IDENTILIN$$ F137SP1|BedfRef|St. Paul's MS 49.B.43|ff. 49v-51\KJH\mf\1-10-95\P:GAS\o\8-2-95\C:JSC\'95;7-23-01
137.SP1.HE1 %XTo y%5e%6 Countesse of Bedforde
137.SP1.001 Madam. /Yo:%5u%6 haue refinde me; And to worthiest things                                   
137.SP1.002 Vertue, Art, Bewty, fortune, now I see,
137.SP1.003 Rarenes, or vse, not nature value brings
137.SP1.004 And such as they are circumstancd, they be
137.SP1.005 Two ills can nere perplexe vs, sinn to excuse
137.SP1.006 But of two good things, we may leaue & chuse.|
137.SP1.007 Therefore at Court, w%5ch%6 is not vertues clyme
137.SP1.008 Where a transcendent height, (as lownes me) [CW:om]
137.SP1.009 Makes her not be, or not showe; All my rime [f.50]
137.SP1.010 Your vertues challenge, w%5ch%6 there rarest be.
137.SP1.011 For as darke textes needs notes: there some must be
137.SP1.012 To vsher vertue, and say, This is shee.|
137.SP1.013 So in y%5e%6 Countrey is bewty; To this place
137.SP1.014 Yo:%5u%6 are the season Madam, yo:%5u%6 the daie
137.SP1.015 Tis but a graue of spices, till your face
137.SP1.016 Exhale them, and a thick close bud display.
137.SP1.017 Widowd and reclusd elce, her sweets she enshrines
137.SP1.018 As China when the Sunne at Brasill dines.|
137.SP1.019 Out from yo:%5r%6 Chariott morning breaks at night
137.SP1.020 And falsifies both Computaco%Mns soe
137.SP1.021 Since a new world doth rise here from yo:%5r%6 sight
137.SP1.022 Wee your new creatures, by new reckonings goe.
137.SP1.023 This shewes y%5t%6 yo:%5u%6 from nature lothly stray
137.SP1.024 That suffer not an Artificiall daie.|
137.SP1.025 In this yo:%5u%6 haue made the court the Antipodes
137.SP1.026 And willd your Delegate the vulger Sunne
137.SP1.027 To doe profane Autumnall offices
137.SP1.028 Whilest here to yo:%5u%6, we Sacrificers runne.
137.SP1.029 Or whether preists, or organes, yo:%5u%6 we obey
137.SP1.030 Wee sound yo:%5r%6 influence and yo:%5r%6 dictates say [CW:Yett]
137.SP1.031 Yet to y%5t%6 deity w%5ch%6 dwells in you [f.50v]
137.SP1.032 Your vertuous soule, I now not sacrifise
137.SP1.033 Theis are petico%Mns, and not Himms, They sue
137.SP1.034 But y%5t%6 I may survey the Edifice
137.SP1.035 In all religions as much care hath bin
137.SP1.036 Of Temples frames, & bewty, as Rites w%5th%6in.|
137.SP1.037 As all w%5ch%6 goe to Roome, doe not thereby
137.SP1.038 Esteeme religions, and hold fast the best
137.SP1.039 But serve discourse, and curiosity
137.SP1.040 W%5th%6 that w%5ch%6 doth religion but invest
137.SP1.041 And shunn th entangling laberinthes of schooles
137.SP1.042 And make yt will, to thinke y%5e%6 wiser fooles.|
137.SP1.043 So in this pilgrimage I would behould
137.SP1.044 Yo:%5u%6, as you are vertues temple, not as she
137.SP1.045 What walls of tender Christall her enfold
137.SP1.046 What eyes, hand, bosome, her pure Alters be
137.SP1.047 And after this survey, oppose to all 
137.SP1.048 Bablers of Chappells, yo:%5u%6 th Escuriall.|
137.SP1.049 Yett not as consecrate, but meerly >%Vas<%Yso%Z faire
137.SP1.050 On theis I cast a lay, and countrey eye
137.SP1.051 Of past and future stories w%5ch%6 are rare
137.SP1.052 I finde yo:%5u%6 all record, all prophecy
137.SP1.053 Purge but the booke of >%Vfate< y%5t%6 it admitt [CW:om]
137.SP1.054 No sad, nor guiley legends, yo:%5u%6 are itt.| [f.51v]
137.SP1.055 If good and lovely weare not one of both
137.SP1.056 Yo:%5u%6 weare the transcript, and originall.
137.SP1.057 The elements the Parent, & the grouth
137.SP1.058 And everie peece of yo:%5u%6, is both their all
137.SP1.059 So intire are all your deeds, and yo:%5u%6 that yo:%5u%6
137.SP1.060 Must doe the same thinge still; yo:%5u%6 cannot two.|
137.SP1.061 But theis (as nice thinne Schoole devinity[no")"]
137.SP1.062 Serves Heresy to further, or represse
137.SP1.063 Taste of poetique rage, or flatterie
137.SP1.064 And need not, where all hearts one truth p%Pfess
137.SP1.065 Oft from new proofes, and new phraze, new doubts growe
137.SP1.066 As strange attire, aliens the men, we know.|
137.SP1.067 Leaving then buisy praise, and all appeale
137.SP1.068 To Higher Courts, Senses Decree is true
137.SP1.069 The Myne, the Magazin, the common weale
137.SP1.070 The storie of bewty in Twicknam is, & yo:%5u%6
137.SP1.071 Who hath seene one, would both, As who had bin
137.SP1.072 In Paradice, would seeke the Cherubine.| [CW:om]
137.SP1.0SS Scribal flourish
137.SP1.0$$ %1Div into 6-ll. sts; no ind%2