IDENTILIN$$  F113O20|RWThird|Eng. poet. e.99|f. 33r-v\GL\P:EWS\o\6-29-93;6-28-95\C:JSC\11-27-00
113.O20.0HE  %XTo m%5r%6 Rowland Woodward.
113.O20.001  Like One who in her third Widowhead doth professe
113.O20.002  Herselfe a Nunne, tyed to retirednes,
113.O20.003  So affects my Muse now a Chast fallownes.
113.O20.004  Since She too fewe, yett too too many hath showne
113.O20.005  How loue-song weedes, and Satyrique thornes are growne
113.O20.006  Where seedes of better Arts, weare earely sowne,
113.O20.007  Though to vse, and loue Poetrye, to mee
113.O20.008  Betroth'd to no One Art, bee noe Adulteree,
113.O20.009  Omissions of Good, ill, as ill deedes bee.
113.O20.010  For though to vs it seeme, and be light, and thin
113.O20.011  Yett in those faythfull scales, where God throwes in
113.O20.012  Mens workes, Vanitye wayes as much as Sin.
113.O20.013  Yf our Soules haue staynd theyre first whight, yett wee
113.O20.014  May cloth them w%5th%6 Fayth, and deare Honestye
113.O20.015  W%5ch%6 God imputes as Natiue Puritye.
113.O20.016  There ys no Vertue but Religione,
113.O20.017  Wise, Valiante, Sober, Iust, are Names, w%5ch%6 none
113.O20.018  Want, w%5ch%6 want not Vice-couering Discretione.
113.O20.019  Seeke wee then Ourselues in Ourselues; For as
113.O20.020  Men force the Sunne, w%5th%6 much more force to pas
113.O20.021  By gathering hys beames, w%5th%6 a Christall Glas
113.O20.022  So wee, if wee into Ourselues will turne
113.O20.023  Blowing our Sparkes of Vertue, may outburne, [CW:om]
113.O20.024  The Strawe, w%5ch%6 doth about our harts seiorne. [33v]
113.O20.025  You know Physitions, when they wold infuse
113.O20.026  Into any Oyle the Soule of Simples, Vse
113.O20.027  Places, where they may lye still warme to chuse.
113.O20.028  So workes retyrednes in Vs; to rome
113.O20.029  Giddily, and be euery where but at home
113.O20.030  Such freedome doth a Banishment become.
113.O20.031  Wee are but Fermers[sic] of Ourselues, yett may
113.O20.032  Yf wee can stocke ourselues, and there vplay
113.O20.033  Much, much deare Treasure for the greate rent day.
113.O20.034  Manure Thyselfe then, to Thyselfe bee approud,
113.O20.035  And w%5th%6 vayne outward thinges be no more moud,
113.O20.036  But to know, that I loue Thee, and wold be lou'd.|
113.O20.0SS  [om]
113.O20.0$$  No ind; wr. in 3-ll. sts; "p. 152." in later ink left of HE; 
modern pencil foliation = 37r-v