IDENTILIN$$ F112O09|HWKiss|ms. Don.c.54|ff. 8-9a\JSC\mf\9-27-94\P:EWS\o\6-28-95\C:JSC\'95;7-19-01 112.O09.HE1om 112.O09.001 Sir more then Kisses, letters mingle soules 112.O09.002 For thus frends absent speake, this ease controules 112.O09.003 The tediousnes of my life: But for theis %YI#coulde%Z 112.O09.004 I coulde doe nothinge that wold please. 112.O09.005 But I should wither in one day and passe 112.O09.006 To a bottle of hay, that am a locke of grasse 112.O09.007 Life is a voiadge, and in liue's wayes 112.O09.008 Countreys, Townes, Courtes are Rockes or Remorayes 112.O09.009 They breake or stop all ships, yet owr state is suche 112.O09.010 That thoughe worse then pitch they staine, we must touche 112.O09.011 If in the furnace of the even lyne 112.O09.012 Or vnder the adverse icy Poles thow pyne 112.O09.013 Thow knowest two temperate Regions girded in 112.O09.014 Dwell there: (But oh) what refuge canst thow wynne. 112.O09.015 Parcht in the Court and in the Countrey frosen [f.8v] 112.O09.016 Shalt Citties built of both extremes be chosen? 112.O09.017 Can dung or garlicke be a perfume? or can 112.O09.018 A Scorpion and Torpedo Cure a man? 112.O09.019 Citties are worst of all three; of all three 112.O09.020 O knotty Riddle, each is worst equallye. 112.O09.021 Citties are Sepulchres, They who dwell there 112.O09.022 Are carcasses as if no such there were 112.O09.023 And Courtes as Theaters, where some men play 112.O09.024 Princes, some slaues, all to one end, and of one day 112.O09.025 The Countrey is a desert wher no good 112.O09.026 Gayn'd, as habits not borne is vnderstood 112.O09.027 There men become beastes, and prove more evilles 112.O09.028 In Citties blockes, in a lewde Court Diuels 112.O09.029 As in the first Chaos confusedlye 112.O09.030 Each Elementes qualitie rest's in the other three 112.O09.031 Soe Pride, Lust, Covetise being severall 112.O09.032 To theis three places, yet all are in all: 112.O09.033 And mingled thus, their [om][om] 112.O09.034 Falshood is false, Vertue is barbarous 112.O09.035 Let no man saye that Vertues flintye wall 112.O09.036 shall locke Vice in me, Il'e doe non but knowe all. 112.O09.037 Men are sponges wch to powre out receiue 112.O09.038 Who knowe false play rather then lose deceive 112.O09.039 For in best vnderstandinge sinne began 112.O09.040 Angels synn'd first, then divels then Man 112.O09.041 Onely perchaunce Beastes synne not, wretched we 112.O09.042 Are beastes in all, but white integretie 112.O09.043 I thincke if men wch in theis places live 112.O09.044 Durst looke for themselues, and themselues retrive 112.O09.045 They wold like stranngers greete themselues, then 112.O09.046 Eutopian youth growne old Italian 112.O09.047 Be then thy owne home, In thy self dwell 112.O09.048 Inne any wheare: Continuance maketh hell 112.O09.049 And seing the Snayle w%5c%6h every where doth rome 112.O09.050 Carryinge his owne howse still, still is at home 112.O09.051 Followe (for he is easie paced) this Snayle 112.O09.052 Be thy owne Pallace, or the world thy gayle 112.O09.053 And in the world's sea doe not like Corkes sleepe 112.O09.054 Vpon the waters face; or in the Deepe 112.O09.055 Sincke as a leade without a lyne: But as 112.O09.056 Fishes glide leavinge noe Printe where they passe 112.O09.057 Nor makinge sownde; soe closely the%>>thy< course goe 112.O09.058 Let men dispute whether thou breathe or doe%>>Noe< 112.O09.059 Onely in this be no Galen'st to make [CW:om] 112.O09.060 Courtes hott Ambicions wholsom doe not take [f.9a] 112.O09.061 A Dram of Countreys driness doe not add 112.O09.062 Correctiues, but as Scynickes[sic] purge the badd 112.O09.063 But S.%5r%6 I advise not yow, I rather doe 112.O09.064 Saye or'e those lessons wch I learnt of yow 112.O09.065 Whom free from German loosenes, and lightnes 112.O09.066 Of Fraunce, and faire Italies faithlessnes 112.O09.067 Having from theis suckt all they had of worthe 112.O09.068 And brought home that faithe w%5c%6h yo%5w%6 carried forth 112.O09.069 I truelye loue, But if my self haue wonne 112.O09.070 To knowe my Rules, I haue, and yo%5w%6 haue DVNNE. 112.O09.0SSom 112.O09.0$$ %1Follows HWNews as if one poem; no ind; "?" in l.17: dot replaced by ","; "Scynickes" in l.62 might mean cynics --EWS%2