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142.00G.0HE  %X%1A Letter to the Lady%2 Carey, %1and%2 M%5ris%6 Essex Riche, %/%1from Amyens%2.
142.00G.001  M#A#D#A#M, %/H%+Ere where by All, All Saints invoked are,
142.00G.002  'Twere two much schism to be singular,
142.00G.003  And 'gainst a practice general to war.
142.00G.004  Yet turning to Sanicts[sic], should my'humility
142.00G.005  To other Sainct than you directed be,
142.00G.006  That were to make my schism heresie.
142.00G.007  Nor would I be a Convertite so cold,
142.00G.008  As not to tell it; If this be too bold,
142.00G.009  Pardons are in this market cheaply sold. [CW: Where]
142.00G.010  Where because Faith is in too low degree, [p.189]
142.00G.011  I thought it some Apostleship in me
142.00G.012  To speak things which by faith alone I see.
142.00G.013  That is, of you who are a firmament
142.00G.014  Of virtues, where no one is grown, or spent,
142.00G.015  They are your materials, not your ornament.
142.00G.016  Others whom we call vertuous, are not so
142.00G.017  In their whole substance, but, their vertues grow
142.00G.018  But in their humours, and at seasons show.
142.00G.019  For when, through tastless flat humidity
142.00G.020  In dowe-bak'd men some harmlessness we see,
142.00G.021  'Tis but his %1flegm%2 that's %1Vertuous%2, and not Hee:
142.00G.022  So is the Blood sometimes; Who ever ran
142.00G.023  To danger unimportun'd, he was than
142.00G.024  No better than a %1sanguine%2-Vertuous man.
142.00G.025  So cloysteral men, who, in pretence of fear
142.00G.026  All contributions to this life forbear,
142.00G.027  Have Vertue in %1Melancholy%2, and only there.
142.00G.028  Spiritual %1Cholerique%2 Critiques which in all
142.00G.029  Religions finde faults, and forgive no fall,
142.00G.030  Have, through this zeal, Vertue but in their Gall.
142.00G.031  We are thus but parcel guilt; to Gold we are grown
142.00G.032  When Vertue is our Souls complexion;
142.00G.033  Who knows his Vertues name or place hath none. [CW: Ver-]
142.00G.034  Vertue's but aguish, when 'tis several, [p.190]  
142.00G.035  By occasion wak'd, and circumstantial,
142.00G.036  True vertue is %1Soul%2, Alwaies in all deeds %1All%2.
142.00G.037  This Vertue thinking to give dignity
142.00G.038  To your soul, found there no infirmity,
142.00G.039  For, your soul was as good Vertue as she;
142.00G.040  She therefore wrought upon that part of you
142.00G.041  Which is scarce less than soul, as she could do,
142.00G.042  And so hath made your beauty, Vertue too.
142.00G.043  Hence comes it, that your Beauty wounds not hearts
142.00G.044  As others, with prophane and sensual Darts,
142.00G.045  But as an influence, vertuous thoughts imparts.
142.00G.046  But if such friends by the honour of your sight
142.00G.047  Grow capable of this so great a light
142.00G.048  As to partake your vertues, and their might:
142.00G.049  What must I think that influence must do,
142.00G.050  Where it finds sympathy and matter too,
142.00G.051  Vertue, and beauty of the same stuffe, as you?
142.00G.052  Which is, your noble worthy sister; she
142.00G.053  Of whom, if what in this my Extasie
142.00G.054  And revelation of you both I see,
142.00G.055  I should write here, as in short Galleries
142.00G.056  The Master at the end large glasses ties,
142.00G.057  So to present the room twice to our eyes: [CW: So]
142.00G.058  So I should give this letter length, and say [p.191]
142.00G.059  That which I said of you; there is no way
142.00G.060  From either, but to the other, not to stray.
142.00G.061  May therefore this be enough to testify
142.00G.062  My true devotion, free from flattery;
142.00G.063  He that beleeves himself, doth never lie.
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