IDENTILIN$$  F111NY3|HWNews|Westmoreland MS|f. 25\GL\P:TJS,EWS\o\4-8-95;TJS\9-21-95\C:JSC\12-4-00
111.NY3.0HE  To M%5r%6 H. W.[LM] %X20 Iuly. %Ji609%K>%J8%K<.[sic] At Court.
111.NY3.001  Here is no more newes then Vertu:'I may as well
111.NY3.002  Tell you Calis, or S%5t%6 Michels tale for newes, as tell
111.NY3.003  That Vice doth here habitually dwell.
111.NY3.004  Yet as to get stomacks we walke vp & downe
111.NY3.005  And toyle to sweeten rest, so may God frowne
111.NY3.006  If but to lothe both, I haunt Court or towne.
111.NY3.007  For here no one, is, fro%M th'extremitee
111.NY3.008  Of Vice by any other reason free,
111.NY3.009  But y%5t%6 the next to'him still is worse the%M hee.
111.NY3.010  In this worlds warrfare they whome rugged Fate
111.NY3.011  (Gods Com%Missary) doth so throughly hate
111.NY3.012  As in y%5e%6 Courts Squadron to Marshall their State
111.NY3.013  If they stand arm'd w.%5t%6 seely honestee
111.NY3.014  W%5th%6 wishing prayers, and neat integritee
111.NY3.015  Like Indians gainst Spanish hostes they bee.
111.NY3.016  Suspitious boldnes, to this place belongs;
111.NY3.017  And to'haue as many eares as all haue tongs;
111.NY3.018  Tender to know; tough to acknowledge wrongs.
111.NY3.019  Beleeue me, S%5r%6, in my Youths giddiest dayes,
111.NY3.020  When to be like y%5e%6 Court was a Playes prayse,
111.NY3.021  Playes were not so like Courts, as Courts are like playes.
111.NY3.022  Then let vs at these Mimick Antiques ieast
111.NY3.023  Whose deepest Proiects, and egregious gests
111.NY3.024  Are but dull Morals of a game at Chests.
111.NY3.025  But now tis incongruity to smile.
111.NY3.026  Therfore I end: And bid farwell awhile;
111.NY3.027  At Court; though, From Court, were y%5e%6 better stile.
111.NY3.0SS  [om]
111.NY3.0$$  Nine 3-l. sts separated by diagonal slashes in LM; l. 1 ind 3 sp; 
the "6" in the HE's date has been overwritten, & the facs. isn't really legible