And as these starres were but so many beads

Strung on one string, speed undistinguish'd leads

Her through those Spheares, as through the beads, a string,

210Whose quick succession makes it still one thing:

As doth the pith, which, lest our bodies slacke,

Strings fast the little bones of necke, and backe;

So by the Soule doth death string Heaven and Earth;

For when our Soule enjoyes this her third birth,

215(Creation gave her one, a second, grace,)

Heaven is as neare, and present to her face,