IDENTLINE$$ F153NY1|Har|Cave MS.|pp. [99-107]|mf EWS, original TLP 4/12/88, 4-30-88 153.NY1.0HE Obsequies of the L. Harrington. 153.NY1.001 Faire Soule! w%5ch%6 wast not only as all souls bee [p. 99] 153.NY1.002 then when y%5u%6 wast infused %1Harmonie%2 153.NY1.003 But didst continew so and no%5w%6 dost beare 153.NY1.004 a part in Gods great organe this whole Spheare 153.NY1.005 If looking vp to God or down to vs 153.NY1.006 thou finde y%5t%6 any way is pretiouse[Mvar:>peruiouse<] 153.NY1.007 t'wixt Heauen and Earth and y%5t%6 mens actions doe 153.NY1.008 come to y%5r%6 knowledg and affections too 153.NY1.009 See and w%5th%6 ioy me to y%5t%6 good degree 153.NY1.010 off goodnesse growne y%5t%6 I can studdie thee 153.NY1.011 And by those meditations refin'd 153.NY1.012 can vnapparell and enlarge my mind 153.NY1.013 And so can make by this softe extasie 153.NY1.014 this place a Mapp of Heaue%M myself of thee. 153.NY1.015 Thou seest me here at midnight (now all rest) 153.NY1.016 Tyme's dead low water when all minds deuest 153.NY1.017 tomorrows business, when all laborers haue 153.NY1.018 such rest in bed, y%5t%6 theire last C%5h%6urchyard graue 153.NY1.019 (subiect to change) will scarce be a type of this 153.NY1.020 Now when the Clyent whose law hearing is 153.NY1.021 to morro%5w%6, sleeps: When the condemned man 153.NY1.022 who when he ope's his eyes must shutt y%5m%6 than 153.NY1.023 againe by Death) although sad watch he keep 153.NY1.024 doth practise dying by a little Sleep) 153.NY1.025 Thou at this Midnight seest me, and as soone 153.NY1.026 as y%5t%6 Sunn riseth to me midnights noone 153.NY1.027 All the world growes transparent and I see [p. 100] 153.NY1.028 through all both Church and state in missing>[M:seeing] thee. 153.NY1.029 And I discerne by fauour of y%5t%6 light 153.NY1.030 myself the hardest obiect of this>[M:the] sight 153.NY1.031 God is the glass as thou when y%5u%6 dost see 153.NY1.032 him who see's all, se'est all concerning thee. 153.NY1.033 So yet vnglorifyed I doe comprehend 153.NY1.034 all in those mirrors of thy life>[M:wayes] and end. 153.NY1.035 Though God be truly o%5r%6 glass through w%5ch%6 wee see 153.NY1.036 all (since y%5e%6 being of all things is hee) 153.NY1.037 yet are the trunks w%5ch%6 doe to vs deriue 153.NY1.038 things in proportion fitt by Perspectiue) 153.NY1.039 Deeds of good me%M for by theire being here 153.NY1.040 vertues indeed remote seeme to be neere 153.NY1.041 But when can I affirme, or when arrest 153.NY1.042 my thoughts on his deeds? w%5ch%6 shall I call best? 153.NY1.043 For fluent vertue cannot be look'd on 153.NY1.044 nor can endure a contemplation 153.NY1.045 as bodies change and as I doe not weare 153.NY1.046 those Spiritts, humors, blood, I did last yeare. 153.NY1.047 And as if on a streame I fix myne eye 153.NY1.048 that drop on w%5ch%6 I look'd is prae%Lsently 153.NY1.049 dash't>[Mvar:>>pusht<<] w%5th%6 more water from my sight and gonne 153.NY1.050 So in this Sea of vertue there can none 153.NY1.051 be insisted on. Vertues as Riuers pass 153.NY1.052 yett still remayns that vertuouse man there was. 153.NY1.053 And as if Man feed on Mans flesh and so 153.NY1.054 part of his bodie to an other owe 153.NY1.055 yett at y%5e%6 last two perfect bodies rise; [p. 101] 153.NY1.056 * [M:*Because God knowes where euery Atome >lyes. 153.NY1.057 So if one knowledg were made of all those 153.NY1.058 who knew his minutes well, he might dispose 153.NY1.059 his vertues into names and ranks; But I 153.NY1.060 should iniure Nature, vertue and Destenie 153.NY1.061 should I deuide and discontinew so 153.NY1.062 Vertue w%5ch%6 did in one entireness gro.