IDENTILIN$$  F12953a|HWVenice|Walton, LIVES (STC W671)|pp. 30-31\T,FM:EWS\o\<1984\elec.copy\JSC\2-18-04\p:mvf\ews(cd)\2-23-07
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129.53a.001  SIR, /A%1Fter those%2 reverend papers, %1whose soul is
129.53a.002  Our good, and great%2 Kings %1lov'd hand, and feard %\(name, 
129.53a.003  By which to you he derives much of his;
129.53a.004  And, how he may, makes you almost the same;
129.53a.005  A%2 Taper %1of his%2 Torch, %1a Copy writ
129.53a.006  From his Original, and a fair%2 Beam
129.53a.007  %1Of the same warm and dazling%2 Sun, %1though it
129.53a.008  Must in another Sphere his vertue stream;
129.53a.009  After those%2 Learned Papers %1which your hand
129.53a.010  Hath stor'd with notes of%2 use %1and%2 pleasure %1too;
129.53a.011  From which rich treasury you may command
129.53a.012  Fit matter whether you will%2 write %1or%2 do.
129.53a.013  %1After those%2 loving Papers %1where Friends send
129.53a.014  With glad grief to your Sea-ward-steps farewel,
129.53a.015  Which thicken on you now as%2 prayers %1ascend 
129.53a.016  To%2 heaven %1on troops at a good mans%2 passing-bell.
129.53a.017  %1Admit this%2 honest Paper, %1and allow
129.53a.018  It such an audience as your self would ask;
129.53a.019  What you would say at%2 Venice, %1this sayes now,
129.53a.020  And has for%2 nature %1what you have for%2 task.
129.53a.021  %1To swear much%2 love; %1nor to be chang'd before%2
129.53a.022  Honour %1alone will to your fortune fit,
129.53a.023  Nor shall I then honour your%2 fortune %1more,
129.53a.024  Than I have done your%2 honour-wanting-wit.
129.53a.025  %1But 'tis an easier load (though both oppress)
129.53a.026  To want, than govern%2 greatness; %1for we are
129.53a.027  In that, our own, and onely business;
129.53a.028  In this, we must for others vices care.
129.53a.029  'Tis therefore well, your spirits now are plac'd
129.53a.030  In their last furnace, in activity;
129.53a.031  Which fits them:%2  Schools, %1and%2 Courts, %1and%2 Wars %\%1(ore-past
129.53a.032  To touch and taste in any best degree. 
129.53a.033  For%2 me! %1(if there be such a thing as I)%2
129.53a.034  Fortune %1(if there be such a thing as she)
129.53a.035  Finds that I bear so well her%2 tyrannie,
129.53a.036  %1That she thinks nothing else so fit for me.
129.53a.037  But, though she part us, to hear my oft%2 prayers
129.53a.038  %1For your%2 increase, %1God is as near me here;
129.53a.039  And, to send you what I shall beg, his stairs 
129.53a.040  In%2 length, %1and%2 ease, %1are alike every where%2.
129.53a.0SS  J. Donne.
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