IDENTILIN$$  F12937b|HWVenice|Wotton, Reliquiae... (Wing W3650)|sig. C2r-v|T,FM:EWS\o\<1984\elec.copy\JSC\2-18-04\p&c:mvf\eebo(W3650)\2-22-07
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129.37b.001  %1SIR%2, /%+A%1Fter those%2 reverend Papers, %1whose soul is
129.37b.002  Our good, and great%2 Kings %1lov'd hand, and fear'd %\(name:
129.37b.003  By which to you he derives much of his,
129.37b.004  And, how he may, makes you almost the same;
129.37b.005  A%2 Taper %1of his%2 Torch%1: a Copy writ
129.37b.006  From his Original, and a fair%2 Beam
129.37b.007  %1Of the same warm and dazling%2 Sun, %1though it
129.37b.008  Must in another Sphear his vertue stream;
129.37b.009  After those%2 Learned Papers %1which your hand
129.37b.010  Hath stor'd with notes of%2 use %1and%2 pleasure %1too:
129.37b.011  From which rich treasury you may command
129.37b.012  Fit matter whether you will%2 write %1or do:
129.37b.013  After those%2 loving Papers %1which Friends send
129.37b.014  With glad grief to your Sea-ward-steps farewel,
129.37b.015  And thicken on you now as%2 prayers %1ascend
129.37b.016  To%2 Heaven %1on troops at a good mans%2 passing-Bell: [CW:Admit]
129.37b.017  %1Admit this%2 honest Paper; %1and, allow [C2v]
129.37b.018  It such an audience as your self would ask;
129.37b.019  What you would say at%2 Venice, %1this sayes now,
129.37b.020  And has for%2 nature %1what you have for%2 task.
129.37b.021  %1To swear much%2 love; %1nor to be chang'd before%2
129.37b.022  Honour %1alone will to your fortune fit;
129.37b.023  Nor, shall I then honour your%2 fortune %1more,
129.37b.024  Then I have done your%2 honour-wanting-wit.
129.37b.025  %1But 'tis an easier load (though both oppress)
129.37b.026  To want, then govern%2 greatness; %1for we are
129.37b.027  In that, our own, and onely business;
129.37b.028  In this, we must for others vices care.
129.37b.029  'Tis therefore well, your spirits now are plac'd
129.37b.030  In their last furnace, in activity;
129.37b.031  Which fits them:%2 Schools, %1and%2 Courts, %1and%2 Wars%2 %\%1(ore-past
129.37b.032  To touch and taste in any best degree.
129.37b.033  For%2 me! %1(if there be such a thing as I)%2
129.37b.034  Fortune %1(if there be such a thing as she)
129.37b.035  Finds that I bear so well her%2 tyranny,
129.37b.036  %1That she thinks nothing else so fit for me.
129.37b.037  But, though she part us, to hear my oft%2 prayers
129.37b.038  %1For your%2 encrease, %1God is as near me here:
129.37b.039  And, to send you what I shall beg, his stairs
129.37b.040  In%2 length, %1and%2 ease, %1are alike every where.%2
129.37b.0SS  J. Donne.
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