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| EPICEDES |
| AND |
| OBSEQUIES |
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| Upon |
| The deaths of sundry Personages. |
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| An Elegie on the untimely death of the incomparable |
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| Prince HENRY. |
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| Look to me faith, and look to my faith, God; |
| For both my centers feel this period. |
| Of waight one center, one of greatness is; |
| And Reason is that center, Faith is this; |
| For into' our reason flow, and there do end |
| All, that this natural 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 God's Essence, place, and providence, |
| Where, how, when, what souls do, departed hence, |
| These things (eccentrique else) on faith do 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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