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112.C09.0HE  %XTo S%5r%6 Henry Wotton.
112.C09.001  S.%5r%6 more then kisses, letters mingle Soules
112.C09.002  for thus freindes absent speake; This ease controules
112.C09.003  The tediousnes of my life, But for these
112.C09.004  I could Ideate nothing that could please,
112.C09.005  But should in one day wither away & passe
112.C09.006  To a bottle of hay which am a lock of grasse.|
112.C09.007  Life is a voyage, & in o%5r%6 liues wayes
112.C09.008  Countryes, Courts, Townes, are rocks or Remora's,
112.C09.009  They breake or stop all shipps, yet our state is such
112.C09.010  That though they staine worse then pitch, we must %Jt>%Vo<uch%K[RM:>%Jtouch%K<].
112.C09.011  If in the furnace of the Eeuen line
112.C09.012  Or vnder th'aduerse icy poles thou pine,
112.C09.013  Thou knowst two temperate regions girded in
112.C09.014  Dwell there.  But o%C what refuge canst thou winne
112.C09.015  Parcht in the %YCountry%ZCourt & in y%5e%6 Country frozen?
112.C09.016  Shall Cittyes built of both extremes be chosen?
112.C09.017  Can donge or garlicke be perfume? or can
112.C09.018  A Scorpion or Torpedo cure a %Jman%K[RM:>%Jman%K<]?
112.C09.019  Cittyes are worst of all three. of all three? [64v]
112.C09.020  (o%C knotty riddle) All are worst equally.
112.C09.021  Cittyes are sepulchers, they which dwell there
112.C09.022  Are carcases, as if none such there were.
112.C09.023  And Courts are Theaters, wherin some play
112.C09.024  Princes, some Slaues, All to one end, of one clay.
112.C09.025  The Country is a Desert, where the good
112.C09.026  Gayn'd, inhabits not; borne, is not vnderstood.
112.C09.027  There men become beasts, & prone to all Euills;
112.C09.028  In Cittyes, blockes; & in a lewd Court, Deuills.
112.C09.029  As in the first Chaos, confusedly
112.C09.030  Each Elements qualityes were in th'other three
112.C09.031  So, Pride, Lust, Couetize, beeing seuerall
112.C09.032  To those three places, yet are all in all.
112.C09.033  And mingled thus their Issue's incestuous
112.C09.034  falshood is denized, virtue#%Yis%Z[Mvar:>virtue's<] barbarous.
112.C09.035  Lett no man say |there| virtues flinty wall
112.C09.036  Shall locke vice in me, Ile do none, but know all.
112.C09.037  Men are %Jspunge's%K[Mvar:>%Jspunges%K<] which to poure out receaue
112.C09.038  who know false play, rather then loose, deceaue.
112.C09.039  For in best vnderstandings Sinne began
112.C09.040  Angells sinn'd first, then Deuills, & then man.
112.C09.041  Only perchance beasts sinne not: wretched wee
112.C09.042  Are beasts in all but white Integritye.|
112.C09.043  I thinke if men w%5ch%6 in these places liue
112.C09.044  Durst looke into themselues & themselues retriue
112.C09.045  They would like Strangers greet themselues, seeing than
112.C09.046  Vtopian youth growne old Italian.
112.C09.047  Be then thine owne home & in thyselfe dwell,
112.C09.048  Inne any where; Continuance maketh Hell
112.C09.049  And seeing the snaile which euery where doth roame [CW:>>Carring<<][miscatch]
112.C09.050  Carrying her owne house still, still is at home, [65]
112.C09.051  follow (for hee is easily pac'd) this snaile,
112.C09.052  Bee thine owne pallace, or the world's thy gayle.
112.C09.053  And in the worlds Sea do not like Corke sleepe
112.C09.054  vpon the waters face; nor in the deepe
112.C09.055  Sinke like a lead without a line. But as
112.C09.056  fishes glide, leauing no print where they passe
112.C09.057  Nor making sound; so closely thy course goe
112.C09.058  Let men dispute whether thou breath or no.|
112.C09.059  Only in this be no Galenist to make
112.C09.060  Courts hott Ambitions wholsome; do not take
112.C09.061  A Dramme of Countryes Dullnesse, do not add
112.C09.062  Correctiues, but, as Chimicks, purge the bad.|
112.C09.063  But S%5r%6. I advise you not, I rather doe
112.C09.064  Say o're those lessons which I learnt of you.
112.C09.065  whom (free from Germanyes scismes, & lightnesse
112.C09.066  of France, & faire Italyes faithlesnesse
112.C09.067  Hauing from these suckd all they had of worth
112.C09.068  And brought home that faith which you carryed forth)
112.C09.069  I throughly loue. But, if my selfe I haue wonne
112.C09.070  To know my Rules, I haue, & you haue Donne.
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