IDENTILIN$$  F137B30 BedfRef|Harley 4064|ff. 279v-81\GL\P:GAS\o\6-22-95\C:JSC('95 & 7-26-00)
137.B30.0HE  To the Countesse of Bedford
137.B30.001  Madame.|[LM] /You haue refin'd me, and to worthiest thinges 
137.B30.002  [LM:.71.]Vertue, arte, beauty, fortune, now I see
137.B30.003  [LM:>>I#D<<]Rarenes, or vse, not naturs valew bringes;
137.B30.004  And such as they are Circumstanc'd, they bee,
137.B30.005  Two Ills can nere perplex vs, sinn to excuse,
137.B30.006  But of two good things, wee may leaue & chuse.
137.B30.007  Therfore at Court, w%5ch%6 is not vertues clyme
137.B30.008  Where a transcendent height (as lownes me)
137.B30.009  Makes her not be, or not showe, All my Rime
137.B30.010  Your virtues challenge, w%5ch%6 there rarest be.
137.B30.011  ffor as darke texts needs notes, their some must >%Vbe<
137.B30.012  To vsher virtue, and say this is shee,
137.B30.013  Soe in the Country is beauty; to this place
137.B30.014  You are the season Madame, you the day. [CW:'Tis#but.|]
137.B30.015  Tis but a graue of Spices, till yo%5r%6 face [280]
137.B30.016  exhale them, and a thick close budd display
137.B30.017  Widow'd and reclus'd else, her sweetes she enshrines,
137.B30.018  As China when the sunn at Brasill dynes.
137.B30.019  Out from yo%5r%6 Charyatt morning breakes at night
137.B30.020  And falsifies both Computacon%Ms so;
137.B30.021  since a new world doth rise here from yo%5r%6 sight
137.B30.022  Wee yo%5r%6 new Creatures, by new reckoninges goe
137.B30.023  This showes that you from nature lothly stray
137.B30.024  That suffer not an artificiall day.
137.B30.025  In this you haue made the Courte the Antipodes
137.B30.026  And wyll'd yo%5r%6 delegate, the vulgar sunn
137.B30.027  To doe prophane Autumnall offices
137.B30.028  Whil'st here to you wee sacryficers runn
137.B30.029  And whether Pristes, or Organes, you wee obay
137.B30.030  Wee sound yo%5r%6 influence, and yo%5r%6 dictates say 
137.B30.031  Yett to that diety w%5ch%6 dwells in you
137.B30.032  Your vertuous soule, I now not sacrafize.
137.B30.033  Theise are Peticon%Ms, and not hymms, they sue
137.B30.034  But that I may survay the edifice.
137.B30.035  In all Religions, as much Care hath beene
137.B30.036  Of Temples, frames, and bewty as Rites w%5t%6hin
137.B30.037  As all w%5ch%6 goe to Rome, doe not theirby
137.B30.038  Esteeme Religions, and hould fast the best,
137.B30.039  But serue discourse and Curiosity
137.B30.040  W%5th%6 that w%5ch%6 doth Religion but invest.
137.B30.041  And shun th'entangling labourinthes of schooles
137.B30.042  And make it witt, to thinck the wiser fooles.%T| [CW:So#in]
137.B30.043  So in this Pilgramage I would behould [280v]
137.B30.044  You, as you are Vertues temple, not, as shee,
137.B30.045  What walls of tender Christall her vnfolde
137.B30.046  what Eies, handes, bosome, her pure alters be
137.B30.047  And after this survay appose[sic] to all
137.B30.048  Bablers of Chappells you th'Escuriall
137.B30.049  Yett not as Consecrate, but merely as fayre
137.B30.050  On theise I Cast a lay, and Country eye
137.B30.051  Of past and future storyes w%5ch%6 are rare
137.B30.052  I find you all Record, all Prophesye
137.B30.053  Purge butt the booke of fate, that ytt admitt
137.B30.054  No sad, nor guilty Legendes, you are yett
137.B30.055  If good and louely were not one, of both
137.B30.056  You weare the transcript & originall.
137.B30.057  The Elementes, the Parent, & the growth
137.B30.058  And euery peece of you is both their all.
137.B30.059  So entyre are, all yo%5r%6 deedes, and you, that yo%5w%6
137.B30.060  Must doe the something still, yo%5w%6 cannot two
137.B30.061  But theise (as (nice[sic] thinne schoole divinitye
137.B30.062  Serues Heresy to further or represse)
137.B30.063  Tast of Poetique Rage or flattery
137.B30.064  And need not, where all hartes one truth p%Pfesse
137.B30.065  Oft from new proofes, & new phrase new >%Vdoubts grow<
137.B30.066  As straung attyre alyens the men wee know. [CW:Leauing]
137.B30.067  Leaving then busy praise, and all appeale [281]
137.B30.068  To >%Vthe< higher Courtes, sences decre is true;
137.B30.069  The myne the Magazin, the Comon weale
137.B30.070  The story of Bewty in Twicknam ys, & you,
137.B30.071  Who hath seene one would both, as who had beene
137.B30.072  In Paradize would seke the Cherubyne
137.B30.0SS  [om]
137.B30.0$$  Poem div into six-line sts, in each of which ll. 2 & 4 ind 4 sp.