IDENTILIN$$  F145WN1|Sal|Dolau Cothi ms.|pp. 9-11\JW\EWS trans\2-1-95\P:T-LP\o\5-10-95\C:JGW\9-29-99; JSC 10-20-99
145.WN1.HE1  To the Countesse of S. [p.9]
145.WN1.001  Faire, Great, and Good, since seeing yow wee see
145.WN1.002  What Heauen cann doe, what any earth cann bee,
145.WN1.003  Since now your beautie shines, now when the Sun%T
145.WN1.004  Growne stale is to so low a value rvnn;
145.WN1.005  That his discheuled 'beames, and scattered fires,
145.WN1.006  Serue but for Ladies Periwigs and tires.
145.WN1.007  In louers sonnets, yow come to repaire
145.WN1.008  Gods booke of creatures, teaching what is faire
145.WN1.009  Since now when all is withered, shrunk, and dryed
145.WN1.010  All vertues ebd out to a dead=low tide,
145.WN1.011  All the worlds frame beinge crumbled into Land
145.WN1.012  Where everie man thinks by him selfe to stand,
145.WN1.013  Integritie, Frendship, and Confidence,
145.WN1.014  (%#Cyments of Greatnes) being vapourd hence,
145.WN1.015  And narrowe Mann being fild with littell shares
145.WN1.016  Court, Citties, Church are all shops of small wares
145.WN1.017  All hauing blowne to sparks their noble fire
145.WN1.018  And drawne their sound Gold Ingot into wire
145.WN1.019  All tryinge by a loue of littlenes, 
145.WN1.020  To make Abridgements, and to drawe to lesse,
145.WN1.021  Even that nothinge, which as first wee were
145.WN1.022  Since in thes tymes your greatness doth appeare
145.WN1.023  And that wee learne by itt, that Man to gett
145.WN1.024  Towards him thats Infinite, mvst first bee greate
145.WN1.025  Since in an age soe ill, as none is fitt
145.WN1.026  Soe mvch as to accuse, mvch less mend itt;
145.WN1.027  (For who cann Iudge, or wittnes in thes tymes,
145.WN1.028  Where all alike are guiltie of the Crimes) [CW:missing]
145.WN1.029  When hee that would bee good, is thought by all [p.10]
145.WN1.030  A Monster, or at least phantasticall.
145.WN1.031  Since now yow durst bee good, and that I doe
145.WN1.032  Discerne dureing[sic] to contemplate yow,
145.WN1.033  That there may bee degrees of faire, Great, Good
145.WN1.034  Through your light, largnes, vertue vnderstood
145.WN1.035  If in this sacrifice of myne, bee showne
145.WN1.036  Any small sparks of these, call them your owne
145.WN1.037  And if things like these haue b>e%>i<n said by mee
145.WN1.038  Of others, call not that Idolatrie
145.WN1.039  For had God made Mann first, and had man seene
145.WN1.040  The third daies fruites, and flowers and various greene
145.WN1.041  Hee might haue said the best that hee could saie
145.WN1.042  Of those faire creatures, which were made that Daie
145.WN1.043  And when next daie hee had admird the birth
145.WN1.044  Of Sun%T, Moone, Starrs, fairer then late praisd Earth
145.WN1.045  Hee might haue said, the best that hee could saie
145.WN1.046  And not bee chid for praisinge Yesterdaie,
145.WN1.047  Soe though some things are not together true
145.WN1.048  As that another is worthyest, and that yow.
145.WN1.049  Yet to saie soe doth not condemne a man%T,
145.WN1.050  If when hee spoke them, they ware both true than;
145.WN1.051  How faire a proofe of this in our Soule growes?
145.WN1.052  Wee first haue Soules of growth, and sense and those,
145.WN1.053  When our last Soule, our Soule Immortall came,
145.WN1.054  Were swallowed into itt, and haue no name,
145.WN1.055  Nor doth hee iniure those Soules, which doth cast
145.WN1.056  The power and praise of both them on the last; [CW:Noe]
145.WN1.057  Noe more doe I wrong any: I adore [p.11]
145.WN1.058  The same things nowe, which I adord before,
145.WN1.059  The subiect changd, and measure; the same thinge
145.WN1.060  In a lowe Constable, and in the kynge
145.WN1.061  I reverence: his power to worke on mee,
145.WN1.062  Soe did I hvmblie reverence each degree
145.WN1.063  Of faire, Greate, Good. But more now I am come
145.WN1.064  From hauing found their walkes, to finde their Home
145.WN1.065  And as I owe my first Soules thanks, that they
145.WN1.066  For my last Soule did fitt, and mould my claie;
145.WN1.067  Soe am I debtor vnto them whose worthe
145.WN1.068  Enabled mee to proffitt, and take forth
145.WN1.069  This great new lesson, thus to studdie yow.
145.WN1.070  Which none not readinge others first, could doe,
145.WN1.071  Nor lack I light, to reede this booke, though I
145.WN1.072  In a dark caue, yea in a Graue doe lye,
145.WN1.073  For as your fellow Angells, soe yow doe
145.WN1.074  Illustrate them, which come to studie yow.
145.WN1.075  The first whome wee in Histories doe finde
145.WN1.076  To haue professed all a%>>A<rts was one borne blinde
145.WN1.077  Hee lackd those Eyes, Beasts haue as well as wee
145.WN1.078  Not those by which Angells are seene, and see.
145.WN1.079  Soe though I am borne, with out those Eyes to liue
145.WN1.080  Which Fortune, who hath none her selfe doth giue
145.WN1.081  Which are fitt meanes to see bright Courts, and yow,
145.WN1.082  Yet may I see yow thus as now I doe,
145.WN1.083  I shall by that all goodness haue discerned
145.WN1.084  And though I burne my Librarye, bee learned| [CW:Mada[%1missing%2]
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