues paths in y%5t%6 pace treade
153.HH1.100  as Angels knowe & goe, & as men reade.
153.HH1.101  O why should then these men, these lu%Mps of balme
153.HH1.102  sent hither this** worlds tempests to becalme,
153.HH1.103  before by deeds they are diffus'd & spread
153.HH1.104  & soe make us alive, themselves be dead? [112]
153.HH1.105  O soule O circle, why soe quicklye bee
153.HH1.106  thy ends, thy byrthe thy death, closd up in thee?
153.HH1.107  since one foote of thy compasse still was plac'd
153.HH1.108  in heav'n, th'other might, securely, have pac'd
153.HH1.109  in y%5e%6 most large extent, through every path
153.HH1.110  w%5ch%6 y%5e%6 whole worlde, or man, y%5e%6 abridgment, hath.
153.HH1.111  Thou know'st y%5t%6 though y%5e%6 tropicke circles have
153.HH1.112  (yea & those small ones w%5ch%6 y%5e%6 Poles engrave)
153.HH1.113  all, y%5e%6 same roundnesse, evenesse, & all
153.HH1.114  y%5e%6 endlessnesse of th'ae%Lquinoctiall,
153.HH1.115  yet, when wee come to measur'd distances,
153.HH1.116  howe heere, howe there, y%5e%6 sunne affe|c|ted is,
153.HH1.117  where he dothe fayntly worke, & where p%Pvayle;
153.HH1.118  only greate circles then can be our scale;
153.HH1.119  so, though thy circle, to thy selfe, expresse
153.HH1.120  all, tending to thy endlesse happynese;
153.HH1.121  & wee, by o%5r%6 good use of it, may trye
153.HH1.122  both howe to live well younge & howe to dye;
153.HH1.123  yet since wee must be olde, & age endures
153.HH1.124  his torrid zone, at court, and calentures
153.HH1.125  of hot ambitions; irrelegio|u|s ice,
153.HH1.126  Zeales agues, & hydroptiq; avarice|:|
153.HH1.127  infirmityes, w%5ch%6 neede the scale of truthe,
153.HH1.128  as well as lust, & ignorance of youthe:
153.HH1.129  why did'st thou not for these give medcine too?
153.HH1.130  &, by thy doing, set us what to doe? [112v]
153.HH1.131  Though, as small pocket=clocks, whose every wheele
153.HH1.132  doth each mismotion & distemp%P feele,
153.HH1.133  whose hand gets shaking pallseys, & whose string
153.HH1.134  his sinues slackens, & whose soule, y%5e%6 spring
153.HH1.135  expires, or languishes, whose pulse, y%5e%6 flye
153.HH1.136  either beates not o*>or beates unevenly,
153.HH1.137  whose voyce, y%5e%6 bell, doth rattle or growe dumbe,
153.HH1.138  or idle, as men whoe to theire last how'res come;
153.HH1.139  If these clocks be not wound, or be woond still,
153.HH1.140  or be not set, or set at every will;
153.HH1.141  so youths wayes be easie'st to distructio%An
153.HH1.142  if then wee followe all or followe none:
153.HH1.143  Yet as in greate clocks ,>(w%5ch%6 in steeples chime
153.HH1.144  plac'd, to informe whole townes, t'imploy their tyme)
153.HH1.145  an error doth more harme, be%Aing generall,
153.HH1.146  when small clockes faultes only'on y%5e%6 wearer fall,
153.HH1.147  so worke y%5e%6 faults of age, on w%5ch%6 y%5e%6 eye
153.HH1.148  of children, servants, or y%5e%6 state relye.
153.HH1.149  Why would'st not thou then, y%5t%6 had'st such a soule,
153.HH1.150  a clocke so true as might y%5e%6 sunne controule?
153.HH1.151  & dayly had'st, from him whoe gave it thee,
153.HH1.152  instructions, such as never yet could bee
153.HH1.153  disordr'ed, stay heere, as a generall
153.HH1.154  & greate=sunne Diall, to have sett us all?
