IDENTILIN$$ F141C09|HuntMan|Luttrell MS|ff. 75v-76v\E:GL\P:EWS\o\7-5-95\C:JSC\Sept'95;6-4-01 141.C09.0HE %XTo the Countesse of Huntington%>Hunting>d>In<<] 141.C09.009 In woman so, perchance, mild Innocence [76] 141.C09.010 a seldome Com%Mett is, but Actiue good 141.C09.011 A miracle which reason scapes & sence 141.C09.012 for art & nature this in them withstood. 141.C09.013 As such a starre the mages lead to veiw 141.C09.014 the manger-cradled Infant, God below 141.C09.015 By virtues beames (by fame deriu'd from you) 141.C09.016 may apt soules, & y%e%6 worst may virtue knowe.| 141.C09.017 If the worlds age & death be argued well 141.C09.018 by the Suns fall, which now towardes Earth doth bend 141.C09.019 Then we might feare that virtue since she fell 141.C09.020 so low as woman, should be neere her end. 141.C09.021 But shee's not stoop'd but raisd, exil'd by men 141.C09.022 Shee fled to heauen, thats heauenly thinges, y%5ts%6 you, 141.C09.023 Shee was on all men thinly scatterd then 141.C09.024 But now a masse contracted in a few. 141.C09.025 She guilded vs, but you are Gold, & shee 141.C09.026 informed vs, but transubstantiates you 141.C09.027 Soft dispositions which ductile bee 141.C09.028 Elixar-like she makes, not cleane, but new. 141.C09.029 Though you a wiues & mothers name retayne 141.C09.030 tis not as woman (for all are not so) 141.C09.031 But virtue, hauing made you virtue, is faine 141.C09.032 to adhere on those names, Her & you to show, 141.C09.033 Else, being alike pure, we should neither see; 141.C09.034 as water, being into Ayre rarify'd 141.C09.035 neither appeares till in one cloud they be 141.C09.036 so, for o%5r%6 sakes you do low names abide. 141.C09.037 Taught by great Constellations (w%5ch%6 being fram'd 141.C09.038 of the most Starres, take low names, Crab & Bull, 141.C09.039 when single Planetts by the gods are nam'd) 141.C09.040 you couett not great names (of great thinges full.) [CW:om] 141.C09.041 So you, as woman, one doth comp%5r%6hend [76v] 141.C09.042 and, in the vayle of kindred, others see 141.C09.043 To some you are reveald, as in a freind, 141.C09.044 and as a virtuous Prince, farre off, to me 141.C09.045 To whom (because from you all virtues flow 141.C09.046 and tis not now to dare contemplate you) 141.C09.047 I which do so, as your true subiect, owe 141.C09.048 some tribute for that, so these lines are due 141.C09.049 If you can thinke these flatteryes, they are 141.C09.050 for then your Iudgment is below my prayse 141.C09.051 If they |were| so, oft, flatteryes worke as farre 141.C09.052 as Counsells, & as farre th'endeuour raise. 141.C09.053 So my ill reaching |you| might there grow good 141.C09.054 (but |I| remaine a poysond fountaine still) 141.C09.055 But not your virtue, Beauty, knowledge, Blood 141.C09.056 farre more aboue all flatteryes then my will 141.C09.057 And if I flatter any, tis not you 141.C09.058 but mine owne Iudgment, who did long agoe 141.C09.059 Pronounce that all those prayses should be true 141.C09.060 and virtue should your beauty & birth outgrow. 141.C09.061 now that my Prophecyes are all fulfilld 141.C09.062 rather then God should not be honourd too 141.C09.063 And all those guifts confessd which he instilld 141.C09.064 your selfe were bound to say that which I doe. 141.C09.065 So I but your Recorder am in this 141.C09.066 or mouth & speaker of y%5e%6 vniuerse 141.C09.067 A ministeriall Notary, for tis 141.C09.068 not I, but you & fame that make this verse 141.C09.069 I was your Prophet in your yonger dayes 141.C09.070 And now your Chaplaine God in you to prayse. [CW:>>where#is<<] 141.C09.0SS [horiz. lines] 141.C09.0$$ %1Poem div by line-breaks & horiz. lines into 4-line sts plus an ind final couplet (ll. 69-70); 2nd and 4th ll. of each st ind c. 4 sp%2