IDENTILIN$$ X112DT1|Dublin ms.I|ff.58-59|T:EWS\o\4-30-86;JSC\mf\10-21-96\P&C(hwt,mf):JMK\6-6&7-10-01;JSC\7-24-01 112.DT1.HE1 %XTo S%5r%6 Henry Wotton. 112.DT1.001 S%5r%6, more then kisses, Letters mingle soules, 112.DT1.002 for thus friends absent speake; this ease controules 112.DT1.003 the tediousness of my life, but for these 112.DT1.004 I could Ideate nothing w%5ch%6 could please. 112.DT1.005 But I should wither in one day, and passe 112.DT1.006 to'a bottle of hay, that am a locke of grasse. 112.DT1.007 Life is a voyage, & in our lifes wayes, 112.DT1.008 Countreyes, Courts, Townes, are Rockes, or Remoraes. 112.DT1.009 They break, or stopp all shipps: yet our state is such, 112.DT1.010 That though then pitch, they staine worse, wee must touch. 112.DT1.011 If in the furnace of the euen line, 112.DT1.012 Or vnder th'adverse Icye Pole thou pine, 112.DT1.013 thou know'st to temperate Regions girded in, 112.DT1.014 Dwell there: But oh, what refuge canst thou winne 112.DT1.015 Parch'd in the Court, and in the Countrey frozen 112.DT1.016 shall Citties built of both extreames bee Chosen? 112.DT1.017 Can Dunge, and Garlick bee'a perfume?[see#notes] or can 112.DT1.018 a Scorpion, & Torpedo cure a man? 112.DT1.019 Citties are worst of all >>%Y<>%Z<< >>three;<< >>of<< >>all<< >>three<< 112.DT1.020 (O knottie riddle) each is worst >>equallie<< 112.DT1.021 Citties, & Sepulchers; they whoe dwell there 112.DT1.022 are Carcasses, as if noe such then were; 112.DT1.023 And Courts are Theaters, where some men playe 112.DT1.024 Princes, some slaues; all to one end, & of one claye. 112.DT1.025 The Countrey is a Desart, where noe good 112.DT1.026 gain'd, as habitts not borne, is vnderstood. 112.DT1.027 [l.c.]there men become Beasts, & proue to men euills 112.DT1.028 in Citties Blocks, & in lewd Courts Deuills 112.DT1.029 As in the first Chaos confusedly 112.DT1.030 each Elements qualities were in th'other three 112.DT1.031 soe Pride, Lust, Couetise, being seuerall [CW:to][miscatch] 112.DT1.032 To these three places, yet all are in all; [f.58v] 112.DT1.033 and mingled thus, their issue incestuous, 112.DT1.034 ffalshood is Denizen, Virtue is barbarous. 112.DT1.035 Let noe man saye there, Virtues flinty wall 112.DT1.036 shall lock vice in mee, I'le doe none, but knowe all. 112.DT1.037 Men are spunges, w%5ch%6 to powre out receiue; 112.DT1.038 Who knowe false play, rather then loose, deceiue. 112.DT1.039 ffor in best vnderstandings sinn begann, 112.DT1.040 Angells sinn'd first, then Deuills, & then man. 112.DT1.041 Only perchance Beasts sinn not, wretched wee 112.DT1.042 are Beasts in all, but white integritie. 112.DT1.043 I think If men w%5ch%6 in these places liue 112.DT1.044 durst look for themselues, & themselues retriue, 112.DT1.045 they would like strangers greet themselues; seing then 112.DT1.046 Vtopian Youth growne old Italian, 112.DT1.047 Bee then thine owne home, & in thy self dwell, 112.DT1.048 In any where Continuance maketh Hell. 112.DT1.049 And seing the Snaile, w%5ch%6 euery where doth roame, 112.DT1.050 carrieng his owne house still, still is at home. 112.DT1.051 ffollowe, (for hee is easely pac'de) thy snayle 112.DT1.052 bee thine owne Pallace, or the world's thy Iayle. 112.DT1.053 And in the worlds Sea, doe not like Corke sleepe 112.DT1.054 Vppon the waters face, nor in the Deepe 112.DT1.055 Sinke like a lead w%5th%6out a line, But as 112.DT1.056 fishes glyde, leauing noe printe where they passe 112.DT1.057 nor makeing sound, soe closelie they doe goe 112.DT1.058 let men dispute whether they breath, or noe 112.DT1.059 Only in this one thing bee noe Gallenist, to make 112.DT1.060 Courts hott Ambition wholsome; doe not take 112.DT1.061 A Dram of countrey dullness, doe not add 112.DT1.062 Correctiues, but as Chimiques purge the bad. 112.DT1.063 But S%5r%6, I advise not you; I rather doe 112.DT1.064 say ore those Lessons, w%5ch%6 I learn'd of you. 112.DT1.065 Whom free from German schismes, & lightness 112.DT1.066 of ffrance, & faire Italies ffaithlesnesse [CW:hauing][miscatch] 112.DT1.067 Hauing from these suck'd all they had of worth [f.59] 112.DT1.068 & brought home y%5t%6 faith w%5ch%6 yo%5w%6 carried forth 112.DT1.069 I throughly loue; But if my self I had wonn 112.DT1.070 to knowe my rules I haue, and you haue Donn. 112.DT1.0SS ffinis.| 112.DT1.0$$ %1Ll. 7, 47 ind; scribal attribution%2 I: D.| %1in RM @ l.1; this scribe's hand is ital; in l.17 the ? replaces dot w/comma; SS at RM%2