IDENTILIN$$ X00600G|1669(L)|pp. 260-63\E:MTH\FS/mf\9-26-94\P&C:mvf\(CtY,Mathews)\11-1-06 006.00G.HE1 %X%1Upon Mr.%2 Thomas Coryats %1Crudities%2. 006.00G.001 O%+H to what height will love of greatness drive 006.00G.002 Thy learned spirit, %1Sesqui-superlative%2? 006.00G.003 Venice vast lake thou hast seen, and would seek than, 006.00G.004 Some vaster thing, and found'st a Courtizan. 006.00G.005 That in-land Sea, having discovered well, 006.00G.006 A Cellar gulf, where one might sail to hell [CW:From] 006.00G.007 From %1Heydelberg%2, thou long'st to see: and thou [p.261] 006.00G.008 This book, greater than all, producest now. 006.00G.009 Infinite work, which doth so far extend, 006.00G.010 That none can study it to any end. 006.00G.011 'Tis no one thing, it is not fruit nor root. 006.00G.012 Nor poorly limited with head or foot. 006.00G.013 If man be therefore man, because he can 006.00G.014 Reason and laugh, thy book doth half make man. 006.00G.015 One half being made, thy modesty was such, 006.00G.016 That thou on th'other half wouldst never touch. 006.00G.017 When wilt thou be at full, great Lunatique? 006.00G.018 Not till thou exceed the world? Canst thou be like 006.00G.019 A prosperous nose-born wen, which sometimes grows 006.00G.020 To be far greater than the mother nose? 006.00G.021 Go then, and as to thee when thou didst go, 006.00G.022 %1Munster%2 did Towns and %1Gesner%2 Authors show; 006.00G.023 Mount now to %1Gallo-belgicus%2; appear 006.00G.024 As deep a Statesman as a Garretteir. 006.00G.025 Homely and familiarly, when thou com'st back, 006.00G.026 Talk of %1Will%2. %1Conquerour%2, and %1Prester Jack%2. 006.00G.027 Go bashful man, lest here thou blush to look 006.00G.028 Upon the progress of thy glorious book, 006.00G.029 To which both Indies sacrifices send; 006.00G.030 The West sent gold, which thou didst freely spend, 006.00G.031 Meaning to see't no more upon the press. 006.00G.032 The East sends hither her deliciousness; 006.00G.033 And thy leaves must embrace what comes from hence 006.00G.034 The Myrrhe, the Pepper, and the Frankincense. 006.00G.035 This magnifies thy leaves; but if they stoop 006.00G.036 To neighbour wares, when Merchants do unhoop 006.00G.037 Voluminous barrels; if thy leaves do then 006.00G.038 Convey these wares in parcels unto men; 006.00G.039 If for vast Tuns of Currants, and of Figs, 006.00G.040 Of medicinal and Aromatique twigs, [CW:Thy] 006.00G.041 Thy leaves a better method do provide, [p.262] 006.00G.042 Divide to pounds, and ounces sub-divide; 006.00G.043 If they stoop lower yet, and vent our wares 006.00G.044 Home-manufactures to thick popular Fairs, 006.00G.045 If omni-pregnant there, upon warm stalls, 006.00G.046 They hatch all wares for which the buyer calls; 006.00G.047 Then thus thy leaves we justly may commend, 006.00G.048 That they all kind of matter comprehend. 006.00G.049 Thus thou, by means which th' Ancients never took, 006.00G.050 A Pandect mak'st, and universal book. 006.00G.051 The bravest Heroes for publike good, 006.00G.052 Scattered in divers lands their limbs and blood. 006.00G.053 Worst malefactors, to whom men are prize, 006.00G.054 Do publike good, cut in Anatomies; 006.00G.055 So will thy book in peeces; for a Lord 006.00G.056 Which casts at Portescues, and all the board 006.00G.057 Provide whole books; each leaf enough will be 006.00G.058 For friends to pass time, and keep company. 006.00G.059 Can all carouse up thee? no, thou must fit 006.00G.060 Measures; and fill out for the half-pint wit: 006.00G.061 Some shall wrap pills, and save a friends life so, 006.00G.062 Some shall stop muskets, and so kill a foe. 006.00G.063 Thou shalt not ease the Criticks of next age 006.00G.064 So much, as once their hunger to asswage: 006.00G.065 Nor shall wit-pirats hope to finde thee ly 006.00G.066 All in one bottom, in one Library. 006.00G.067 Some leaves may paste strings there in other books, 006.00G.068 And so one may, which on another looks, 006.00G.069 Pilfer, alas, a little wit from you; 006.00G.070 But hardly much; and yet I think this true. 006.00G.071 As %1Sibils%2 was, your book is mystical, 006.00G.072 For every peece is as much worth as all. 006.00G.073 Therefore mine impotency I confess, 006.00G.074 The healths which my brain bears must be far less: [CW:Thy] 006.00G.075 Thy Gyant-wit'orethrows me, I am gone; [p.263] 006.00G.076 And rather than read all, I would read none. 006.00G.0SS %1I.D.%2 006.00G.0$$