IDENTILIN$$ F14200G|1669|pp. 188-91\T-LP\?(CtY)\3-21-90\GAS\o(C[Keynes B.4.13,-14,-15])\5-1-90\P:EWS\o(CSmH)\6-14-01\C:JMK\7-20-01;JSC\9-7-01\p:mvf\fs(TxAM)\11-15-07 142.00G.0HE %X%1A Letter to the Lady%2 Carey, %1and%2 M%5ris%6 Essex Riche, %/%1from Amyens%2. 142.00G.001 M#A#D#A#M, %/H%+Ere where by All, All Saints invoked are, 142.00G.002 'Twere two much schism to be singular, 142.00G.003 And 'gainst a practice general to war. 142.00G.004 Yet turning to Sanicts[sic], should my'humility 142.00G.005 To other Sainct than you directed be, 142.00G.006 That were to make my schism heresie. 142.00G.007 Nor would I be a Convertite so cold, 142.00G.008 As not to tell it; If this be too bold, 142.00G.009 Pardons are in this market cheaply sold. [CW: Where] 142.00G.010 Where because Faith is in too low degree, [p.189] 142.00G.011 I thought it some Apostleship in me 142.00G.012 To speak things which by faith alone I see. 142.00G.013 That is, of you who are a firmament 142.00G.014 Of virtues, where no one is grown, or spent, 142.00G.015 They are your materials, not your ornament. 142.00G.016 Others whom we call vertuous, are not so 142.00G.017 In their whole substance, but, their vertues grow 142.00G.018 But in their humours, and at seasons show. 142.00G.019 For when, through tastless flat humidity 142.00G.020 In dowe-bak'd men some harmlessness we see, 142.00G.021 'Tis but his %1flegm%2 that's %1Vertuous%2, and not Hee: 142.00G.022 So is the Blood sometimes; Who ever ran 142.00G.023 To danger unimportun'd, he was than 142.00G.024 No better than a %1sanguine%2-Vertuous man. 142.00G.025 So cloysteral men, who, in pretence of fear 142.00G.026 All contributions to this life forbear, 142.00G.027 Have Vertue in %1Melancholy%2, and only there. 142.00G.028 Spiritual %1Cholerique%2 Critiques which in all 142.00G.029 Religions finde faults, and forgive no fall, 142.00G.030 Have, through this zeal, Vertue but in their Gall. 142.00G.031 We are thus but parcel guilt; to Gold we are grown 142.00G.032 When Vertue is our Souls complexion; 142.00G.033 Who knows his Vertues name or place hath none. [CW: Ver-] 142.00G.034 Vertue's but aguish, when 'tis several, [p.190] 142.00G.035 By occasion wak'd, and circumstantial, 142.00G.036 True vertue is %1Soul%2, Alwaies in all deeds %1All%2. 142.00G.037 This Vertue thinking to give dignity 142.00G.038 To your soul, found there no infirmity, 142.00G.039 For, your soul was as good Vertue as she; 142.00G.040 She therefore wrought upon that part of you 142.00G.041 Which is scarce less than soul, as she could do, 142.00G.042 And so hath made your beauty, Vertue too. 142.00G.043 Hence comes it, that your Beauty wounds not hearts 142.00G.044 As others, with prophane and sensual Darts, 142.00G.045 But as an influence, vertuous thoughts imparts. 142.00G.046 But if such friends by the honour of your sight 142.00G.047 Grow capable of this so great a light 142.00G.048 As to partake your vertues, and their might: 142.00G.049 What must I think that influence must do, 142.00G.050 Where it finds sympathy and matter too, 142.00G.051 Vertue, and beauty of the same stuffe, as you? 142.00G.052 Which is, your noble worthy sister; she 142.00G.053 Of whom, if what in this my Extasie 142.00G.054 And revelation of you both I see, 142.00G.055 I should write here, as in short Galleries 142.00G.056 The Master at the end large glasses ties, 142.00G.057 So to present the room twice to our eyes: [CW: So] 142.00G.058 So I should give this letter length, and say [p.191] 142.00G.059 That which I said of you; there is no way 142.00G.060 From either, but to the other, not to stray. 142.00G.061 May therefore this be enough to testify 142.00G.062 My true devotion, free from flattery; 142.00G.063 He that beleeves himself, doth never lie. 142.00G.0SSom 142.00G.0$$ Divided into 21 3-line sts by skipped lines; no ind