IDENTILIN$$  F138H06|O'Flahertie ms., Eng. 966.5|pp. 222-24\JSC\mf\10-14-94\P:DF\6-24-97\C:JGW\4-10-00; JSC 6-12-00
138.H06.HE1  %XTo the Countesse of B.
138.H06.001  T'haue written then >%Vwhen< yo%5u%6 wrote, seemd to mee
138.H06.002  Worst of spirituall Vices symony
138.H06.003  And not t'haue written then is little lesse
138.H06.004  Then worst of ciuill Vices, Thanklesnesse.
138.H06.005  In this my debt I seemd loth to confesse
138.H06.006  In that I seemd to shunn Beholdingnesse.
138.H06.007  But tis not so. Nothings, as I am, may
138.H06.008  Pay all they haue, and yet haue all to pay,
138.H06.009  Such borrow in theyr payments, and owe more
138.H06.010  By hauing leaue to write so, then before.
138.H06.011  Yet since rich mines in barren grounds are showne
138.H06.012  May not I yeeld (not Gold) but cole or stone?
138.H06.013  Temples were not demolishd though profane
138.H06.014  Heere Peter Ioues, there Paule hath Dians fane:
138.H06.015  So whether my Hymnes you admitt or choose
138.H06.016  In mee yo%5u%6 haue hallowed a pagan Muse
138.H06.017  And denized a stranger, who, (mis-taught
138.H06.018  By Blamers of the times they marr'd,) hath sought
138.H06.019  Vertues in Corners, w.%5ch%6 now brauely doe
138.H06.020  Shine in the worlds best parts, or All it, you.
138.H06.021  I haue bin told that Vertue in Courtiers harts
138.H06.022  Suffers an ostracisme and departs
138.H06.023  Profit, ease, fitnesse, plenty bidd it goe
138.H06.024  But whither, onely knowing yo%5u%6, %Ywee%Z>I< knowe
138.H06.025  your, (or yo%5u%6,) Vertue two vast vses serues
138.H06.026  It ransoms one Sexe, and one Court preserues.
138.H06.027  There's nothing but yo%5r%6 worth, w.%5ch%6 (beeing true)
138.H06.028  Is knowne to any other not to you,
138.H06.029  And you can never knowe it, to admitt
138.H06.030  No knowledge of yo%5r%6 worth is some of it.
138.H06.031  but since to you |yo%5r%6| prayses Discords bee
138.H06.032  Stoope others ills to meditate with mee. [CW:Oh#to#____][miscatch]
138.H06.033  Oh, to confesse wee knowe not what wee should [p.223]
138.H06.034  Is halfe excuse, Wee knowe not what wee would
138.H06.035  Lightenesse depresses vs, emptinesse fills
138.H06.036  Wee sweate and faynt yet still goe downe the hills.
138.H06.037  As new Philosophy arrests the sunn
138.H06.038  And bidds the passiue earth about it runn:
138.H06.039  So wee haue dul'd our Mind, It, hath no ends
138.H06.040  Onely the bodye's busy and pretends.
138.H06.041  As dead low Earth eclipses and controules
138.H06.042  The quick %Yand%Z#high moone: so doth the body soules.
138.H06.043  In none but vs ar such mixt Engines found
138.H06.044  As Hands of double office, ffor, the ground
138.H06.045  Wee till with them, and them to heauen >%Vwee< rayse
138.H06.046  Who prayerlesse labours, or without this prayes
138.H06.047  Doth but one halfe, that's none. Hee w.%5ch%6 sayd plow
138.H06.048  And looke not back, to looke vp doth allow.
138.H06.049  Good seede degenerates, and oft obayes
138.H06.050  The soyles disease, and into Cockle strayes.
138.H06.051  Let the minds thoughts but bee transplanted so
138.H06.052  Into the Body, and bastardly they growe.
138.H06.053  What Hate could hurt our bodyes like our Loue?
138.H06.054  Wee, but no forraigne Tyrants could, remoue
138.H06.055  These not engrau'd but in-borne dignities.
138.H06.056  Caskets of soules, Temples, and Pallaces
138.H06.057  ffor bodyes shall from death redeemed bee
138.H06.058  Soules but p%5r%6serud, borne naturally free.
138.H06.059  As men to our prisons now, soules to vs ar sent
138.H06.060  W.%5ch%6 learne Vice there and come in innocent.
138.H06.061  ffirst seedes of every creature are in vs,
138.H06.062  What ere the world hath, badd, or precious
138.H06.063  Mans body can produce. Hence hath it beene
138.H06.064  That stones, wormes, froggs and snakes in man are seene
138.H06.065  But who ere saw, (though Nature can worke so,)
138.H06.066  That Pearle or Gold or Corne in man did growe?
138.H06.067  Wee haue added to the world Virginia, and sent
138.H06.068  Two new stars lately to the firmament
138.H06.069  Why grudge wee vs, not heauen, the dignity
138.H06.070  To increase with ours those fayre soules company? [CW:But]
138.H06.071  But I must end this letter, Though it doe [p.224]
138.H06.072  Stand on two Truths, neyther is truth to you.
138.H06.073  Vertue hath some perversenesse for shee will
138.H06.074  Neyther beleeue her good nor others ill.
138.H06.075  Even in |yo%5u%6| Vertues best Paradise,
138.H06.076  Vertue hath some, but wise, degrees of vice:
138.H06.077  Too many Vertues, or too much of one
138.H06.078  Begets on yo%5u%6 vniust suspition
138.H06.079  And Ignorance of Vice makes Vertue lesse
138.H06.080  Quenching compassion of our wretchednesse.
138.H06.081  But these are riddles, some aspersion
138.H06.082  Of Vice becomes well some complection.
138.H06.083  Statesmen purge Vice with Vice, and may corrode
138.H06.084  The badd with bad, a Spider with a Toade
138.H06.085  ffor so Ill thralls not them, but they %Jthrall%K[var:>tame<] ill
138.H06.086  And make her doe much good agaynst her will.
138.H06.087  But in |your| Com%Monwealth, or world in yo%5u%6
138.H06.088  Vice hath no office, nor good worke to doe.
138.H06.089  Take then no vitious purge, but bee content
138.H06.090  With cordiall Vertue yo%5r%6 knowne nourishment.|
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