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| An Anatomy of the World. |
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| The first Anniversary. |
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| When that rich Soul which to her heaven is gone, |
| Whom all do celebrate, who know they have one, |
| (For who is sure he hath a Soul, unless |
| It see, and judg, and follow worthiness, |
| And by deeds praise it? he who doth not this, |
| May lodg an inmate soul, but 'tis not his) |
| When that Queen ended here her progress time, |
| And, as t'her standing house to heaven did clime; |
| Where loath to make the Saints attend her long, |
| She's now a part both of the Quire and Song: |
| This World, in that great earthquake languished; |
| For in a common bath of tears it bled, |
| Which drew the strongest vital spirits out: |
| But succour'd them with a perplexed doubt, |
| Whether the world did lose, or gain in this, |
| (Because since now no other way there is, |
| But goodness, to see her, whom all would see, |
| All must endeavour to be good as she) |
| This great consumption to a fever turn'd, |
| And so the world had fits; it joy'd, it mourn'd; |
| And, as men think, that Agues physick are, |
| And th'ague being spent, give over care: |
| So thou sick world, mistak'st thy self to be |
| Well, when alas, thou art in a Lethargie: |
| Her death did wound and tame thee than, and than |
| Thou might'st have better spar'd the Sun,* or man. |
| That wound was deep, but 'tis more misery, |
| That thou hast lost thy sense and memory.
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[CW: 'Twas] |