IDENTILIN$$  F112SN3|HWKiss|Hawthornden ms. XV|ff. 27-28v|T:EWS\o\6-14-83\T,FM:JSC\mf\10-14-96\P:EWS\hwt,mf\6-22-05\C:JSC\12-20-05
112.SN3.HE1  %X%1To M.%5r%6 H. W%2.
112.SN3.001  S.%5r%6 letters more than kisses mingle Soules,
112.SN3.002  For thus freinds absent speake, this ease controules
112.SN3.003  The tediousnesse of my life. but for these
112.SN3.004  I could Ideate nothing which would please,
112.SN3.005  But I should wither in one Day, and passe
112.SN3.006  To a Bottle of Hay, that am a locke of Grasse.
112.SN3.007  Life is a voyage, and our lifes wayes,
112.SN3.008  Countryes, courte, Townes are Rocks, or Remoras;
112.SN3.009  They breake or stop all shippes, yet o%5r%6 state is such
112.SN3.010  That though worse than pitch it stayne wee must toutch.
112.SN3.011  If in the fornace of the euen lyne
112.SN3.012  Or vnder the aduerse ycye Pole thou pyne,
112.SN3.013  Thou knowst two temperate regions girded in
112.SN3.014  Dwell there. But oh what refuge canst thou win
112.SN3.015  Parch'd in the Court, and in the country frozen
112.SN3.016  Shall Citties, built of both extreames, be chosen?
112.SN3.017  Can dunge, or Garlicke, be a perfume? or can
112.SN3.018  A Scorpion or Torpedo cure a Man?
112.SN3.019  Citties are worse of all three, of all three
112.SN3.020  (O knottie reddle!) each is worse equalie. [CW:om]
112.SN3.021  Citties are sepulchers, they who dwell there [f.27v]
112.SN3.022  Are carkasses, as if no such there were
112.SN3.023  And courts are theaters where some me%M play
112.SN3.024  Princes, som Slaues, all to one end, & of one clay.
112.SN3.025  The countrie is a desert, where no good
112.SN3.026  Gain'd as habits, not borne is vnderstood.
112.SN3.027  There men become beasts & prone to more euiles,
112.SN3.028  In citties blockes, & in a lewd court deuills.
112.SN3.029  As in the first chaos confusedlie
112.SN3.030  Each elements qualitye were in the other three:
112.SN3.031  So pryd, lust, couetise, being seuerall
112.SN3.032  To these places, yet all are in all.
112.SN3.033  And mingled thus their issue inc%5e%6stuous
112.SN3.034  Falshood is deniz'd, vertue is barbarous.
112.SN3.035  Let men say their vertues flintye wall
112.SN3.036  Shall locke vice in mee, Ile doe noght, but know all.
112.SN3.037  Men are S>%5r%6<pings[sic] which to poure out receaue,
112.SN3.038  Who know false play rather than loose deceaue,
112.SN3.039  For in best vnderstandings Sinne began
112.SN3.040  Angells sind first, then Deuills, & then Man:                                                                
112.SN3.041  Onlye perchance Beasts Sinne not, wretched wee                 
112.SN3.042  Are beasts in all but white integritie. [CW:om]     
112.SN3.043  I thinke if men within%>>which<>%5which%6< these places liue [f.28]
112.SN3.044  Durst looke for themseues[sic] & themselues Retriue             
112.SN3.045  They would like strangers grate the%Mselues seing then          
112.SN3.046  Vtopian youth growne old Italien.                               
112.SN3.047  Be then thyne owne home, & in thyselfe dwell                    
112.SN3.048  In anay[sic] where, continuance maketh hell.                    
112.SN3.049  And seing the Snayle which eurye where doth rome                
112.SN3.050  Carying his owne house still, still is at home                  
112.SN3.051  [l.c.]follow (for he is easie pac'd) this Snayle                
112.SN3.052  Be thyne owne pallace, or the World is thy Iayle;               
112.SN3.053  And in the worlds Sea, do not like corke sleep                 
112.SN3.054  Vpon the waters face, nor in the Deep                           
112.SN3.055  Sincke like a lead w%5t%6out a line, but as                     
112.SN3.056  [l.c.]fishes glyd leauing no print wher they passe          
112.SN3.057  Nor making Sound; so closlie thy course goe                     
112.SN3.058  Let men dispute whither thou breath or no.                      
112.SN3.059  Only in this one thing be no Gallenist, to make                 
112.SN3.060  Courts ambitions wholsome, doe not take                        
112.SN3.061  A Drame of country Dulnesse, do not add                         
112.SN3.062  Correctiues, but as chimicks, purge the badd. [CW:om]       
112.SN3.063  But S.%5r%6 I aduise not you, I rather doe [f.28v]           
112.SN3.064  Say o're these lessons which I learnd of you                    
112.SN3.065  whom (free from Germane [sic]shismes, & lightnesse              
112.SN3.066  Of France, & faire Italies fathlessnesse)                       
112.SN3.067  Hauing from these suckt all they had of worth                   
112.SN3.068  And brought home that fath which you caryed forth,              
112.SN3.069  I throughlie loue, but if my selfe I haue wone                  
112.SN3.070  To know my Rules, I haue, and you haue, /%JDone.%K              
112.SN3.0SS  [four centered flourishes]
112.SN3.0$$  %1No ind; scribe prob. meant to change "within" in l.43 to "which in" but 
covered "in"; final word's underlining also extends upward at left, making a half-rectangle%2