IDENTILIN$$  F113B30|Harley 4064\ff. 274v-75\JSC\mf\6-27-95\P:GAS\o\7-4-95\C:JSC ('95 & 7-25-00)
113.B30.HE1  %XA Letter
113.B30.001  Like one who in her third widowhed [om] [om]
113.B30.002  Her selfe a Nun, tied to retirednes,
113.B30.003  Soe affects my muse now, a chast ffallownes.|
113.B30.004  Since she to few, yett to to many showne
113.B30.005  How loue=songes weeds, and Satiriq%Q thornes are growne
113.B30.006  Where seedes of better artes weare earely sowen.
113.B30.007  Though to vse and loue Poetry, to mee
113.B30.008  Betroth'd to no one Arte, so no Adulteree.
113.B30.009  Omissions of good, ill, as ill deedes bee.
113.B30.010  ffor though to vs it seeme, and be light & thinn
113.B30.011  Yett in those faithfull seales, where God thowes[sic] in
113.B30.012  Mens works, vanityes waies as much as sinn [CW:If#o%5r%6#soules]
113.B30.013  If o%5r%6 soules haue stain'd their first whight, yett wee [f.275]
113.B30.014  May Cloth them w%5th%6 faith and Deare Honestee
113.B30.015  W%5ch%6 God imputes as natiue puritee
113.B30.016  Their is no vertue but Religione.
113.B30.017  Wise, valiant, Sober, iust, are names, w%5ch%6 none
113.B30.018  Want, w%5ch%6 want not vice Couered w%5th%6 Discretio[missing]
113.B30.019  Seeke wee then o%5r%6 selues %Yfor%Z in o%5r%6 selues; for as
113.B30.020  Men force the sunn, w%5ch%6 much more force to passe
113.B30.021  By gathering his beams w%5th%6 a Christall glasse;
113.B30.022  Soe wee, if we into o%5r%6 selues will turne
113.B30.023  Blowing o%5r%6 sparke of virtue may out=burne
113.B30.024  the straw w%5ch%6 doth about o%5r%6 hartes soiourne.
113.B30.025  You know Phisitions when they would infuse
113.B30.026  Into, any oyle the Soule of Simples; vse
113.B30.027  Places where they may %Yma%Z lye still warme to chuse.|
113.B30.028  Soe workes retirednes in vs; to rome
113.B30.029  Giddily; and be eu%5er%6ywhere but at home
113.B30.030  Such freedome Doth a bannishment become.
113.B30.031  We are but ffarmers of o%5r%6 selues, yett may
113.B30.032  If wee can stock o%5r%6selues, and their, vplay
113.B30.033  much, much deare treasure for the great rent day.
113.B30.034  Manure thyselfe then, to thyselfe be approu%Ye%Z>'<d
113.B30.035  And w%5th%6 vayne outward thing be no more mov'd
113.B30.036  But to know that I loue the, and would be lou'd.|
113.B30.0SS  [om]
113.B30.0$$  %1No ind; 12 3-line sts separated by line spaces & short, 
diagonal slashes at LM;%2 64 %1(a scribal poem #) in LM at l.1; nonscribal 
ascription%2 ID %1in LM at l.2; "%5er%6" in l.29 is a brevigraph%2