IDENTILIN$$  F145C08|Sal|Leconfield MS, Add. 8467\ff. 55v-57\GL\mf\P:TLP;EWS\o\7-9-93;7-3-95\C:JSC\'95;11-20-00
145.C08.0HE  [%XTo the Countesse of Salisbury.] August %J1614%K|
145.C08.001  Faire, great, and good, since seeing you wee see
145.C08.002  What heauen can doe, and what anie Earth can bee.
145.C08.003  Since now your bewtie shines, Now when the Sunne
145.C08.004  Growne stale, is to so lowe a valew runn.
145.C08.005  That his discheuer'd beames, and scattred fires
145.C08.006  Serue butt for Ladies perewiggs, and Tyres.
145.C08.007  In louers sonnetts, you come to repaire
145.C08.008  Gods booke of Creatures, teaching what is faire.
145.C08.009  Since now when all is withered, shrunck and drid'e
145.C08.010  All virtue Ebd' out to a dead lowe tyde
145.C08.011  All the worlds frame, being crumbled into sand,
145.C08.012  Where euerie man thincks by himself to stand.
145.C08.013  Integritie, frendship, and confidence,
145.C08.014  Ciments of greatnes being vapord hence.
145.C08.015  And narrowe man being fild' with little shares
145.C08.016  Court, Cittie, Church, are all shops of small wares, [CW:All|]
145.C08.017  All hauing blowne to sparks theire noble fire, [56]
145.C08.018  And drawne theire sound gold Ingott into wyer.
145.C08.019  All trying by a loue of littlenes
145.C08.020  To make abridgements, and drawe to lesse,
145.C08.021  Euen that nothing, w%5ch%6 att first wee were;
145.C08.022  Since in these times your greatnes dooth appeare,
145.C08.023  And that wee learne by itt, that man to gett
145.C08.024  Towards him, thats infinite, must first be great.
145.C08.025  Since, in an age so ill, as none is fitt
145.C08.026  So much as to accuse, much lesse, mend itt.
145.C08.027  For whoe can iudge, or wittnes of those tymes?
145.C08.028  Where all alike, are guiltie of the crimes?
145.C08.029  Where he that would be good, is thought by all
145.C08.030  A Monster, or att best Fantasticall.
145.C08.031  Since now you durst be good, and that I doe
145.C08.032  Discerne by daring to contemplate you,
145.C08.033  That there maie bee degrees of great, faire good,
145.C08.034  Through your light largenes, vertue vnderstood.
145.C08.035  If in this sacrifice of mine bee showen
145.C08.036  Anie small spark of these, call itt your owne.
145.C08.037  And if things like these, haue bein said by mee
145.C08.038  Of others, call not that Idolatrie. [CW:ffor]
145.C08.039  ffor, had god made man first, and man had seene [56v]
145.C08.040  The third daies fruites, and flowers, and various greene
145.C08.041  He might haue said the best that he coolde saie
145.C08.042  Of those faire Creatures, w%5ch%6 were made that daie.
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145.C08.047  So, though some things, are not together true,
145.C08.048  (As that an other is worthiest, and that you)
145.C08.049  Yett to saie so, dooth not condemne a man,
145.C08.050  If when hee spoke them, They were both true than.
145.C08.051  How faire a proff of this, in our soule growes.
145.C08.052  Wee first haue soules of grouth, and sense and those
145.C08.053  When our last soule, our soule immortall came
145.C08.054  Were swallowed into itt, and haue no name.
145.C08.055  Nor dooth he iniure those soules, w%5ch%6 dooth last%>>C<ast
145.C08.056  The power and praise of bothe them, on the last;
145.C08.057  No more, doe I wrong anie; I adore,
145.C08.058  The same things nowe, which I adorde' before
145.C08.059  The subiect chang'd, and measure. The same thing
145.C08.060  In a lowe Constable, and in the King,
145.C08.061  I reuerence; His power to work on mee;
145.C08.062  So did I humblie reuerence each degree
145.C08.063  Of faire, great, good, but more now I am come
145.C08.064  From hauing found their walks, to finde theire home. [CW:And.]
145.C08.065  And as I owe my first soules thancks, that they [57]
145.C08.066  For my last soule did fitt and moulde my claye,
145.C08.067  So am I debtor vnto them, whose worth
145.C08.068  Enabled mee to proffitt and take forth
145.C08.069  This newe great lesson, thus to studie you;
145.C08.070  Which none, not reading others, first colde doe.
145.C08.071  Nor lack I light to read this booke, though I
145.C08.072  In a dark caue, yea in a graue doe lye;
145.C08.073  For as your fellowe Angells, so you doe
145.C08.074  Illustrate them, whoe come to studie you.
145.C08.075  The first whome wee in histories doe finde
145.C08.076  To haue profest all Arts, was one borne blinde.
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145.C08.079  So, though I am borne, without those eyes to liue
145.C08.080  Which fortune, whoe hath none herself, dooth giue,
145.C08.081  Which are fitt meanes to see bright Courts, and you.
145.C08.082  Yett maie I see you thus, as now I doe,
145.C08.083  I shall by that, all goodnes haue [sic]discerne
145.C08.084  And though I burne my librarie, be learn'd>,%>.<|
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