%5w%6 153.NY1.063 ffor as he y%5t%6 would say spiritts are fram'd 153.NY1.064 off all y%5e%6 purest parts y%5t%6 can be nam'd 153.NY1.065 honor's not spiritts half so much as hee 153.NY1.066 who sayes they haue noe parts but simples bee 153.NY1.067 So i'st of Vertue for a point and one 153.NY1.068 are much entirer then a million 153.NY1.069 And had fate meant to haue his vertues told 153.NY1.070 it would haue lett him liue to haue been old. 153.NY1.071 So then that vertue in season and then this 153.NY1.072 we might haue seen and sayd y%5t%6 no%5w%6 he is 153.NY1.073 wittye, no%5w%6 wise, no%5w%6 temperate, no%5w%6 iust. 153.NY1.074 In good short liues Vertues are fayn to thrust 153.NY1.075 and to be sure be tyme's to gett a place 153.NY1.076 when they would exercise each roome and space. 153.NY1.077 So was it in this person forc'd to bee 153.NY1.078 for lack of tyme his own Epitome 153.NY1.079 So to exhibite in few years as much 153.NY1.080 as all y%5e%6 long=breath'd Chroniclers can touch. 153.NY1.081 As when an Angell down from heauen doth flye 153.NY1.082 our quick thoughts cannot keep him companie 153.NY1.083 we cannot thinke no%5w%6 hee is at y%5e%6 Sunn 153.NY1.084 no%5w%6 through y%5e%6 Moone, no%5w%6 through y%5e%6 Ayre doth runn. 153.NY1.085 yet when hees come we kno%5w%6 he did repayre [p. 102] 153.NY1.086 to all t'wixt Heaue%M and Earth, Sun, moon, and Ayre. 153.NY1.087 And as this Angell in an instant knowe's 153.NY1.088 and yet we kno%5w%6 this suddayne knowledg growes 153.NY1.089 by quick amassing seuerall formes of things 153.NY1.090 w%5ch%6 he successiuely to order brings; 153.NY1.091 When they whose slow=pac'd lame thoughts cannot goe 153.NY1.092 so fast, as he, thinke y%5t%6 he doth not so. 153.NY1.093 Iust as a perfect reader doth not dwell 153.NY1.094 on euery sillable nor stay to spell 153.NY1.095 yet w%5th%6out doubt he doth distinctly see 153.NY1.096 and lay together euery A.B.C. 153.NY1.097 So in short liu'd good men is not vnderstood 153.NY1.098 each seuerall vertue, but y%5e%6 compound good 153.NY1.099 ffor they all vertues paths in y%5t%6 pace tread 153.NY1.100 as Angells goe and know, and as men read. 153.NY1.101 oh why should then these me%M these lamps of balme 153.NY1.102 (sent hither this worlds tempests to becalme) 153.NY1.103 before by deeds they are diffus'd and spread 153.NY1.104 and so make vs aliue themselus be dead? 153.NY1.105 O Soule! o circle why so quickly bee 153.NY1.106 thy birth, thy ends thy death clos'd vp in thee? 153.NY1.107 Since one foote of thy compass still was plac'd 153.NY1.108 in Heaue%M y%5e%6 other might surely haue pac'd 153.NY1.109 in y%5e%6 most large extent through euery path 153.NY1.110 w%5ch%6 y%5e%6 whole world or Man th'abridgment hath. 153.NY1.111 Thou knowst y%5t%6 though y%5e%6 Tropick circles haue 153.NY1.112 (yea and those smale on'es w%5ch%6 y%5e%6 Poles engraue) 153.NY1.113 All y%5e%6 same roundness, euenness, and all [p. 103] 153.NY1.114 th'endlessness of th'AE%Lquinoctiall 153.NY1.115 yet when wee come to measure distances 153.NY1.116 how here, ho%5w%6 there the Sunn affected is 153.NY1.117 where he doth faintly work and where prae%Luayle 153.NY1.118 only great circles then can be our scale. 