Part 21

[24 honour wanting it _1633:_ noble-wanting-wit. _1635-69_, _O'F:_ honour-wanting-wit. _Walton:_ noble wanting it. _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD_]

[31 Warres _Ed:_ warres _1633-69:_ tents _Burley MS._]

[32 test] tast _1669 and Walton_]

[35 Spies] Finds _Walton_]

To M^rs _M. H._

Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne With all those sonnes whom my braine did create, At lest lye hid with mee, till thou returne To rags againe, which is thy native state.

What though thou have enough unworthinesse 5 To come unto great place as others doe, That's much; emboldens, pulls, thrusts I confesse, But'tis not all; Thou should'st be wicked too.

And, that thou canst not learne, or not of mee; Yet thou wilt goe? Goe, since thou goest to her 10 Who lacks but faults to be a Prince, for shee, Truth, whom they dare not pardon, dares preferre.

But when thou com'st to that perplexing eye Which equally claimes _love_ and _reverence_, Thou wilt not long dispute it, thou wilt die; 15 And, having little now, have then no sense.

Yet when her warme redeeming hand, which is A miracle; and made such to worke more, Doth touch thee (saples leafe) thou grow'st by this Her creature; glorify'd more then before. 20

Then as a mother which delights to heare Her early child mis-speake halfe uttered words, Or, because majesty doth never feare Ill or bold speech, she Audience affords.

And then, cold speechlesse wretch, thou diest againe, 25 And wisely; what discourse is left for thee? For, speech of ill, and her, thou must abstaine, And is there any good which is not shee?

Yet maist thou praise her servants, though not her, And wit, and vertue,'and honour her attend, 30 And since they'are but her cloathes, thou shalt not erre, If thou her shape and beauty'and grace commend.

Who knowes thy destiny? when thou hast done, Perchance her Cabinet may harbour thee, Whither all noble ambitious wits doe runne, 35 A nest almost as full of Good as shee.

When thou art there, if any, whom wee know, Were sav'd before, and did that heaven partake, When she revolves his papers, marke what show Of favour, she alone, to them doth make. 40

Marke, if to get them, she o'r skip the rest, Marke, if shee read them twice, or kisse the name; Marke, if she doe the same that they protest, Marke, if she marke whether her woman came.

Marke, if slight things be'objected, and o'r blowne, 45 Marke, if her oathes against him be not still Reserv'd, and that shee grieves she's not her owne, And chides the doctrine that denies Freewill.

I bid thee not doe this to be my spie; Nor to make my selfe her familiar; 50 But so much I doe love her choyce, that I Would faine love him that shall be lov'd of her.

[To M^rs M. H. _O'F:_ To M. M. H. _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ _no title_, _A25_, _B_, _C_, _P:_ Elegie. _S96_]

[2 sonnes] Sunnes _B_, _S96_

my _1633:_ thy _1635-69:_ _Chambers attributes_ thy _to 1633_]

[3 returne] returne. _1633_]

[7 That's much; emboldens, _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ That's much, emboldens, _1633-54:_ That's much emboldness, _1669:_ That's much, it emboldens, _B_, _P_]

[8 all; Thou _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ all, thou _1633-69_]

[10 goe? Goe, _Ed:_ goe, Goe, _1633-69_]

[14 _reverence_, _Ed:_ _reverence_. _1633:_ _reverence:_ _1635-69_]

[22 mis-speake] mispeake _1633_]

[27 For, _1633:_ From _1635-69_, _and MSS_.

her, _Ed:_ her _1633-69_]

[31 erre, _1669:_ erre _1633-54_]

[40 she alone, _1633:_ she, alone, _1635-69_]

[41 get them, she o'r skip] get them, she do skip _A18_ (doth), _N_, _TC:_ get them, she skip oare _A25_, _C_, _O'F_ (skips): get to them, shee skipp _B_, _P_]

[44 whether _1633:_ whither _1635-69_]

[47 grieves _1633:_ grieve _1635-69_]

_To the Countesse of Bedford._

Honour is so sublime perfection, And so refinde; that when God was alone And creaturelesse at first, himselfe had none;

But as of the elements, these which wee tread, Produce all things with which wee'are joy'd or fed, 5 And, those are barren both above our head:

So from low persons doth all honour flow; Kings, whom they would have honoured, to us show, And but _direct_ our honour, not _bestow_.

