IDENTILIN$$ X00600F| Poems 1654 (CSmH)|pp. 262-64.\E:MTH\FS/mf\9-26-94\P&C:mvf\(MH)\10-26-06. c:DRD\9-17-07 006.00F.HE1 %1Vpon Mr. %2 Thomas Coryats %1Crudities.%2 006.00F.001 O%+h to what height will love of greatnesse drive 006.00F.002 Thy learned spirit, %1Sesqui-superlative%2? 006.00F.003 Venice vast lake thou hadst seen,& would seek than, 006.00F.004 Some vaster thing, and found'st a Curtizan. 006.00F.005 That in-land Sea, having discovered well, 006.00F.006 A Cellar gulfe, where one might saile to hell 006.00F.007 From %1Heydelberg%2, thou long'st to see: and thou 006.00F.008 This booke, greater then all, producest now. 006.00F.009 Infinite worke, which doth so far extend, 006.00F.010 That none can study it to any end. 006.00F.011 'Tis no one thing, it is not fruit nor roote. 006.00F.012 Nor poorely limited with head or foot. 006.00F.013 If man be therefore man, because he can 006.00F.014 Reason and laugh, thy booke doth halfe make man. 006.00F.015 One halfe being made, thy modestie was such, 006.00F.016 That thou on th'other half wouldst never touch. 006.00F.017 When wilt thou be at full, great Lunatique? 006.00F.018 Not till thou exceed the world? Canst thou be like 006.00F.019 A prosperous nose-borne wenne, which sometimes %/(growes 006.00F.020 To be far greater than the mother nose? 006.00F.021 Go then, and as to thee when thou didst go, 006.00F.022 %1Munster%2 did Townes and %1Gesner%2 Authors show; 006.00F.023 Mount now to %1Gallo-belgicus%2; appear 006.00F.024 As deep a Statesman as a Garretteir. 006.00F.025 Homely and familiarly, when thou com'st back, 006.00F.026 Talke of %1Will. Conquerour,%2 and %1Prester Iack%2. [CW:Go] 006.00F.027 Go bashfull man, lest here thou blush to looke [p.263] 006.00F.028 Vpon the progresse of thy glorious booke, 006.00F.029 To which both Indies sacrifices send; 006.00F.030 The West sent gold, which thou didst freely spend, 006.00F.031 Meaning to see't no more upon the presse. 006.00F.032 The East sends hither her deliciousnesse; 006.00F.033 And thy leaves must imbrace what comes from %\(thence, 006.00F.034 The Myrrhe, the Pepper, and the Frankincense. 006.00F.035 This magnifies thy leaves; but if they stoope 006.00F.036 To neighbour wares, when Merchants do unhoope 006.00F.037 Voluminous barrels; if thy leaves do then 006.00F.038 Convey these wares in parcels unto men; 006.00F.039 If for vast Tons of Currans, and of Figs, 006.00F.040 Of medicinall and Aromatique twigs, 006.00F.041 Thy leaves a better method do provide, 006.00F.042 Divide to pounds, and ounces sub-divide; 006.00F.043 If they stoope lower yet, and vent our wares 006.00F.044 Home-manufactures to thick popular Faires, 006.00F.045 If omni-pregnant there, upon warme stalls, 006.00F.046 They hatch all wares for which the buyer calls; 006.00F.047 Then thus thy leaves we justly may commend, 006.00F.048 That they all kinde of matter comprehend. 006.00F.049 Thus thou, by means which th'Ancients never took, 006.00F.050 A Pandect mak'st, and universall book. 006.00F.051 The bravest Heroes for publike good, 006.00F.052 Scattered in divers Lands their limbs and blood. 006.00F.053 Worst malefactors, to whom men are prize, 006.00F.054 Do publike good, cut in Anatomies; 006.00F.055 So will thy booke in peeces; for a Lord 006.00F.056 Which casts at Portescues, and all the board 006.00F.057 Provide whole books; each leafe enough will be 006.00F.058 For friends to passe time, and keep company. [CW:Can] 006.00F.059 Can all carouse up thee? no, thou must fit [p.264] 006.00F.060 Measures; and fill out for the half-pint wit: 006.00F.060 Some shall wrap pils, and save a friends life so, 006.00F.062 Some shall stop muskets, and so kill a foe. 006.00F.063 Thou shalt not ease the Criticks of next age 006.00F.064 So much, at once their hunger to asswage: 006.00F.065 Nor shall wit-pirats hope to finde thee lye 006.00F.066 All in one bottome, in one Librarie. 006.00F.067 Some Leaves may paste strings there in other books, 006.00F.068 And so one may, which on another looks, 006.00F.069 Pilfer alas a little wit from you; 006.00F.070 But hardly much; and yet I think this true. 006.00F.071 As %1Sibyls%2 was, your booke is mysticall, 006.00F.072 For every peece is as much worth as all. 006.00F.073 Therefore mine impotency I confesse, 006.00F.074 The healths which my braine bears must be far lesse: 006.00F.075 Thy Gyant-wit'orethrowes me, I am gone; 006.00F.076 And rather then read all, I would reade none. 006.00F.0SS %1I. D.%2 /%1The end of Funerall Elegies.%2 006.00F.0$$ No ind;The poem is "signed", so to speak--"%1I.D.%2." This signature is followed by generic description: "%1The end of Funerall Elegies.%2 (((JSC changed 00D in body to match 00F in ID line)))