IDENTILIN$$  F142O20|Carey|Bodleian Eng.poet.e.99(Dowden),ff.38v-40  T-LP 3/15/90; GAS (o) 5-11-90
142.O20.0HE  A Letter to the Lady Carey, and m%5rs%6 Essex Riche /from Amyens. [Lmar:p.188.] [38v]
142.O20.001  Madame. /Here where by All, all Saintes invoked are,
142.O20.002  T'were too much Schisme to be Singulare
142.O20.003  And gainst a Practize generall to warr.
142.O20.004  Yett turning to Saints, shold my Humilitye
142.O20.005  To Other Saint then you, directed bee,
142.O20.006  That weare to make my schisme heresye
142.O20.007  Nor wold I bee a Conuertite so colde
142.O20.008  As not to tell yt; If thys bee too bolde
142.O20.009  Pardons are in thys Markett cheapely sold.
142.O20.010  Where because Fayth is in too lowe degree
142.O20.011  I thought yt some Apostleship in Mee [39]
142.O20.012  To speake thinges, w%5ch%6 by fayth alone I see.
142.O20.013  That is of you, who are a firmament
142.O20.014  Of Virtues; where no One is growen, or spent,
142.O20.015  They are your Materialls, not your Ornament.
142.O20.016  Others whom wee call Vertuous are not soe
142.O20.017  In theyre whole substance, but theyre Virtues growe,
142.O20.018  But in theyre humors, and at Seasons showe.
142.O20.019  For when through tastlesse flatt humilitye
142.O20.020  In dowbaked men, some harmelessnes wee see
142.O20.021  Tis but hys flegme, that's Vertuous, and not Hee.
142.O20.022  So ys the blood sometimes, who euer ran
142.O20.023  To danger vnimportun'd, he was than
142.O20.024  No better then a Sanguine Vertuous ma%M.
142.O20.025  So Cloysterall men who in Pretence of feare
142.O20.026  All Contribution to thys lyfe forbeare,
142.O20.027  Haue Vertue in Melancholye, and only there
142.O20.028  Spirituall Cholerique Critiques, w%5ch%6 in All
142.O20.029  Religions find falts, and forgiue no fall
142.O20.030  Haue through thys zeale, Vertue but in theyre Gall.
142.O20.031  Wee are thus but Parcell, guilt, to Gold wee are growne
142.O20.032  When Vertue is our Soules Complexion,
142.O20.033  Who knowes hys Vertues Name, or Place, hath None.
142.O20.034  Vertue is but A%Yn%Zguish, when tis seuerall. [39v]
142.O20.035  By Occasion waked, and Circumstantiall
142.O20.036  True Vertue ys Soule, alwayes in all deedes all.
142.O20.037  Thys Vertue thincking to giue dignitye
142.O20.038  To your Soule, found there no infirmitye,
142.O20.039  For your Soule was as good Vertue, as Shee.
142.O20.040  She therfore wrought vpon that Part of you
142.O20.041  W%5ch%6 is scarce lesse then Soule, as She cold doe,
142.O20.042  And so hath made your beauty vertue to.
142.O20.043  Hence comes yt that your beauty wounds not hartes,
142.O20.044  As Others, w%5th%6 Prophane, and sensuall dartes,
142.O20.045  But as an Influence, Virtuous thoughts imparts.
142.O20.046  But yf such frindes by the honor of your Sight
142.O20.047  Grow Capable of thys so greate a light
142.O20.048  As to pertake your Vertues, and theyre might.
142.O20.049  What must I thincke that Influence must doe
142.O20.050  Where it findes Sympathye, and matter to,
142.O20.051  Vertu and Beauty of the same stuffe, as you.
142.O20.052  W%5ch%6 ys your Noble worthy Sister, Shee
142.O20.053  Of whom, if what in thys my Extasye
142.O20.054  And reuelation of you both I see;
142.O20.055  I shold write here, as in short Galleryes
142.O20.056  The Master at the End large Glasses tyes
142.O20.057  So to present the roome twise to your Eyes
142.O20.058  So I shold giue thys letter length, and say
142.O20.059  That w%5ch%6 I sayd of you there is no way
142.O20.060  From Eyther, but by the other not to stray.
142.O20.061  May therfore thys be Enough to testifye  [40]
142.O20.062  My true deuotion free from Flatterye
142.O20.063  Hee that beleaues himselfe, doth neuer lye./
142.O20.0SS  om  [because in a collection of D's poems--no poems subscribed in this vol.]
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