IDENTILIN$$ F141H06|HuntMan|O'Flahertie MS; Eng. 966.5\pp. 227-29\JSC\mf\10-14-94\P:DF\6-25-97\C:JGW\4-10-00; JSC 6-12-00 141.H06.HE1 %XTo the Countesse of Huntingdon. 141.H06.001 Man to Gods Image, Eve to mans was made 141.H06.002 Nor find wee that God breathd a soule in her 141.H06.003 Cannons will not Church functions you invade 141.H06.004 Nor Lawes to Ciuill office you preferre. 141.H06.005 Who vagrant transitory Comets sees 141.H06.006 Wonders because th'are rare. But a new starre 141.H06.007 Whose motion with the firmament agrees 141.H06.008 Is Miracle, for |there| no new things are. 141.H06.009 In woman so, perchance, mild Innocence 141.H06.010 A seldome Comet is, but Actiue good 141.H06.011 A Miracle which Reason scapes and sence 141.H06.012 ffor Art and Nature this in them withstood. 141.H06.013 As such a starre the Magis lead to view 141.H06.014 The Manger-cradled Infant, God below 141.H06.015 By vertues beames (by fame deriud from yo%5u%6) 141.H06.016 May apt soules, and the worst may vertue knowe. 141.H06.017 If the worlds Age and death bee argued well 141.H06.018 By the Sunns fall, w.%5ch%6 now towards Earth doth bend 141.H06.019 Then wee might feare that Vertue, since shee fell 141.H06.020 So low as woman, should bee neere her end 141.H06.021 But shee's not stoop'd but raysd, Exil'd by men, 141.H06.022 Shee fledd to heauen, that's heauenly things, that's you 141.H06.023 Shee was on all men thinly scatterd then 141.H06.024 But now %Ja#masse%K[Mvar:>amassd<] contracted in a few. 141.H06.025 Shee guilded vs, but yo%5u%6 are Gold, and shee 141.H06.026 Informed vs, but transubstantiats yo%5u%6 141.H06.027 Soft dispositions w.%5ch%6 ductile bee 141.H06.028 Elixar-like shee makes, not cleane but new. [CW:Though#yo%5u%6___] 141.H06.029 Though yo%5u%6 a wiues and mothers name retayne; [p.228] 141.H06.030 Tis not as Woman (for all are not so) 141.H06.031 But vertue, hauing made yo%5u%6 vertue, is fayne 141.H06.032 To adhere on those names, Her and yo%5u%6 to showe 141.H06.033 Else, beeing alike pure, wee should neyther see, 141.H06.034 As Water, beeing into Ayre rarifyd 141.H06.035 Neyther appeeres till in one cloud they bee: 141.H06.036 So, for our sakes yo%5u%6 doe lowe names abide. 141.H06.037 Taught by greate Constellations (w%5ch%6, beeing framd 141.H06.038 Of the most starrs, take lowe names, Crabb and Bull, 141.H06.039 When single Planets by the Gods ar nam'd) 141.H06.040 You couet not greate names, (of greate things full) 141.H06.041 So you, as woman, one doth comp%5r%6hend 141.H06.042 And, in the vayle of kindred, others see 141.H06.043 To some yo%5u%6 are reveald, as in a frind, 141.H06.044 And, as a vertuous Prince, far off, to mee 141.H06.045 To whome, (because from yo%5u%6 all Vertues flow 141.H06.046 And tis not none to dare contemplate yo%5u%6) 141.H06.047 I w.%5ch%6 %Jdoe#so%K[Mvar:>yo\u<], as yo%5r%6 true subiect, owe 141.H06.048 Some tribute for that, So these lines ar due 141.H06.049 If yo%5u%6 can thinke these flatteryes, they are 141.H06.050 ffor then yo%5r%6 Iudge%5mt%6 is below my prayse. 141.H06.051 If they |were| so, oft, flatteryes worke as farr 141.H06.052 As Counsells, and as farr th'Endeuo%5r%6 rayse. 141.H06.053 So my ill reaching |yo%5u%6| might there growe good. 141.H06.054 (But |I| remayne a poysond fountayne still) 141.H06.055 But not yo%5r%6 Vertue, Beauty, knowledge, Bloud 141.H06.056 ffor%>>%VAre< more aboue all flatterye%Ys%Z then my will [CW:And#if] 141.H06.057 And if I flatter any, tis not yo%5u%6 [p.229] 141.H06.058 But mine owne Iudgement, who did long agoe 141.H06.059 Pronounce that all these prayses should bee true 141.H06.060 And Vertue should yo%5r%6 Beauty and Birth outgrow 141.H06.061 Now that my Prophesyes are all fulfilld 141.H06.062 Rather then God should not bee hono%5rd%6 too 141.H06.063 And all those gifts confessd w.%5ch%6 hee instilld 141.H06.064 Yo%5r%6 selfe were bound to say that w.%5ch%6 I doe 141.H06.065 So I but yo%5r%6 Recorder am in this 141.H06.066 Or Mouth and Speaker of the vniuerse 141.H06.067 A ministeriall notary. ffor tis %Ynot#I%Z 141.H06.068 Not %Yyo%5u%6,%Z I, but Yo%5u%6 and fame that make%Ys%Z this vese[sic] 141.H06.069 I was yo%5r%6 Prophet in yo%5r%6 younger dayes 141.H06.070 And now yo%5r%6 Chaplayne God in yo%5u%6 to prayse 141.H06.0SS [four short horiz. lines as one "dotted" line across page] 141.H06.0$$ %1Eleven 4-l. sts plus one of 6 ll.; even numbered ll. ind 2 sp & final couplet ind 6 sp;%2 >>P.<< %1in top M left of HE; HE separated from text by a "dotted" line; || around words in this poem are scribal; the Mvar in l.47's LM is yo\u with the u directly above the o%2