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112.C02.HE1 %XTo S%5r%6 Henry Wotton.|
112.C02.001 S%5r%6, Letters, more then kisses, mingle Soules.
112.C02.002 For thus Friends absent speake; Thys ease, Controules
112.C02.003 The tediousnes of my lyfe: But for Theese
112.C02.004 I could Ideate nothinge, w%5ch%6 coulld please, 
112.C02.005 but I shoulld wither in one day, and passe
112.C02.006 To a Bottle of hay, y%5t%6 am a locke of grasse.
112.C02.007 Lyfe ys a voyage, And in our lifes wayes
112.C02.008 Countryes, Courts, Townes are Rockes, or Remorayes.
112.C02.009 They breake, or stopp all Ships, yet our State ys such
112.C02.010 That though then Pitch, they stayne worse, we must tuche.
112.C02.011 If in y%5e%6 Furnace of the Even Lyne
112.C02.012 Or vnder th' Adverse Ioye[sic] Poles Thou pyne,
112.C02.013 Thou knowest two Temperate Regions girded in,
112.C02.014 Dwell There: But oh, what refuge canst thou win
112.C02.015 Parch'd in the Court, and in the Countrye frosen?
112.C02.016 Shall Cytyes built of both extreames be Chosen?
112.C02.017 Can Dung, and Garlicke be a perfume? Or can
112.C02.018 A Scorpion, or torpedo Cure a Man?
112.C02.019 Cyties are worst of all Three; Of all Three
112.C02.020 (O knotty Riddle) each is worst equallye. [CW:(Cittyes.]
112.C02.021 Cyttyes are sepulchers; They who dwell there [f.35v]
112.C02.022 Are Carcases, As yf noe such there were.
112.C02.023 And Courts are Theaters, when some Men play
112.C02.024 Princes, some Slaves, all to one end, and of one Clay.
112.C02.025 The Country is a desert, where noe good
112.C02.026 Gayn'd, as Habitts, nor borne, Is vnderstood.
112.C02.027 Then Men become Beasts, & prone to more evills
112.C02.028 In Cyttyes Blocks, and in leaud Court Devills.
112.C02.029 As yn the fyrst Chaos Confusedlye
112.C02.030 Each Elements qualityes were in the Other Three.
112.C02.031 So Pride, Lust, Couetize, beeinge severall
112.C02.032 To these Three places, yett all are in All,
112.C02.033 And Mingled thus, Theyre Issue incestuous.
112.C02.034 Fallsehoode is Denizous.[sic] Virtue is Barbarous.
112.C02.035 Lett Noe man say Then; Virtues flyntye Wall
112.C02.036 Shall lock vice in Mee, Ile doe none, but know All
112.C02.037 Men are spunges, w%5ch%6 to power out, receive,
112.C02.038 Who knowe fallse play, rather then loose, Deceave.
112.C02.039 For in best vnderstandings, Sinne began,
112.C02.040 Angells sin'd first, then Devills, and then Man.
112.C02.041 Onely perchance Beasts sinne not: wretched wee
112.C02.042 Are Beasts in All, but white Integritye.
112.C02.043 I Thinke yf Men w%5ch%6 in these places liue
112.C02.044 Durst looke for themselues, and themselves retrive
112.C02.045 They woulld lyke Strangers greete themselves, seinge then
112.C02.046 Vtopian Youth, grow'ne[sic] old Italian.
112.C02.047 Bee thou thyne owne Homes, and in thy selfe dwell;
112.C02.048 Inne any wheare, Continuance maketh Hell.
112.C02.049 And seeinge the Snayle, w%5ch%6 every where doth rome,
112.C02.050 Caryinge his owne house still, Still is at home.
112.C02.051 Follow (for hee is easilye pac'd) thys Snayle
112.C02.052 Bee thyne owne Pallace, or y%5e%6 world ys thy Gaole.
112.C02.053 And in y%5e%6 worlds Sea, doe not lyke Corke sleepe,
112.C02.054 Vppon the waters face: Nor in the Deepe [CW:(Sinke.]
112.C02.055 Sinke lyke a Leadde w%5th%6out a Lyne: But as [f.36]
112.C02.056 Fishes glyde, leavinge noe print, where they passe,
112.C02.057 Nor makeing Sound; So closelye thy Course goe,
112.C02.058 Let Men dispute, whether Thou breath, or noe,
112.C02.059 Onely in thys owne thinge, be no Gallenist. To make
112.C02.060 Courts hott Ambitions wholesome; Doe not take
112.C02.061 A dramme of Countryes dullnes, Doe not adde
112.C02.062 Correctiues, But as Chimiques Purge the badde.
112.C02.063 But, S%5r%6, I advise not you, I rather doe
112.C02.064 Say over those Lessons, w%5ch%6 I learn'd of you.
112.C02.065 Whome free from German Schismes, and lightnes
112.C02.066 Of Fraunce, And fayre Italyes Fa'thlesnes.[sic]
112.C02.067 Haveinge from These suck'd all they had of worth
112.C02.068 And brought home that Fayth, w%5ch%6 you carryed forth.
112.C02.069 I Throughlye loue. But yf myselfe I haue wonne
112.C02.070 To know my Rules, I haue, and you haue done.
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