IDENTILIN$$  F141WN1|HuntMan|Dolau Cothi ms.|pp. 160-63\JW\EWS hwt\2-3-95\P:T-LP\o\5-13-95\C:JGW\9-29-99; JSC 10-20-99
141.WN1.HE1  To the:[sic] C: of H: [p.160]
141.WN1.001  Madam/ Man to Gods Image Eue to mans was made,
141.WN1.002  Nor finde Wee that God breathd a Soule in her.
141.WN1.003  Cannons will nott church functions you invade,
141.WN1.004  Nor lawes to Ciuill office yow preferr.
141.WN1.005  Who Vagrant transitory Commetts sees,
141.WN1.006  Wounders because they are rare: But a new starr,
141.WN1.007  Whose motion with the Firmament agrees,
141.WN1.008  Is Miracle for there no new things are.
141.WN1.009  In Woman so perchance mild Innocence
141.WN1.010  A seldome Commett is, but actiue good
141.WN1.011  A Miracle, which reason scapes, and sense,
141.WN1.012  For art And Nature, this in them withstood [CW:om]
141.WN1.013  As such a Starr, thy Mages ledd to view [p.161]
141.WN1.014  The Manger cradeld Infant, God below
141.WN1.015  By vertues beames, by fame deriud from you
141.WN1.016  May apt Soules haue, and worst may vertue know
141.WN1.017  If the World age, and death, bee argued well
141.WN1.018  By the Suns fall; which now towards earth doth bend
141.WN1.019  Then wee might feare; that vertue since itt fell
141.WN1.020  So low as woman, should bee neere her end.
141.WN1.021  But shees not stoopd, but raisd; exild, by men,
141.WN1.022  Shee fled to heaven; thats heavenly things, thats you:
141.WN1.023  Shee was in all men thinly scattered then,
141.WN1.024  But now amassd, contracted in a few.
141.WN1.025  Shee gilded vs; but you are gold; and shee
141.WN1.026  Vs shee informd, but transubstantiates yow.
141.WN1.027  Soft dispositions, which ductile bee
141.WN1.028  Elixar like, shee makes not cleane but new.
141.WN1.029  Though yow a wifes, and Mothers name retaine,
141.WN1.030  Tis,[sic] not as Woman; for all are not so;
141.WN1.031  But vertue having made you Vertue, is faine
141.WN1.032  To adhere in these names, her and you to show.
141.WN1.033  Els beinge alike pure, wee should nether see,
141.WN1.034  As water, being into aire rarefied
141.WN1.035  Neither appeare, till in one clowd they bee
141.WN1.036  So for our sakes, yow doe low names abide.
141.WN1.037  Tought by greate Constellations, which being framd
141.WN1.038  Of the Most Starrs, take low names; Crabb, and Bull
141.WN1.039  When single Plannetts by the Gods are namd
141.WN1.040  You covett nott great Names of great things full. [CW:So#you.]
141.WN1.041  So you, as woman one doth comprehend, [p.162]
141.WN1.042  And in the Vale of kindred, others see;
141.WN1.043  To some you are revealed as a friend,
141.WN1.044  And as a Vertuous Prince farr of to mee.
141.WN1.045  To whome, because from you all vertues flowe
141.WN1.046  And tis nott none to dare contemplate you
141.WN1.047  I which doe [4-em#space] as your true Subiect, owe
141.WN1.048  Some tribute for that; so these lines are due
141.WN1.049  If you can thinke these flatteries, they are;
141.WN1.050  For then your iudgment is below my praise
141.WN1.051  If they were so, oft flatteries worke as farr,
141.WN1.052  As counsailes, and as farr the Endeauour raise
141.WN1.053  So my ill reaching you, might there grow good,
141.WN1.054  But I remaine a poysoned fountaine still.
141.WN1.055  But not your beautie, vertue, knowledge, blood
141.WN1.056  Are more aboue all flatterie then my will
141.WN1.057  And if I flatter any, tis not you
141.WN1.058  But mine owne iudgment, who did long agoe
141.WN1.059  Pronounce that all these Praiers should bee true,
141.WN1.060  And vertue should your beautie, and birth outgrowe.
141.WN1.061  Now that my Prophesies are all fulfild
141.WN1.062  Rather then God should not bee honord too
141.WN1.063  And all those guifts confessd, which hee instyld,
141.WN1.064  Your selfe were bound to saie, that which I doe
141.WN1.065  Soe I but your Recorder am in this
141.WN1.066  Or mouth, and Speaker of the Vniuerse
141.WN1.067  A Ministeriall Notarie: for tis
141.WN1.068  Nott I, but you, and fame, that make thy Verse. [CW:om]
141.WN1.069  I was your Prophett in your younger daies [p.163]
141.WN1.070  And now your Chaplein, God, in you doe praise.
141.WN1.0SS  [scribal slash]
141.WN1.0$$  Seventeen 4-l. sts + concluding couplet, all separated by vertical sp; even numbered lines ind; 
salutation centered on line under HE; original numbering was 181-84