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111.00B.0HE %X%1To S%2%5r%6 %1Henry Wootton%2.
111.00B.001 H%+Ere's no more newes, than vertue.'I may as well
111.00B.002 Tell you %1Calis%2, or Saint %1Michaels%2 tales, as tell
111.00B.003 That vice doth here habitually dwell.
111.00B.004 Yet, as to get stomachs, we walk up and downe,
111.00B.005 And toyle to sweeten rest: so, may God frowne,
111.00B.006 If, but to loath both, I haunt Court, or Towne.
111.00B.007 For, here, no one is from th'extremitie
111.00B.008 Of vice, by any other reason free,
111.00B.009 But that the next to him, still, is worse than hee.
111.00B.010 In this worlds warfare, they whom rugged Fate,
111.00B.011 (Gods Commissary,) doth so throughly hate,
111.00B.012 As in'the Courts Squadron to marshall their state:
111.00B.013 If they stand arm'd with seely honesty,
111.00B.014 With wishes, prayers, and neat integritie,
111.00B.015 Like Idians[sic] 'gainst Spanish hosts they be.
111.00B.016 Suspitious boldnesse to this place belongs,
111.00B.017 And to have as many eares[see_notes] as all have tongues;
111.00B.018 Tender to know, tough to acknowledge wrongs. [CW:Beleeve]
111.00B.019 Beleeve me sir, in my youths giddiest dayes, [p.160]
111.00B.020 When to be like the Court was a playes praise,
111.00B.021 Playes were not so like Courts, as Courts like plaies.
111.00B.022 Then let us at these mimique antiques jeast,
111.00B.023 Whose deepest projects, and egregious gests
111.00B.024 Are but dull Morals of a game at Chests.
111.00B.025 But now 'tis incongruitie to smile,
111.00B.026 Therefore I end; and bid farewell a while.
111.00B.027 %1At Court:%2 though from Court, were the better stile.
111.00B.0SSom
111.00B.0SS Nine 3-line sts; no ind; EWS: mf & o MH sources are different volumes (STC 7046; STC 7046[A]); we might want to look at l.17 "eares" or "cares" in the orig.: either the bar of "e" doesn't print or it's a "c"; cf. "c" in next line down