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122.00A.HE1  %XTo M.%1R.W.%2
122.00A.001  I%+F, as mine is, thy life a slumber be, 
122.00A.002  Seeme, when thou read'st these lines, to dreame of %\(me,
122.00A.003  Never did Morpheus nor his brother weare
122.00A.004  Shapes soe like those Shapes, whom they would ap-%/(peare,
122.00A.005  As this my letter is like me, for it
122.00A.006  Hath my name, words, hand, feet, heart, minde and %/(wit;
122.00A.007  It is my deed of gift of mee to thee,
122.00A.008  It is my Will, my selfe the Legacie.
122.00A.009  So thy retyrings I love, yea envie,
122.00A.010  Bred in thee by a wise melancholy,
122.00A.011  That I rejoyce, that unto where thou art,
122.00A.012  Though I stay here, I can thus send my heart,
122.00A.013  As kindly'as any enamored Patient
122.00A.014  His Picture to his absent Love hath sent.
122.00A.015  All newes I thinke sooner reach thee then mee;
122.00A.016  Havens are Heavens, and Ships wing'd Angels be,
122.00A.017  The which both Gospell, and sterne threatnings bring;
122.00A.018  Guyanaes harvest is nip'd in the spring,
122.00A.019  I feare; And with us (me thinkes) Fate deales so [CW:As]
122.00A.020  As with the Jewes guide God did; he did show [p.101]
122.00A.021  Him the rich land, but bar'd his entry in,
122.00A.022  Our slownes is our punishment and sinne;
122.00A.023  Perchance, these Spanish businesse being done,
122.00A.024  Which as the Earth betweene the Moone and Sun
122.00A.025  Eclipse the light which Guyana would give,
122.00A.026  Our discontinued hopes we shall retrive:
122.00A.027  But if (as All th'All must) hopes smoake away,
122.00A.028  Is not Almightie Vertue'an India?
122.00A.029  If men be worlds, there is in every one
122.00A.030  Some thing to answere in some proportion
122.00A.031  All the worlds riches: And in good men, this
122.00A.032  Vertue, our formes forme and our soules soule is.  
122.00A.0SSom
122.00A.0$$  Two 14-ll. sts & one 4-ll. st; even no'd lines indented except l.18; Norton marginalia in MH copy STC 7045(A) dates poem "1617"