IDENTILIN$$  F142C09|Carey|CUL Luttrell,ff.67v-68v  T-LP 3/16/90; CUL (o) GAS 5-1-90
142.C09.0HE  To the Lady Cary. [67v]
142.C09.001  Madame. /Heere wherby all, all Saints invoked are
142.C09.002  It were too much Scisme to be singular
142.C09.003  And 'gainst a practise generall to warre
142.C09.004  Yet turning to Saints should my humilitye
142.C09.005  To other Saints then you directed bee
142.C09.006  That were to make my Scisme, Heresye.|
142.C09.007  Nor could I bee a Conuertite so cold
142.C09.008  As not to tell it.  If this bee too bold
142.C09.009  Pardons are in this market cheaply sold.
142.C09.010  Where because faith is in too low degree
142.C09.011  I thought it some Apostleship in mee
142.C09.012  To speake thinges which by faith alone I see.
142.C09.013  That is of you who are a firmament
142.C09.014  Of virtues where no one is growne or spent
142.C09.015  Th'are your materialls, not your ornament.
142.C09.016  Others whom wee call virtuous, are not so
142.C09.017  In their whole Substance, but their virtues grow
142.C09.018  But in their humors & at seasons showe.
142.C09.019  For when through tast-lesse flatt humilitye
142.C09.020  In dow-bak'd men some harmlessnes we see
142.C09.021  Tis but his flegme that's virtuous, & not Hee. [CW:So is]
142.C09.022  So is the bloud sometimes. who euer ranne [68]
142.C09.023  To daunger vn-importund, he was than
142.C09.024  no better then a sanguine virtuous man.
142.C09.025  So Cloysterall men, who in p%5re%6tence of feare
142.C09.026  All contribution to this life forbeare
142.C09.027  Haue virtue in melancholly & only there
142.C09.028  Spirituall cholericke Critickes, who in all
142.C09.029  Religions find faults, & forgiue no fall,
142.C09.030  Haue through this zeale virtue but in their Gall.
142.C09.031  We are thus but parcell-guilt, to gold w'are growne
142.C09.032  when virtue is o%5ur%6 Soules Complexion
142.C09.033  who knowes his virtues Name, or Place, hath none.
142.C09.034  virtue's but aguish when tis seuerall
142.C09.035  By occasion wak'd & circumstantiall
142.C09.036  true virtue's soule, alwayes in all deeds All.
142.C09.037  This virtue thinking to giue dignitye
142.C09.038  To your Soule, found there no infirmitye
142.C09.039  ffor your soule was as good virtue as Shee.
142.C09.040  Shee therfore wrought vpon that part of you
142.C09.041  which is scarce lesse then soule, as she could doe,
142.C09.042  And so hath made your Beauty virtuous too.
142.C09.043  Hence comes it that your beauty wounds not hearts
142.C09.044  As others, with prophane & sensuall darts,
142.C09.045  But as an Influence virtuous thoughts imparts.
142.C09.046  But if such frindes by th'honour of your sight
142.C09.047  grow capeable of this so great a light
142.C09.048  As to partake your virtues & their might
142.C09.049  what must I thinke your Influence must doe
142.C09.050  when it findes Sympathy & matter too
142.C09.051  Virtue & beauty of y%5e%6 same stuffe as you.
142.C09.052  which is your noble worthy Sister, shee [68v]
142.C09.053  of whom if what in this my Extasye
142.C09.054  And reuelation of you both I see
142.C09.055  I should write heere, as in short Galleryes
142.C09.056  The master at y%5e%6 end large glasses tyes
142.C09.057  So to p%5r%6sent the Roome twice to your Eyes,
142.C09.058  So I should giue this letter length, & say
142.C09.059  That which I sayd of you; There is no way
142.C09.060  from eyther, but by th'other, not to stray.
142.C09.061  May therfore this be enough to testifye
142.C09.062  My true deuotion free from flatterye
142.C09.063  He that beleeues himselfe doth neuer lye.
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