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111.00G.0HE %X%1To Sir Henry Wootton%2.
111.00G.001 H%+Ere's no more new, then virtue, I may as well
111.00G.002 Tell %1Calis%2,,[sic] or Saint %1Michaels%2 Mount,[sic] as tell
111.00G.003 That vice doth here habitually dwell.
111.00G.004 Yet, as to get stomachs, we walk up and down,
111.00G.005 And toyl to sweeten rest; so, may God frown,
111.00G.006 If but to loath both, I haunt Court, and Town.
111.00G.007 For, here, no one is from th'extremitie
111.00G.008 Of vice, by any other reason free,
111.00G.009 But that the next to him, still, is worse then he.
111.00G.010 In this worlds warfare, they whom rugged Fate,
111.00G.011 (Gods Commissary) doth so throughly hate,
111.00G.012 As in the Courts Squadron to marshall their state:
111.00G.013 If they stand arm'd with silly honesty,
111.00G.014 With wishing, prayers, and neat integritie,
111.00G.015 Like Indians 'gainst Spanish hosts they be.
111.00G.016 Suspicious boldness to this place belongs,
111.00G.017 And to have as many ears as all have tongues;
111.00G.018 Tender to know, tough to acknowledge wrongs.
111.00G.019 Believe me Sir, in my youths giddiest dayes,
111.00G.020 When to be like the Court was a players praise,
111.00G.021 Playes were not so like Courts, as Courts like Playes.
111.00G.022 Then let us at these mimique antiques jeast,
111.00G.023 Whose deepest projects are egregeous guests,
111.00G.024 And but dull Morals at a game at Chests. [CW: But]
111.00G.025 But 'tis an incongruitie to smile, [p.155]
111.00G.026 Therefore I end; and bid farewel a while
111.00G.027 %1At Court%2, though from Court, were the better stile.
111.00G.0SSom
111.00G.0$$ Nine 3-line sts; no ind; possibly, no space after "Indians" in l.15 of L copy (cd image: WingD1871BL)