IDENTILIN$$  F134O20\BedfReas\MS Eng. poet. e.99, ff. 36-37\GL\mf\P:EWS\o\6-17-93;6-29-95\C:JSC\'95;12-4-00
134.O20.0HE  %XTo the Countesse of Bedford. 
134.O20.001  Madame. /Reason ys our Soules lefthand, Faythe her right, [CW:om]
134.O20.002  By these wee reach Diuinitye, thats you, [36v]
134.O20.003  Theyre loues, who haue the blessings of your Sight
134.O20.004  Grew from theyre reason, Mine from farr fayth grewe.
134.O20.005  But as, Although a squint lefthandednes
134.O20.006  Bee Vngratious; Yett wee cannot want that hand.
134.O20.007  So wold I, not to encrease, but to expresse
134.O20.008  My Fayth, as I beleaue, So Vnderstand.
134.O20.009  Therfore I study you, first in your Saints,
134.O20.010  Those frindes, whom your Election glorifyes,
134.O20.011  Then in your Deedes, Accesses, and Restraintes,
134.O20.012  And what you read, and what yourselfe devise;
134.O20.013  But soone the Reasons why you are lou'd by All,
134.O20.014  Growe Infinite, and so passe Reasons reach,
134.O20.015  Then backe agayne to Implicite fayth I fall,
134.O20.016  And rest on what the Catholique voice doth teach.
134.O20.017  That you are Good: And not One Heretique
134.O20.018  Denyes ytt: Yf he did, yett you are soe.
134.O20.019  For Rocks w%5ch%6 high to Some, and deepe rooted sticke,
134.O20.020  Waues wash, not vndermyne, nor ouerthrowe.
134.O20.021  In euery thinge there naturally growes
134.O20.022  A Balsamum to keepe yt fresh, and newe
134.O20.023  Yf twere not iniurd by Extrinsique blowes,
134.O20.024  Your Birth and Beauty are thys Balme in you.
134.O20.025  But You of Learning and Religione
134.O20.026  And Vertu, and such Ingredients, haue made
134.O20.027  A Methridate, whose Operatione [CW:om]
134.O20.028  Keepes of, or Cures what can be done or sayd. [37]
134.O20.029  Yett thys is not your Physicke, but your foode,
134.O20.030  A Dyett fitt for you; For you are here
134.O20.031  The first good Angell, since the worlds frame stood,
134.O20.032  That euer did in womans Shape appeare.
134.O20.033  Since you are then, Gods MasterPeece, and so
134.O20.034  Hys factor for our loues; Doe as you doe
134.O20.035  Make your retorne home gratious; And bestowe
134.O20.036  Thys lyfe on that; So make One lyfe of two.
134.O20.037  For So God helpe mee, I wolde not misse you there
134.O20.038  For all the Good w%5ch%6 you can doe mee here.|
134.O20.0SS  [om]
134.O20.0$$  %1Ll. 37-38 ind; 8 4-line sts plus final, 6-ll. st, all separated by line space;%2 p. %Y160%Z 
155. %1in two later inks to left of HE; modern pencil foliation = 40-41%2