IDENTILIN$$ F11100A|HWNews|1633|pp. 76-77\E:EWS\fs(L)\4-1-86\P:EWS\o(OJ;MH[STC7045(A)])\5-23-00;7-30-02\C:JMK\3-20-01;JSC\3-21-01;8-20-02\p&c:JAH\cd(DFo,TxAM1)\Feb05\F:JSC\2-7-06
111.00A.0HE %XTo S%5r%6 %1Henry Wootton%2.
111.00A.001 H%+Ere's no more newes, then vertue, 'I may as well
111.00A.002 Tell you %1Calis%2, or S%5t%6 %1Michaels%2 tale for newes, as tell
111.00A.003 That vice doth here habitually dwell.
111.00A.004 Yet, as to'get stomachs, we walke up and downe,
111.00A.005 And toyle to sweeten rest, so, may God frowne,
111.00A.006 If, but to loth both, I haunt Court, or Towne.
111.00A.007 For here no one is from the'extremitie
111.00A.008 Of vice, by any other reason free,
111.00A.009 But that the next to'him, still, is worse then hee.
111.00A.010 In this worlds warfare, they whom rugged Fate,
111.00A.011 (Gods Commissary,) doth so throughly hate,
111.00A.012 As in#'the[in'the(MH;OJ;TxAM1;DFo)] Courts Squadron to marshall their state
111.00A.013 If they stand arm'd with seely honesty,
111.00A.014 With wishing prayers, and neat integritie,
111.00A.015 Like Indians'gainst[Indians#'gainst(MH;OJ;TxAM1;DFo)] Spanish hosts they bee.
111.00A.016 Suspitious boldnesse to this place belongs,
111.00A.017 And to'have as many eares as all have tongues;
111.00A.018 Tender to know, tough to acknowledge wrongs. [CW:Beleeve]
111.00A.019 Beleeve mee Sir, in my youths giddiest dayes, [p.77]
111.00A.020 When to be like the Court, was a playes praise,
111.00A.021 Playes were not so like Courts, as Courts'are like /(playes.
111.00A.022 Then let us at these mimicke antiques jeast,
111.00A.023 Whose deepest projects, and egregious gests
111.00A.024 Are but dull Moralls of a game at Chests.
111.00A.025 But now 'tis incongruity to smile,
111.00A.026 Therefore I end; and bid farewell a while,
111.00A.027 %1At Court%2, though from Court, were the better stile.
111.00A.0SS [double horiz. rule]
111.00A.0$$ Nine 3-ll. sts; no ind.