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112.00A.HE1  %XTo S%5r%6 %1Henry Wotton%2.
112.00A.001  S%+Ir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules;
112.00A.002  For, thus friends absent speake. This ease controules
112.00A.003  The tediousnesse of my life: But for these
112.00A.004  I could ideate nothing, which could please,
112.00A.005  But I should wither in one day, and passe
112.00A.006  To'a botle'of Hay, that am a locke of Grasse.
112.00A.007  Life is a voyage, and in our lifes wayes
112.00A.008  Countries, Courts, Towns are Rockes, or Remoraes;
112.00A.009  They breake or stop all ships, yet our state's such,
112.00A.010  That though then pitch they staine worse, wee must /(touch.
112.00A.011  If in the furnace of the raging line,
112.00A.012  Or under th'adverse icy pole thou pine,
112.00A.013  Thou know'st two temperate Regions girded in,
112.00A.014  Dwell there: But Oh, what refuge canst thou winne
112.00A.015  Parch'd in the Court, and in the country frozen?
112.00A.016  Shall cities built of both extremes be chosen?
112.00A.017  Can dung, and garlike be'a perfume? or can [CW:A]
112.00A.018  A Scorpion, or Torpedo cure a man? [p.62]
112.00A.019  Cities are worst of all three; of all three
112.00A.020  (O knottie riddle) each is worst equally.
112.00A.021  Cities are Sepulchers; they who dwell there
112.00A.022  Are carcases, as if no such they were.
112.00A.023  And Courts are Theaters, where some men play
112.00A.024  Princes, some slaves, all to one end, and of one clay.
112.00A.025  The Country is a desert, where no good,
112.00A.026  Gain'd, as habits, not borne, is understood.
112.00A.027  There men become beasts, and prone to more evils;
112.00A.028  In cities blockes, and in a lewd court, devills.
112.00A.029  As in the first Chaos confusedly
112.00A.030  Each elements qualities were in the'other[~#~(OJn)] three;
112.00A.031  So pride, lust, covetize, being severall
112.00A.032  To these three places, yet all are in all,
112.00A.033  And mingled thus, their issue incestuous.
112.00A.034  Falshood is denizon'd. Virtue is barbarous.
112.00A.035  Let no man say there, Virtues flintie wall
112.00A.036  Shall locke vice in mee, I'll do none, but know all.
112.00A.037  Men are spunges, which to poure out, receive,
112.00A.038  Who know false play, rather then lose, deceive.
112.00A.039  For in best understandings, sinne beganne,
112.00A.040  Angels sinn'd first, then Devills, and then man.
112.00A.041  Onely perchance beasts sinne not; wretched wee
112.00A.042  Are beasts in all, but white integritie.
112.00A.043  I thinke if men, which in these places live
112.00A.044  Durst looke in themselves, and themselves retrive,
112.00A.045  They would like strangers greet themselves, seeing /(then
112.00A.046  Utopian youth, growne old Italian.
112.00A.047  Be thou thine owne home, and in thy selfe dwell; [CW:Inne]
112.00A.048  Inne any where, continuance maketh hell. [p.63]
112.00A.049  And seeing the snaile, which every where doth rome,
112.00A.050  Carrying his owne house still, still is at home.
112.00A.051  Follow (for he is easie pac'd) this snaile,
112.00A.052  Bee thine owne Palace, or the world's thy goale;
112.00A.053  And in the worlds sea, do not like corke sleepe
112.00A.054  Upon the waters face; nor in the deepe
112.00A.055  Sinke like a lead without a line: but as
112.00A.056  Fishes glide, leaving no print where they passe,
112.00A.057  Nor making sound; so, closely thy course goe,
112.00A.058  Let men dispute, whether thou breath, or no:
112.00A.059  Onely'in this one thing, be no Galenist. To make
112.00A.060  Courts hot ambitions wholesome, do not take
112.00A.061  A dramme of Countries dulnesse; do not adde
112.00A.062  Correctives, but as chymiques, purge the bad.
112.00A.063  But, Sir, I advise not you, I rather doe
112.00A.064  Say o'er those lessons, which I learn'd of you.
112.00A.065  Whom, free from German schismes, and lightnesse
112.00A.066  Of France, and faire Italies faithlesnesse,
112.00A.067  Having from these suck'd all they had of worth,
112.00A.068  And brought home that faith, which you carried forth,
112.00A.069  I throughly love. But if my selfe, I'have wonne
112.00A.070  To know my rules, I have, and you have /D#%9o#n#n#e%0:[~^(L)] [CW:%1The%2]
112.00A.0SS  [om]
112.00A.0$$  L. 47 ind 2 sps; l.30: in prepping our web version we thought the missing ' in OJn vol. uninked, not a press variant--same w/ l.70; "D#%9o#n#n#e%0:" at end of l.70 right-aligned; in the Crynes copy of A (OJn/OJ1), a hand drawn, hashed line partially underscores l.4, & "+ inuent nothing at all to please." in RM, likely an "updating" copied from G (l.4 in the Crewe ms. [TM1] gives same version) --JSC; L fs copy's shelfmark = G.11415