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134.00A.0HE %X%1To the Countesse of Bedford%2.
134.00A.001 M%9adame%0, /R%+Eason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right,
134.00A.002 By these wee reach divinity, that's you;
134.00A.003 Their loves, who have the blessings of your light,
134.00A.004 Grew from their reason, mine from faire faith grew.
134.00A.005 But as, although a squint lefthandednesse
134.00A.006 Be'ungracious, yet we cannot want that hand,
134.00A.007 So would I, not to encrease, but to expresse
134.00A.008 My faith, as I beleeve, so understand. [CW:Therefore]
134.00A.009 Therefore I study you first in your Saints, [p.78]
134.00A.010 Those friends, whom your election glorifies,
134.00A.011 Then in your deeds, accesses, and restraints,
134.00A.012 And what you reade, and what your selfe devize.
134.00A.013 But soone, the reasons why you'are lov'd by all,
134.00A.014 Grow infinite, and so passe reasons reach,
134.00A.015 Then backe againe to'implicite faith I fall,
134.00A.016 And rest on what the Catholique faith doth teach;
134.00A.017 That you are good: and not one Heretique
134.00A.018 Denies it: if he did, yet you are so.
134.00A.019 For, rockes, which high top'd and deep rooted sticke,
134.00A.020 Waves wash, not undermine, nor overthrow.
134.00A.021 In every thing there naturally growes
134.00A.022 A %1Balsamum%2 to keepe it fresh, and new,
134.00A.023 If'twere[If#'twere(OJ)] not injur'd by extrinsique blowes;
134.00A.024 Your birth and beauty are this Balme in you.
134.00A.025 But, you of learning and religion,
134.00A.026 And vertue,'and such ingredients, have made
134.00A.027 A methridate, whose operation
134.00A.028 Keepes off, or cures what can be done or said.
134.00A.029 Yet, this is not your physicke, but your food,
134.00A.030 A dyet fit for you; for you are here
134.00A.031 The first good Angell, since the worlds frame stood,
134.00A.032 That ever did in womans shape appeare. [CW:Since]
134.00A.033 Since you are then Gods masterpeece, and so [p.79]
134.00A.034 His Factor for our loves; do as you doe,
134.00A.035 Make your returne home gracious; and bestow
134.00A.036 Thy life on that; so make one life of two.
134.00A.037 For so God helpe mee,'I would not misse you there
134.00A.038 For all the good which you can do me here. 
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