IDENTILIN$$  F111B32  Harley 4955, f.108\GL\P:GAS\o\6-23-95\C:JSC ('95 & 7-24-00)
111.B32.0HE  To S%5r%6 Henrye Wooton:.
111.B32.001  Here is no more newes then Vertue, I may as well
111.B32.002  Tell you Calys, or S%5t%6 Michells tale for newes, as tell
111.B32.003  That vice doth here habituallye dwell.
111.B32.004  Yett as to gett stomackes wee walke vp, & downe,
111.B32.005  And toyle to sweeten rest, so may God frowne,
111.B32.006  If but to loth both, I haunt Court or Towne.
111.B32.007  For here no One is from the Extreamitye
111.B32.008  Of vice, by any other reason free,
111.B32.009  But that the next to him, still is worse then hee
111.B32.010  In this worlds warfare, they whom rugged Fate
111.B32.011  (Gods Commissarye) doth so throughlye hate,
111.B32.012  As in the Courts squ>%Va<dron to marshall theyre state,
111.B32.013  If they stand arm'd, w%5th%6 seely Honestee
111.B32.014  W%5th%6 wishinge Prayers, and neate Integritye.
111.B32.015  Like Indians gainst spanish hosts they bee.
111.B32.016  Suspitious boldnes to this place belonges,
111.B32.017  And to haue as manye Eares as all haue Tonges
111.B32.018  Tender to knowe, tough to acknowledge wronges.
111.B32.019  Beleeve me S%5r%6 in my youths giddyest dayes,
111.B32.020  When to be like the Court was a Playes prayse,
111.B32.021  Playes were not so like Courts, as Courts are like playes.
111.B32.022  Then lett vs at these Mimicke Antiques ieast
111.B32.023  Whose deepest Proiects, & egregious gests
111.B32.024  Are but dull Morralls of a game at Chests.
111.B32.025  But now tis Incongruitye to smile,
111.B32.026  Therefore I end; And bid farewell a while,
111.B32.027  At Court, though, From Court weare the better stile.
111.B32.0SS  [om]
111.B32.0$$  %1No ind; HE in large gothic letters.  Poem arranged in triplets%2