153.HH1.155  Oh why would'st thou be any instrument
153.HH1.156  to this unnat'rall course? or why consent [113]
153.HH1.157  to this, not miracle, but, Prodigye,
153.HH1.158  y%5t%6, wheras ebbs longer than flowings bee,
153.HH1.159  virtue whose flood did w%5th%6 thy youth beginne
153.HH1.160  should, so much faster, ebbe out than flowe in?
153.HH1.161  Though her flood were blowne in by y%5e%6 first br****>*reath[M:breath]
153.HH1.162  all is, at once, sunke, in y%5e%6 whirpoole, death|:|
153.HH1.163  w%5ch%6 worde I would not name, but y%5t%6 I see
153.HH1.164  death, else a desert, growne a court by thee:
153.HH1.165  Nowe I am sure y%5t%6 if a man would have
153.HH1.166  good company his entry is his grave:
153.HH1.167  Meethinkes all cityes nowe but ant=hills bee,
153.HH1.168  where, when y%5e%6 sev'erall laborers I see,
153.HH1.169  for children, house p%Pvision, taking paine
153.HH1.170  th'are all but ants carry'ng egs, strawe, or graine;
153.HH1.171  & churchyardes are o%5r%6 cityes, unto w%5ch%6
153.HH1.172  y%5e%6 most repayre y%5t%6 are, in goodnesse, riche;
153.HH1.173  There is y%5e%6 best concurse & confluence,
153.HH1.174  there are y%5e%6 holy suburbes, & from thence
153.HH1.175  beginns Gods city, newe Ierusalem
153.HH1.176  whoe doth extend her walls & gates to them.
153.HH1.177  At y%5t%6 Gate then, triumphant soule, doste thou
153.HH1.178  beginne thy triumph: But since lawes allowe
153.HH1.179  y%5t%6 at y%5e%6 triumph day y%5e%6 people may,
153.HH1.180  all y%5t%6 they will, gainst the triumpher, say:
153.HH1.181  let mee heere use y%5t%6 freedome & expresse
153.HH1.182  my greife, though not to make thy triumph lesse. [113v]
153.HH1.183  By lawe, to triumphe, none admitted bee
153.HH1.184  till they, as Magistrates, get victorye:
153.HH1.185  though then, to thy force, all youths force did yeild,
153.HH1.186  yet, till fit tyme had brought thee to y%5e%6 feilde,
153.HH1.187  (to w%5ch%6, thy ranke in this state, destyn'd thee,
153.HH1.188  y%5t%6 theire thy counsayles might get victorye,
153.HH1.189  & so, in y%5t%6 capacity, remove
153.HH1.190  all jealousy twixt prince & subjects love)
153.HH1.191  thou couldst no title to this triumphe have:
153.HH1.192  thou did'st intrude on death, usurp'dst a grave;
153.HH1.193  What (though victoriously) th'adst fought? as yet
153.HH1.194  but w%5th%6 thyne owne affections, w%5th%6 y%5e%6 heate
153.HH1.195  of youths desires; & cold'st of ignorance:
153.HH1.196  but, till, successfully, thou shouldst advance
153.HH1.197  thyne armes gainst forreine enemyes, w%5ch%6 are
153.HH1.198  both envy & acclamations popular
153.HH1.199  (for both these engines, equally defeat,
153.HH1.200  though by a diverse mine, those y%5t%6 be great)
153.HH1.201  Till then thy warre was but a civill warre,
153.HH1.202  for w%5ch%6, to triumph, none admitted are:
153.HH1.203  Noe more are they whoe (though w%5th%6 good successe)
153.HH1.204  in a defensive warre theire power expresse.