For when from herbs the pure part must be wonne 10 From grosse, by Stilling, this is better done By despis'd dung, then by the fire or Sunne.

Care not then, Madame,'how low your praysers lye; In labourers balads oft more piety God findes, then in _Te Deums_ melodie. 15

And, ordinance rais'd on Towers, so many mile Send not their voice, nor last so long a while As fires from th'earths low vaults in _Sicil_ Isle.

Should I say I liv'd darker then were true, Your radiation can all clouds subdue; 20 But one,'tis best light to contemplate you.

You, for whose body God made better clay, Or tooke Soules stuffe such as shall late decay, Or such as needs small change at the last day.

This, as an Amber drop enwraps a Bee, 25 Covering discovers your quicke Soule; that we May in your through-shine front your hearts thoughts see.

You teach (though wee learne not) a thing unknowne To our late times, the use of specular stone, Through which all things within without were shown. 30

Of such were Temples; so and of such you are; _Beeing_ and _seeming_ is your equall care, And _vertues_ whole _summe_ is but _know_ and _dare_.

But as our Soules of growth and Soules of sense Have birthright of our reasons Soule, yet hence 35 They fly not from that, nor seeke presidence:

Natures first lesson, so, discretion, Must not grudge zeale a place, nor yet keepe none, Not banish it selfe, nor religion.

Discretion is a wisemans Soule, and so 40 Religion is a Christians, and you know How these are one; her _yea_, is not her _no_.

Nor may we hope to sodder still and knit These two, and dare to breake them; nor must wit Be colleague to religion, but be it. 45

In those poor types of God (round circles) so Religions tipes the peeclesse centers flow, And are in all the lines which all wayes goe.

If either ever wrought in you alone Or principally, then religion 50 Wrought your ends, and your wayes discretion.

Goe thither stil, goe the same way you went, Who so would change, do covet or repent; Neither can reach you, great and innocent.

[To the Countesse of Bedford. _1633-69_, _B_, _O'F_, _S96:_ To the Countess of B. _N_, _TCD_]

[10 part] parts _N_, _O'F_, _TCD_]

[12 or Sunne. _1633_, _B_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TCD:_ or Sun: _1669:_ of Sunne: _1635-54_, _Chambers_]

[13 praysers _N_, _O'F_, _TCD:_ prayers _S96:_ prayses _1633-69_]

[16 Towers,] Towers _1633_]

[20-1 subdue; But one, _Ed:_ subdue; But One _Chambers:_ subdue, But one, _1633-69:_ subdue But one; _Grolier and Grosart_. _See note_]

[26 Covering discovers] Coverings discover _1669_]

[27 your hearts thoughts _B_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TCD:_ our hearts thoughts _1633-69_. _See note_]

[31 so and of such _N_, _TCD:_ so and such _1633-69_, _B_, _O'F_, _S96_]

[33 is but to know and dare. _N_]

[36-7

They fly not from that, nor seeke presidence: Natures first lesson, so, discretion, _&c._

_1633-69_ (presidence. _1633_; precedence: _1669_)

They fly not from that, nor seek precedence, Natures first lesson; so discretion _&c._

_Chambers and Grolier_ (discretion, _Grolier_). _See note_]

[40-2] _These lines precede_ 34-9 _in_ _1635-69_, _B_, _N_, _S96_, _TCD:_ _om. O'F_]

[42 one; _Ed:_ one, _1633-69_ _yea, ... no_] _ital. Ed._]

[48 all wayes _1719:_ alwayes _1633-69_]

[50-1

'twas Religion, Yet you neglected not Discretion.

_S96_]

[53 do covet] doth covet _1669_, _O'F_, _S96_]

_To the Countesse of_ Bedford.

