IDENTILIN$$ F137H05|BedfRef|ms. 966.4 (Dobell)|ff. 165v-66v;pp.332-34\KJH\mf\7-19-94\P:DF\o\3-9-01\C:JSC\4-16-01 137.H05.HE1 %XTo the Countesse of Bedford. [numbered 162] 137.H05.001 Maddam, /you haue refin'd me; and to worthy'st thinges 137.H05.002 vertue, art, beauty; Fortune nowe I see, 137.H05.003 rarenes or vse, not nature value bringes; 137.H05.004 and such, as they are circumstancd', they be. 137.H05.005 Two ills can ne're perplexe vs, sinne t' excuse, 137.H05.006 But of two thinges we may leaue or chuse. 137.H05.007 Therefore at Court, w%5ch%6 is not vertues Clime 137.H05.008 where a Transcendent height (as lownes me) 137.H05.009 makes her not be, or not shewe; all my ryme 137.H05.010 your vertues challenge, w%5ch%6 there rarest be; 137.H05.011 for as darke Texts neede notes, there some must be 137.H05.012 to vsher vertue, and say, This is shee. 137.H05.013 So in the Countrey is beauty; to this place 137.H05.014 you are the Season, Maddam, you the day; 137.H05.015 'tis but a Graue of spices, till your face 137.H05.016 exhale them, and a thicke close bud display 137.H05.017 widdow'd and reclusd' els her sweets sh' enshrines, 137.H05.018 as China, when the Sunne at Brasil dines. 137.H05.019 Out from your chariott morninge breakes at night 137.H05.020 and falsifies both computao%Mns soe; 137.H05.021 since a newe world doth rise heere from your sight 137.H05.022 we, your newe Creatures, by newe reckonings goe; 137.H05.023 This shewes that you fro%M Nature loathly stray, 137.H05.024 that suffer not an artificiall day. 137.H05.025 In this you haue made the Court th' Antipodes [f.166/p.333] 137.H05.026 and willd' your Delegate, y%5e%6 vulgar sunne 137.H05.027 to doe profane Autumnall offices, 137.H05.028 whilst heere to you we sacrificers runne, 137.H05.029 and whether Preists or Organs,you we obey 137.H05.030 we sound yo%5r%6 influence, and your Dictats say. 137.H05.031 Yet to that Deity w%5ch%6 dwells in you, 137.H05.032 your vertuous Soule, I nowe not sacrifice, 137.H05.033 these are petitions and not Hymnes; they sue 137.H05.034 but that I may survay the edifice: 137.H05.035 In all relligions as much care hath byn 137.H05.036 of Temples frames and beauty, as rites within. 137.H05.037 As all w%5ch%6 goe to Rome, doe not thereby 137.H05.038 esteeme relligions, and hold fast the best, 137.H05.039 but serue Discourse, and Curiosity 137.H05.040 with that, w%5ch%6 doth Relligion, but invest 137.H05.041 and shunne th' intangling labyrinths of schooles 137.H05.042 and make it witt to %Jthinke%K y%5e%6 wiser fooles; [Mvar:make] 137.H05.043 Soe in this Pilgrimage, I would behold 137.H05.044 you, as y' are vertues Temple, not as shee; 137.H05.045 what walles of tender chrystall her enfold 137.H05.046 what eyes, handes, bosome, her pure Altars be 137.H05.047 and after this survay, oppose to all 137.H05.048 bablers of Chappells, you, th' Escuriall. 137.H05.049 yet not as Consecrate, but meerely, as faire [f.166v/p.334] 137.H05.050 on these I cast a lay and Countrey eye. 137.H05.051 Of past and future storyes, w%5ch%6 are rare, 137.H05.052 I find you all Record, all prophesy; 137.H05.053 purge but the booke of Fate, that it admitt 137.H05.054 no sad or guilty Legends, you are it. 137.H05.055 yf good and louely were not one, of both 137.H05.056 you %Jare%K the transcript, and Originall [Mvar:were] 137.H05.057 the elements, y%5e%6 parent, and the growth 137.H05.058 and euery piece of you, is %Jbut%K their all [Mvar:both] 137.H05.059 So entire are all yo%5r%6 deedes, and you, that you 137.H05.060 must do the same thinge still, you cannot two. 137.H05.061 But these (as nice thinne schoole-Divinity 137.H05.062 serues heresy to further, not represse) 137.H05.063 taste of Poetique rage, or flattery 137.H05.064 and need not, where all harts one truth professe, 137.H05.065 oft fro%M newe proofes, and newe phrase, newe doubts growe, 137.H05.066 as strange attire alters the men we knowe. 137.H05.067 Leavinge then busy prayse, and all appeale 137.H05.068 to higher Courts, sences decree in true 137.H05.069 The Myne, the Megazin, the Com%Monweale 137.H05.070 the story of beauty, in Twicknam is, and you 137.H05.071 who hath seene one, would both; as who had byn 137.H05.072 in Paradise, would seeke the Cherubin. 137.H05.0SS Scribal grape design. 137.H05.0$$ %1Divided into 6-l. stanzas by space, w/ 2d & 4th ll. indented a little, 5th &6th ll. indented more.%2