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Let falshood like a discord anger you,
Else be not froward. But why doe I touch
Things, of which none is in your practise new,
And Tables, or fruit-trenchers teach as much;

But thus I make you keepe your promise Sir, 45
Riding I had you, though you still staid there,
And in these thoughts, although you never stirre,
You came with mee to Micham, and are here.


[To Sir Henry Goodyere. _1633-69:_ _so with_ Goodyere
_variously spelt_ _A25_, _B_, _C_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_
To S^r Henry Goodyere (H: G: _A18_, _N_, _TC_) moveing him to
travell. _A18_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_]

[1 Past, _1633-54_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_,
_Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC:_ Last _1669_, _Chambers_]

[2 reads,] read, _1650-54_]

[6 decayes:] decayes, _1633_]

[16 womens] womans _1669_]

[17 dyet; _Ed:_ dyet, _1633_ (_with a larger interval than is
usually given to a comma_), _1669:_ dyet. _1635-54_]

[20 harvests, _1633-54_, _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _TC:_
harvest, _1669_, _A25_, _C_, _Cy_, _N_, _O'F_, _Chambers_]

[27 Goe; _A18_, _B_, _TC:_ Goe, _1633-69_

Hence; _A18_, _TC:_ hence; _1633:_ hence _1635-54:_ Hence.
_1669_]

[28 in us, _1633_, _A18_, _A25_, _C_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_,
_N_, _TC:_ to us, _1635-69_, _B_, _O'F_]

[34 you,'asham'd, _Ed:_ you'asham'd, _1633-69:_ you asham'd
_Chambers and Grolier_. _See note_]

[37 However, _1633-39:_ However _1650-69:_ Howsoever _A18_,
_B_, _D_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_]

[38 as] _om. 1639-69_]

[42 froward. ] froward; _1633_]

[44 Tables _1633-54_, _Lec:_ Fables _1669_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_,
_Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_]

[45 make] made _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[48 with mee to] to mee at _A18_, _N_, _TC_]




To M^r _Rowland Woodward_.


Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe
Her selfe a Nunne, tyed to retirednesse,
So'affects my muse now, a chast fallownesse;

Since shee to few, yet to too many'hath showne
How love-song weeds, and Satyrique thornes are growne 5
Where seeds of better Arts, were early sown.

Though to use, and love Poetrie, to mee,
Betroth'd to no'one Art, be no'adulterie;
Omissions of good, ill, as ill deeds bee.

For though to us it seeme,'and be light and thinne, 10
Yet in those faithfull scales, where God throwes in
Mens workes, vanity weighs as much as sinne.

If our Soules have stain'd their first white, yet wee
May cloth them with faith, and deare honestie,
Which God imputes, as native puritie. 15

There is no Vertue, but Religion:
Wise, valiant, sober, just, are names, which none
Want, which want not Vice-covering discretion.
Seeke wee then our selves in our selves; for as
Men force the Sunne with much more force to passe, 20
By gathering his beames with a christall glasse;

So wee, If wee into our selves will turne,
Blowing our sparkes of vertue, may outburne
The straw, which doth about our hearts sojourne.

You know, Physitians, when they would infuse 25
Into any'oyle, the Soules of Simples, use
Places, where they may lie still warme, to chuse.

So workes retirednesse in us; To rome
Giddily, and be every where, but at home,
Such freedome doth a banishment become. 30

Wee are but farmers of our selves, yet may,
If we can stocke our selves, and thrive, uplay
Much, much deare treasure for the great rent day.

Manure thy selfe then, to thy selfe be'approv'd,
And with vaine outward things be no more mov'd, 35
But to know, that I love thee'and would be lov'd.


[To M^r Rowland Woodward. _1633-69:_ _similarly or without
heading_, _A18_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_,
_N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ A Letter of Doctor
Dunne to one that desired some of his papers. _B:_ To M^r R.
W. _W_]

[1 professe] professe, _1633_]

[2 retirednesse, _1633-69_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_,
_JC_, _O'F_, _P_, _S:_ a retirednesse, _A18_, _L74_, _N_,
_TC_, _W_]

[3 fallownesse; _Ed:_ fallownesse. _1633-54:_ fallowness,
_1669:_ holinesse _Cy_, _P_, _S96_]

[4 too] so _W_ showne _1633_, _1669:_ flowne, _1635-54_]

[5 How love-song weeds, _1633:_ How long loves weeds,
_1635-54_, _O'F:_ How Love-song weeds, _1669_]

[6 sown. _1633_, _1669:_ sown? _1635-54:_ sown; _Chambers, who
retains the full-stop after_ fallownesse]

[10 to us it] to use it, _Cy_, _P_, _S96_

seeme,'and be light _1633_, _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_,
_L74_, _N_, _S_, _S96_, _TC_, _W:_ seem but light _1635-69_,
_Cy_, _O'F_, _P_, _and Chambers, who attributes to 1633 the
reading_ seem and be but light]

[13 white] whites _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_]

[14 honestie] integritie _Cy_, _P_, _S_, _S96_]

[15 puritie. ] puritie, _1633_]

[16 Religion: _1669:_ Religion, _1633:_ Religion. _1635-54_]

[23 our] the _A18_, _L74_, _N_, _TC_

sparkes _1633-54_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_,
_N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_, _TC_, _W:_ spark _1669_, _A18_, _H40_,
_S_, _Chambers_]

[25 infuse] infuse _1633_]

[26 Soules _1633-69_, _Cy_, _P:_ soule _B_, _D_, _H40_, _JC_,
_Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TC_, _W_]

[28 To _1635-69:_ to _1633_]

[29 Giddily, _1669:_ Giddily _1633-54_]

[31 farmers _1635-69_, _and all MSS. , where it is generally
spelt_ fermers: termers _1633_]

[33 deare _1633_, _and most MSS.