No More Learning

_
_B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _S_, _S96_ (_of these Cy
and S add_ From Court _and_ From y^e Court): From Court. _P:_
To M^r H. W. 20 Jul. 1598 at Court. _HN:_ To M^r H. W. 20 July
15098 (_sic_) At Court. _W:_ Jo: D: to M^r H: W: _A18_, _N_,
_TC:_ Another Letter. _JC_]

[1 newes] new _1669_]

[2 Tell you _Cales_, (_Calis_, _1633_) or _S^t Michaels_ tale
for newes, as tell _1633_, _A18_, _B_ (tales), _Cy_ (and S^t
Michaels tales), _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_
(tales), _P_, _S_, _S96_ (tales), _TC_, _W_ (_MSS. waver in
spelling--but_ Cales _Cy_, _HN_, _P:_) Tell you _Calis_,
or _Saint Michaels_ tales, as tell _1635-54_, _Chambers_
(Calais): Tell _Calis_, or Saint _Michaels_ Mount, as tell
_1669:_ Tell you Calais, or Saint Michaels Mount as tell
_1719:_ _All modern editions read_ Calais]

[6 or] and _1669_]

[9 to'him, still, _1633:_ to him, still, _1635-69:_ to him is
still _A18_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_]

[12 state: _1635-69:_ state _1633_]

[14 wishing prayers, _1633_, _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_,
_Lec_, _N_, _S_, _S96_, _TC_, _W:_ wishing, prayers, _1669_,
_HN:_ wishes, prayers, _1635-54_, _B_, _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_,
_Chambers_]

[20 playes] players _1639-69_]

[21 are like _1633_, _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_,
_S_, _S96_ (are now like), _TC_, _W:_ are _om. (metri causa)
1635-69_, _B_, _Cy_, _JC_, _O'F_]

[23-4

are egregeous guests,
And but dull Morals at a game of Chests.

_1669_]

[25 now'tis] 'tis an _1669_]

[27 _At Court;_ though, _From Court, &c. _ _W:_ _At Court_,
though from Court, _&c. _ _1633-69_]




_H: W: in Hiber: belligeranti.
_


Went you to conquer? and have so much lost
Yourself, that what in you was best and most,
Respective friendship, should so quickly dye?
In publique gaine my share'is not such that I
Would lose your love for Ireland: better cheap 5
I pardon death (who though he do not reap
Yet gleanes hee many of our frends away)
Then that your waking mind should bee a prey
To lethargies. Lett shott, and boggs, and skeines
With bodies deale, as fate bids and restreynes; 10
Ere sicknesses attack, yong death is best,
Who payes before his death doth scape arrest.
Lett not your soule (at first with graces fill'd,
And since, and thorough crooked lymbecks, still'd
In many schools and courts, which quicken it,) 15
It self unto the Irish negligence submit.
I aske not labored letters which should weare
Long papers out: nor letters which should feare
Dishonest carriage: or a seers art:
Nor such as from the brayne come, but the hart. 20


[H: W: _&c. _ _Burley MS. _ (JD _in margin_) _i. e. _ Henrico
Wottoni in Hibernia belligeranti]

[2 that] y^t _Bur, and similarly_ y^e (the), y^r (your),
w^{ch} (which), w^{th} (with) _throughout_]

[2-3 most, Respective friendship,] _no commas_, _Bur_]

[4 share'is] share is _Bur_]

[9 lethargies. ] letargies. _Bur_]

[10 restreynes;] restreynes _Bur_]

[11 attack,] attack _Bur_

best,] best _Bur_]

[13 (at first] _Bur closes bracket after_ first _and again
after_ 15 quicken it,]

[14 since,] since _Bur_]

[19 art:] art _Bur_]




_To the Countesse of Bedford. _


MADAME,

Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right,
By these wee reach divinity, that's you;
Their loves, who have the blessings of your light,
Grew from their reason, mine from faire faith grew.

But as, although a squint lefthandednesse 5
Be'ungracious, yet we cannot want that hand,
So would I, not to encrease, but to expresse
My faith, as I beleeve, so understand.

Therefore I study you first in your Saints,
Those friends, whom your election glorifies, 10
Then in your deeds, accesses, and restraints,
And what you reade, and what your selfe devize.