By nature freed, a conscience cleare, and quiet, His health, his constitution, and his diet; 120 Counting a hundred, fourscore at the least, Propt vp by prayers, yet more to be encreast, All these should faile, and in his fiftieth yeare He should expire, henceforth let none be deare, To me at all, lest for my haplesse sake, Before their time heauen from the world them take, And leaue me wretched to lament their ends As I doe his, who was a thousand friends. Vpon the death of the Lady OLIVE STANHOPE Canst thou depart and be forgotten so, STANHOPE thou canst not, no deare STANHOPE, no: But in despight of death the world shall see, That Muse which so much graced was by thee Can black Obliuion vtterly out-braue, And set thee vp aboue thy silent Graue. I meruail'd much the _Derbian_ Nimphes were dumbe, Or of those Muses, what should be become, That of all those, the mountaines there among, Not one this while thy _Epicedium_sung; 10 But so it is, when they of thee were reft, They all those hills, and all those Riuers left, And sullen growne, their former seates remoue, Both from cleare _Darwin_, and from siluer _Doue_, And for thy losse, they greeued are so sore, That they haue vow'd they will come there no more; But leaue thy losse to me, that I should rue thee, Vnhappy man, and yet I neuer knew thee: Me thou didst loue vnseene, so did I thee, It was our spirits that lou'd then and not wee; 20 Therefore without profanenesse I may call The loue betwixt vs, loue spirituall: But that which thou affectedst was so true, As that thereby thee perfectly I knew; And now that spirit, which thou so lou'dst, still mine, Shall offer this a Sacrifice to thine, And reare this Trophe, which for thee shall last, When this most beastly Iron age is past; I am perswaded, whilst we two haue slept, Our soules haue met, and to each other wept, 30 That destenie so strongly should forbid, Our bodies to conuerse as oft they did: For certainly refined spirits doe know, As doe the Angels, and doe here belowe Take the fruition of that endlesse blisse, As those aboue doe, and what each one is. They see diuinely, and as those there doe, They know each others wills, so soules can too. About that dismall time, thy spirit hence flew, Mine much was troubled, but why, I not knew, 40 In dull and sleepy sounds, it often left me, As of it selfe it ment to haue bereft me, I asked it what the cause was, of such woe, Or what it might be, that might vexe it so, But it was deafe, nor my demand would here, But when that ill newes came, to touch mine eare, I straightwayes found this watchfull sperit of mine, Troubled had bin to take it leaue of thine,