IDENTILIN$$  F145H06|Sal|O'Flahertie MS; Eng.966.5|pp. 231-33 + 241-42\JSC\mf\10-17-94\P:DF\6-25-97\C:JGW\4-10-00; JSC 6-12-00
145.H06.HE1  %XTo the Countesse of Salisbury
145.H06.001  ffayre Greate and Good, since seeing yo%5u%6 wee see
145.H06.002  What heauen can doe, what any earth can bee
145.H06.003  Since now yo%5r%6 beauty shines (now when the sunne
145.H06.004  Growne stale is to so low a %Jvally%K[var:>valew<] runn
145.H06.005  That his discheueld beames and scatterd fires
145.H06.006  Serue but for Ladyes Periwiggs and Tyres
145.H06.007  In louers sonnets) yo%5u%6 come to repayre
145.H06.008  Gods barke[Mvar:>>booke<<] of creatures, teaching what is fayre [CW:Since___]
145.H06.009  Since now when all is witherd shrunk and dryd [p.232]
145.H06.010  All vertue ebd out to a dead low Tyde
145.H06.011  All the worlds frame beeing crumbled into Sand
145.H06.012  Where every man thinkes by himselfe to stand
145.H06.013  Integrity, frindship and confidence
145.H06.014  (Ciments of Greatnesse) beeing vapourd %Yt%Zhence
145.H06.015  And narrow man beeing filld with little shares.
145.H06.016  Court Citty Church are all shipps->>shopps< of small wares
145.H06.017  All hauing blowne to sparkes theyr nobler fire
145.H06.018  And drawne theyr sound Gold Ingott into wyre,
145.H06.019  All trying by a loue of littlenesse
145.H06.020  To make Abridgements, and to draw to lesse
145.H06.021  Even that Nothing w.%5ch%6 at first wee were.
145.H06.022  Since in these %Jthings%K[Mvar:>>(missing?)mes<<] yo%5r%6 greatnesse doth appeere
145.H06.023  And that wee learne by it, that man, to get
145.H06.024  Towards him that's infinite, must first bee greate.
145.H06.025  Since in an Age so ill, as none is fitt
145.H06.026  So much as to accuse, much lesse mend it
145.H06.027  (ffor who can iudge or witnesse of these times
145.H06.028  Where all alike are guilty of the crimes
145.H06.029  When hee that would bee good is thought by all
145.H06.030  A Monster, or at least fantasticall)
145.H06.031  Since now yo%5u%6 durst bee good, and that |I| doe
145.H06.032  Discerne, by daring to contemplate yo%5u%6,
145.H06.033  That there may bee degrees of fayre, greate, good
145.H06.034  Through yo%5r%6 light, Largenesse, Vertue, vnderstood.
145.H06.035  If in this sacrifice of mine bee showne
145.H06.036  Any small sparke of these, call it yo%5r%6 owne.
145.H06.037  And if things like this haue bin sayd by mee
145.H06.038  Of others, call not that Idolatry.
145.H06.039  ffor had god made man first, and man had seene
145.H06.040  The third dayes fruits and flowers and various greene [CW:Hee--]
145.H06.041  Hee might haue sayd the best that hee could say [p.233]
145.H06.042  Of those fayre Creatures w.%5ch%6 were made that day
145.H06.043  And when next day hee had admird the birth
145.H06.044  Of Sunne Moone Starrs, fayrer then late praysd earth
145.H06.045  Hee might haue sayd the best that hee could say
145.H06.046  And not bee chidd for praysing yesterday:
145.H06.047  So, though somethings are not |together| true
145.H06.048  (As, that another's worthyest, and that yo%5u%6)
145.H06.049  Yet to say so doth not condemne a man
145.H06.050  If, when he spake them they were both true than.
145.H06.051  How fayre a proofe of this in %Yy%Zo%5r%6 soule growes?
145.H06.052  Wee first haue soules of growth, and sense, and those
145.H06.053  When our last soule, our soule im%Mortall, came
145.H06.054  Were swallowed into it, and haue no name
145.H06.055  Nor doth hee iniure those soules w.%5ch%6 doth cast
145.H06.056  The power and prayse of both them on the last:
145.H06.057  No more do I wrong any, >%Vif< I adore
145.H06.058  The same things now w%5ch%6 I adord before
145.H06.059  (The subiect chang'd%Y)%Z and measure) the same thing
145.H06.060  In a low Constable and in a king*
145.H06.061  I reverence His power to worke on mee
145.H06.062  So did I humbly reverence each degree [p.241]
145.H06.063  Of Fayre Greate Good; but more, now I am come
145.H06.064  From hauing found theyr walkes to find theyr home.
145.H06.065  And as I owe my first soules thankes that they
145.H06.066  ffor my last soule did fitt and mo>%Vu<ld my clay:
145.H06.067  So am I debtour vnto them whose worth
145.H06.068  Enabled mee to profit and take forth
145.H06.069  This new greate lesson thus to study yo%5u%6
145.H06.070  Which, none not reading others first, could doe [CW:Nor___]
145.H06.071  Nor lack I light to reade this booke, though I [p.242]
145.H06.072  In a darke Caue yea in a graue doe lie
145.H06.073  ffor as yo%5r%6 fellow Angels so yo%5u%6 doe
145.H06.074  Illustrate them who come to study you.
145.H06.075  The first whome wee in historyes doe find
145.H06.076  To haue profest all Arts, was one borne blind.
145.H06.077  Hee lackd those eyes beasts haue as well as wee
145.H06.078  Not those by w.%5ch%6 angels are seene and see:
145.H06.079  So, though I am borne without those eyes to liue
145.H06.080  (W.%5ch%6 fortune, who hath none herselfe, doth giue)
145.H06.081  W%5ch%6 are, fitt meanes to see bright Courts and yo%5u%6
145.H06.082  Yet I may see yo%5u%6 thus as now I doe.
145.H06.083  I shall, by that, all goodnesse haue discernd
145.H06.084  And, though I burne my library, bee learnd.
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