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112.H06.HE1 %XTo S.%5r%6 Henry Wotton#.
112.H06.001 S.%5r%6 more then kisses letters mingle Soules
112.H06.002 ffor thus frinds absent speake, This ease controules
112.H06.003 The teadiousnesse of my life, But for these,
112.H06.004 I could Ideate nothing w.%5ch%6 could please
112.H06.005 But should in one day wither away and passe
112.H06.006 To a bottle of hay w.%5ch%6 am a lock of grasse.|
112.H06.007 Life is a voyage, and in our liues wayes
112.H06.008 Countrys, Courts, Townes, ar Rocks or Remoras
112.H06.009 They breake or stopp all shipps, yet our state#is%>state>'<s such
112.H06.010 >%VThat< Though they stayne worse then pitch, wee must touch.
112.H06.011 If in the furnace of the eeuen line
112.H06.012 Or vnder th'aduerse icy Poles thou pine,
112.H06.013 Thou knowst two temperate regions girded in
112.H06.014 Dwell there. But oh what refuge canst thou winne
112.H06.015 Parch't in the Country%>Cou>r<t%Yry%Z and in the Country frozen?
112.H06.016 Shall Cittyes built of both extremes bee chosen?
112.H06.017 Can Dung or Garlick bee perfume? Or can
112.H06.018 A Scorpion or Torpedo cure a man?
112.H06.019 Cittyes are worst of all three. Of all three?
112.H06.020 (O knotty riddle) All ar worst ae%Lqually
112.H06.021 Cittyes ar Sepulchers, they w.%5ch%6 dwell there
112.H06.022 Are Carcasses, as if none such there were.
112.H06.023 And Courts ar Theaters, wherein some play
112.H06.024 Princes, some slaues, All to one end, of one clay.
112.H06.025 The Country is a desert, where the good
112.H06.026 Gayn'd, in habits not, borne is not vnderstood.
112.H06.027 There men become beasts, and prone to all evills
112.H06.028 In Cittyes Blocks and in a lewd Court deuills
112.H06.029 As in the first Chaos, confusedly
112.H06.030 Each Elements qualityes were in th'other three [CW:So--]
112.H06.031 So, Pride, Lust, Couetize, beeing seuerall [p.203]
112.H06.032 To those three places, yet are all in all.
112.H06.033 And mingled thus theyr Issue's incestuous
112.H06.034 ffalshood is denizd vertue's barbarous.
112.H06.035 Let no man say, there, vertues flinty wall
112.H06.036 Shall locke vice in mee, Ile doe none, but knowe all.
112.H06.037 Men ar Spunges w.%5ch%6 to powre out receaue
112.H06.038 Who knowe false play, rather then loose deceaue
112.H06.039 ffor in best vnderstandings sinne began
112.H06.040 Angels sinnd first, then Deuills, and then man
112.H06.041 Onely perchance beasts sinne not. Wretched wee
112.H06.042 Are beasts in all but white Integrity
112.H06.043 I thinke if men w.%5ch%6 in these places liue
112.H06.044 Durst looke into themselues and themselues retriue
112.H06.045 They would like Strangers greete themselues, seeing than
112.H06.046 Vtopian youth growne old Italian.
112.H06.047 Bee then thine owne home and in thy selfe dwell
112.H06.048 Inne any where Continuanece maketh Hell
112.H06.049 And seeing the Snayle which every where doth roame
112.H06.050 Carrying her owne house still, still is at home.
112.H06.051 ffollow (for hee is eas%Yil%Zy-pac'd) this Snayle.
112.H06.052 Bee thine owne Pallace, or the world's thy gayle
112.H06.053 And in the worlds Sea doe not like Corke sleepe
112.H06.054 Vpon the waters face; nor in the deepe
112.H06.055 Sinke >%VLike< a lead without a line. But as
112.H06.056 Fishes glide, leauing no print where they passe
112.H06.057 Nor making Sound: so closely thy course goe
112.H06.058 Let Men dispute whether thou breath or no
112.H06.059 Onely in this bee no Galenist; To make
112.H06.060 Courts hott Ambitions wholesome, Doe not take
112.H06.061 A dram%M of Countryes Dulnesse; Doe not add
112.H06.062 Correctiues, but, as Chimicks, purge the bad [CW:But--]
112.H06.063 But (S%5r%6) I aduise yo%5u%6 not, I rather doe [p.204]
112.H06.064 Say o're those Lessons which I learnt of you
112.H06.065 Whome (free from German>%Yye%Z<s Scismes, and lightnesse
112.H06.066 Of ffrance and fayre Italyes faithlesnesse
112.H06.067 Hauing from these suck'd all they had of worth
112.H06.068 And brought home that fayth w.%5ch%6 you carryd forth)
112.H06.069 I througly loue. But, if my selfe I haue wonne
112.H06.070 To knowe my Rules, I haue and yo%5u%6 haue Donne
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