_Begun in France but never perfected._

Though I be _dead_, and buried, yet I have (Living in you,) Court enough in my grave, As oft as there I thinke my selfe to bee, So many resurrections waken mee. That thankfullnesse your favours have begot 5 In mee, embalmes mee, that I doe not rot. This season as 'tis Easter, as 'tis spring, Must both to growth and to confession bring My thoughts dispos'd unto your influence; so, These verses bud, so these confessions grow. 10 First I confesse I have to others lent Your flock, and over prodigally spent Your treasure, for since I had never knowne Vertue or beautie, but as they are growne In you, I should not thinke or say they shine, 15 (So as I have) in any other Mine. Next I confesse this my confession, For, 'tis some fault thus much to touch upon Your praise to you, where half rights seeme too much, And make your minds sincere complexion blush. 20 Next I confesse my'impenitence, for I Can scarce repent my first fault, since thereby Remote low Spirits, which shall ne'r read you, May in lesse lessons finde enough to doe, By studying copies, not Originals, 25 _Desunt cætera._

[To the Countesse _&c._ _1633-69_ (_following in 1635-69_ That unripe side _&c._, _p._ 417, _and_ If her disdaine _&c._, _p._ 430), _O'F_]

[5 begot] forgot _1633 some copies_]

[6 embalmes mee, _Ed_: embalmes mee; _1633-69_

rot. _Ed_: rot; _1633-69_]

[9 influence; _Ed_: influence, _1633-69_]

[10 grow. _Ed_: grow; _1633-69_]

[14 or _1633-39_: and _1650-69_]

[16 Mine. _Ed:_ Mine; _1633-69_]

[18 upon _Ed:_ upon, _1633-69_]

_A Letter to the Lady_ Carey, _and M^rs_ Essex Riche, _From_ Amyens.

MADAME,

Here where by All All Saints invoked are, 'Twere too much schisme to be singular, And 'gainst a practise generall to warre.

Yet turning to Saincts, should my'humility To other Sainct then you directed bee, 5 That were to make my schisme, heresie.

Nor would I be a Convertite so cold, As not to tell it; If this be too bold, Pardons are in this market cheaply sold.

Where, because Faith is in too low degree, 10 I thought it some Apostleship in mee To speake things which by faith alone I see.

That is, of you, who are a firmament Of virtues, where no one is growne, or spent, They'are your materials, not your ornament. 15

Others whom wee call vertuous, are not so In their whole substance, but, their vertues grow But in their humours, and at seasons show.

For when through tastlesse flat humilitie In dow bak'd men some harmelessenes we see, 20 'Tis but his _flegme_ that's _Vertuous_, and not Hee:

Soe is the Blood sometimes; who ever ran To danger unimportun'd, he was than No better then a _sanguine_ Vertuous man.

So cloysterall men, who, in pretence of feare 25 All contributions to this life forbeare, Have Vertue in _Melancholy_, and only there.

Spirituall _Cholerique_ Crytiques, which in all Religions find faults, and forgive no fall, Have, through this zeale, Vertue but in their Gall. 30

We'are thus but parcel guilt; to Gold we'are growne When Vertue is our Soules complexion; Who knowes his Vertues name or place, hath none.

Vertue'is but aguish, when 'tis severall, By occasion wak'd, and circumstantiall. 35 True vertue is _Soule_, Alwaies in all deeds _All_.

This Vertue thinking to give dignitie To your soule, found there no infirmitie, For, your soule was as good Vertue, as shee;

Shee therefore wrought upon that part of you 40 Which is scarce lesse then soule, as she could do, And so hath made your beauty, Vertue too.

Hence comes it, that your Beauty wounds not hearts, As Others, with prophane and sensuall Darts, But as an influence, vertuous thoughts imparts. 45

But if such friends by the honor of your sight Grow capable of this so great a light, As to partake your vertues, and their might,

What must I thinke that influence must doe, Where it findes sympathie and matter too, 50 Vertue, and beauty of the same stuffe, as you?

Which is, your noble worthie sister, shee Of whom, if what in this my Extasie And revelation of you both I see,

I should write here, as in short Galleries 55 The Master at the end large glasses ties, So to present the roome twice to our eyes,

So I should give this letter length, and say That which I said of you; there is no way From either, but by the other, not to stray. 60

May therefore this be enough to testifie My true devotion, free from flattery; He that beleeves himselfe, doth never lie.

[A Letter to _&c._ _1633-69_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ To the Lady Carey and her Sister M^rs Essex Rich. From Amiens. _O'F:_ To the Lady Co: of C. _N_, _TCD:_ To the Ladie Carey. _or_ A Letter to the Ladie Carey. _B_, _Cy_, _S96:_ _no title_, _P:_ To M^rs Essex Rich and her sister frô Amiens. _M_]

[13 who are] who is _1633_]

[19 humilitie _1633-54_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _M_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_, _TCD:_ humidity _1669_, _Chambers_]

[26 contributions] contribution _B_, _D_, _N_, _TCD_]

[30 this zeale, _1635-69_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_, _TCD:_ their zeale, _1633_, _Lec_]

[31 Gold] Golds _1633 some copies_]

[33 aguish,] anguish, _1650-54_]

[57 our eyes,] your eyes, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _P_]

[60 by the] to the _1669_

other, _1669:_ other _1633-54_]

_To the Countesse of Salisbury._ August. 1614.

