IDENTILIN$$  F139H06|BedfTwi|O'Flahertie MS; Eng. 966.5|pp. 224-26\JSC\mf\10-14-94\P:DF\6-24-97\C:JGW\4-10-00; JSC 6-12-00
139.H06.HE1  %XTo the Countesse of B. /%Xat Newyeeres tide.
139.H06.001  This Twylight of two yeeres, not past, nor next
139.H06.002  Some Embleme is of mee, or I of this
139.H06.003  Who (Meteor-like of stuff and forme perplext,
139.H06.004  Whose What and where in Disputation is)
139.H06.005  If I should call mee any thing, should misse [CW:I#sum%Me___]
139.H06.006  I sum%Me %Jmy%K[var:>the<] yeares and mee, and find mee not [p.225]
139.H06.007  Debtour to th'old, nor Credito%5r%6 to >%Vth'<new
139.H06.008  |That| cannot say my thankes I haue forgot
139.H06.009  Nor trust I |this| with hopes, And yet scarse true
139.H06.010  This brauery is, since these times shewd mee yo.%5u%6
139.H06.011  In recompence I would shewe future times
139.H06.012  What yo%5u%6 were, and teach them to vrge towards such
139.H06.013  Verse embalmes Vertue, and Tombs or Thrones of Rimes
139.H06.014  Preserue frayle transitory fame as much
139.H06.015  As spice doth bodyes from corrupt Ayres touch
139.H06.016  Mine are short liv'd, the Tincture of yo%5r%6 name
139.H06.017  Creates in them, but dissipates as fast
139.H06.018  New spirits ffor strong Agents, with the same
139.H06.019  fforce that doth warme and cherish vs, doe wast.
139.H06.020  Kept hott with strong extracts, no bodyes last.
139.H06.021  So my Verse built of yo%5r%6 iust prayse might want
139.H06.022  Reason and likelyhood, the firmest base,
139.H06.023  And made of Miracle, (now fayth is scant)
139.H06.024  Will vanish soone, and so possesse no place.
139.H06.025  And yo%5u%6 and it too much grace might disgrace
139.H06.026  When All (as Truth com%Mands Assent) confesse
139.H06.027  All Truth of yo%5u%6, yet they will doubt how I
139.H06.028  (One Corne of one low Anthills dust, and lesse)
139.H06.029  Should name, knowe or exp%5r%6sse a thing so high
139.H06.030  And, (not an Inch) measure Infinity
139.H06.031  I can not tell them, nor my selfe, nor you
139.H06.032  But leaue, least Truth bee indangerd by my prayse
139.H06.033  And turne to God, who knowes I thinke this true
139.H06.034  And vseth oft, when such a hart missayes,
139.H06.035  To make it good. ffor such a prayser prayes. [CW:Hee___]
139.H06.036  Hee will best teach you how yo%5u%6 should lay out [p.226]
139.H06.037  Yo%5r%6 stock of Beauty, Learning, ffauour, Bloud
139.H06.038  Hee will perplexe Security with doubt
139.H06.039  And cleere those doubts hidd from yo%5u%6, and shewe yo%5u%6 good
139.H06.040  And so encrease yo%5r%6 Appetite and foode.
139.H06.041  Hee will teach you that Good and badd haue not
139.H06.042  One Latitude in Cloysters and in Court
139.H06.043  Indifferent, there, the greatest space hath got
139.H06.044  Some pitty is not good, there, some vayne disport
139.H06.045  On this side sinne, with that place %Jdoth%K[var:>may<] comport
139.H06.046  Yet hee, as hee bounds seas, will fixe yo%5r%6 howres
139.H06.047  W.%5ch%6 pleasure and delight may not ingresse
139.H06.048  And (though what none else lost bee trulyest yours)
139.H06.049  Hee will make yo%5u%6, what yo%5u%6 did not, possesse
139.H06.050  By vsing others, not Vice, but weaknesse
139.H06.051  Hee will make yo%5u%6 speake truths, and credibly,
139.H06.052  And make yo%5u%6 doubt that others do not so
139.H06.053  Hee will prouide yo%5u%6 keyes and locks to spie
139.H06.054  And scape spyes, to good ends, and hee will showe
139.H06.055  What yo%5u%6 may not acknowledge, what not knowe.
139.H06.056  ffor yo%5r%6 owne Conscience hee giues Innocence
139.H06.057  But for yo%5r%6 fame a discreete warinesse
139.H06.058  And (though to scape then to revenge offence
139.H06.059  Bee better) hee shewes both, and to represse
139.H06.060  Ioy when yo%5r%6 state swells, sadnesse when tis lesse.
139.H06.061  ffrom neede of Teares hee will defend yo%5r%6 soule
139.H06.062  Or make a re-baptizing of one Teare
139.H06.063  Hee cannot (that's hee will not) disenroule
139.H06.064  Yo%5r%6 Name; And when with Actiue Joye wee heare
139.H06.065  This priuate Gospell, Then tis our New yeare.|
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