IDENTILIN$$  F112B47|Stowe 962, ff. 109-10\GL\P:GAS\o\6-28-95\C:JSC ('95 & 7-25-00)
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112.B47.001  S.%5ir%6 more then kisses letters mingle soules
112.B47.002  for thus freinds absent speake this ease controuls
112.B47.003  the tediousnes of my life, but for these
112.B47.004  I could in#vent nothinge w%5ch%6 could please
112.B47.005  but [om] should wither in one day & passe
112.B47.006  to a bottle of hay w%5ch%6 am a locke of grasse
112.B47.007  life is a voyage & in o%5r%6 liues wayes
112.B47.008  Countries, Courts, Townes, are Rocks or Remoraes [CW:om]
112.B47.009  They breake or stopp o%5r%6 shipps, yet o%5r%6 state is such [109v]
112.B47.010  that though worse then pitch they stayne, yet we must touch
112.B47.011  If in the furnace of the ouer line.
112.B47.012  Or vnder the Adverse Icie Poles thou pine
112.B47.013  thou knowst two temperate Regions girded in
112.B47.014  dwell there, but in this w%5t%6 refuge canst thou winn
112.B47.015  Parcht in the Court, & in the Country frozen
112.B47.016  shall Citties built of both extreames be chosen?
112.B47.017  Can dunge or garlicke be a p%Pfume? or can
112.B47.018  a scorpian or Torpedo cure a man?
112.B47.019  Citties are the worst of all three
112.B47.020  O knottie ridle all ar wo>r<st, equally
112.B47.021  Citties are sepulchers, they w%5ch%6 dwell there
112.B47.022  are Carkasses, as if non such ther were
112.B47.023  And Courts are Theaters, where som play
112.B47.024  Princes, some slaues, to on end & of one clay
112.B47.025  the Countrie is a desert, where the good
112.B47.026  gain'd in habits not borne, is not vnderstoode
112.B47.027  there men become beast, & prone to all euills
112.B47.028  in Citties blocks, & in a lewd Court Diuells
112.B47.029  as in the first Chaos confusedly
112.B47.030  each Elements qualities were in the other three
112.B47.031  soe pride, lust, Couetousnes, beinge seuerall
112.B47.032  to those three places yet are all in all
112.B47.033  and mingled thus theire issue is incesteous
112.B47.034  falshood is Denized, vertue >%Vis< barbarous
112.B47.035  let noe man say theire vertues flintie wall
112.B47.036  shall locke vice in me, Ile do non but know all
112.B47.037  men are springs, w%5ch%6 to power out receiue
112.B47.038  who knowes false play, rather then loose, deceiue [CW:om]
112.B47.039  ffor in best vnderstandinge sinn begann [110]
112.B47.040  Angells sin'd first, then Deuills & then man,
112.B47.041  Only p%Pchaunce beast sin'd not, wretched we
112.B47.042  are beast in all but white integritie
112.B47.043  I thinke if men w%5ch%6 in those places liue
112.B47.044  durst looke into them selues, & them selues retriue
112.B47.045  they would like strayngers greet them selues, sayinge than
112.B47.046  Vtopian youth growne old Italian
112.B47.047  be then thyne owne home, & in thy selfe dwell
112.B47.048  in any where Continuance maketh hell
112.B47.049  and seeinge the snayle w%5ch%6 euery where doth rome
112.B47.050  Carryinge her owne house still. still is at home
112.B47.051  follow (for he is easely paced) this snayle
112.B47.052  be thine owne pallace, or all y%5e%6 world thy gayle
112.B47.053  And in the worlds sea, do not like Corke sleepe
112.B47.054  vppon the waters face, nor in the deepe
112.B47.055  sincke like a leade w%5th%6 out a line, %Yb***%Zbut as
112.B47.056  %Y*%Zfishes glide, leauinge no printe where they passe
112.B47.057  nor makinge sounde, soe closely thy course goe
112.B47.058  let men dispute wherther[sic] thou breath or noe
112.B47.059  Only in this be not Gallenist, to make
112.B47.060  Courts hott ambitions %Y*%Zwholsome, doe not take
112.B47.061  A dram of Court dreggs dulnesse, doe not add
112.B47.062  Correctiues, but as drinks to %Ycure%Z>%Vpurge< the badd
112.B47.063  but sir I advise you not, I rather doe
112.B47.064  say ore those lessons w%5ch%6 I lern'd of you
112.B47.065  whom free from Germans Schisme, & lightnesse
112.B47.066  of ffrance, & fayre Italian faythlessnesse
112.B47.067  hauinge from these suckt all they had of worth 
112.B47.068  and brought home the fayth w%5ch%6 you carried forth
112.B47.069  I throughly loue, but if my selfe I haue woonn
112.B47.070  to know, my rules, I haue & you haue Donn.|
112.B47.0SS  I: Donn.|
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