IDENTILIN$$  F112B32  Harley 4955, ff. 103v-04v\GL\P:GAS\o\6-22-95\C:JSC\ '95 & 7-25-00
112.B32.0HE  To S%5r%6 Hen:. Wotton:.
112.B32.001  S%5r%6. More then kisses letters mingle soules,
112.B32.002  For thus freindes absent speake.  Thys ease controules
112.B32.003  The tediousnes of my Lyfe; but for these,
112.B32.004  I could Ideate nothing, which could please,
112.B32.005  But I shovld wither in One daye, and passe
112.B32.006  To a Bottle of hay, that am a locke of grasse.
112.B32.007  Life ys a voyage, and in our lyfes wayes
112.B32.008  Countryes, Courts, Townes are Rockes, or Remoraes.
112.B32.009  They breake, or stop all ships, yett our state is such,
112.B32.010  That though >theyre%>then< pitch, they stayne worse, we must touch.
112.B32.011  If in the furnace of the eauen lyne,
112.B32.012  Or vnder the adverse Icy Poles thou pine,
112.B32.013  Thou knowest two temperate regions girded in,
112.B32.014  Dwell there: But oh, what refuge canst thou win,
112.B32.015  Parch'd in the Court, and in the Country frozen?
112.B32.016  Shall Cityes built of both extreames be Chozen?
112.B32.017  Can Dung, and Garlicke bee a Perfume? Or Can
112.B32.018  A Scorpion, and Torpedo cure a Man? [CW:om]
112.B32.019  Cytyes are worst of all three; Of all three [104]
112.B32.020  (o knotty ridle, each is worst equallye
112.B32.021  Cytyes are sepulchers:  They who dwell there,
112.B32.022  Are Carcases, as if noe such there were.
112.B32.023  And Courtes are Theaters, where some men play
112.B32.024  Princes, some slaues, all to one end, and of one Clay.
112.B32.025  The Countrey is a desert, where noe Good
112.B32.026  Gayn'd, as Habitts, not borne, is vnderstoode
112.B32.027  There Men become beasts, and prone to moere Evills,
112.B32.028  In Cyttyes blockes, and in a lewd Covrt, Devills.
112.B32.029  As in the first Chaos, confusedlye
112.B32.030  Each Elements qualities weare in the other three.
112.B32.031  So pride, lust, Covetize, being severall
112.B32.032  To these three Places, yet all are in all;
112.B32.033  And mingled thus, theyre issue incestuous. 
112.B32.034  Falshood ys denizous, virtue ys barbarous.
112.B32.035  Lett noe Man say there, virtues flyntye wall
112.B32.036  Shall locke vice in mee, Ile doe none, but knowe all.
112.B32.037  Men are spunges, w%5ch%6 to poure out, receaue;
112.B32.038  Who knowe false play, rather then loose, deceive.
112.B32.039  For in best vnderstandings, sinne begann,
112.B32.040  Angells sin'd first, then Divells, and then Man.
112.B32.041  Onelye perchance Beasts sin not; wretched wee,
112.B32.042  Are beasts in all, but white Integrytie.
112.B32.043  I thincke if men w%5ch%6 in these Places live,
112.B32.044  Durst looke for themselves, and themselves retrive,
112.B32.045  They would like strangers, greete themselves, suing then
112.B32.046  Vtopian youth, Growne old Italyan.
112.B32.047  [I2]Bee then thyne owne home; and in thy selfe dwell,
112.B32.048  Inne any where, Continuance maketh hell.
112.B32.049  And seeing the snayle, which everye where doth rome
112.B32.050  Caryinge hys owne house still, still is at home
112.B32.051  Followe (for he ys easye pac'd) thys snayle,
112.B32.052  Bee thyne owne Pallace, or the world ys thy gayle,
112.B32.053  And in the worlds sea, doe not like Corke sleepe,
112.B32.054  Vpon the waters face; nor in the Deepe
112.B32.055  Sincke like a led without a lyne; But as
112.B32.056  Fishes glyde, leaving noe Print, where they pas,
112.B32.057  Nor making sound; soe closelye thy Course goe,
112.B32.058  Lett men dispute, wheather thou breath, or noe.
112.B32.059  Only in thys One thinge be noe Galennist.  To make
112.B32.060  Covrts hott ambitions holesome, doe not take
112.B32.061  A Dramm of Countryes dullnes, doe not adde
112.B32.062  Correctiues, but as Chymickes purge the badde [CW:om]
112.B32.063  But, S%5r%6, I advise not you, I rather doe [104v]
112.B32.064  Say ore those lessons, which I learn'd of you
112.B32.065  Whom free from Germane schismes, and lightnes
112.B32.066  Of france, & fayre Italyes faythlesnes,
112.B32.067  Haueing from these suk'd all they had of worth
112.B32.068  And brought home that Fayth, w%5ch%6 you caryed forth,
112.B32.069  I throughly love.  But yf myselfe, I haue wonne
112.B32.070  To know my Rules, I haue, and you haue Donne.
112.B32.0SS  [om]
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