153.HH1.205  Before men triumph y%5e%6 dominion
153.HH1.206  must be enlarg'd, & not p%5r%6serv'd alone:
153.HH1.207  Why should'st thou then, whose battayles were to \winne
153.HH1.208  thy selfe from those straights nature put thee in
153.HH1.209  & to deliver up to God, y%5t%6 state, [114]
153.HH1.210  of w%5ch%6 he gave thee y%5e%6 vicariate,
153.HH1.211  w%5ch%6 is thy soule and body, as intire
153.HH1.212  as he, whoe takes endeavours, doth require;
153.HH1.213  but didst not stay t'inlarge his kingdome too
153.HH1.214  by making others, what thou didst, to doe.
153.HH1.215  why should'st thou triumph nowe, when heav'n no \more
153.HH1.216  hath got, by getting thee, then 'thad before?
153.HH1.217  ffor heav'n & thou ev'n when thou livedst heere
153.HH1.218  of one another in possession were.
153.HH1.219  But this, from triumph, most disables thee
153.HH1.220  y%5t%6, y%5t%6 place w%5ch%6 is conquered, must bee
153.HH1.221  least safe, from p%5r%6sent warre, & likely doubt
153.HH1.222  of im%Minent com%Motions to breake out:
153.HH1.223  And hath hee left us soe?  or can it bee
153.HH1.224  his territorye was no more than hee?
153.HH1.225  Noe, wee are all his charge; the Dioces,
153.HH1.226  Of ev*'**emplar%>>evr'exemplar< man, y%5e%6 whole world is:
153.HH1.227  & he was joyned in com%Mission
153.HH1.228  w%5th%6 tutelar Angells sent to evry one
153.HH1.229  But though theire freedome to oprayde & chyde
153.HH1.230  him, who triumph'd, were lawfull, it was ty'de
153.HH1.231  w%5th%6 this, y%5t%6 it might never refrence have
153.HH1.232  unto y%5e%6 |S|enate, whoe, y%5e%6 triumph gave:
153.HH1.233  men might, at Pompey, jest, but they might not
153.HH1.234  at y%5t%6 authoritie by w%5ch%6 he got
153.HH1.235  leave to triumph, before by age hee might
153.HH1.236  so, though (triumphant soule) I dare to write, [114v]
153.HH1.237  mov'd w%5th%6 a reverentiall anger, thus
153.HH1.238  y%5t%6 thou so early wouldst abandon us:
153.HH1.239  yet am I farre from daring to dispute
153.HH1.240  w%5th%6 y%5t%6 greate soveraigne, whose absolute
153.HH1.241  p%5r%6rogative hath thus dispenc'd w%5th%6 thee
153.HH1.242  'gainst Natures lawes: w%5ch%6, just impugners, bee
153.HH1.243  of earthly triumphs: And I, (though w%5th%6 paine)
153.HH1.244  lessen o%5r%6 losse to magnify thy gaine
153.HH1.245  of triumph; when I say it was more fitt
153.HH1.246  y%5t%6 all men should lacke thee than thou lacke it.
153.HH1.247  Though then, in o%5r%6 tymes, bee not suffered
153.HH1.248  y%5t%6 testimony of love, unto y%5e%6 dead
153.HH1.249  to dye w%5th%6 them & in theire graves be* hid
153.HH1.250  as saxon wives & french soldurij, did.
153.HH1.251  And though in no degree I can expresse
153.HH1.252  greife, in great Allexanders great excesse,
153.HH1.253  whoe, at his freinds death, made whole townes devest
153.HH1.254  theire walls & bullwarkes y%5t%6 became them best,
153.HH1.255  Doe not, fayre soule, this sacrifice refuse
153.HH1.256  y%5t%6 in thy grave I doe interre my Muse
153.HH1.257  whoe by my greife, great, as thy worth, being cast
153.HH1.258  behind hand, yet hath spoke, & spoke her last.
153.HH1.SS   om
153.HH1.0$$  Lines 15, 41, 81, 101, 105, 131, 149, 155, 177, 183, 205, 219, 229, and 247 indented 3 sp.; 2 asterisks at beginning of l. 229.