IDENTILIN$$ F143H06|BedfDead|O'Flahertie MS; Eng. 966.5|pp. 240-41\JSC\mf\10-19-94\P:DF\6-25-97\C:JGW\4-10-00; JSC 6-12-00 143.H06.HE1 %XTo the Countesse of Bedford /%XBegun in ffrance but never p%Pfected 143.H06.001 Though I bee dead and buryed: yet I haue 143.H06.002 (Liuing in yo%5u%6) Court enough in my graue 143.H06.003 As oft as there I thinke my selfe to bee 143.H06.004 So many resurrections waken mee [CW:That] 143.H06.005 That thankfulnesse yo%5r%6 fauours haue begot [p.241] 143.H06.006 In mee, embalmes mee, that I doe not rott. 143.H06.007 This season, as tis Easter, as tis spring 143.H06.008 Must both to growthe and to confession bring 143.H06.009 My thoughts disposd vnto yo%5r%6 Influence; so 143.H06.010 These verses budd, so these confessions growe. 143.H06.011 ffirst I confesse I haue to others lent 143.H06.012 Yo%5r%6 stock, and ouer-prodigally spent 143.H06.013 Yo%5r%6 treasure. For since I had never knowne 143.H06.014 Vertue or beauty, but as they are growne 143.H06.015 In yo%5u%6, I should not thinke or say they shine 143.H06.016 (So as I haue) in any other mine. 143.H06.017 Next I confesse this my confession. 143.H06.018 ffor tis some fault, thus much to touch vpon 143.H06.019 Yo%5r%6 prayse to you, where halfe rights seeme too much 143.H06.020 And make yo%5r%6 minds sincere complexion blush 143.H06.021 Next I confesse my Impenitence, for I 143.H06.022 Can scarse repent my first fault, since thereby 143.H06.023 Remote lowe spirits w.%5ch%6 shall ne're reade you 143.H06.024 May in lesse lessons find enough to doe 143.H06.025 By studying coppyes not originals 143.H06.026om 143.H06.0SS ["dotted" line across page] 143.H06.0$$ >>P.<< %1to left of HE1; no ind; last line om & instead, flush w/RM, is%2 >The rest wants.<%1; "dotted" lines separate the 2 ll. of HE, the HE from the text, & this poem from the next; there's an X in RM at l.20%2