Faire, great, and good, since seeing you, wee see What Heaven can doe, and what any Earth can be: Since now your beauty shines, now when the Sunne Growne stale, is to so low a value runne, That his disshevel'd beames and scattered fires 5 Serve but for Ladies Periwigs and Tyres In lovers Sonnets: you come to repaire Gods booke of creatures, teaching what is faire. Since now, when all is withered, shrunke, and dri'd, All Vertues ebb'd out to a dead low tyde, 10 All the worlds frame being crumbled into sand, Where every man thinks by himselfe to stand, Integritie, friendship, and confidence, (Ciments of greatnes) being vapor'd hence, And narrow man being fill'd with little shares, 15 Court, Citie, Church, are all shops of small-wares, All having blowne to sparkes their noble fire, And drawne their sound gold-ingot into wyre; All trying by a love of littlenesse To make abridgments, and to draw to lesse, 20 Even that nothing, which at first we were; Since in these times, your greatnesse doth appeare, And that we learne by it, that man to get Towards him that's infinite, must first be great. Since in an age so ill, as none is fit 25 So much as to accuse, much lesse mend it, (For who can judge, or witnesse of those times Where all alike are guiltie of the crimes?) Where he that would be good, is thought by all A monster, or at best fantasticall; 30 Since now you durst be good, and that I doe Discerne, by daring to contemplate you, That there may be degrees of faire, great, good, Through your light, largenesse, vertue understood: If in this sacrifice of mine, be showne 35 Any small sparke of these, call it your owne. And if things like these, have been said by mee Of others; call not that Idolatrie. For had God made man first, and man had seene The third daies fruits, and flowers, and various greene, 40 He might have said the best that he could say Of those faire creatures, which were made that day; And when next day he had admir'd the birth Of Sun, Moone, Stars, fairer then late-prais'd earth, Hee might have said the best that he could say, 45 And not be chid for praising yesterday; So though some things are not together true, As, that another is worthiest, and, that you: Yet, to say so, doth not condemne a man, If when he spoke them, they were both true than. 50 How faire a proofe of this, in our soule growes? Wee first have soules of growth, and sense, and those, When our last soule, our soule immortall came, Were swallowed into it, and have no name. Nor doth he injure those soules, which doth cast 55 The power and praise of both them, on the last; No more doe I wrong any; I adore The same things now, which I ador'd before, The subject chang'd, and measure; the same thing In a low constable, and in the King 60 I reverence; His power to work on mee: So did I humbly reverence each degree Of faire, great, good; but more, now I am come From having found their _walkes_, to find their _home_. And as I owe my first soules thankes, that they 65 For my last soule did fit and mould my clay, So am I debtor unto them, whose worth, Enabled me to profit, and take forth This new great lesson, thus to study you; Which none, not reading others, first, could doe. 70 Nor lacke I light to read this booke, though I In a darke Cave, yea in a Grave doe lie; For as your fellow Angells, so you doe Illustrate them who come to study you. The first whom we in Histories doe finde 75 To have profest all Arts, was one borne blinde: He lackt those eyes beasts have as well as wee, Not those, by which Angels are seene and see; So, though I'am borne without those eyes to live, Which fortune, who hath none her selfe, doth give, 80 Which are, fit meanes to see bright courts and you, Yet may I see you thus, as now I doe; I shall by that, all goodnesse have discern'd, And though I burne my librarie, be learn'd.

