IDENTILIN$$  F112H03|HWKiss|Carnaby MS, Eng. 966.1\ff. 34v-35; pp. 68-69\JSC\mf\7-27-94\P:DF\o\9-12-00\C:JSC\1-2-01
112.H03.HE1  %XTo S:%5r%6 Henry Wootton.|
112.H03.001  S%5r%6 more than kisses Letters mingle Soules
112.H03.002  For thus freinds absent speake, this ease controules
112.H03.003  The tediousnesse of my life, but for these
112.H03.004  I could ideate nothinge that could please
112.H03.005  But I should wither in one day and passe
112.H03.006  To a wispe of hay whiche am a locke of grasse.|
112.H03.007  Life is a voyage, and in our life's wayes
112.H03.008  Countryes Courtes Townes are rockes and Romoraes
112.H03.009  They breake or Stop all Ships, yet our Stat's suche
112.H03.010  Thoughe worse then pitche their Staine, yet we must touche
112.H03.011  If in the furnace of the Euen line
112.H03.012  Or vnder th'aduerse Icy Poles thou pine
112.H03.013  Thou know'st twoe temperate Regions girded in
112.H03.014  Dwell there, but, o%C what refuge can'st thou win?
112.H03.015  Parch't in the Courte and in the Contrey frozen
112.H03.016  Shall Cittyes built of bothe extreams be Chosen?
112.H03.017  Can dunge or Garlike be a perfume? or can
112.H03.018  A Scorpion or Torpedo cure a man?
112.H03.019  Cittyes are worst of all three
112.H03.020  O knotty Riddle, eache is worst equally
112.H03.021  Citties are Sepulchers they which dwell there
112.H03.022  Are Carcasses as if none suche there were
112.H03.023  And Courtes are Theaters where some play
112.H03.024  Princes, some Slaues, all to one end and of one Clay
112.H03.025  The Country is a deserte where noe good
112.H03.026  'Gaind' as habitts, not borne is vnderstood
112.H03.027  These men become beastes, and prone to meere euills
112.H03.028  In Citties blocks and in lewd Court Deuills
112.H03.029  As in the first Chaos confused#%J%Ybee%Z%K>>ly<<
112.H03.030  Eache Elements quallityes were in the other three
112.H03.031  Soe pride, lust, Couetousnesse beinge seuerall [35]
112.H03.032  To these three places yet are all in all.|
112.H03.033  And mingled thus their issue is incestuous
112.H03.034  Falshood is dennized, Vertue is Barbarous
112.H03.035  Let noe man say that Vertues Flinty wall
112.H03.036  Shall locke vice in mee, Il'e doe none but knowe all
112.H03.037  Men are Springs, which to power out receiue
112.H03.038  whoe knowes false play rather then loose deceiue
112.H03.039  For in best vnderstandings sin began
112.H03.040  Angells Sin'd first, then deuills, and then Man.|
112.H03.041  Onely perchance Beasts Sin'd not, wretched wee
112.H03.042  Are Beastes in all but white integritye
112.H03.043  I thinke if men w%5c%6h in these places liue
112.H03.044  Darr'st looke into themselus, themselues retriue
112.H03.045  They would like Strangers greet themselus, seeing that
112.H03.046  Vtopia youthe growne old Italianate
112.H03.047  Bee then thyne owne home, and in thy self dwell
112.H03.048  In any place Continuance maketh hell
112.H03.049  And seeinge the Snaile whiche euery where dothe rome
112.H03.050  Carryinge her owne house still, still is at home
112.H03.051  Followe (for he is easie pac't) this Snaile
112.H03.052  Be thyne owne palace, or all the world's thy Iayle
112.H03.053  And in the worlds Sea, doe not like Corke sleep
112.H03.054  Vpon the Waters face, nor in the deep
112.H03.055  Sinke like a lead without a lyne; but as
112.H03.056  Fishes glyde, leaueinge noe print where they passe
112.H03.057  Nor makeinge sound, soe closely thy course goe
112.H03.058  Let men dispute whether thou breath or noe
112.H03.059  Onely %Yby%Z>%Vin< this be noe Galenist, to make
112.H03.060  Courts hote ambitions holesome, doe not take
112.H03.061  A dram%Me of Countryes dullnesse do not add
112.H03.062  Corrections, but as Chymicks purge the bad
112.H03.063  But S:%5r%6 I aduise not yo%5w%6 but rather doe
112.H03.064  Say o're these lesson which I learn't of yo%5w%6
112.H03.065  Whoe free from Germanes Schisme, and lightnesse
112.H03.066  Of ffrance and faire Italians faithlessnes
112.H03.067  Haueinge from these suck't all they had of worthe
112.H03.068  And brought home that faith whiche yo%5w%6 carryed forth
112.H03.069  I throughly loue but if my selfe haue %Y****%Z>one<
112.H03.070  To knowe my rules, I haue and yo%5w%6 haue Don%Me.|
112.H03.0SS  I.D.|
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