IDENTILIN$$  F135B13 AltVic|Add. 25707, f. 39\GL\P:GAS\o\6-21-95\C:JSC('95 & 7-26-00)\TEM:2-29-12
135.B13.0HE  %XA letter written by S%5r%6. H: G: /%Xand I: D. alternis vicibus.
135.B13.001  Since eu'ry Tree beginns to blossome now
135.B13.002  Perfuminge and enamelinge each bow
135.B13.003  Hartes should as well as they, some fruits allow.
135.B13.004  For since one old poore sun%M serues all the rest,
135.B13.005  You seu'rall sunns that warme, & light each brest
135.B13.006  Doe by that infuence all yo%5r%6 thoughts digest.
135.B13.007  And that you two may soe yo%5r%6 vertues moue,
135.B13.008  on better matter then beames from aboue,
135.B13.009  Thus our twin'd soules send forth these buds of loue.|
135.B13.010  As in deuotions men Ioyne both there hands
135.B13.011  wee make our's doe one Act, to seale the bands,
135.B13.012  by w%5ch%6 w'enthrall our selues to yo%5r%6 Com%Mands.|
135.B13.013  And each for others faith, & zeale stand bound,
135.B13.014  as safe as spirits are from any wound,
135.B13.015  soe free from impure thoughts they shalbe found.|
135.B13.016  Admit our Magique then by w%5ch%6 wee doe
135.B13.017  Make you appeere to vs, & vs to you,
135.B13.018  supplying all the Muses in you twoe.|
135.B13.019  wee doe consider noe flower that is sweet,
135.B13.020  but wee yo%5r%6 breath in that exhaling meet,
135.B13.021  and as true Types of you, them humbly greet.|
135.B13.022  Heere in our Nightingales, wee heere you singe
135.B13.023  who soe doe make the whole yeare through a springe,
135.B13.024  and saue vs from the feare of Autumns stinge.|
135.B13.025  In Anchos[sic] calme face wee yo%5r%6 smoothnes see,
135.B13.026  yo%5r%6 mindes vnmingled, & as cleare as shee
135.B13.027  that keepes vntoucht her first virginitie.|
135.B13.028  Did all S:%5t%6 Edith Nunns descend againe
135.B13.029  to honor Polesworth w%5th%6 their Cloystr'd traine
135.B13.030  compar'd w%5th%6 you each would confesse some stayne.|
135.B13.031  or should wee more bleed out our thoughts in Inke
135.B13.032  noe paper (though it would bee glad to drinke
135.B13.033  those drops) could Conprehend what wee doe thinke.|
135.B13.034  For t'were in vs ambition to write
135.B13.035  soe, that because wee two, you two vnite,
135.B13.036  our letter should as you, bee infinite.|
135.B13.0SS  [long slash mark]
135.B13.0$$  Poem divided into stanzas of three lines by slash marks in LM 
(not leading)--like the holograph vs letter; no ind; beginning w/stz 3, a 
scribal slash at END of each stz marks the stz divisions%2 .