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| To the Lady Bedford.| |
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| You that are shee, and you, that's double shee [208] |
| In her dead face halfe of yorselfe shall see |
| Shee was the other part; for so they doe |
| Which build them frindships, become one of two. |
| So two that but themselues no third can fitt |
| Wch were to bee so when they were not yet |
| Twins though theyr birth Cusco and Musco take |
| As diuers starrs one constellation make |
| Payr'd like two eyes haue æquall motion: so |
| Both but one meanes to see, one way to goe. |
| Had you dy'd first a carcasse shee had bin |
| And wee yor rich Tombe in her face had seene |
| Shee like the soule is you, and heere you stay, |
| Not a Liue frind, but th'other halfe of Clay. |
| And since you act that part, As men say, Heere |
| Lyes such a Prince when but a part is there |
| And doe all honor and deuotion showe |
| Vnto the whole: So wee all reverence you. |
| ffor such a frindship who would not adore |
| In you, who are all what both were before|. |
| Not All, as if some perished by this, |
| But so as in you All contracted is.| |
| As, of this All, though many parts decay, |
| The pure wch elemented them shall stay, |
| And though diffusd and spredd in infinite |
| Shall recollect and in one all vnite: |
| So, Madame, as her soule to heauen is fledd |
| Her flesh rests in the Earth as in a bedd
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