IDENTILIN$$  F134C08|BedfReas|Leconfield MS, Add. 8467|f. 48r-v\GL\mf\P:TLP;EWS\o\7-9-93;7-4-95\C:JSC\'95;11-20-00
134.C08.0HE  %XTo the Countesse of Bedford.
134.C08.001  Madame. /Reason is our soules left hand, faith her right
134.C08.002  By theise wee reach diuinitie, thats you,
134.C08.003  Theire loues, whoe haue the blessings of your sight,
134.C08.004  Grewe from theire reason, mine from farr faith grewe.
134.C08.005  Butt as, Although a squint lefthandednes
134.C08.006  Be vngratious, yett wee cannot want that hand,
134.C08.007  Soe woulde I not to increase, butt to expresse
134.C08.008  My faith, as I beleiue, so vnderstand.
134.C08.009  Therfore I studie you, first in your saints,
134.C08.010  Those frends whome your election glorifies,
134.C08.011  Then in your deeds, accesses, and restraints.
134.C08.012  And what you read, and what your self deuize.
134.C08.013  Butt soone, the reasons, why you are lou'd by all,
134.C08.014  Growe infinite, and so passe reasons reach,
134.C08.015  Then back againe, to implicite faith I faile,
134.C08.016  And rest on what, the Catholique voice dooth teach.
134.C08.017  That you are good: And not one heretique,
134.C08.018  Denies itt: if he did, yett you are so.
134.C08.019  ffor rocks which high to some, and deepe rooted stick,
134.C08.020  Waues wash, not vndermine, nor ouerthrowe [CW:In.]
134.C08.021  In euerie thing, there naturallie growes [48v]
134.C08.022  A Balsamum to keepe itt fresh, and new,
134.C08.023  If twere not iniurd' by extrinsique blowes
134.C08.024  Your birth and bewtie, are this balme in you.
134.C08.025  Butt you of learning and religion,
134.C08.026  And vertue, and such,[sic] ingredients, haue made
134.C08.027  A methridate, whose operation
134.C08.028  Keepes of, or cures, what can be done or said.
134.C08.029  Yett, this is not your phisick butt your foode
134.C08.030  A dyett fitt for you; for you are heere
134.C08.031  The first good Angell since the worlds frame stood,
134.C08.032  That euer did in womans shape appeere.
134.C08.033  Since you are then gods master=peece and soe
134.C08.034  His factor for our loues; doe as you doe
134.C08.035  Make your returne home gratious; and bestowe
134.C08.036  This life on that; So make one life of twoe.
134.C08.037  ffor so god help mee, I would not misse you there,
134.C08.038  For all the good w%5ch%6 you can doe mee heere.
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