153.NY1.119 So though thy circle to thyself expresse 153.NY1.120 all tending to thy endless happiness 153.NY1.121 And wee by our good vse of it may trye 153.NY1.122 both ho%5w%6 to liue well yong and ho%5w%6 to die: 153.NY1.123 Yet since we must be old and age endures 153.NY1.124 his torrid Zone at Courte, and Calentures 153.NY1.125 of hott Ambition, irrelligiouse Ice, 153.NY1.126 Zeal's Agues, and hydropiq; Auarice 153.NY1.127 Infirmities w%5ch%6 need the seed of Truth 153.NY1.128 as well as lust and ignorance of yeouth 153.NY1.129 Why didst not y%5u%6 for these giue medecins too 153.NY1.130 and by thy doing tell vs what to doe? 153.NY1.131 Though as smale pookett clocks whose euery wheele 153.NY1.132 doth each mismotion add%>>and< distemper feele 153.NY1.133 whose hand getts shaking palsyes and whose string 153.NY1.134 his sinnewes slackness, and whose soule y%5e%6 spring 153.NY1.135 expires or languishes, and whose pulse y%5e%6 Flye 153.NY1.136 either beats not or beates vneuenly: 153.NY1.137 whose voice y%5e%6 Bell doth rattle and gro%5w%6 dumbe 153.NY1.138 or idle as men who to theire last howres come 153.NY1.139 If theise Clocks be not wound or be wound still 153.NY1.140 or be not sett, or sett at euery will 153.NY1.141 So yeouth be easiest to destruction [p. 104] 153.NY1.142 if then wee follow all or follow none 153.NY1.143 Yet as in greate clocks w%5ch%6 in steeples chyme 153.NY1.144 plac'd to informe whole towns t'employ theire tyme 153.NY1.145 an error doth more harme being generall 153.NY1.146 when smale clocks faults only on y%5e%6 wearers fall 153.NY1.147 So worke y%5e%6 faults of Age on w%5ch%6 y%5e%6 eye 153.NY1.148 of children, seruants, or y%5e%6 state relye. 153.NY1.149 Why wouldst not y%5u%6 then (who hadst such a soule) 153.NY1.150 a Clock so tre%5w%6 as might y%5e%6 Sunn controule; 153.NY1.151 and dayly had'st from him w%5ch%6 gaue it thee 153.NY1.152 instructions (such as neuer yett could be 153.NY1.153 disordered) stay he're as a generall 153.NY1.154 and greate Sun=diall to haue sett vs all? 153.NY1.155 oh why shouldst y%5u%6 be any instrument 153.NY1.156 to this vnnaturall course? or why consent 153.NY1.157 to this not miracle not prodegie? 153.NY1.158 that when y%5e%6 ebbs longer then flowing bee 153.NY1.159 Vertue whose flood doth w%5th%6 thy yeouth beginn 153.NY1.160 should so much faster ebb out then flow in 153.NY1.161 Though her flood were blown in by thy first birth 153.NY1.162 All is at once sunk in y%5e%6 whirlpoole Death. 153.NY1.163 w%5ch%6 word I would not name but y%5t%6 I see 153.NY1.164 Death else a desarte, grown a Court by thee: 153.NY1.165 Now I am sure y%5t%6 if a man would haue 153.NY1.166 good companie, his entrie is y%5e%6 graue. 153.NY1.167 Me thinks all Citties no%5w%6 but ant hills bee 153.NY1.168 where when y%5e%6 seuerall labours I doe see 153.NY1.169 For Children, house, prouision taking payne [p. 105] 153.NY1.170 th'are all but Ants carrying eggs, straw, and graine. 153.NY1.171 And Church=yards are our Citties vnto w%5ch%6 153.NY1.172 the most repayre who are in goodness rich. 153.NY1.173 There is y%5e%6 best concourse and confluence; 153.NY1.174 there are y%5e%6 holy suburbs and from thence 153.NY1.175 begins Gods cittye new Ierusalem 153.NY1.176 and doth extend her gates euen vnto them. 153.NY1.177 At y%5t%6 gate then tryumphant soule dost y%5u%6 153.NY1.178 beginn thy tryumph: but since laws allow 153.NY1.179 that at y%5e%6 tryumph day the people may 153.NY1.180 all y%5t%6 they will 'gainst y%5e%6 tryumpher say 153.NY1.181 Lett me here vse y%5t%6 freedome to express 153.NY1.182 my greife, though not to make thy tryumph less. 153.NY1.183 By Law to tryumph none admitted bee 153.NY1.184 till they as Magistrats gett victorye 153.NY1.185 om 153.NY1.186 om 153.NY1.187 om 153.NY1.188 om 153.NY1.189 And so in y%5t%6 capacitie remoue 153.NY1.190 all ielousyes t'wixt Prince and subiects loue. 153.NY1.191 Thou could'st noe title to this Tryumph haue, 153.NY1.192 Thou didst intrude on Death, vsurp a Graue. 153.NY1.193 Then (though victoriouse) y%5u%6 hast fought as yett 153.NY1.194 but w%5th%6 thyne affections, w%5th%6 y%5e%6 heate 153.NY1.195 of yeouth's desires, and cold of Ignorance 153.NY1.196 But till y%5u%6 shouldst successiuely aduance 153.NY1.197 thyne armes 'gainst forrayne ennemyes, w%5ch%6 are 153.NY1.198 Enuye and Acclamations popular 153.NY1.199 For both these engyn's ae%Lqually defeate 153.NY1.200 though by a diuerse myne those y%5t%6 are greate. 