IDENTILIN$$  F134C09|BedfReas|Luttrell MS|f. 65r-v\E:GL\P:EWS\o\7-6-95\C:JSC\Sept'95;5-29-01
134.C09.0HE  %XTo the Countesse of Bedford.
134.C09.001  Reason is our Soules left hand, faith her right
134.C09.002  By these we reach Diuinitye, That's you.
134.C09.003  Their loues who haue the blessing of your sight
134.C09.004  grew from their Reason, mine from Fayth doth grow.
134.C09.005  But as, although a squint lefthandednes
134.C09.006  be vngracious, yet we can%Mot want that hand
134.C09.007  So would I (not to increase but to expresse
134.C09.008  my faith) as I beleeue, so vnderstand.| [CW:om]
134.C09.009  Therfore I study you first in your Saints [65v]
134.C09.010  those freinds whom your Election glorifyes
134.C09.011  %JThen%K[RM:>%JThen%K<] in your Deeds, accesses and restraints
134.C09.012  and what you reade & what yourselfe deuise.
134.C09.013  But soone the Reasons why you are lou'd of all
134.C09.014  grow infinite, & so passe Reasons reach,
134.C09.015  Then backe againe to implicite Faith I fall
134.C09.016  and rest on what the Catholike voyce doth teach,
134.C09.017  That you are Good; And not an Heretique
134.C09.018  Denyes it: If he did, yet you are so.
134.C09.019  for rockes, which high to sence, deepe rooted sticke
134.C09.020  waues wash, not vndermine, or ouerthrow
134.C09.021  In euery thinge there naturally growes
134.C09.022  A balsamum to keepe it fresh & new
134.C09.023  If't were not iniur'd by extrinsique blowes
134.C09.024  your Birth & Beauty is this balme in you.
134.C09.025  But you of learning & Religion
134.C09.026  and virtue, & such Ingredients, haue made
134.C09.027  A mithridate, whose operation
134.C09.028  keepes off, or cures, what can be done, or sayd.
134.C09.029  Yet this is not your Phisicke, but your food
134.C09.030  A Diett fitt for you, for you are heere,
134.C09.031  The first good Angell since the worlds frame stood
134.C09.032  that euer did in womans shape appeare.
134.C09.033  Since you are thus gods Master-peice, & so
134.C09.034  His Factor for o%5r%6 loues, Doe as you doe,
134.C09.035  Make your returne home gracious, & bestow
134.C09.036  This life on that, so make one life of two.
134.C09.037  For, >%Vso< God%Yso%Z helpe me, I'de not misse you there
134.C09.038  For all the %Jgood%K[RM:>%Jgood%K<] that you can do me heere. [CW:>>man<<]
134.C09.0SS  [om]
134.C09.0$$  %1Div into 4-line sts plus a final couplet; even no'd ll. & final 
couplet (ll.37-38) ind ca. 4 sps; 2 rows of short, horiz. ll. separate HE from body%2