IDENTILIN$$  F113O21|Eng. poet. f.9, pp. 82-83\GL\P:EWS\o\6-30-95;6-18-93\C:JSC\'95;9-12-01
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113.O21.001  Like one y%5t%6 in her third widdowhood doth p%Pfesse
113.O21.002  her selfe a nunne tid'e to retir'dnesse.
113.O21.003  so affects my muse now a Chast holinesse
113.O21.004  Since shee too few; yet too many hath flowne
113.O21.005  how loue-song weedes; and Satyricke thornes haue grow%Me
113.O21.006  where seedes of better artes were early sowne
113.O21.007  Though to vse and loue Poetry to mee
113.O21.008  betroth'd to no one arte; bee no adultery
113.O21.009  Omissions of good; as ill, as ill deedes bee.
113.O21.010  for though to vse it seeme but light and thin
113.O21.011  Yet in those faythfull, scales, where god thowes[sic] in
113.O21.012  mens works vanity; weighs as much as sinne
113.O21.013  If o%5r%6 soules haue stain'd the first whites; yet wee
113.O21.014  May cloth them w%5th%6 fayth and deare integrity
113.O21.015  w%5c%6 god imputes; as naked purity
113.O21.016  There is no virtue but religion [CW:om]
113.O21.017  wise; sober; ancient; iust; are names w%5c%6 none [83]
113.O21.018  want; who want not>%Y***e%Z< vice couering discression
113.O21.019  seeke wee ou%5r%6 selues in o%5r%6 selues; for as
113.O21.020  men force the sunne, much more force to passe
113.O21.021  in gathering beames w%5th%6in a Christall glasse
113.O21.022  So wee; if wee; into o%5r%6 selues will turne;
113.O21.023  blowing o%5r%6 sparkes of vertue may not burne.
113.O21.024  the straw; w%5c%6 about o%5r%6 hartes doth soiourne;
113.O21.025  y%5u%6 know Physitians when they would infuse
113.O21.026  into an oyle the soules of simples; vse.
113.O21.027  places where they may lie still; and chuse
113.O21.028  so workes retir'dnes; in vs to Rome.
113.O21.029  giddily; and bee euery where but at home
113.O21.030  such freedome doth a banishment become.
113.O21.031  wee are but farmeres of o%5r%6 selues; yet may
113.O21.032  If wee can stocke o%5r%6 selues and thriue vplay
113.O21.033  much; much, good treasure for the great re%Mt day
113.O21.034  Manure thy self and to thy selfe be approued:
113.O21.035  & w%5th%6 vaine outward thinges bee not more moued.
113.O21.036  but to know y%5t%6 I loue thee, & would bee beloued
113.O21.0SS  I D  finis.
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