IDENTILIN$$  F142H05 Carey|MS Eng.966.4(Dobell)\pp. 337-39\E:TLP?\?\?\P:EWS\o\7-28-02\C:JSC\8-22-02
142.H05.0HE  To the Lady Carey. 
142.H05.001  Maddam,[LM] /Heere where by all, all Saints invoked are 
142.H05.002  'twere too much schisme to be singular,
142.H05.003  and 'gainst a practise generall to warre.
142.H05.004  yet turninge to Saints, should my humility
142.H05.005  to other Saints then you, directed be,
142.H05.006  that were to make my schisme, Heresy.
142.H05.007  Nor cold I be a Convertite soe cold
142.H05.008  as not to tell it; yf this be too bold,
142.H05.009  Pardons are in this markett cheapely sold;
142.H05.010  where, because fayth is in some lowe degree
142.H05.011  I thought it some Apostle-ship in me,
142.H05.012  to speake thinges, w%5ch%6 by Faith alone I see:
142.H05.013  That is of you, who are a Firmament
142.H05.014  of vertues, where noe one is growne, nor spent,
142.H05.015  th'are your materialls, not your ornament.
142.H05.016  Others whome we call vertuous, are not soe
142.H05.017  In theire whole substance, but their vertues growe
142.H05.018  but in their humors, and at seasons showe.
142.H05.019  for when through tastles flatt humility,
142.H05.020  in Dowe-bakd' men, some harmelesnes we see,
142.H05.021  'tis but his Flegme thats vertuous, and not he.
142.H05.022  Soe is the bloud sometimes. who euer ran
142.H05.023  to danger vn-importun'd, he was than
142.H05.024  no better then a Sanguine-vertuous Man.
142.H05.025  so cloisterall men, who in pretence of feare, [p.338]
142.H05.026  all Contribution to this life forbeare,
142.H05.027  haue vertue in Melancholy and only there.
142.H05.028  spirituall cholericke Critiques, who in all
142.H05.029  relligions find faults, and forgiue no fall,
142.H05.030  haue through this zeale vertue, but in their gall.
142.H05.031  W' are thus but parcell-guilt, to gold w' are growne,
142.H05.032  when vertue is our Soules Complexion;
142.H05.033  who knowes his vertues name or place, hath none.
142.H05.034  Vertue is but aguish, when 'tis seuerall,
142.H05.035  by occasion wa'kt and circumstantiall,
142.H05.036  true vertue is Soule, allwayes, in all deedes, all.
142.H05.037  This vertue thinkinge to giue dignity
142.H05.038  to your Soule, found there no Infirmity,
142.H05.039  for your soule was as good vertue, as shee.
142.H05.040  she therefore wrought vpon that part of you
142.H05.041  w%5ch%6 is scarse lesse then soule, as she cold doe,
142.H05.042  and soe hath made your beauty, vertue too.
142.H05.043  Hence comes it that your beauty wounds not Harts
142.H05.044  as others, with profane and sensuall darts,
142.H05.045  but as an Influence, vertuous thoughts imparts.
142.H05.046  But yf such frendes, by th'honour of your sight
142.H05.047  growe capable of this soe greate a light,
142.H05.048  as to partake your vertues, and theire might:
142.H05.049  what must I thinke that Influence must doe, [p.339]
142.H05.050  when it findes sympathy and matter too,
142.H05.051  Vertue and beauty, of the same stuffe as you?
142.H05.052  w%5ch%6 is your noble worthy sister, shee
142.H05.053  of whome, yf what in this my Extasy
142.H05.054  and reuelation of you both I see
142.H05.055  I should write heere; as in short Galleryes,
142.H05.056  the master at the end larg glasses tyes,
142.H05.057  Soe to present the roome twice to your eyes:
142.H05.058  Soe I should giue this l%Lre length, and say
142.H05.059  that w%5ch%6 I sayd of you; there is noe way
142.H05.060  from eyther, but by th'other, not to stray.
142.H05.061  May therefore this b'ynough to testify
142.H05.062  My true Devotion, free from flattery.
142.H05.063  He that beleiues himselfe, doth neuer ly.
142.H05.0SS  [3 3-leaf clovers in a trianglar pattern]
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