IDENTILIN$$ F145SP1|Sal|St. Paul's MS 49.B.43\ff. 53-54v\JSC\mf\1-30-95\P:GAS\o\8-2-95\C:JSC\'95;7-23-01 145.SP1.HE1 %XTo the Countess of Salisbury. Aug: %J1614%K 145.SP1.001 Faire, Greate, and good, since seeing yo%5u%6; wee see 145.SP1.002 What heaven can doe, & what anie earth can be, 145.SP1.003 Since now yo:%5r%6 bewty shines, now when the sunne 145.SP1.004 Growen stale, is to >%Vso< low a value runne.| 145.SP1.005 That his discheveld beames, and scattered fires 145.SP1.006 Serves but for ladies perewigs, and tires 145.SP1.007 In lovers sonnetts, yo:%5u%6 come to repaire 145.SP1.008 Godes booke of creatures, teaching what is faire 145.SP1.009 Since now, when all is witherd, shroncke & dride 145.SP1.010 All vertue ebd out, to a dead lowe tide, 145.SP1.011 All the worldes frame being crumbled into sand 145.SP1.012 Where everie man thinkes by himself to stand 145.SP1.013 Integrety, Freindshipp, and Confidence 145.SP1.014 Ciments of greatnes, being vapourd hence 145.SP1.015 And narrow man, being fild w%5th%6 little shares 145.SP1.016 Courte, Citty, Church, are all shops of small wares 145.SP1.017 All having blowne to sparkes, their noble fire 145.SP1.018 And drawne their sound gold-Ingott into wire 145.SP1.019 All trying by a loue of littlenes 145.SP1.020 To make abridgments, and to draw to less 145.SP1.021 Even that nothing, w%5ch%6 at first we weare [CW:Since] 145.SP1.022 Since in theis times yo%5r%6 greatnes doth appeare [f.53v] 145.SP1.023 And that we learne by itt, y%5t%6 man to gett 145.SP1.024 Towardes him, thats infinite, must first be great 145.SP1.025 Since in an age soe ill, as none is fitt 145.SP1.026 Somuch as to accuse, much less mend it 145.SP1.027 (For who can iudge, or witnes of those times 145.SP1.028 Where all alike are guilty of the crimes) 145.SP1.029 Where he y%5t%6 would be good, is thought by all 145.SP1.030 A monster, or at best fantasticall, 145.SP1.031 Since now yo:%5u%6 durste be good and y%5t%6 I do 145.SP1.032 Discerne, by daringe to contemplate yo:%5u%6 145.SP1.033 That there may be degrees of faire, Great Good 145.SP1.034 Through your light, largenes, vertue, vnderstood 145.SP1.035 If in this sacrifice of myne, be showen 145.SP1.036 Any small sparke of theis, call it yo%5r%6 owne 145.SP1.037 And if thinges like theis, haue bin said by me 145.SP1.038 Of others, call not that idollatrie. 145.SP1.039 For had God made man first, & man had seene 145.SP1.040 The third daies fruites, & flowers & various greene 145.SP1.041 He might haue said the best y%5t%6 he could saie 145.SP1.042 Of those faire creatures, w%5ch%6 were made y%5t%6 day 145.SP1.043 And when next day, he had admired the birth 145.SP1.044 Of Sunn, Moone, Starrs, fairer then late praysd earth [CW:Hee][miscatch] 145.SP1.045 He might haue said the best that he could say [f.54] 145.SP1.046 And not be chid for praising yesterday, 145.SP1.047 So though some things are not togeath%5r%6 true 145.SP1.048 (As y%5t%6 another is worthiest, and that yo:%5u%6) 145.SP1.049 Yett to say soe, doth not condemne a man 145.SP1.050 If when he spoke them, they were both true than. 145.SP1.051 How faire a proof of this, in our soules growes 145.SP1.052 We first haue soules of grouth, and sence, & those 145.SP1.053 Where our last soule, our soule imortall came.,[sic] 145.SP1.054 Were swallowed into it, & have no name. 145.SP1.055 Nor doth he iniure those soules, w%5ch%6 doth cast 145.SP1.056 The power and praise of both them, on the last. 145.SP1.057 Noe more do I wrong any; I adore 145.SP1.058 The same thinges now, w%5ch%6 I adord before. 145.SP1.059 The subiect changd, & measure; the same thinge 145.SP1.060 In a low Constable, and in the Kinge. 145.SP1.061 I reverence, his power to work on me: 145.SP1.062 So did I humbly reverence each degree 145.SP1.063 Of Faire, Great, Good, but more now I am come 145.SP1.064 From having found their walkes, to finde their home. 145.SP1.065 And as I owe my first soules thankes that they 145.SP1.066 For my last soule did fitt, and mould my clay 145.SP1.067 So am I debter vnto them, whose worth 145.SP1.068 Enabled me to proffitt, and take fourth [CW:om] 145.SP1.069 This new great lesson, thus to study yo:%5u%6 [f.54v] 145.SP1.070 W%5ch%6 none, not reading others first could doe. 145.SP1.071 Nor lack I light to read this booke, though I 145.SP1.072 In a darke caue, yea in a graue doe lye. 145.SP1.073 For as your fellow Angells, so yo:%5u%6 doe 145.SP1.074 Illustrate them, who come to study yo:%5u%6. 145.SP1.075 The first whom we in histories do finde 145.SP1.076 To haue profest all artes, was one borne blind; 145.SP1.077om 145.SP1.078om 145.SP1.079 So though I am borne, without those eyes to live 145.SP1.080 W%5ch%6 fortune, who hath none herself, doth give 145.SP1.081 W%5ch%6 are fitt meanes to see bright courtes, & yo:%5u%6 145.SP1.082 Yett may I see yo:%5u%6 thus, As now I doe, 145.SP1.083 I shall by y%5t%6 all goodnes haue discernd 145.SP1.084 And though I burne my library, be learnd.| 145.SP1.0SS flourish 145.SP1.0$$ %1No ind; date in HE underlined with a small flourish under it%2