IDENTILIN$$ F113SP1|RWThird|St. Paul's MS 49.B.43|ff. 44v-45v\KJH\mf\1-5-95\P:GAS\o\7-24-95\C:JSC\'95;7-23-01\c:mvf\10-1-07
113.SP1.HE1 %XTo M%5r%6 Rowland Woodward
113.SP1.001 Like one who in her third widdowhead doth profess
113.SP1.002 Herself a Nunne, tied to retirednes,
113.SP1.003 So affects my muse, now a chast fallownes;
113.SP1.004 Since Shee to few, yett too too many hath showne
113.SP1.005 How love songe-weedes, & Satyrique thornes are growne
113.SP1.006 Where seedes of better artes, weare early sowne*|
113.SP1.007 Though to vse and love poetry, to me
113.SP1.008 Betrothd to noe one art, be no Adultery
113.SP1.009 Omissions of good, ill, as ill deeds be|
113.SP1.010 For though to vs it seeme, & be light and thinn
113.SP1.011 Yett in those faithfull scales, where God throwes in
113.SP1.012 Mens workes, Vanity wages as much as sin.| [CW:om]
113.SP1.013 If our soules have stayned their first white yett wee [f.45]
113.SP1.014 May cloth them w%5th%6 faith, and deere honesty
113.SP1.015 W%5ch%6 god imputes as native purity.|
113.SP1.016 There is noe vertue but religion,
113.SP1.017 Wise Valiant, Sober, Iust, are names w%5ch%6 none
113.SP1.018 Want, w%5ch%6 want not Vice-covering discretion.|
113.SP1.019 Seeke we then our selves in o%5r%6selves, for as.[sic]
113.SP1.020 Men force y%5e%6 Sunne w%5th%6 much more force to pass
113.SP1.021 By gathering his beames w%5th%6 a Christall glass.|
113.SP1.022 So we, if we into our selves will turne
113.SP1.023 Blowing our sparks of vertue, may outburne
113.SP1.024 The straw, w%5ch%6 doth about o%5r%6 hartes seiorne.|[sic]
113.SP1.025 Yo:%5u%6 know Phisitions when they would infuse
113.SP1.026 Into any oyle the soule of simples, vse
113.SP1.027 Places, where they may lie still warme to chuse.|
113.SP1.028 So workes retirednes in vs, to roome
113.SP1.029 Giddily, and be every where but at home
113.SP1.030 Such freedome doth a banishment become.|
113.SP1.031 Wee %Yand%Z>are< but farmers of o%5r%6selves, yett may
113.SP1.032 If we can stock o%5r%6selves, and there vplay
113.SP1.033 Much much deere treasure for the great rent day [CW:om]
113.SP1.034 Manure thyself then, to thyself be approved [f.45v]
113.SP1.035 And with vaine outward things be no more moved
113.SP1.036 But to know, y%5t%6 I love thee, and would be loved.|
113.SP1.0SS Scribal flourish
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