[To the Countesse _&c._ _1633-69_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ To the Countess of Salisbury. _O'F:_ To the Countess of S. _N_, _TCD_]

[2 and what _1633_, _1669_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ what _1635-54_, _N_, _O'F_, _TCD_]

[16 Court,] Courts, _1669_]

[17 noble fire,] nobler fire, _O'F_]

[24 him] him, _1633_

that's _1650-69:_ thats _1633-39_]

[29-30 _Chambers includes in parenthesis_]

[30 fantasticall; _Ed:_ fantasticall: _1633-69_]

[34 light, largenesse,] lights largeness, _1669_]

[38 Idolatrie.] Adulterie: _N_, _TCD_]

[40 greene,] greene _1633_]

[42 day; _Ed:_ day: _1633-69_]

[46 yesterday; _Ed:_ yesterday: _1633-69_]

[54 name. _1633-39:_ name _1654-69_]

[57 any; I adore _1633_, _D_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ any, if I adore _1635-69_, _O'F_ (if _being inserted_)]

[61 mee: _D_, _N_, _TCD:_ mee; _1633-69_]

[63 good; _Ed:_ good, _1633-69_]

[77-8 _om._ _D_, _H49_, _Lec_]

_To the Lady Bedford._

You that are she and you, that's double shee, In her dead face, halfe of your selfe shall see; Shee was the other part, for so they doe Which build them friendships, become one of two; So two, that but themselves no third can fit, 5 Which were to be so, when they were not yet; Twinnes, though their birth _Cusco_, and _Musco_ take, As divers starres one Constellation make; Pair'd like two eyes, have equall motion, so Both but one meanes to see, one way to goe. 10 Had you dy'd first, a carcasse shee had beene; And wee your rich Tombe in her face had seene; She like the Soule is gone, and you here stay, Not a live friend; but th'other halfe of clay. And since you act that part, As men say, here 15 Lies such a Prince, when but one part is there, And do all honour and devotion due Unto the whole, so wee all reverence you; For, such a friendship who would not adore In you, who are all what both were before, 20 Not all, as if some perished by this, But so, as all in you contracted is. As of this all, though many parts decay, The pure which elemented them shall stay; And though diffus'd, and spread in infinite, 25 Shall recollect, and in one All unite: So madame, as her Soule to heaven is fled, Her flesh rests in the earth, as in the bed; Her vertues do, as to their proper spheare, Returne to dwell with you, of whom they were: 30 As perfect motions are all circular, So they to you, their sea, whence lesse streames are. Shee was all spices, you all metalls; so In you two wee did both rich Indies know. And as no fire, nor rust can spend or waste 35 One dramme of gold, but what was first shall last, Though it bee forc'd in water, earth, salt, aire, Expans'd in infinite, none will impaire; So, to your selfe you may additions take, But nothing can you lesse, or changed make. 40 Seeke not in seeking new, to seeme to doubt, That you can match her, or not be without; But let some faithfull booke in her roome be, Yet but of _Iudith_ no such booke as shee.

[To the _&c._ _1635-69_, _O'F:_ Elegie to the Lady Bedford. _1633_, _Cy_, _H40_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _TCD:_ Elegia Sexta. _S:_ _In 1633, Cy, H40, N, TCD it follows, in P precedes, the Funerall Elegy_ Death (_p._ 284), _to which it is apparently a covering letter:_ _In L74 it follows the_ Elegy on the Lady Marckham: _O'F places it among the_ Letters, _S among the_ Elegies]

[1 she and you,] she, and you _1633-69_, _Chambers_. _See note_]

[4 two;] the two; _1669_]

[6 yet; _Ed:_ yet _1633-39:_ yet. _1650-69_]

[8 make; _Ed:_ make, _1633-69_]

[10 goe. _Ed:_ goe; _1633-69_]

[13 stay,] stay _1633-35_

th'other] thother _1633_

clay. _Ed:_ clay; _1633-69_]

[16 there, _Ed:_ there; _1633-69_]

[17 honour] honour: _1633_

due] due; _1633_]

[20 were] was _1633_]

[22 as all in you] as in you all _O'F:_ that in you all _Cy_, _H40_, _L74_, _N_, _S_

is. _Ed:_ is; _1633-69_]

[28 the bed;] a bed; _Cy_, _H40_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _S:_ her bed; _P_]

[30 were:] were; _1633_]

[32 are.] are; _1633_]

[34 know.] know; _1633_]

[41 doubt, _1633:_ doubt; _1635-69_]

[42 can] _twice in 1633_]

AN ANATOMIE OF THE WORLD.

_Wherein_,

By occasion of the untimely death of Mistris ELIZABETH DRVRY, the frailty and the decay of this whole World is represented.

* * * * *

The first Anniversary.

* * * * *

_To the praise of the dead_,

_and the_ ANATOMIE.