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137.C02.HE1 %XTo the Countesse of Bedford.
137.C02.001 Madame. /You haue refyn'd Mee, and to worthyest Things
137.C02.002 Virtue, Art, Beautye, Fortune, now I see
137.C02.003 Rarenes, or vse, not Nature value brings,
137.C02.004 And such, as they are Circumstanc'd, they bee.
137.C02.005 Two ills can ne're perplexe vs, Synne to excuse.
137.C02.006 But of two good Things we may leave, and Chuse.
137.C02.007 Therefore at Court, w%5ch%6 ys not Vertues Clyme,
137.C02.008 Where a Transcendent height, (as lowenes Mee)
137.C02.009 Makes her not be, or not showe; All my Ryme
137.C02.010 Yo%5r%6 virtues challenge, w%5ch%6 there rarest Bee;
137.C02.011 For as darke Texts needes Notes; There some must bee
137.C02.012 To vsher vertue, and say, Thys ys shee. [CW:(Soe#in.]
137.C02.013 Soe in the Country is Beautye; To thys place [f.41v]
137.C02.014 you are the Season (Madame) yo%5w%6 the day,
137.C02.015 Tis but a grave of spyces, till yo%5r%6 Face
137.C02.016 Exhale them, and a thicke close bud display.
137.C02.017 Widdow'd and reclus'd else, her sweetes sh' enshrines
137.C02.018 As Chyna when the Sunne at Brasill dynes.
137.C02.019 Out from yo%5r%6 Chariott, Morninge breakes at Nyght
137.C02.020 And falsifyes both Computations soe.
137.C02.021 Since a new World doth rise here from yo%5r%6 sight,
137.C02.022 Wee yo%5r%6 new Creatures, by new recknings goe.
137.C02.023 Thys showes that you from Nature lothly stray
137.C02.024 That suffer not an Artificiall day.
137.C02.025 In thys, yo%5w%6 haue made the Court the Antipodes,
137.C02.026 And will'd yo%5r%6 Delegate, the Vulgar Sunne,
137.C02.027 To doe profane Autumnall offices
137.C02.028 Whyl'st here to yo%5w%6, wee sacryficers runne,
137.C02.029 And whether Priests, or orgaynes, yo%5w%6 wee obay,
137.C02.030 Wee sound yo%5r%6 influence, and yo%5r%6 Dictates say.
137.C02.031 Yet to that Deitye, w%5ch%6 dwells in yow
137.C02.032 yo%5r%6 vertuous Soule, I now not Sacryfice;
137.C02.033 These are Petitions, and not hymnes; They sue
137.C02.034 But that I may survay the Edifice.
137.C02.035 In all Religions, as much care hath bin
137.C02.036 Of Temples Frames, and Beautye, as Rites w%5th%6in.
137.C02.037 As all w%5ch%6 goe to Roome, doe not thereby
137.C02.038 Esteeme Religions, and holld fast the Best,
137.C02.039 But serve discourse, and Curiositye,
137.C02.040 W%5th%6 that w%5ch%6 doth Religion but invest,
137.C02.041 And shun th' entanglinge Laborinths of Schooles,
137.C02.042 And make yt witt, to thinke the wiser Fooles.
137.C02.043 Soe in thys Pilgrimage I woulld Behollde
137.C02.044 Yo%5w%6, as yo%5w%6 are virtues Temple, not, as Shee,
137.C02.045 What walls of tender Christall her enfollde,
137.C02.046 What eyes, hands, bosome, her pure altars Bee,
137.C02.047 And after thys Survay, Oppose to all
137.C02.048 Bablers of Chappells, yo%5w%6 the Escuriall.
137.C02.049 Yet not as Conscecrate,[sic] but meerely as Fayre,
137.C02.050 On these I cast a lay, and countrye eye,
137.C02.051 Of past, and future Storyes, w%5ch%6 are rare,
137.C02.052 I find yo%5w%6 all Record, all Prophecye, [CW:(Purge]
137.C02.053 Purge but the Booke of Fate, That yt admitt [f.42]
137.C02.054 No sad, nor guiltye legends, yo%5w%6 are ytt.
137.C02.055 Yf good and louelye were not one, of both
137.C02.056 Yo%5w%6 weare the Transcript, and originall,
137.C02.057 The Elements, the Parent, and the Groathe
137.C02.058 And every peece of yo%5w%6, ys both theyre All, 
137.C02.059 Soe intyre are all yo%5r%6 deedes, and yo%5w%6, that Yo%5w%6
137.C02.060 Must doe the same things still; yo%5w%6 cannot two.
137.C02.061 But these (As nyce Thynne Schoole Devinitye
137.C02.062 Serves Heresye to furder or represse)
137.C02.063 Tast of Poetique rage, or flatterye,
137.C02.064 And neede not, where all harts one truth profes;
137.C02.065 Oft from new proofes, and new Phrase, new doubts growe,
137.C02.066 As strange attyre, alyens the Men, wee knowe.
137.C02.067 Leaveinge then Busye prayse, and all appeale,
137.C02.068 To hygher Courts, Sences Decree ys true,
137.C02.069 The Myne, the Magazine, the Comonweale,
137.C02.070 The storye of Beautye, in Twicknam ys, and yo%5w%6.
137.C02.071 Who hath seene One, wolld both; As, who had bin
137.C02.072 In Paradice, woulld seeke the Cherubin.|
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