IDENTILIN$$ F137C08|Leconfield MS, Add. 8467|ff. 48v-50v\JSC\mf\1-30-95\P:EWS\o\7-4-95\C:JSC\'95;11-20-00 137.C08.HE1 %XTo the Countesse of Bedford 137.C08.001 Madame. /You haue refind' mee, and to worthiest things 137.C08.002 Virtue, art, bewtie, fortune, now I see, [CW:Rarenes.|] 137.C08.003 Rarenes, or vse, not nature value brings, [f.49] 137.C08.004 And such, as they are circumstanc'd, they bee. 137.C08.005 Twoe ills cann nere perplex vs, sinn to excuse. 137.C08.006 Butt of twoe good things, wee may leaue and chuse. 137.C08.007 Therfore, att Court, w%5ch%6 is not Virtues clyme 137.C08.008 Where a transcendent heigth, (as lownes mee) 137.C08.009 Makes her not bee, or not showe; All my Rime 137.C08.010 Your Virtues challenge, w%5ch%6 there rarest bee. 137.C08.011 For as dark texts, needes notes; There some must bee 137.C08.012 To vsher virtue, and saie, this is shee. 137.C08.013 So in the Countrie is bewtie; To this place 137.C08.014 You are the season (Madam,) you the daie, 137.C08.015 Tis butt a graue of spices, till your face 137.C08.016 Exhale them, and a thick close bud display. 137.C08.017 Widow'd and reclus'd else, her sweets she Enshrines 137.C08.018 As China When the sunne, att Brasill dines. 137.C08.019 Out from your chariott, morning breakes att night, 137.C08.020 And falsefies both Computations so, 137.C08.021 Since a new worlde dooth rise heere from your light, [CW:Wee.] 137.C08.022 Wee your new Creatures, by new reakoning goe. [f.49v] 137.C08.023 This showes that you from nature lothlie straye 137.C08.024 That suffer not an artificiall daie. 137.C08.025 In this, you haue made, the Court the Antipodes 137.C08.026 And willd' your Delegate, the vulgar sunne, 137.C08.027 To doe profane Autumnall offices 137.C08.028 Whilst here to you, wee sacrificers runne 137.C08.029 And whether Preists, or Organes, you wee obay, 137.C08.030 Wee sound your influence, and your dictates say. 137.C08.031 Yett, to that Deitie, w%5ch%6 dwells in you 137.C08.032 Your vertuous soule, I now not sacrifice; 137.C08.033 Theise are Petitions, and not Himnes: They sue 137.C08.034 Butt that I maie suruay the edifice, 137.C08.035 In all religions, as much care hath bein 137.C08.036 Of Temples frames, and bewty, as Rites within. 137.C08.037 As all w%5ch%6 goe to Rome, doe not therby 137.C08.038 Esteeme religions, and hold fast the best 137.C08.039 Butt serue discourse and curiositie 137.C08.040 With that w%5ch%6 dooth religion butt inuest. [CW:And.] 137.C08.041 And shunne th'intanglinge laborinths of schooles [f.50] 137.C08.042 And make itt witt, to thinck the wiser fooles. 137.C08.043 So in this Pilgrimage I woulde beholde 137.C08.044 You, as you are virtues Temple, not, as shee, 137.C08.045 Whatt walls of tender christall, her enfolde, 137.C08.046 What Eyes, hands, bosome, her pure Altars bee. 137.C08.047 And after this suruay, oppose to all 137.C08.048 Bablers of Chappells, you th'Escuriall. 137.C08.049 Yett, not as consecrate, butt meerelie as faire, 137.C08.050 On theise I cast a laye, and Countrie eye, 137.C08.051 Of past, and future stories, which are rare, 137.C08.052 I finde you all Record, all Prophesie, 137.C08.053 Purge butt the booke of fate, that itt admitt 137.C08.054 No, sad, nor guiltie legends, you are itt. 137.C08.055 Yf good and louelie were not one, of both 137.C08.056 You were the transcript, and originall, 137.C08.057 The Elements, the Parent, and the groath 137.C08.058 And euerie peece of you, is bothe their all, 137.C08.059 So intire, are all your deeds, and you, that you 137.C08.060 Must doe the same things still; you cannot twoe. [CW:Butt.] 137.C08.061 Butt thes>%Ve< (as nice thinn schoole diuinitie [f.50v] 137.C08.062 Serues Heresie to furder or represse) 137.C08.063 Taste of Poetique rage, or flatterie 137.C08.064 And need not, where all harts one truth profes. 137.C08.065 Oft from new profes%>pro>o