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145.DT1.HE1  %XTo the Countess of S.|
145.DT1.001  ffaire, Great, and Good, since seing you wee see
145.DT1.002  what Heauen can doe, what any earth can bee
145.DT1.003  Since nowe yo%5r%6 Beauty shines, (Now) when y%5e%6 Sun
145.DT1.004  Growne stale, is to soe lowe a value runn
145.DT1.005  That his [%1space%2]>>dissheueld<< Beames, and scattred fires
145.DT1.006  serue but for Ladies Perewiggs, and tires
145.DT1.007  In Louers sonnetts, you come to repaire [CW:Gods]
145.DT1.008  Gods Booke of Creatures, teaching what is faire. [f.74v]
145.DT1.009  Since nowe, when all is wither'd, shrunk, & drye'd
145.DT1.010  All vertues Ebbd out, to a dead-lowe tyde;
145.DT1.011  All the worlds frame being crumbled into Land
145.DT1.012  where euerie Man thinks himself to stand
145.DT1.013  Integritie, ffriendship, and Confidence
145.DT1.014  (Ciments of Greatnes) being vapour'd hence
145.DT1.015  And Narrowe Man being fill'd w%5th%6 litle shares
145.DT1.016  Court, Citties, Church, are all shopps of small wares
145.DT1.017  All hauing blowne to sparks their Noble fire
145.DT1.018  And drawne their sound Gold-Ingot into wire
145.DT1.019  And tryeing by a loue of Littlenes
145.DT1.020  to make abbridgments, and to drawe to lesse
145.DT1.021  Euen that nothing, w%5ch%6 as first wee were
145.DT1.022  Since in these tymes yo%5r%6 Greatnes doth appeare
145.DT1.023  And that wee learne by it, that Man to gett
145.DT1.024  towards him that's infinite, must first bee great,
145.DT1.025  Since in an age soe ill, as none is fitt
145.DT1.026  soe much as to accuse, much less mend it.
145.DT1.027  (ffor whoe can iudge, or witness in those times
145.DT1.028  where all alike are Guilty of the Crimes)
145.DT1.029  When hee y%5t%6 would bee good, is thought by all
145.DT1.030  A Monster, or at least ffantasticall.
145.DT1.031  Since nowe you durst bee good, and that I doe
145.DT1.032  discerne by dareing to Contemplate you.
145.DT1.033  That there may bee degrees of ffaire, Great, Good
145.DT1.034  through yo%5r%6 Light, Largenes, vertue vnderstood.
145.DT1.035  If in this sacrifice of mine bee showne
145.DT1.036  any small sparks of these, call them your owne.
145.DT1.037  And, if things like these haue beene said by mee
145.DT1.038  of others, call not that Adulterie.
145.DT1.039  ffor had God made Man first, and had Man seene
145.DT1.040  the Third dayes fruits, & flowres, & various greene
145.DT1.041  Hee might haue said the best y%5t%6 hee could saye [CW:Of]
145.DT1.042  Of those faire Creatures, w%5ch%6 were made that daye [f.75]
145.DT1.043  And when next day, hee had admir'de the Birth
145.DT1.044  Of Sun, Moone, Starrs, fairer then late prais'd earth
145.DT1.045  Hee might haue said the best y%5t%6 hee could saye
145.DT1.046  and not bee chidd for prayseing Yesterday:
145.DT1.047  Soe though some things are not together true
145.DT1.048  as that another'is worthiest, & that you,
145.DT1.049  Yet to say soe, doth not condemne a man
145.DT1.050  If when hee spoke them, they were both true than.
145.DT1.051  Howe faire a proofe of this in our Soule growes?
145.DT1.052  wee first haue Soules of Growth, & sence, & those
145.DT1.053  When our last Soule, our Soule immortall came
145.DT1.054  were swallow'ed into it, and haue noe name.
145.DT1.055  Nor doth hee Iniure those Soules, w%5ch%6 doth cast
145.DT1.056  the Power, & Praise of both them, on the last.
145.DT1.057  Noe more doe I wrong any: I adore
145.DT1.058  the same things nowe, w%5ch%6 I ador'de before,
145.DT1.059  The Subiect chaung'd, & measure; the same thing
145.DT1.060  In a lowe Constable, and in the Kinge,
145.DT1.061  I reuerence: his Power to work on mee
145.DT1.062  soe did I humblie reuerence each degree
145.DT1.063  Of ffaire, Great, Good; But more nowe I am come
145.DT1.064  from hauing found their Masks, to finde their home
145.DT1.065  And I owe my first Soules Thanks, that they
145.DT1.066  for my last Soule did fitt, & mould my claye
145.DT1.067  Soe am I debtor vnto them, whose worth
145.DT1.068  Enabled mee to profitt, and take forth
145.DT1.069  This great newe Lesson, thus to studdy you
145.DT1.070  w%5ch%6 none, (not reading others first) could doe.
145.DT1.071  Nor lack I light to read this Book, though I
145.DT1.072  in a dark Caue, yea in a Graue doe lye.
145.DT1.073  ffor, as yo%5r%6 fellowe-Angells, soe you doe [CW:Illustrate]
145.DT1.074  Illustrate them w%5ch%6 come to studdie you [f.75v]
145.DT1.075  The first whom wee in Histories doe finde
145.DT1.076  to haue profess'd all Arts, was one borne Blinde
145.DT1.077  Hee lack'd those eyes, Beasts haue aswell as wee,
145.DT1.078  not those, by w%5ch%6 Angells, are seene, and see.
145.DT1.079  Soe though I am borne w%5th%6out those eyes to liue
145.DT1.080  w%5ch%6 ffortune, whoe hath none herself doth giue
145.DT1.081  W%5ch%6 are fitt meanes to see bright Courts, & you
145.DT1.082  yet may I see you thus, as nowe I doe
145.DT1.083  I shall by that all Goodnes haue discern'd
145.DT1.084  and though I Burne my Librarie bee learn'd.|
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