IDENTILIN$$ F113VA2|RWThird|Nedham ms., 25.F.17\ff. 44v-45\JSC\mf\6-26-95\P:GAS\o\7-5-95\C:JSC 113.VA2.HE1 %X%1A Letter.%2 113.VA2.001 Like one who in her third widowhood doth profess 113.VA2.002 Herselfe a Nun tyrd' to retirednes 113.VA2.003 So affects my Muse now a chaste >>fallownes.<< 113.VA2.004 Since shee to few, yet to too many hath showne 113.VA2.005 How Loue-song weeds & Satirique thornes are grown 113.VA2.006 Where seed of better Arts were easily sowen. 113.VA2.007 Though to use & loue Poetry to mee 113.VA2.008 Betrothd to no one art, be no adultery 113.VA2.009 Omissions of good >>%Vas<< ill. All%>A>>s<< ill deeds bee. 113.VA2.010 For though to us it seem light & thin 113.VA2.011 Yet in those faithfull scales where God throwes in 113.VA2.012 Mens workes vanity %Jworkes%K[Mvar:>>weighes<<] as much as sin. 113.VA2.013 If our souls haue staind their first white, yet wee 113.VA2.014 May cloath y%5m%6 with new faith & dear honesty 113.VA2.015 Which God imputes as natiue purity. 113.VA2.016 There is no vertue but religion. 113.VA2.017 Wise, valiant, sober, just are names w%5ch%6 none 113.VA2.018 Want, w%5ch%6 want not, vice-covering discretion. 113.VA2.019 Seek wee y%5n%6 ourselves in ourselves, for as 113.VA2.020 Men force y%5e%6 Sun w%5th%6 much more force to passe 113.VA2.021 By gathering his beams with a cristall glasse. [CW:om] 113.VA2.022 So wee, if wee into ourselves will turne [f.45] 113.VA2.023 Blowing our sparkes of vertue may outburne 113.VA2.024 The straw w%5ch%6 cloth%>>d