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| EPICEDES |
| AND |
| OBSEQVIES |
| Vpon |
| The deaths of sundry Personages. |
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| Elegie on Prince Henry. |
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| Looke to me faith, and looke to my faith, God; |
| For both my centers feele this period. |
| Of waight one center, one of greatnesse is; |
| And Reason is that center, Faith is this; |
| For into'our reason flow, and there doe end |
| All, that this naturall world doth comprehend: |
| Quotidian things, and equidistant hence, |
| Shut in, for man, in one circumference: |
| But for th'enormous greatnesses, which are |
| So disproportion'd, and so angulare, |
| As is Gods Essence, place and providence, |
| Where, how, when, what soules do, departed hence, |
| These things (eccentrique else) on faith doe strike; |
| Yet neither all, nor upon all, alike. |
| For reason, put to her best extension, |
| Almost meets faith, and makes both centers one.
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[CW: And] |