IDENTILIN$$ F145H04|Sal|Norton MS, Eng. 966.3|ff. 59v-60v\KJH\mf\7-27-94\P:DF\o\12-1-00\C:JSC\1-10-01 145.H04.HE1 %XTo the Countesse of: S: 145.H04.001 Faire, great, and good; since seing yo%5u%6, we see 145.H04.002 what Heau'en can doe, what any earth can be. 145.H04.003 Since nowe yo%5r%6 beautie shines (nowe) when the Sun 145.H04.004 Growne stale is to soe lowe a value run 145.H04.005 That his [%1space%2]>>dishevelled<< Beames, and scattered fires 145.H04.006 Serue but for Ladies Perewigs, and tires 145.H04.007 In louers Sonnetts; yo%5u%6 come to repaire 145.H04.008 Gods booke of creatures teaching what is faire 145.H04.009 Since nowe when all is witherd, shrunck, and drie'd 145.H04.010 all vertues Ebb out to adead lowe tyde 145.H04.011 All the worlds frame being crumbled into Land 145.H04.012 where euery man thinkes himselfe to stand 145.H04.013 Integritie, ffreindship, and confidence 145.H04.014 (Ciments of Greatnes) being vapour'd hence 145.H04.015 And narrowe Man being fill'd w%5th%6 little shares 145.H04.016 Court, Citties, Church, are All shoppes of small wares. 145.H04.017 All hauing blowne to sparkes their noble Fire 145.H04.018 and drawne their sound Gould Ingott into wire 145.H04.019 And trying by a loue of littlenesse 145.H04.020 to make abridgments, and to drawe to lesse 145.H04.021 Euen that nothing, w%5ch%6 as first we were 145.H04.022 since, in theis tymes yo%5r%6 greatnes doth appeare 145.H04.023 And that we learne by it that man to gett, 145.H04.024 towards him that's infinite, must first be great 145.H04.025 %Ysoe%Z>>%VSince<< an age soe ill, as nowe is fitt 145.H04.026 soe much as to excuse[var:>>accuse<<], much lesse mend it. 145.H04.027 ffor who can iudge, or witnes in those tymes 145.H04.028 where all alike are guilty of the crymes 145.H04.029 When he that would be good is thought by all 145.H04.030 a Monster, or at least Fantasticall. 145.H04.031 Since nowe yo%5u%6 durst be good, and that I doe 145.H04.032 discerne by daring to contemplate yo%5u%6 145.H04.033 That there may be degrees of Faire, great, good 145.H04.034 through yo%5r%6 lights largenes, vertue vnderstood 145.H04.035 If in this Sacrifice of myne be showne 145.H04.036 any small sparks of theis call them yo%5r%6 owne. [CW:Andif.][sic] 145.H04.037 And if thinges like theis haue bin said by me [f.60] 145.H04.038 of others, call not that %JAdulterie%K.[Mvar:>>Idolatry<<.] 145.H04.039 ffor had god made man first, and had man seene 145.H04.040 the third daies fruites, and fflowers, & various greene 145.H04.041 He might haue said the best that he could saye 145.H04.042 of those faire creatures, w%5ch%6 were made that daye. 145.H04.043 And when next daye he had admirde the birth 145.H04.044 of sun moone starres, fairer then late praisd earth 145.H04.045 He might haue said the best that he could saye 145.H04.046 and not be chid for praising yesterdaie 145.H04.047 Soe though some thinges are not togither true 145.H04.048 as that another is worthiest; & that yo%5u%6 145.H04.049 Yet to say soe doth not condemne a Man 145.H04.050 if when he spoke them, they were both true than 145.H04.051 Howe faire a prooffe of this in o%5r%6 Soule growes 145.H04.052 we first haue soules of growth, and sence & those 145.H04.053 When our last soule, our Soule im%Mortall came 145.H04.054 were swallowed into yt, and haue noe name 145.H04.055 Nor doth he iniure those Soules w%5ch%6 doth cast 145.H04.056 the power, and praise of both them, on the last 145.H04.057 Noe more doe I wronge any: I adore 145.H04.058 the same thinges nowe w%5ch%6 I adorde before 145.H04.059 The subiect chaungd, and measure; the same thinge 145.H04.060 In a lowe Constable, and in a Kinge, 145.H04.061 I reverence: his power to worke on me 145.H04.062 soe did I humbly reuerence each degree 145.H04.063 of Faire, great, good: But more nowe I am come 145.H04.064 From hauing found their masks[var:>>walks<<], to finde their home. 145.H04.065 And >>as<< I owe my first Soules thankes, that they 145.H04.066 for my last Soule did fitt, and mould my claye 145.H04.067 Soe >>am<< I debtor vnto them whose worth 145.H04.068 Enabled me to proffitt, and take forth 145.H04.069 This great new lesson, thus to studdie yo%5u%6 145.H04.070 w%5ch%6 none (not reading others first) could doe 145.H04.071 Nor lack I light to reade this booke though I 145.H04.072 in a darke Cave, yea in a grave doe lye 145.H04.073 ffor as yo%5r%6 ffellow Angells, soe yo%5u%6 doe 145.H04.074 Illustrate them w%5ch%6 come to studie yo%5u%6; [CW:om] 145.H04.075 The first whom we in Histories doe finde [f.60v] 145.H04.076 to haue professd all Arts, was one borne blinde 145.H04.077 He lackt those eies, Beastes haue as well as we 145.H04.078 not those, by w%5ch%6 Angells are seene and see 145.H04.079 Soe th%Yat%Z>%Vough< I am borne w%5th%6out those eies to liue 145.H04.080 w%5ch%6 ffortune, who hath none herselfe doth giue 145.H04.081 w%5ch%6 are fitt meanes to see bright Courts, and yo%5u%6 145.H04.082 yet may I see yo%5u%6 thus, as nowe I doe 145.H04.083 I shall by that all goodnes haue discernd 145.H04.084 And though I burne my Librarie, be learn'd: 145.H04.0SS Finis 145.H04.0$$ %1Even no'd lines indented.%2