IDENTILIN$$  F137WN1|BedfRef|Dolau Cothi ms.|pp. 151-53\JW\EWS trans\2-3-95\P:TLP\o\5-13-95\C:JGW\9-29-99; JSC 11-10-99
137.WN1.HE1  To the Countesse of B./ [p.151]
137.WN1.001  Madam/ Yow haue refind mee; and to worthiest thinges
137.WN1.002  Vertue, Art, Beautie, Fortune now I see.,[sic]
137.WN1.003  Rarenes, or vse, not Nature Value bringes
137.WN1.004  And such as they are circumstancd they bee
137.WN1.005  Two ills can never perplexe vs, Sinne to excuse
137.WN1.006  But of two good thinges, wee may leaue and chuse.
137.WN1.007  Therfore att court, which is not vertues clime,
137.WN1.008  Where a transendent height (as lownes mee)
137.WN1.009  Makes her nott bee, or nott show, All my Rime
137.WN1.010  Your vertues chalenge, which there rarest bee.
137.WN1.011  For as darke Textes neede Notes, there Some mvst bee
137.WN1.012  To vsher Vertue, and saie; This is shee.
137.WN1.013  So in the Countrie is bewty. To this place
137.WN1.014  Yow are the Season, Madam, yow the Daie
137.WN1.015  Tis but a graue of Spices, till your face
137.Wn1.016  Awake them, and a thick close bud displaie. [CW:[lc]widdowd][miscatch]
137.WN1.017  Widdowd, and reclusd els, her Sweetes she enshrines [p.152]
137.WN1.018  As China, when the Sun att Brasill dines.
137.WN1.019  Out from your Chariott, Morninge breakes att night
137.WN1.020  And falsifies both computations, so,
137.WN1.021  Since a new world doth rise here from your light
137.WN1.022  Wee your new Creatures, by new reckoninges goe.
137.WN1.023  This showes that yow from nature, lothlye straie
137.WN1.024  That suffer nott an Artificiall daie.
137.WN1.025  In this yow haue made your Court the Antipodes
137.WN1.026  And wilde your Deligate, the Vulgar Sun
137.WN1.027  To doe profane Autumnall Offices,
137.WN1.028  Whilst hee to yow wee sacrifisers rvnne.
137.WN1.029  And whether Priests, or Orgaines, yow wee obay
137.WN1.030  Wee sound your Influence, and your Dictates say
137.WN1.031  Yett to that Dietye, which dwells in you
137.WN1.032  Your Vertuous Soule, I now not sacrifice,
137.WN1.033  These are Petitions, and nott Himmes; They sue
137.WN1.034  But that I may seruaie the Edifice;
137.WN1.035  In all Religions as mvch care hath bin
137.WN1.036  Of Temples, frames, and Beawtie, as Rites within
137.WN1.037  As all which goe to Roome, do not thereby 
137.WN1.038  Esteeme Religions, and hold fast the Best,
137.WN1.039  But serue discourse, and curiositie
137.WN1.040  With that, which doth Religion but invest;
137.WN1.041  And shun the Intangling Laberinthes of Schooles
137.WN1.042  And make itt Witt to thinke the wiser fooles. [CW:om]
137.WN1.043  So in this Pilgrimage I would behold [p.153]
137.WN1.044  Yow, as you are Vertues Temple nott as shee
137.WN1.045  What walls of tender Cristall her vnfold,
137.WN1.046  What eies, hands, bosome, her pure Altares bee. 
137.WN1.047  And after this suruaie, oppose to all
137.WN1.048  Bablers, of Chappells, yow the' Escuriall.
137.WN1.049  Yett not as Consecrate, but Meerely as faire
137.WN1.050  On thes I cast a lay, and Country Eie
137.WN1.051  Of past, and future Stories, which are rare,
137.WN1.052  I finde yow all Record, all Prophecie.
137.WN1.053  Purge but the Booke of Fate, that itt admitt
137.WN1.054  No sad nor guiltie Legends, yow are itt.
137.WN1.055  If good, and louely were not one, of both
137.WN1.056  Yow were the Transcript, and Originall;
137.WN1.057  The Elementes, the Parent, and the Growth
137.WN1.058  And every peece of yow, is both their All.
137.WN1.059  So intire are all your deedes, and yow, that yow
137.WN1.060  Must doe the same thinge still; yow cannott two.
137.WN1.061  But these (as nice thinne Schoole-Diuinitie
137.WN1.062  Serues Heresie to furder, or repres)
137.WN1.063  Tast of Poetique rage or Flatterie;
137.WN1.064  And need not where all hartes one truth profes.
137.WN1.065  Oft from new proofes, and new phrase, new doubts growe;
137.WN1.066  A strange attire aliens the Men wee knowe.
137.WN1.067  Leavinge then busie praise, and all appeale
137.WN1.068  To higher Courts, Sences decree is true;
137.WN1.069  The Mine the Magazin, the Common weale
137.WN1.070  The Storie of Beawtie;' In Twicknam is, and yow
137.WN1.071  Who hath seene one, would both; as who had bin
137.WN1.072  In Paradise, would seeke the Cherubin. [CW:to haue]
137.WN1.0SS  [scribal slash]
137.WN1.0$$  6-l. sts separated by vertical sp & dashes @ LM; ll. 2 & 4 of each 
st & l.72 ind; salutation centered on line under HE; original p. numbering = 171-73 -- her --> hee in line 28 2/13/17