153.NY1.201 Till then thy warr was but a ciuill warr [p. 106] 153.NY1.202 for w%5ch%6 to tryumph none admitted are 153.NY1.203 Noe more are they who though w%5th%6 good successe 153.NY1.204 in a defensiue warr theire powrs express. 153.NY1.205 Before men Tryumph theire dominion 153.NY1.206 must be enlarg'd and not prae%Lseru'd alone. 153.NY1.207 Why shouldst y%5u%6 then whose battayls were to winn 153.NY1.208 thy self from theise straights Nature putt thee in 153.NY1.209 and to deliuer vp to God y%5t%6 state 153.NY1.210 of which he gaue thee the vicariate 153.NY1.211 w%5ch%6 is thy Soule and bodie, as entire 153.NY1.212 as he who taks endeuors did require 153.NY1.213 But didst not stay t'enlarg his kingdomes too 153.NY1.214 by making others what y%5u%6 didst to doe. 153.NY1.215 Why shouldst y%5u%6 tryumph no%5w%6 when Heauen noe more 153.NY1.216 hath gott by getting thee then't had before. 153.NY1.217 ffor Heauen and y%5u%6 euen when y%5u%6 liuedst here 153.NY1.218 off one an other in possession were. 153.NY1.219 But this from tryumph most disables thee 153.NY1.220 y%5t%6 that place w%5ch%6 is conquered must bee 153.NY1.221 lefte safe from prae%Lsent warr and likly doubte 153.NY1.222 off immanent com%Motions to breake out. 153.NY1.223 And hath he lefte vs too? or can it bee 153.NY1.224 this territorye was noe more but hee? 153.NY1.225 Noe wee are all his Charge, the Diocesse 153.NY1.226 of euery exemplar Man y%5e%6 whole world is; 153.NY1.227 And he was ioyned in Commission 153.NY1.228 w%5th%6 tutelar Angells sent to euery one. 153.NY1.229 But though thy freedome to vpbrayd and chyde 153.NY1.230 him y%5t%6 tryumph't was lawfull, it was tyde 153.NY1.231 w%5th%6 this y%5t%6 it might neuer reference haue [p. 107] 153.NY1.232 vnto y%5e%6 Senate who y%5e%6 Tryumph gaue. 153.NY1.233 Men might at Pompey iest but they might not 153.NY1.234 at y%5t%6 authoritye by w%5ch%6 he gott 153.NY1.235 leaue to tryumph, before by age he might: 153.NY1.236 So though (Tryumphant Soule!) I dare to write 153.NY1.237 (mou'd by a reuerentiall anger) thus 153.NY1.238 that y%5u%6 so early wouldst abandon vs: 153.NY1.239 Yet am I far from daring to dispute 153.NY1.240 with y%5t%6 greate Soueraigntie whose absolute 153.NY1.241 prae%Lrogatiue hath thus dispens'd w%5th%6 thee 153.NY1.242 g'ainst Natures laws w%5ch%6 iust impugners bee. 153.NY1.243 of earthly tryumphs and I (though w%5th%6 payne) 153.NY1.244 lessen o%5r%6 loss to magnefie thy gaine 153.NY1.245 off tryumph, when I say it was more fitt 153.NY1.246 that all men should lack thee y%5n%6 y%5u%6 lack itt. 153.NY1.247 Though then in o%5r%6 tymes be not suffered 153.NY1.248 y%5t%6 testemonye of loue vnto y%5e%6 dead 153.NY1.249 to dye w%5th%6 them and in their graues be hid 153.NY1.250 as %1Saxons%2 wiues and %5x%6past %5x%6French ladies did. M:French/Soldarij. 153.NY1.251 And though in noe degree I can express 153.NY1.252 greife, in great %1Alexanders%2 great excess 153.NY1.253 who at his freinds death made whole towers deuest 153.NY1.254 the%5i%6re walls and steeples y%5t%6 became y%5m%6 best 153.NY1.255 Doe not (fayre Soule) this sacrifice refuse 153.NY1.256 that in thy graue I doe interr my Muse 153.NY1.257 who by my greife (great as thy worth) being cast 153.NY1.258 behind hand, yet hath spoke and spoke its last./. 153.NY1.0SS Finis Io. Donn./. 153.NY1.0$$ XLIX to right of HE. Line 183 indented 4 spaces. L. 56 wr in M w/ * to mark its correct position. Has letter. Correction in l. 250 is scribal