IDENTILIN$$ F139C09|BedfTwi|Luttrell MS|ff. 74v-75v\E:GL\P:EWS\o\7-7-95\C:JSC\Sept'95;6-04-01 139.C09.0HE %XTo the Countesse of B: /%Xat New-yeares tide. 139.C09.001 This Twylight of two yeares, not past, nor next 139.C09.002 Some Embleme is of me, or I of this 139.C09.003 Who (meteor-like of stuffe & forme perplext 139.C09.004 Whose what & where in Disputation is) 139.C09.005 If I should call me any thinge should misse. 139.C09.006 I sum%Me my yeares & me, & find me not 139.C09.007 Debtor to th'old, nor Creditor to new: 139.C09.008 |That| cannot say my thankes I haue forgott 139.C09.009 Nor trust I |this| with hopes. And yet scarce true 139.C09.010 This brauery is, since these times shewd me you.| 139.C09.011 In recompence I would shew future times 139.C09.012 what you were, & teach them to vrge towards such: 139.C09.013 Verse enbalmes virtue, & Tombes or Thrones of rimes 139.C09.014 Preserue fraile transitory fame as much 139.C09.015 As Spice doth bodyes from corrupt Ayres touch. [CW:>>mine<<] 139.C09.016 Mine are short-liv'd, the Tincture of your name [75] 139.C09.017 Creates in them, but dissipates as fast 139.C09.018 New Spiritts. ffor strong %JAgents%K[RM:%JAgents%K] with y%5e%6 same 139.C09.019 fforce y%5t%6 doth warme & cherish vs, doe wast. 139.C09.020 kept hott with strong extracts, no bodyes last. 139.C09.021 So my verse built of your iust praise might want 139.C09.022 Reason & likelihood, the firmest base, 139.C09.023 And made of Miracle (now faith is scant) 139.C09.024 Will vanish soone & so possesse no place, 139.C09.025 And you & it too much grace might disgrace. 139.C09.026 When all (as Truth com%Mands assent) confesse 139.C09.027 All Truth of you, yet they will doubt how I 139.C09.028 (One corne of one low Anthills dust, & lesse) 139.C09.029 Should name, know, or exp%5r%6sse a thing so high 139.C09.030 And, (not an Inch) measure Infinitye. 139.C09.031 I can%Mot tell them, nor myselfe, nor you 139.C09.032 But leaue, least Truth be indaungered by my praise 139.C09.033 And turne to God, who knowes I thinke this true 139.C09.034 And vseth oft when such a heart mis-sayes, 139.C09.035 To make it good: ffor such a prayser prayes. 139.C09.036 Hee will best teach you how you should lay out 139.C09.037 Your stocke of beauty, learning, favour, bloud, 139.C09.038 Hee will perplex securitye with doubt 139.C09.039 and cleere those doubts hid from you, & shew you good 139.C09.040 and so increase your Appetite & ffoode. 139.C09.041 Hee will teach you that Good & bad haue not 139.C09.042 one Latitude in Cloysters & in Court. 139.C09.043 Indifferent, there, the greatest space hath gott 139.C09.044 some pitty is not good, there, some vaine disport 139.C09.045 on this side sinne, with that place doth comport. [CW:om] 139.C09.046 Yet hee, as he bounds seas, will fix your howres [75v] 139.C09.047 which Pleasure & delight may not ingresse 139.C09.048 And (though what none else lost be trulyest yours) 139.C09.049 Hee will make you, what you did not, possesse 139.C09.050 By vsing others, not vice, but weaknesse. 139.C09.051 Hee will make you speake Truths, & credibly 139.C09.052 and make you doubt y%5t%6 others do not soe 139.C09.053 Hee will prouide you keyes & lockes to spy 139.C09.054 and scape spyes, to good ends, & hee will show 139.C09.055 what you may not acknowledge, what not know. 139.C09.056 For your owne Conscience he giues Innocence 139.C09.057 but for your fame a discreet warinesse 139.C09.058 And (though to scape then to reuenge offence 139.C09.059 be better) he shewes both, & to rep%5r%6sse 139.C09.060 Ioy when your state swells, Sadnes when tis lesse. 139.C09.061 From need of teares he will defend your Soule. 139.C09.062 or make a re-baptizing of one teare 139.C09.063 Hee cannot (that's he will not) disenrolle 139.C09.064 your name. And when with actiue ioy we heare 139.C09.064 This priuate Gospell, Then tis o%5r%6 new-yeare.| 139.C09.0SS [horiz. lines] 139.C09.0$$ %1Div by horiz. ll. into 5-line sts in which the 2d, 4th & 5th ll. of each ind ca. 4 sp; two short, horiz. ll. separate HE from body%2