IDENTILIN$$  F137C09|BedfRef|Luttrell MS|ff. 60-61\E:GL\P:EWS\o\7-6-95\C:JSC\Sept'95;6-1-01
137.C09.0HE  %XTo the Countesse of Bedford.
137.C09.001  Madame /You haue refin'd me, & to worthyest thinges,
137.C09.002  Virtue, art, beuty, fortune; Now I see
137.C09.003  Rarenesse, or Vse, not Nature, value bringes
137.C09.004  And such as they are circumstanc'd they be
137.C09.005  Two Ills can ne're perplex vs sinne t%Yo%Z'excuse
137.C09.006  But of two good thinges we may leaue & choose.
137.C09.007  Therfore at Court w%5ch%6 is not virtues Clime
137.C09.008  where a transcendent height (as lownesse me)
137.C09.009  Makes her not bee or not shew; all my rime
137.C09.010  your virtues challenge which there rarest bee
137.C09.011  for as darke texts need notes, some |there| must bee
137.C09.012  to vsher virtue & say, This is shee.
137.C09.013  So in the Country is bewty; To this place
137.C09.014  you are the season, Madame, you the day
137.C09.015  Tis but a graue of spices till your face
137.C09.016  exhale them, & a thicke close budd display.
137.C09.017  widdow'd & reclus'd else her sweets she inshrines
137.C09.018  As china when the Sunne at Braseele dines.
137.C09.019  Out from your Chariott morning breakes at night
137.C09.020  and falsifyes both computations so
137.C09.021  Since a new world doth rise heere from your sight
137.C09.022  wee, your new Creatures, by new reconings goe
137.C09.023  This shewes that you from nature lothly stray
137.C09.024  That suffer not an artificiall day. [CW:om]
137.C09.025  In this you haue made the Court th'Antipodes [60v]
137.C09.026  and will'd your delegate, the vulgar Sun
137.C09.027  To doe prophane autumnall offices
137.C09.028  whilst heere to you we sacrificers runne
137.C09.029  And whether Preists or Organs, you w'obay
137.C09.030  wee sound your Influence & your dictates say.
137.C09.031  Yet to that Deitye which dwells in you
137.C09.032  (your virtuous soule) I now not sacrifice.
137.C09.033  These are Petitions & not Hymnes, they sue
137.C09.034  but that I may survay the Edifice.
137.C09.035  In all religions as much care hath binne
137.C09.036  of Temples frames as beauty, as Rites within.
137.C09.037  As all w%5ch%6 goe to Rome, do not therby
137.C09.038  Esteeme Religions, & hold fast the best
137.C09.039  But serue Discourse & Curiositye
137.C09.040  with that which doth religion but %Jinvest%K[RM:>%Jinvest%K<]
137.C09.041  And shunne th'intangling labyrinth of Schooles
137.C09.042  And make it witt to thinke y%5e%6 wiser fooles.
137.C09.043  So in this Pilgrimage I would behold
137.C09.044  you, as you are virtues Temple, not as Shee
137.C09.045  what walls of tender christall her infold
137.C09.046  what Eyes, hands, bosome, (her pure Altars) bee
137.C09.047  And after this survey, oppose to all
137.C09.048  Bablers of chappells, you th'Escuriall.
137.C09.049  Yet not as Consecrate, but meerly as faire
137.C09.050  On these I cast a lay & country Eye.
137.C09.051  of past & future storyes which are rare
137.C09.052  I find you all Record, all Prophesye
137.C09.053  Purge but y%5e%6 booke of Fate, that it admitt
137.C09.054  No sadd nor guilty Legends, you are it. [CW:>>If#good<<]
137.C09.055  If good & learned were not one, of both [61]
137.C09.056  you were the Transcript, you th'Originall
137.C09.057  The Elements, the Parent, & the Groath
137.C09.058  and euery peece of you is worth their All.
137.C09.059  So entire are all your deeds, & you, that you
137.C09.060  must do y%5e%6 same thing still, you can%Mot two.
137.C09.061  But these (as nice thinne Schoole Diuinitye
137.C09.062  serues Heresye to further or represse)
137.C09.063  Tast of Poetique rage or flattery
137.C09.064  and need not where all hearts one truth professe.
137.C09.065  oft from new profes, & new phrase, new doubts grow
137.C09.066  A strange attire alters the man we know.
137.C09.067  Leauing then busy praise, & all Appeale
137.C09.068  to higher Courts, Sences decree is true
137.C09.069  The Mine, y%5e%6 magazine, y%5e%6 Com%Mon weale
137.C09.070  the Story of bewty in Twitnam is, & you.
137.C09.071  who hath seene one, would both, as who hath binne
137.C09.072  In Paradise would seeke the Cherubin.
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