IDENTILIN$$ Bodleian Eng.poet.d.197,single sheet; GAS (o) 5-10-90;fs 30-11-19 142.O15.0HE To the Honorable lady / the lady Carew. 142.O15.001 Madame, /Here, where by all, all Saints invoked are, 142.O15.002 T'were too much Scisme to bee singulare, 142.O15.003 And gainst a practise generall to war; 142.O15.004 Yett, turninge to Saints, should my'Humilitee 142.O15.005 To other Saint, then yo%5w%6, directed bee, 142.O15.006 That were to make my Scisme Heresee. 142.O15.007 Nor would I bee a Convertite so cold 142.O15.008 As not to tell ytt; If thys bee to bold, 142.O15.009 Pardons are in thys Market cheaply sold. 142.O15.010 Where, because Fayth ys in too lowe degree, 142.O15.011 I thought yt some Apostleship in mee, 142.O15.012 To speak things w%5ch%6 by Fayth alone I see: 142.O15.013 That ys, of yo%5w%6; who are a firmament 142.O15.014 Of vertues, where no one ys growen, nor spent; 142.O15.015 Thay'are yo%5r%6 Materialls, not yo%5r%6 Ornament. 142.O15.016 Others, whom wee call vertuous, are not so 142.O15.017 In theyr whole Substance, but theyr vertues grow 142.O15.018 But in theyr Humors, and at Seasons show. 142.O15.019 For when through tastles flatt Humilitee, 142.O15.020 In Doe-bakd men, some Harmelesnes wee see, 142.O15.021 Tis but hys Flegme that's vertuous, and not hee. 142.O15.022 So ys the Blood sometymes; who euer ran 142.O15.023 To Danger vnimportund, hee was than 142.O15.024 No better then a Sanguine vertuous man. 142.O15.025 So Cloystrall Men who in pretence of fear, 142.O15.026 All Contributions to thys Lyfe forbear, 142.O15.027 Haue vertu in Melancholy, and onely there. 142.O15.028 Spirituall Cholerique Critiqs, w%5ch%6 in all 142.O15.029 Religions, find faults, and forgiue no fall, 142.O15.030 Haue, through thys Zeale, vertu, but in theyr Gall. 142.O15.031 We'are thus but parcell-gilt; To Gold we'are growen, 142.O15.032 When vertu ys our Soules Complexione; 142.O15.033 Who knowes hys vertues Name, or Place, hath none. 142.O15.034 Vertu ys but Aguishe, when tis Seuerall; 142.O15.035 By'Occasion wak'd, and Circumstantiall; 142.O15.036 True vertu ys Soule, allways in all deeds all. 142.O15.037 Thys vertu, thinkinge to giue Dignitee 142.O15.038 To yo%5r%6 Soule, found there no infirmitee; 142.O15.039 for yo%5r%6 Soule was as good vertu as shee. 142.O15.040 Shee therfore wrought upon that part of yo%5w%6, 142.O15.041 W%5ch%6 ys >%Vscarse< %Ybut litle%Z lesse then Soule, as shee could doe, 142.O15.042 And soe hath made yo%5r%6 Beauty vertue too; 142.O15.043 Hence comes yt, that yo%5r%6 Beauty wounds not harts 142.O15.044 As others, w%5th%6 prophane and Sensuall darts, 142.O15.045 But, as an Influence, vertuous thoughts imparts. 142.O15.046 But if such frinds, by the'honor of yo%5r%6 Sight 142.O15.047 Grow capable of thys so great a light, 142.O15.048 As to partake yo%5r%6 vertues, and theyr might, 142.O15.049 What must I thinke that Influence must doe, 142.O15.050 Where yt finds Simpathy, and Matter too, 142.O15.051 Vertu, and Beauty, of the same stuffe, as yo%5w%6: 142.O15.052 W%5ch%6 ys, yo%5r%6 noble worthy Sister; Shee, 142.O15.053 Of whom, if what in thys my extasye %YI see%Z, 142.O15.054 And Reuelation of yo%5w%6 both, I see, 142.O15.055 I should write here, As in short Galleryes 142.O15.056 The Master at the end large glasses tyes, 142.O15.057 So to present the roome twice to o%5r%6 eyes, 142.O15.058 So I should giue thys letter length, and say 142.O15.059 That w%5ch%6 I sayd of yo%5w%6; There ys no way 142.O15.060 from eyther, but by th'other, not to stray. 142.O15.061 May therfore thys bee'inough to testify 142.O15.062 My true Deuotion, free from flattery. 142.O15.063 He that beleeus himselfe, doth never ly. 142.O15.0SS om 142.O15.0$$ folded for posting; HE appears only as an address on the outside; 3-line stanzas separated only by short lines extended into L mar.