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137.00G.0HE %X%1To the Countess of Bedford%2.
137.00G.001 M%9ADAM%0, %/Y%+Ou have refin'd me, and to worthiest things
137.00G.002 Virtue, Art, Beauty, Fortune; now I see
137.00G.003 Rareness, or use, not nature value brings;
137.00G.004 And such, as they are circumstanc'd, they bee.
137.00G.005 Two ils can ne'r perplex us, sin t'excuse;[unc:~,(L,TxAM,CtY)]
137.00G.006 But of two good things we may leave or chuse. 
137.00G.007 Therefore at Court, which is not virtues clime,
137.00G.008 Where a transcendent height (as, lowness me)
137.00G.009 Makes her not see, or not shew:[unc:show:(L,TxAM,CtY)] all my rime
137.00G.010 Your virtues challenge, which there rarest be; [CW: For]
137.00G.011 For, as dark texts need notes:[~^(L,TxAM,CtY)] there[some:(L,TxAM,CtY)] some[there(L,TxAM,CtY)] must be [p.157]
137.00G.012 To usher virtue, and say, %1This is she%2. 
137.00G.013 So in the Country'is beauty. To this place
137.00G.014 You are the season, (Madam) you the day,
137.00G.015 'Tis but a grave of spices till your face
137.00G.016 Exhale them, and a thick close bud display.
137.00G.017 Widow'd and reclus'd else her sweets sh'enshrines
137.00G.018 As %1China%2, when the Sun at %1Brasil%2 dines. 
137.00G.019 Out from your Chariot, morning breaks at night,
137.00G.020 And falsifies both computations so;
137.00G.021 Since a new world doth rise here from your light,
137.00G.022 We your new creatures by new reck'nings go.
137.00G.023 This shews that you from nature loathly stray,
137.00G.024 That suffer not an Artificial day. 
137.00G.025 In this you have made the Court the Antipodes,
137.00G.026 And will'd your Delegate, the vulgar Sun,
137.00G.027 To do prophane Autumnal offices,
137.00G.028 Whil'st here to you, we sacrificers run;
137.00G.029 And whether Priests, or Organs, you we'obey,
137.00G.030 We sound your influence, and your Dictates say. 
137.00G.031 Yet to that Deitie which dwels in you,
137.00G.032 Your virtuous Soul, I now not sacrifice;
137.00G.033 These are %1Petitions%2, and not %1Hymns%2; they sue
137.00G.034 But that I may survey the edifice.
137.00G.035 In all Religions as much care hath bin
137.00G.036 Of Temples frames, and beauty,'as Rites within. 
137.00G.037 As all which goe to Rome do not thereby,
137.00G.038 Esteem Religions, and hold fast the best,
137.00G.039 But serve discourse, and curiosity,
137.00G.040 With that which doth Religion but invest, [CW: And]
137.00G.041 And shun th'entangling labyrinths of Schools, [p.158]
137.00G.042 And make it wit, to think the wiser fools:
137.00G.043 So in this pilgrimage I would behold
137.00G.044 You as You are Virtues Temple, not as she,
137.00G.045 What Wals of tender crystal her enfold,
137.00G.046 What eyes, hands, bosome, her pure Altars be,
137.00G.047 And after this survey, oppose to all
137.00G.048 Builders of Chappels, you th'Escurial. 
137.00G.049 Yet not as consecrate, but meerly'as fair;
137.00G.050 On these I cast a lay and Countrey eye.
137.00G.051 Of past and future stories, which are rare,
137.00G.052 I find you all record, and prophesie.
137.00G.053 Purge but the book of Fate that it admit
137.00G.054 No sad nor guilty legends, you are it. 
137.00G.055 If good and lovely were not one, of both
137.00G.056 You were the Transcript, and Original,
137.00G.057 The Elements, the Parents, and the growth,
137.00G.058 And every piece of you, is worth their All,
137.00G.059 So'intire are all your deeds, and you, that you
137.00G.060 Must do the same things still; you cannot two. 
137.00G.061 But these (as nicest School divinity
137.00G.062 Serves heresie to furder or repress)
137.00G.063 Taste of Poetique rage, or flatterie,
137.00G.064 And need not, where all hearts one truth profess;
137.00G.065 Oft from new proofs, and new phrase, new doubts grow,
137.00G.066 As strange attire aliens the men we know. 
137.00G.067 Leaving then busie praise, end all appeal,
137.00G.068 To higher Courts, senses decree is true.
137.00G.069 The Mine, the Magazine, the Common-weal,
137.00G.070 The story of beauty',in Twicknam is, and you. [CW: Who]
137.00G.071 Who hath seen one, would both; As, who hath bin [p.159]
137.00G.072 In Paradise, would seek the Cherubin.
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