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112.B46.0HE  %XTo S%5r%6 Henry Wotton:
112.B46.001  S%5r%6. more then Kisses, letters mingle Soules
112.B46.002  For thus frinds absent Speake: this ease controules
112.B46.003  The tediousnes of my life; and but for these
112.B46.004  I should Ide%Uate nothinge which coulde please
112.B46.005  But shoulde wither in one day; and passe
112.B46.006  To a Bottle of Hay, which am a Locke of Grasse.
112.B46.007  Life is a Voyage, and on our liues wayes
112.B46.008  Countryes, Courts, Townes are Rocks, and Remora's
112.B46.009  They breake, or stop all Ships, yet our state's such
112.B46.010  That thoughe then pitch they stayne worse, we must tuch
112.B46.011  If in the furnace of the euen line
112.B46.012  Or under the aduerse Icy Poles thou pine
112.B46.013  Thou knowst two temperate Regions girded in
112.B46.014  Dwell there; but oh what refuge canst thou win?
112.B46.015  Parcht in the Court, and in the Country frosen
112.B46.016  Shall Cyties, built, of both extreames be chosen?
112.B46.017  Can dunge, or Garlicke be perfume?  or can
112.B46.018  A Scorpion or Torpedo cure a man?
112.B46.019  Cytties are worst of all three; of all three
112.B46.020  (oh knotty riddle) each is worst equally.
112.B46.021  Citties are Sepulchers, they which dwell there
112.B46.022  Are Carcases, as if none Such there were
112.B46.023  And Courts are theaters, where some men play
112.B46.024  Princes, some Slaues, all to one end, & of one clay
112.B46.025  The Country is a Desert, where the Good
112.B46.026  Gaind as habite, not borne, is not vnderstood.
112.B46.027  There men become beasts, and prone to mere euills;
112.B46.028  In Cittyes, blocks in the lewde Court, th'are Deuills
112.B46.029  As in the first Chaos confusedly
112.B46.030  Each elements quallityes were in the other three
112.B46.031  Soe Pride, Lust, Couetise, beinge Seuerall [CW:om]
112.B46.032  To those three places, yet are all, in all. [93v]
112.B46.033  And mingled thus theire issue is incestuous
112.B46.034  Falsehood's denized, virtue's barbarous.
112.B46.035  Let no man Say theire virtues flinty wall
112.B46.036  Shall locke vice in me, Ile doe none, but knowe all
112.B46.037  Men are Spunges which to powre out, receiue.
112.B46.038  Who knowe false play, rather then loose, deceue
112.B46.039  For i'the best vnderstandings Sin began
112.B46.040  Angells sind first, then Deuills and then man.
112.B46.041  Only perchance beasts sin not, wretched we
112.B46.042  Are beasts in all, but white Integrity
112.B46.043  I thincke if men which in these places liue
112.B46.044  Durst looke for themselues, and themselues retriue
112.B46.045  They would like strangers greete themselues, seeing than
112.B46.046  Vtopian youth, growne old Italian.
112.B46.047  Be then thine owne home, and in thy selfe dwell.
112.B46.048  Inne any where, Continuance maketh Hell.
112.B46.049  And seing the Snayle, which euery where doth come,
112.B46.050  Caryinge hir owne house still, still is at home.
112.B46.051  Followe (for he is easily pac'd) this Snayle
112.B46.052  Be thine owne Pallace, or the world's thy Gayle
112.B46.053  And in the worlds Sea, do not like Corke, steepe[sic]
112.B46.054  Vpon the waters face, nor in the deepe
112.B46.055  Sinke like leade, without a line. but as
112.B46.056  Fishes glide, leauinge no print where they passe.
112.B46.057  Nor makinge Sounde; So closely thy course, goe
112.B46.058  Let men dispute whither thou breathst, or noe
112.B46.059  Only in this be noe Gallenist, to make
112.B46.060  Courts hot ambitions wholesome, do not take
112.B46.061  A dram of Countries dullnes, do not add
112.B46.062  Correctiues, but as Chymicks, purge the badd. [CW:om]
112.B46.063  But S%5r%6. I aduise not you. I rather doe [94]
112.B46.064  Say o're those lessons, which I learnd of you.
112.B46.065  Whom (free from German Schismes, and lithnes
112.B46.066  Of France, and faire Italies faithlesnes,
112.B46.067  Hauinge from these Suckt, all they had of worth, 
112.B46.068  And brought home that faith, which you caried forth)
112.B46.069  I throughly loue. but if my selfe I haue won
112.B46.070  To knowe my Rules. I haue, and you haue, don.
112.B46.0SS  ID.[monogram] /Finis [two grape clusters]
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