IDENTILIN$$  F129C09|HWVenice|Luttrell MS|ff. 72v-73\GL\P:EWS\o\7-6-95\C:JSC\Sept'95;5-29-01
129.C09.0HE  %XTo S%5r%6 Henry Wootton at his going /%XEmbassador to Venice.|
129.C09.001  After those reuerend papers (whose soule is
129.C09.002  Our good & great kinges lou'd hand, & fear'd name
129.C09.003  By which to you he deriues much of his
129.C09.004  And, how he may, makes you almost y%5e%6 same
129.C09.005  A Taper of his Torch, a Coppy writt
129.C09.006  from his originiall,[sic] & a faire beame
129.C09.007  Of the same warme & dazeling Sun, though it
129.C09.008  Must in another Sphere his Virtue streame)
129.C09.009  After those learned papers w%5ch%6 your hand
129.C09.010  hath stor'd w%5th%6 notes of vse & pleasure too
129.C09.011  from which rich treasury you may command
129.C09.012  fitt matter, whether you will write, or doe
129.C09.013  After those louing papers which freinds send
129.C09.014  with glad greife for your Seaward steps farewell
129.C09.015  which thicken on you now, as Prayers ascend
129.C09.016  To heauen in troupes at a good mans passing bell
129.C09.017  Admitt this honest paper & allow
129.C09.018  It such an audience as your selfe would aske.
129.C09.019  what |you| would say at venice |this| meanes now
129.C09.020  And hath for Nature, what you haue for taske. [CW:>>to<<]
129.C09.021  To sweare much loue, not to be changd before [73]
129.C09.022  Honour alone will to your fortune fitt
129.C09.023  Nor shall I then honour your fortune more
129.C09.024  Then I haue done your noble-wanting-witt.|
129.C09.025  But tis an easier %Jboate%K (though both opp%5r%6sse)
129.C09.026  To want then gouerne Greatnesse, for we are
129.C09.027  In |that| our owne & only businesse
129.C09.028  in |this| we must for others vices care.
129.C09.029  Tis therfore well your Spiritts now are plac'd
129.C09.030  in their last furnace, in Actiuitye
129.C09.031  Which fitts them (schooles, & Courts, & warres, ore'past)
129.C09.032  to touch and test in any best degree.
129.C09.033  For me (if there be such a thinge as I)
129.C09.034  ffortune (if there be such a thing as Shee)
129.C09.035  Spies that I beare so well her Tyrannye
129.C09.036  That Shee thinkes nothing else so fitt for me.
129.C09.037  But though Shee part vs, to heare my oft prayers
129.C09.038  for your increase, God is as neere me heere
129.C09.039  And, to send you what I shall begge, his stayres
129.C09.040  In length & ease are alike euery where.
129.C09.0SS  [horiz. lines]
129.C09.0$$  %1Four-line sts separated by horiz. ll.; even ll. ind; in l.31, 
scribe wrote "(Courts, & schooles" with a 1 wr. over schooles & a 2 over 
Courts, apparently to reverse the order--which has been done here per EWS%2