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129.00E.HE1  %X%1To Sir H. W. at his going Ambassadour /%Xto Venice%2.
129.00E.001  A%+Fter those reverend papers, whose soule is
129.00E.002  Our good & great Kings lov'd hand and fear'd /(name,
129.00E.003  By which to you he derives much of his
129.00E.004  And (how he may) makes you almost the same,
129.00E.005  A Taper of his Torch, a copie writ
129.00E.006  From his Originall, and a faire beame
129.00E.007  Of the same warme, and dazelling Sun, though it
129.00E.008  Must in another Sphere his vertue streame.
129.00E.009  After those learned papers which your hand
129.00E.010  Hath stor'd with notes of use and pleasure too,
129.00E.011  From which rich treasury you may command
129.00E.012  Fit matter whether you will write or doe.
129.00E.013  After those loving papers which friends send
129.00E.014  With glad griefe to your Sea-ward steps, farewell, [CW:Which]
129.00E.015  Which thicken on you now, as prayers ascend [p.176]
129.00E.016  To heaven in troopes at'a good mans passing bel:
129.00E.017  Admit this honest Paper, and allow
129.00E.018  It such an audience as your selfe would aske;
129.00E.019  What you must say at %1Venice%2 this meanes now,
129.00E.020  And hath for nature what you have for taske. 
129.00E.021  To sweare much love, not to be chang'd before
129.00E.022  Honour alone will to your fortune fit;
129.00E.023  Nor shall I then honour your fortune, more
129.00E.024  Than I have done your noble-wanting-wit.
129.00E.025  But 'tis an easier load (though both oppresse)
129.00E.026  To want, then governe greatnesse; for we are
129.00E.027  In that, our owne and onely businesse,
129.00E.028  In this we must for others vices care.
129.00E.029  Tis therefore well your spirits now are plac'd
129.00E.030  In their last Furnace, in Activitie;
129.00E.031  Which fits them (Schooles and Courts and warres /(o'rpast)
129.00E.032  To touch and test in any best degree.
129.00E.033  For me, (if there be such a thing as I)
129.00E.034  Fortune (if there be such a thing as she)
129.00E.035  Spies that I beare so well her tyranny,
129.00E.036  That she thinkes nothing else so fit for me.
120.00E.037  But though she part us: to heare my oft prayers
129.00E.038  For your increase, God is as ne'r me here;
129.00E.039  And to send you what I shall begge, his staires
129.00E.040  In length and ease are alike every where. [CW:%1To%2]
129.00E.0SSom
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