IDENTILIN$$  F137H06|BedfRef|O'Flahertie ms., Eng. 966.5|pp. 193-95\JSC\mf\10-10-94\P:DF\o\6-24-97\C:JGW\4-10-00; JSC 6-7-00
137.H06.HE1  %XTo the Countesse of Bedford. /Twitnam
137.H06.001  Madame. /You haue refin'd mee, and to worthiest things,
137.H06.002  Vertue, art, beauty, fortune; Now I see
137.H06.003  Rarenesse, or vse, not nature, valew brings
137.H06.004  And such as they ar circumstanc'd they bee
137.H06.005  Two Ills can ne're perplex vs sinne t'excuse
137.H06.006  But of 2 good things wee may leaue and choose
137.H06.007  Therefore at Court, w%5ch%6 is not Vertues Clime,
137.H06.008  Where a transcendent [sic]heigth, (as lownesse mee)
137.H06.009  Makes her not bee, or not shew, all my Rime
137.H06.010  Yo%5r%6 vertues challenge w.%5ch%6 there->the>%Y%Jre%K%Z<->the>%Vre< rarest bee
137.H06.011  ffor as dark Texts neede notes, some, there, must bee
137.H06.012  To vsher vertue, and say, This is shee.
137.H06.013  So in the Country is beauty. To this place
137.H06.014  You ar the season, Madame, yo%5u%6 the day
137.H06.015  Tis but a graue of Spices till yo%5r%6 face
137.H06.016  Exhale them, and a thick close budd display
137.H06.017  Widdowd and reclus'd else her sweets she inshrines
137.H06.018  As China when the Sunn at Brasile dines. [CW:Out__]
137.H06.019  Out from yo%5r%6 Chariot morning breakes at night [p.194] 
137.H06.020  And falsfyes both computations so
137.H06.021  Since a new world doth rise heere from yo%5r%6 %Jsight%K[Mvar:>light<]
137.H06.022  Wee, yo%5r%6 new Creatures, by new reckonings goe
137.H06.023  This shewes that yo%5u%6 from Nature lothly stray
137.H06.024  That suffer not an artificiall day
137.H06.025  In this yo%5u%6 haue made the Court th'Antipodes
137.H06.026  And willd yo%5r%6 delegate, the vulgar Sunne
137.H06.027  To doe prophane Autumnall offices
137.H06.028  Whilst heere to yo%5u%6 wee sacrificers runn
137.H06.029  And whether Priests or Organs, yo%5u%6 w'obey
137.H06.030  Wee sound yo%5r%6 Influence, and yo%5r%6 dictates say.
137.H06.031  Yet to that Deity w.%5ch%6 dwells in yo%5u%6
137.H06.032  (Yo%5r%6 vertuous soule) I now not sacrifice.
137.H06.033  These are Petitions, and not Hymnes; they sue
137.H06.034  But that I may survay the Edifice.
137.H06.035  %YAnd%Z>In< %Yshunn%Z>all< %Yth'Entang%Z>Religions,< >as< much care hath bin
137.H06.036  Of Temples frames and beauty, as Rites within
137.H06.037  As all w.%5ch%6 goe to Rome, doe not thereby
137.H06.038  Esteeme Religions, and hold fast the best
137.H06.039  But serue discourse, and Curiosity
137.H06.040  With that w.%5ch%6 doth Religion but invest
137.H06.041  And shun th'intangling Labyrinth of Schooles
137.H06.042  And make it witt to thinke the wiser fooles
137.H06.043  So in this Pilgrimage I would behold
137.H06.044  Yo%5u%6, as yo%5u%6 are vertues Temple, not as shee
137.H06.045  What walls of tender Christall her infold
137.H06.046  What Eyes, Hands, Bosome (her pure Altars) bee
137.H06.047  And after this suruey, oppose to all
137.H06.048  Babblers of Chappels, yo%5u%6 th'Escuriall [CW:om]
137.H06.049  Yet, not as consecrate, but meerely as fayre [p.195]
137.H06.050  On these I cast a Lay and Country-Eye.
137.H06.051  Of past and future storyes w.%5ch%6 are rare
137.H06.052  I find yo%5u%6 all Record, all prophesy
137.H06.053  Purge but the booke of Fate, that it admitt
137.H06.054  No sadd nor guilty Legends, yo%5u%6 are it
137.H06.055  If good and learned, were not one, Of both
137.H06.056  Yo%5u%6 were the Transcript, yo%5u%6 th'originall
137.H06.057  The Elements, the Parent, and the Growth
137.H06.058  And every peece of yo%5u%6 is worth theyr All.
137.H06.059  So entire are all yo%5r%6 deeds, and yo%5u%6; that you
137.H06.060  Must doe the same thing still, yo%5u%6 cannot two
137.H06.061  But these (as nice thinne Schoole Diuinity
137.H06.062  Serues Heresy to further or represse)
137.H06.063  Tast of poetique rage or flattery
137.H06.064  And neede not where all harts one truth p%Pfesse
137.H06.065  Oft from new proofes, and new phrase, new doubts grow
137.H06.066  A strange attyre alters the man wee knowe
137.H06.067  Leauing then busy prayse, and all Appeale
137.H06.068  To higher Courts, sences decree is true
137.H06.069  The Mine the Magazine, the Com%Mon Weale
137.H06.070  The story of Beauty in Twitnam is and yo%5u%6
137.H06.071  Who hath seene one would both, as who had bin
137.H06.072  In paradise would seeke the Cherubin
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