IDENTILIN$$ F145C02|Sal|Cambridge Balam ms., Add. 5778(c)|ff. 45-46\KJH\mf\7-6-94\P:EWS\o\7-5-95\C:JSC\'95;3-26-01 145.C02.HE1 %XTo the Countesse of Salisburye. /%XAugust 1614.| 145.C02.001 Fayre, great, and good, since seeinge, yo%5w%6, wee see 145.C02.002 What heaven can doe, & what any earth can bee. 145.C02.003 Since now yo%5r%6 Beautye Shines, Now where the Sunne 145.C02.004 Growne stayle, ys to soe lowe a Value runne, 145.C02.005 That hys discover'd Beames, and Scattr'ed Fyres 145.C02.006 Serve but for ladyes Periwiggs, & tyres 145.C02.007 In lovers Sonnetts, You come to repayre 145.C02.008 Gods Booke of Creatures, teachinge what ys fayre. 145.C02.009 Since now, when all is withered, shrunke, and dryde, 145.C02.010 All Vertue ebb'd out, to a dead lowe Tyde, 145.C02.011 All the worlds frame beinge crumbled into Sand 145.C02.012 Where every Man thinkes by hymselfe to stand, 145.C02.013 Integritye, Freindship, and Confidence 145.C02.014 Ciments of Greatnes, beinge vapor'd hence. 145.C02.015 And Narrowe Man, beinge Filld w%5th%6 little Shares 145.C02.016 Court, Cyttye, Church, Are all shops of small wares, 145.C02.017 All haueinge blowne to Sparkes, theyre noble Fyre, 145.C02.018 And drawne theyre sound Gold=Ingott into Wyre. 145.C02.019 All tryeinge by a loue of littlenesse 145.C02.020 To make Abridgments, and drawe to lesse, 145.C02.021 Even that Nothinge, w%5ch%6 at first wee weare; 145.C02.022 Since in these Tymes, Yo%5r%6 greatnes doth appeare, 145.C02.023 And That we learne by ytt, That Man to gett 145.C02.024 Towards hym, thats infynite, must first be greate. 145.C02.025 Since yn an Age soe ill, as none ys fitt 145.C02.026 Soe much as to accuse, much lesse mend yt 145.C02.027 (For who can iudge, or witnes of those Tymes 145.C02.028 Where all alyke are guiltye of the Crymes?) [CW:(where:] 145.C02.029 Where hee y%5t%6 would bee good, ys thought by all [f.45v] 145.C02.030 A Monster, or at best Fantasticall. 145.C02.031 Since now you durst bee good, and that I doe 145.C02.032 Discerne by dareinge to Contemplate you, 145.C02.033 That there may bee degrees of fayre, great, good, 145.C02.034 Through yo%5r%6 light, largenes, Vertue vnderstoode. 145.C02.035 Yf in thys Sacryfice of myne, be showen 145.C02.036 Any small Sparke of these, Call yt yo%5r%6 owne. 145.C02.037 And yf things lyke these, haue beene sayd by Mee 145.C02.038 Of others, Call not That Idolatree. 145.C02.039 For had god made Man first, and Man had Seene 145.C02.040 The third dayes Fruites, & flowers, & various greene 145.C02.041 Hee might haue sayd the Best y%5t%6 hee Coulld say 145.C02.042 Of those fayre Creatures, w%5ch%6 were made y%5t%6 day. 145.C02.043om 145.C02.044om 145.C02.045om 145.C02.046om 145.C02.047 Soe though some Things are not together true, 145.C02.048 (As y%5t%6 another ys worthyest, and that yo%5w%6.) 145.C02.049 Yet to say soe, doth not Condemne a Man, 145.C02.050 Yf where hee spoke Them, they were both true than. 145.C02.051 How fayre a proofe of thys, in our Soule growes. 145.C02.052 Wee first haue Soules of Grouth, & sence, & those 145.C02.053 Where our last Soule, our Soule Immortall came 145.C02.054 Were swallowed into yt, and haue noe name, 145.C02.055 Nor doth he iniure those Soules, w%5ch%6 doth l%>>C