IDENTILIN$$ F12900G|1669|pp. 176-78\ME\mf\7-17-87\P:EWS\o(CSmH)\6-14-01\C:JMK\7-20-01;JSC\9-6-01\P:DAS\cd(L)\1-11-01\C:JSC\4-10-03\P&C:JSC\mf(CtY)\4-23-03\P:MEL\(TxAM,Matt)\11-20-07 129.00G.HE1 %X%1To Sir%2 Henry Wotton, %1at his going Ambassadour %/%Xto Venice%2. 129.00G.001 A%+Fter those reverend papers, whose soul is 129.00G.002 Our good and great Kings lov'd hand and fear'd name, 129.00G.003 By which to you he derives much of his, 129.00G.004 And (how he may) makes you almost the same, 129.00G.005 A Taper of his Torch, a copie writ 129.00G.006 From his Original, and a fair beam 129.00G.007 Of the same warm, and dazelling Sun, though it 129.00G.008 Must in another Sphere his vertue stream. [CW:After] 129.00G.009 After those learned papers which your hand [p.177] 129.00G.010 Hath stor'd with notes of use and pleasure too, 129.00G.011 From which rich treasury you may command 129.00G.012 Fit matter whether you will write or doe. 129.00G.013 After those loving papers which friends send 129.00G.014 With glad grief to your Sea-ward steps, farewell, 129.00G.015 Which thicken on you now, as prayers ascend 129.00G.016 To heaven in troopes at a good mans passing bell: 129.00G.017 Admit this honest paper, and allow 129.00G.018 It such an audience as your self would ask, 129.00G.019 What you must say at %1Venice%2 this means now, 129.00G.020 And hath for nature what you have for task. 129.00G.021 To swear much love, not to be chang'd before 129.00G.022 Honour alone will to your fortune fit; 129.00G.023 Nor shall I then honour your fortune, more 129.00G.024 Than I have done your noble-wanting-wit. 129.00G.025 But 'tis an easier load (though both oppress) 129.00G.026 To want, than govern greatness; for we are 129.00G.027 In that, our own and only business, 129.00G.028 In this we must for others vices care. 129.00G.029 'Tis therefore well your spirits now are plac'd 129.00G.030 In their last Furnace, in Activity; 129.00G.031 Which fits them (Schooles and Courts and wars o'r-past) 129.00G.032 To touch and tast in any best degree. 129.00G.033 For me, (if there be such a thing as I) 129.00G.034 Fortune (if there be such a thing as she) 129.00G.035 Spies that I bear so well her tyranny, 129.00G.036 That she thinks nothing else so fit for me. [CW:But] 120.00G.037 But though she part us, to hear my oft prayers [p.178] 129.00G.038 For your increase, God is as ne'r me here; 129.00G.039 And to send you what I shall begg, his stairs 129.00G.040 In length and ease are alike every where. 129.00G.0SSom 129.00G.0$$ Ten 4-line sts; even no'd lines except 2 & 4 (st 1) ind (l.2 only pushed to right by drop cap: "A%+")