IDENTILIN$$ F186A28b GHerb, trnsl.|Walton, LIFE (STC W668)|pp. 83-84\FM:JSC\e-copy, EWS disc\6-10-02\P:EWS\o\7-29-02\C:JSC\9-13-02 186A.28b.HE1 To Mr. %1George Herbert%2, with /one of my Seales of the %1Anchor%2 /and %1Crest%2. 186A.28b.001 [as_HE]A sheafe of Snakes /used heretofore to be 186A.28b.002 [as_HE]\my Seal,/ the Crest of our poor Family. [see_notes] 186A.28b.003 Adopted in Gods family, and so 186A.28b.004 My old Coat lost into new Arms I go. 186A.28b.005 The Crosse my seal in Baptism, spread below, 186A.28b.006 Does by that form into an Anchor grow. 186A.28b.007 Crosses grow Anchors, bear as thou should'st /do 186A.28b.008 Thy Crosse, and that Crosse grows an An-/chor too. 186A.28b.009 But he that makes our Crosses Anchors thus 186A.28b.010 Is Christ, who there is crucify'd for us. 186A.28b.011 Yet with this I may my first Serpents hold: 186A.28b.012 God gives new blessings, and yet leaves the /(old. 186A.28b.013 The Serpent may as wise my pattern be, 186A.28b.014 My poyson, as he feeds on dust, that's me. 186A.28b.015 And as he rounds the earth to murder, sure 186A.28b.016 He is my death, but on the Cross my cure. 186A.28b.017 Crucifie nature then, and then implore 186A.28b.018 All grace fro%M him, crucify'd there before. [CW:When] 186A.28b.019 When all is Crosse, and that Crosse Anchor /grown, [p.84] 186A.28b.020 This seales a Catechisme, not a seal alone. 186A.28b.021 Under that little seal great gifts I send, 186A.28b.022 Both workes and prayers, pawnes and /fruits of a friend, 186A.28b.023 Oh may that Saint that rides on our great /Seal, 186A.28b.024 To you that beare his names large boun-/ty deal. 186A.28b.0SS %1J: Donne%2. 186A.28b.0$$ Even no'd ll. 4-24 ind; ll. 1-2 printed as part of HE & distributed over 3 ll. as prose (as marked above); ll. 1-3 of GHerb (Latin; transcribed separately for collation, as file _18628b) printed btw/ HE (w/ ll. 1-2) & l.3; SS aligned w/ RM; "i" in "him" in l.18 doesn't print in MH copy proofed (*EC D7187 W658w)