IDENTILIN$$  F111C08|HWNews|Leconfield MS, Add. 8467|f. 47r-v\GL\mf\P:EWS;TLP\o\7-9-93;7-3-95\C:JSC\'95; 11-20-00
111.C08.0HE  %XTo S:%5r%6 Henrie Wotton.
111.C08.001  Heere is no more newes, then virtue, I may as well
111.C08.002  Tell you Calys, or S.%5t%6 Michells tale for newes, as tell.[sic]
111.C08.003  That vice dooth heere habituallie dwell.
111.C08.004  Yett, as to gett stomacks, wee walk vp and downe
111.C08.005  And toile, to sweeten rest; so maie god frowne
111.C08.006  If butt to loth bothe, I haunt Court, or towne. [CW:ffor.|]
111.C08.007  For here no one, is from the extremitie [47v]
111.C08.008  Of vice, by anie other reason free,
111.C08.009  Butt that the next to him, still is worse then hee.
111.C08.010  In this worlds warfare, they whome rugged fate,
111.C08.011  (Gods Comissarie,) dooth so throughlie hate.[sic]
111.C08.012  As in the Courts squadron, to marshall theire state.
111.C08.013  If they stand armde, w%5th%6 seelie honestie
111.C08.014  With wishing praiers and neat integritie,
111.C08.015  Like Indians, gainst spannish hosts they bee.
111.C08.016  Suspitious bouldnes to this place belongs
111.C08.017  And to haue as manie eares as all haue tongues.
111.C08.018  Tender to knowe, tough to acknowledge wrongs.
111.C08.019  Beleiue me S:%5r%6 In my youths giddiest daies.[sic]
111.C08.020  When to be like the Court, was a plaies praise
111.C08.021  Plaies were not so like Courts, as Courts are like plaies.
111.C08.022  Then lett vs att this mimmick Antiques ieast
111.C08.023  Whose deepest proiects, and egregious gests
111.C08.024  Are butt dull moralls of a game at chests.
111.C08.025  Butt now tis Incongruitie to smile,
111.C08.026  Therfore I end; And bid farwell a while,
111.C08.027  Att Court, though from Court, weare the better stile. [CW:To|]
111.C08.0SS  [om]
111.C08.0$$  %1Poem div into 3-l. sts by indenting 1st l. of each, ca. 8 sp --TLP%2