IDENTILIN$$  F111H03|HWNews|Carnaby MS, Eng. 966.1\f. 37; p. 73\JSC\mf\7-27-94\P:DF\o\9-12-00\C:JSC\1-2-01
111.H03.HE1  %XFrom Courte a Letter to /%XS%5r%6 Henry Wootton
111.H03.001  Heer'es noe more news then vertue, I may as well
111.H03.002  Tell yo%5w%6 Cales, and S%5t%6 Michaells tales for news, as tell
111.H03.003  That vice dothe here habitually dwell
111.H03.004  Yet as to gett stomacks we walke vp and downe
111.H03.005  And toyle to sweeten rest, soe God may frowne
111.H03.006  If but to lothe bothe, I %Jhate%K[Var:>>haunt<<] bothe Courte and Towne
111.H03.007  For here noe one is %Yfree%Z from the extremitie
111.H03.008  Of vice by any other reason free
111.H03.009  But that the next to him is worse then he.
111.H03.010  In this world'es warefare they whome rugged fate
111.H03.011  Gods Commissary dothe soe throughly hate
111.H03.012  As in Courte Squadron to Martiall their Estate
111.H03.013  If they stand arm'd with silly honnesty
111.H03.014  With wishes, prayers, and neat integrity
111.H03.015  Like Indians gainst Spanishe hostes they bee.|
111.H03.016  Suspitious boldnesse to this place belongs
111.H03.017  And to haue as many eares as all haue tongues
111.H03.018  Tender to knowe, toughe to acknowledge wrongs.|
111.H03.019  Beleiue me S:%5r%6 in my youth's giddyest dayes
111.H03.020  When to be like the Courte was players praise
111.H03.021  Players were not soe like Court, as Court's like playes
111.H03.022  Then lett vs at this mimicke Antiques Iest
111.H03.023  Whose deepest proiects, and egregious gests
111.H03.024  Are but dull moralls of a game at Chesse.|
111.H03.025  But nowe 'tis incongruity to smile
111.H03.026  Wherefore I end and bid farewell a while
111.H03.027  At Courte, thoughe from Courte be the better Stile.|
111.H03.0SS  I. D.|
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st. ind;%2  St. ms. 204. %1wr. in a 2nd hand to right of HE%2