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145.C09.0HE  %XTo the Countesse of Salisbury.
145.C09.001  ffaire, Great, & Good, since seing you we see
145.C09.002  what heauen can doe, what any Earth can bee
145.C09.003  Since now your beauty shines, (now when y%5e%6 Sunne
145.C09.004  Growne stale is to so low a %Jvally%K[Mvar:>%Jvalew%K<] runne
145.C09.005  That his discheueld beames & scatterd fires
145.C09.006  Serue but for Ladyes Periwiggs & T'yres
145.C09.007  In Louers Sonnetts) you come to repaire
145.C09.008  Gods barke of Creatures, teaching what is faire
145.C09.009  Since when all is witherd shrunke & dry'd
145.C09.010  All virtue ebbd out to a dead low Tyde
145.C09.011  All y%5e%6 worlds frame being crumbled into sand
145.C09.012  where euery man thinkes by himselfe to stand
145.C09.013  Integritye freindship & confidence
145.C09.014  (Ciment of Greatnesse) being vapour'd hence
145.C09.015  And narrow man being filld with little shares.
145.C09.016  Court Citty Church are all shippes of small wares
145.C09.017  All hauing blowne to sparkes their nobler fire
145.C09.018  And drawne their sound gold Ingott into %Jwyre%K,[Mvar:>%Jmyre%K<]
145.C09.019  All trying by a loue of littlenesse
145.C09.020  To make Abridgments, & to draw to lesse
145.C09.021  Euen that nothing which at first we were.
145.C09.022  Since in these thinges your greatnes doth appeare
145.C09.023  And y%5t%6 we learne by it, that man, to gett
145.C09.024  Towards him that's infinite, must first be great.
145.C09.025  Since in an Age so ill as none is fitt
145.C09.026  So much as to accuse, much lesse mend it,
145.C09.027  (for who can iudge or witnesse of these times
145.C09.028  where all alike are guilty of y%5e%6 crimes
145.C09.029  when he that would be good is thought by all
145.C09.030  A monster or at least fantasticall) [CW:om]
145.C09.031  Since now you durst be Good, & that |I| doe [78v]
145.C09.032  Discerne, by daring to contemplate you,
145.C09.033  That there may be degrees of faire, great, good
145.C09.034  Through your Light, Largenesse, virtue, vnderstood,
145.C09.035  If in this sacrifice of mine be showne
145.C09.036  Any small sparke of these, call it your owne>,%>.<
145.C09.037  And if thinges like this haue beene sayd by me
145.C09.038  Of Others, call not that Idolatry.
145.C09.039  ffor had God made man first & man had seene
145.C09.040  The third dayes fruits & flowers & various greene
145.C09.041  He might haue sayd the best that he could say
145.C09.042  Of those faire Creatures which were made that day:
145.C09.043  And when %Ythe%Z next day he had admir'd y%5e%6 birth
145.C09.044  Of Sun, moone, starrs, fayrer then late praysd Earth
145.C09.045  He might haue sayd the best that he could say,
145.C09.046  And not be chidd for praysing yesterday.
145.C09.047  So though some thinges are not |together| true
145.C09.048  (As that another's worthyest, & that you)
145.C09.049  Yet to say so doth not condemne a man,
145.C09.050  If when he spake them they were both true than.
145.C09.051  How faire a profe of this in %Yy%Zour soule growes?
145.C09.052  Wee first haue soules of growth, & sense, & those
145.C09.053  When o%5r%6 last soule, our Soule immortall, came
145.C09.054  Were swallowd into it & haue no name.
145.C09.055  Nor doth he iniure those soules which doth cast
145.C09.056  The power & prayse of both them on y%5e%6 last.
145.C09.057  No more do I wrong any, if I adore
145.C09.058  The same thinges now which I ador'd before
145.C09.059  (The Subiect chang'd) & measure y%5e%6 same thinge
145.C09.060  In a low Constable & in a kinge.| [CW:>>To#M%5r%6#Ch:<<]
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145.C09.0$$  No sts, no ind. %1MS omits ll. 61-84; mf om leaf containing 78v-79(see also poem 
109), so ll.31-60 hand trs. from orig. by EWS, trs. to disk by JSC; scribe 
regards l.60 as end of poem--he puts his usual horiz. lines as SS & the 
catchword is correct for poem 109, beginning on f.79; copy ms. for C9's poem 
145 may have been defective; M note for l.4 actually is "or %Jvalew%K" (scribe 
obviously didn't intend "or" as text)%2