IDENTILIN$$ F11200C|HWKiss|1639|pp. 153-55|ll.1-31}E:ME\mf\7-17-87\P:EWS\o(C)\5-31-00\C:JMK\2-26-01{\ll.32-70}E:JMK\mf(CtY)\2-19-01\P:JSC;DAS\cd(MH)\5-2-01;2-21-02{\ll.1-70 C:JSC\5-2-01\P&C:js\fs(TxAM)\Nov'05\F:JSC\2-1-06 112.00C.HE1 %X%1To S%2%5r%6 %1Henry Wootton%2. 112.00C.001 S%+IR, more than kisses, letters mingle Soules, 112.00C.002 For, thus friends absent speak. This ease controules 112.00C.003 The tediousnesse of my life: But for these 112.00C.004 I could ideate nothing, which could please, 112.00C.005 But I should wither in one day, and passe 112.00C.006 To'a bottle of Hay, that am a lock of Grasse. 112.00C.007 Life is a voyage, and in our lives wayes 112.00C.008 Countries, Courts, Townes are Rocks, or Remoraes; 112.00C.009 They breake or stop all ships, yet our stat's such 112.00C.010 That though then pitch they staine worse, we must /(touch. 112.00C.011 If in the furnace of the raging line, 112.00C.012 Or under th'adverse icy pole thou pine, 112.00C.013 Thou know'st two temperate Regions girded in, 112.00C.014 Dwell there: But oh, what refuge canst thou win 112.00C.015 Parch'd in the Court, and in the countrey frozen? 112.00C.016 Shall cities built of both extremes be chosen? 112.00C.017 Can dung, or garlike be perfume? Or can 112.00C.018 A Scorpion, or Torpedo cure a man? 112.00C.019 Cities are worst of all three; of all three? 112.00C.020 (O knotty riddle) each is worst equally. 112.00C.021 Cities are Sepulchres; they who dwell there 112.00C.022 Are carcases, as if none such there were. 112.00C.023 And Courts are Theaters, where some men play 112.00C.024 Princes, some slaves, all to one end, of one clay. 112.00C.025 The Countrey is a desert, where the good, 112.00C.026 Gain'd inhabits not, borne, is not understood. [CW:There] 112.00C.027 There men become beasts, and prone to all evils; [p.154] 112.00C.028 In Cities blockes, and in a lewd court, devils. 112.00C.029 As, in the first Chaos, confusedly 112.00C.030 Each elements qualities were in th'other three: 112.00C.031 So pride, lust, covetize, being severall 112.00C.032 To these three places, yet all are in all, 112.00C.033 And mingled thus, their issue is incestuous. 112.00C.034 Falshood is denizon'd. Vertue is barbarous. 112.00C.035 Let no man say there, Vertues flinty wall 112.00C.036 Shall locke vice in me, I'll doe none, but know all. 112.00C.037 Men are spunges, which to powre out, receive: 112.00C.038 Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. 112.00C.039 For in best understandings sinne began, 112.00C.040 Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man. 112.00C.041 Onely perchance beasts sinne not; wretched wee 112.00C.042 Are beasts in all, but white integritie. 112.00C.043 I thinke if men, which in these places live 112.00C.044 Durst looke in themselves, and themselves retrive, 112.00C.045 They would like strangers greet themselves, seeing /%1(%2than 112.00C.046 Vtopian youth, growne old Italian. 112.00C.047 Be then thine owne home, and in thy selfe dwell; 112.00C.048 Inne any where; continuance maketh hell. 112.00C.049 And seeing the snaile, which every where doth rome, 112.00C.050 Carrying his owne house still, still is at home%1:%2 112.00C.051 Follow %1(%2for he is easie pac'd%1)%2 this snaile, 112.00C.052 Be thine owne Palace, or the world's thy gaile. 112.00C.053 And in the worlds sea doe not like corke sleepe 112.00C.054 Vpon the waters face; nor in the deepe 112.00C.055 Sinke like a lead without a line: but as 112.00C.056 Fishes glide, leaving no print where they passe, 112.00C.057 Nor making sound: so, closely thy course goe, 112.00C.058 Let men dispute, whether thou breathe, or no: [CW:Onely] 112.00C.059 Onely'in this be no Galenist. To make [p.155] 112.00C.060 Courts hot ambitions wholesome, doe not take 112.00C.061 A dramme of Countries dulnesse; doe not adde 112.00C.062 Correctives, but as chymiques, purge the bad. 112.00C.063 But, Sir, I advise not you, I rather doe 112.00C.064 Say o'r those lessons, which I learn'd of you: 112.00C.065 Whom, free from Germanies schismes, and lightnes 112.00C.066 Of France, and faire Italies faithlesnesse, 112.00C.067 Having from these suck'd all they had of worth, 112.00C.068 And brought home that faith which you carried /%1(%2forth; 112.00C.069 I throughly love, But if my selfe I'have won 112.00C.070 To know my rules, I have, and you have DONNE. 112.00C.0SSom 112.00C.0$$ L.47 ind 2 sps; no sts; marginalia in Oldisworth copy (%1C%2): numerous words underlined; "61." wr. to right of HE, "letters" wr. in RM at l.1, "City" in RM at l.21, "Court" in RM at l.23, "Country." in RM at l.25, and "Convert" in LM at l.45; marginalia in %1MH%2 copy: "blockes" underlined in l.28, w/ something illegibly faint (on cd image, at least) wr. in LM, and "Tallentis sem*[*%>i]a vita.|" in bottom M of p. 154