IDENTILIN$$ F136B46 BedfHon|Stowe 961, ff. 16-17\GL\P:GAS\o\6-27-95\C:JSC('95 & 7-26-00) 136.B46.0HE %XTo the Countesse of /%XBedforde. 136.B46.001 Honour is Soe Sublime Perfection 136.B46.002 And Soe refin'de. that when God was alone 136.B46.003 And Creatureles at first himselfe had none. 136.B46.004 But as of th'ellements, these which wee tread 136.B46.005 Produce all things, with which w'are ioyd or fed 136.B46.006 And those are barren both, aboue our head: 136.B46.007 Soe from lowe Persons doth all Hono%5r%6 flowe 136.B46.008 Kings whome they would haue honor'd, to us showe 136.B46.009 And but direct our Honour, not bestowe. 136.B46.010 For>**< when from herbs the pure parts must be wonne 136.B46.011 From Grosse by stillinge: this is better donne 136.B46.012 By despisd Dunge, then by the fire or Sunne. 136.B46.013 Care not then, Lady, how lowe your prayer lye 136.B46.014 In labourors ballads, ofte more pietye 136.B46.015 God finds, then in Te Deum melodie 136.B46.016 And Ordnance raisd on Towers so many mile 136.B46.017 Send not theire voice, nor last so longe a while 136.B46.018 As fires from th'earths lowe vaults in Sicill Ile. [CW:om] 136.B46.019 Should I say, I liu'd darke, then t'were not true [16v] 136.B46.020 Your Radiation can all Cloudes Subdue 136.B46.021 But one; the best light to Contemplate you. 136.B46.022 You for whose bodie, god made better Clay, 136.B46.023 Or tooke Soule's stuffe; Such as should latest decay 136.B46.024 Or Such as needs small Change, at the Last Day. 136.B46.025 This (as an amber Drop enwraps a Bee) 136.B46.026 Coueringe, discouers your quicke Soule. that wee 136.B46.027 May in you, through your face, your harts thoughts see. 136.B46.028 You teach (though we learne not) a thinge vnknowne 136.B46.029 To our late Times, the vse of Specular stone 136.B46.030 Through w%5ch%6 all things within, without are showne. 136.B46.031 Of Such were temples. So, and Such you are 136.B46.032 Being and Seminge is your equall Care, 136.B46.033 And virtues whole Sum is, But knowe and dare. 136.B46.034 Discretion is a wise mans Soule, and So 136.B46.035 Relligion is a Christians, and you know 136.B46.036 How these are one; hir yea, is not hir No. 136.B46.037 But euen as Soules of growth and Soules of Sence 136.B46.038 Haue birthright of our Reason Soule yet hence>%Y.%Z< 136.B46.039 They flie not from%M that, nor seeke precedence. 136.B46.040 Natures first Lesson, Soe, Discretion 136.B46.041 Must not grudge zeale a place, nor yet keepe none 136.B46.042 Nor banish it selfe nor Relligion 136.B46.043 Nor may we hope to Soulder still, and knitt 136.B46.044 These two, and dare to breake them: nor must witt 136.B46.045 Be Colleague to Relligion, but it 136.B46.046 In those poore types of God, Round Circles; so 136.B46.047 Relligions types the peaceles Centers flowe 136.B46.048 And are in all the lines which all wayes goe. 136.B46.049 If euer either wrought in you alone 136.B46.050 Or Principally twas Relligion 136.B46.051 Yet you neglected not Discretion 136.B46.052 Goe thither still: Go the same way you went 136.B46.053 Who ere would Change, doth Couet, or repent 136.B46.054 Neither can reach you; Great and Innocent. 136.B46.0SS Finis /["A P" surrounded on two sides by grape clusters] 136.B46.0$$ %1Poem div into rhymed triplets; ll.40-42 positioned after ll.30-33; p. scribally numbered 31 in upper left%2