IDENTILIN$$  F112O20|HWKiss|Eng poet e.99|ff. 29-30v\GL\mf\P:EWS\o\6-17-93;6-28-95\C:JSC\'95;11-21-00
112.O20.0HE  %XTo S%5r%6 Hen: Wotton.
112.O20.001  S.%5r%6 More then Kisses, letters mingle Soules,
112.O20.002  For thus frendes absent speake; Thys Ease controules
112.O20.003  The tediousnes of my life; But for these
112.O20.004  I cold Ideate nothing, w%5ch%6 cold please,
112.O20.005  But I shold wither in One day, and passe
112.O20.006  To'a Botle of Hay, that am a locke of Grasse;
112.O20.007  Lyfe is a Voyage, and in our lifes wayes
112.O20.008  Countryes, Courts, Townes are Rockes, or Remoraes.
112.O20.009  They breake, or stop all Ships, yett our state is such
112.O20.010  That though then Pitch, they stayne worse, wee must touch.
112.O20.011  Yf in the fournace of the Eauen line
112.O20.012  Or vnder %Yneath%Z>the'< adverse Icy Poles thou pine [CW:om]
112.O20.013  Thou knowst two temperate regions, girded in, [29v]
112.O20.014  Dwell there: But oh, what refuge canst thou win
112.O20.112  Parch'd in the Court, and in the Country frozen?
112.O20.016  Shall Cityes built of both Extreames bee chosen?
112.O20.017  Can Dung, and Garlicke bee a Perfume? Or can
112.O20.018  A Scorpion, and Torpedo Cure a Man?
112.O20.019  Cityes are worst of all Three; Of all three
112.O20.020  (O knotty ridle, Each is worst equally.
112.O20.021  Cityes are Sepulchers; They who dwell there
112.O20.022  Are Carcases, as if no such there weare,
112.O20.023  And Courts are Theaters, where some men play
112.O20.024  Princes, some Slaues, all to One End, and of One Clay.
112.O20.025  The Country is a Desert, where no Good
112.O20.026  Gayn'd, as Habitts, not borne,) is vnderstood.
112.O20.027  There men become Beasts, and prone to meere Evills,
112.O20.028  In Cityes blocks, and in a leude Court, Deuills.
112.O20.029  As in the first Chaos, confusedly,
112.O20.030  Each Elements qualityes weare in the Other three.
112.O20.031  So Pride, Lust, Couetize, beeing seuerall
112.O20.032  To these three Places, yett all are in All;
112.O20.033  And mingled thus, theyre Issue incestuous.
112.O20.034  Falshood is denizous,[sic] Vertu is Barbarous.
112.O20.035  Lett no man say there, Vertues flinty wall
112.O20.036  Shall locke Vice in Mee; Ile doe none, but know all.
112.O20.037  Men are Spunges, w%5ch%6 to poure out, receaue;
112.O20.038  Who know false Play, rather then loose, deceaue.
112.O20.039  For in best Vnderstandings Sinne began,
112.O20.040  Angells sinnd first, then Devills, and the%M Ma%M.
112.O20.041  Only Perchance Beasts sin not; wretched wee [CW:om]
112.O20.042  Are Beasts in All, but whyte Integritye. [30]
112.O20.043  I thincke if Men w%5ch%6 in these Places liue,
112.O20.044  Durst looke for themselues, and themselues retriue,
112.O20.045  They wold like Straingers greete themselues, seeing then
112.O20.046  Vtopian Youth, growne Old Italian.
112.O20.047  Bee then thyne owne home; And in Thyselfe dwell,
112.O20.048  Inne any where, Continuance maketh Hell.
112.O20.049  And seeing the Snayle, w%5ch%6 euery where doth rome
112.O20.050  Carying hys owne house still, still is at home.
112.O20.051  Follow (for he is easily pac'd) thys Snayle,
112.O20.052  Bee thyne owne Pallace, or the worlde ys thy Gayle,
112.O20.053  And in the worlds Sea, doe not like Corke sleepe,
112.O20.054  Vpon the Waters face; Nor in the Deepe
112.O20.055  Sincke like a Ledd, w%5th%6out a lyne; But as
112.O20.056  Fishes Glyde, leaving no Print, where they Passe;
112.O20.057  Nor making Sound; So closely thy Course goe,
112.O20.058  Lett men dispute, wheather thou breath, or noe.
112.O20.059  Only in thys One thinge be noe Galenist.  To make
112.O20.060  Courts hott ambitions holesome, doe not take
112.O20.061  A Dramme of Countryes dullnes, doe not adde
112.O20.062  Correctives, but as Chymicks purge the badde.
112.O20.063  But, S%5r%6, I advise not you, I rather doe
112.O20.064  Say ore those Lessons, w%5ch%6 I learnd of you.
112.O20.065  Whom free from Germayne Schysmes, and lightnes
112.O20.066  Of France, and fayre Italyes faythlessnes,
112.O20.067  Having from these suck'd all they had of worth
112.O20.068  And brought home that fayth, w%5ch%6 you caryed forth [CW:om]
112.O20.069  I throughly loue.  But yf myselfe, I haue wonne [30v]
112.O20.070  To know my Rules; I haue, and you haue, %3Donne%4.|
112.O20.0SS  [om]
112.O20.0$$  %1Ll. 7 & 47 ind;%2 p. 148. %1in later hand & ink left of HE; 
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