IDENTILIN$$  F142SP1|Carey|St.Paul's Cathedral 49.B.43, ff.[51v-52v]; (o) GAS 5-16-90
142.SP1.0HE  A letter to y%5e%6 Ladie Carey and M:%5rs%6 /Essex Rich from Amyens.| [51v]
142.SP1.001  Madams /Here where by all, all Saintes invoked are
142.SP1.002  Twere too much Schisme to be singulare
142.SP1.003  And gainst a practize gennerall to warr.
142.SP1.004  Yet turning to Saints, should my humilitie
142.SP1.005  To other Saints then yo:%5w%6 directed be
142.SP1.006  That were to make my Schisme heresie.|
142.SP1.007  Nor would I be a Convertite so cold
142.SP1.008  As not to tell it, If this be too bould
142.SP1.009  Pardons are in this markett cheaply sold.|
142.SP1.010  Where because faith is in too lowe degree
142.SP1.011  I thought it some Apostleshipp in me
142.SP1.012  To speake things w%5ch%6 by faith alone I see.|
142.SP1.013  That is of yo:%5w%6 who are a firmament
142.SP1.014  Of vertues, where no one is growen or spent
142.SP1.015  They are your materialls not yo:%5r%6 ornament.|
142.SP1.016  Others whom we call vertuous are not soe
142.SP1.017  In their whole substance, but their vertues grow
142.SP1.018  But in their humors, & at Seasons shewe.|
142.SP1.019  For when through tastlesse flatt humillity [CW:In]
142.SP1.020  In dowbakd men, some harmelessnes we see [52]
142.SP1.021  Tis but his flegme, thats vertuous, & not he.|
142.SP1.022  So is the blood sometymes, who ever ran
142.SP1.023  To danger vnimportund, he was than
142.SP1.024  No better then a sangwine vertuous man.|
142.SP1.025  So Cloisterall men, who in pretence of feare
142.SP1.026  All Contribuco%Mn to this lief forbeare
142.SP1.027  Have vertue in mellancholly, and only there.
142.SP1.028  Sperituall Cholerique Critiques, w%5ch%6 in all
142.SP1.029  Re>%Vli<gions finde faults, and forgive no fall
142.SP1.030  Have through this zeale, vertue but in their gall.|
142.SP1.031  Wee are thus but parcell guilt, to gold we are growne
142.SP1.032  When vertue is our soules complexion
142.SP1.033  Who knowes his vertues name, or place, hath none.|
142.SP1.034  Vertue is but aguish, when tis severall
142.SP1.035  By occasion waked, and Circumstantiall
142.SP1.036  True vertue is soule, alwaies in all deeds all.|
142.SP1.037  This vertue thinking to give dignity
142.SP1.038  To yo%5r%6 Soule, found there no infirmity
142.SP1.039  For yo%5r%6 soule was as good vertue, as shee.|
142.SP1.040  She therefore wrought vpon y%5t%6 part of yo:%5w%6
142.SP1.041  W%5ch%6 is scarce less then soule, as she could doe
142.SP1.042  And so hath made yo:%5r%6 bewty vertue too.| [CW:Hence]
142.SP1.043  Hence comes it y%5t%6 your bewty wounds not harts [52v]
142.SP1.044  As others, w%5th%6 prophane, and censuall darts
142.SP1.045  But as an influence, vertuous thoughts imparts.|
142.SP1.046  But if such freinds by y%5e%6 honor of yo:%5r%6 sight
142.SP1.047  Grow capeable of this so great a light
142.SP1.048  As to pertake your vertues, & their might.|
142.SP1.049  What must I thinke y%5t%6 influence must doe
142.SP1.050  Where it findes Simpathy, & matter to
142.SP1.051  Vertue and bewty of the same stuffe, as yo.%5w%6|
142.SP1.052  W%5ch%6 is your noble worthy sister, shee
142.SP1.053  Of whom, if what in this my extasye
142.SP1.054  And revelato%Mn of yo:%5w%6 both I see.|
142.SP1.055  I should write here, as in shorte galleries
142.SP1.056  The master at the end large glasses ties
142.SP1.057  So to present the roome twise to yo:%5r%6 eyes.|
142.SP1.058  So I should give this letter lenght, and say
142.SP1.059  That w%5ch%6 I said of yo:%5w%6 there is noe way
142.SP1.060  From either, but by the other not to stray.|
142.SP1.061  May therefore this be enough to certifie
142.SP1.062  My true devotion free from flattery
142.SP1.063  He y%5t%6 beleeves himself doth never lye.| [CW:om]
142.SP1.0SS  om
142.SP1.0$$  divided into 3-line sts by skipped lines & slash marks at end of 
             stzs.  In l. 54 "revelation" is spelled "revelaton" with a mark 
             over the "on" that means "io"