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113.H08.HE1 %XTo M.%5r%6 Rowland Woodward. I.D.
113.H08.001 Like one, who in hir third widdow-hood doth profess
113.H08.002 Herselfe a Nun ty'de to retyredness
113.H08.003 So affects my Muse now a chast fallowness.
113.H08.004 Since shee to few yet to too many, hath showne
113.H08.005 How loue=song weedes, & Satyrique thornes are growne
113.H08.006 Where seeds of better Arts were early sowne.
113.H08.007 Though to vse loue & Poetry, to mee
113.H08.008 Betrothd to noe one Art, be noe adultery,
113.H08.009 Omissions of good, ill as ill deeds bee.
113.H08.010 ffor though to vs it seemes to be light & thin
113.H08.011 Yet in those faithfull Scales when god throwes in
113.H08.012 Mens workes; Vanity weighs as much as Sinn. [f.59]
113.H08.013 If our Soules haue staynd their first white, yet wee
113.H08.014 May cloath them with faith, & deare integrity
113.H08.015 Which god imputes as natiue purity.
113.H08.016 There is noe vertue but Religion,
113.H08.017 Wise, valiant, sober, iust, are names w%5ch%6 none
113.H08.018 Want, w%5ch%6 want not vice=couering Discretion.
113.H08.019 Seeke wee then o%5r%6selues in ourselues, for *as
113.H08.020 Men force y%5e%6 Sunn w%5th%6 much more force to pass
113.H08.021 By drawing his beames with a Christall glass,
113.H08.022 Soe wee, if wee into o%5r%6selues will turne
113.H08.023 Blowing the sparkes of vertue, may out-burne
113.H08.024 The straw w%5ch%6 doth about our hearts soiourne.
113.H08.025 You know Physitians when they would infuse
113.H08.026 Int' any oyle the soule of symples, vse
113.H08.027 Places where they may lye still warme, to chuse.
113.H08.028 So workes retyredness in vs; to rome
113.H08.029 Giddily, & be euery where but at home,
113.H08.030 Such freedome doth a bannishment become.
113.H08.031 Wee are but ffarmers of ourselues, yet may
113.H08.032 If wee can stock ourselues, & thriue, vp lay
113.H08.033 Much, much deare treasure for y%5e%6 great Rent-day
113.H08.034 Manure thy selfe then, to thy selfe be approu'de [f.59v]
113.H08.035 And with vayne outward things be noe more mou'de
113.H08.036 But to know that I loue thee, & would be lou'de.
113.H08.0SS Scribal flourish
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