IDENTILIN$$ F158C02.epl|Add. ms. 5778(c)|f. 5r-v (poem:5v-12)|JSC\mf\5-28-97\P:EWS\o\6-16-97\C:JSC\7-11-97\DRD 7/6/06 158.C02.HE1 %XEpistle.| 158.C02.HE2 om 158.C02.HE3 om 158.C02.HE4 om 158.C02.HE5 om 158.C02.001 Others at the Porches and Entryes of theyre Buildeings set /theyre 158.C02.002 Armes; I, My Picture; If any Coullers can delive[%1water#damage?%2] /minde soe playne, & 158.C02.003 flatt, and through light as myne[%1water#damage?%2] /Naturally att a new Autho*%5r%6 I doubt, 158.C02.004 and sticke, an[%1water#damage?%2] /doe not say quicklye, Good. I censure much & Taxe; 158.C02.005 And this libertye costs mee more then Others, by how much /my owne things 158.C02.006 are worse then others. Yett I would not /bee soe rebellious against my 158.C02.007 selfe, as not to doe yt, Since /I loue yt, nor soe vniust to Others, to 158.C02.008 doe yt Sine Talione. /As long as I giue them as good holld vppon mee, 158.C02.009 they must /pardon mee my Bytings. I forbid noe Reprehender, but him 158.C02.010 that lyke the Trent Counsell forbids not Bookes, but%7~~%8 /Authors, 158.C02.011 Damninge what ever such a name hath, or shall /write. None 158.C02.012 writes soe ill, that he gives not some thinge /Exemplarie, to follow, 158.C02.013 or flye. Now when I beginne this /Booke, I haue noe purpose to come into 158.C02.014 any Mans debt, /how my Stocke will holld out, I know not. Perchance / 158.C02.015 wast, perchance increase in Vse. If I doe borrowe any /thinge of 158.C02.016 Antiquitye, besydes that, I make accompt/ that I pay yt to posteritye, 158.C02.017 with as much, & as Good. /Yow shall still find mee to acknowledge yt, 158.C02.018 and to#~ /thanke not him onlye that hath digged out Treasure /for mee, but 158.C02.019 that hath lighted mee a Candle to the#~ /place. All w%5ch%6 I will bid 158.C02.020 you [om] remember, (for I wolde /haue noe such Readers as I can 158.C02.021 teach) is, that the /Pithagorean Doctrine doth not onelie carrie 158.C02.022 one Soule /from Man to Man, nor Man to Beast, but indifferently/[CW:(to] [f.5v] 158.C02.023 to Plants allsoe: And therefore you must not grudge to#~ /finde the same 158.C02.024 Soule in an Emperor, in a Post-horse,/ and in a Mucheron, since 158.C02.025 noe vnreadines in the Soule, /but an indisposition in the Organs works this. And 158.C02.026 therefore though this Soule could not moove when yt /was a Melon, yett 158.C02.027 yt may remember, and now tell mee, /att what lacivious Banquett yt 158.C02.028 was seru'd; And_ /though it cold not speake, when yt was a Spider,~ 158.C02.029 yett yt can remember, and now tell mee, who vs'd yt /for poyson to 158.C02.030 attaine Dignitye. How ever the Bodyes /haue dull'd her other Facultyes, 158.C02.031 her Memorye hath /ever beene her owne, w%5ch%6 makes me soe seriouslye#~#~/ 158.C02.032 deliuer you by her relac%Mon all her Passages from /her first Makeinge when 158.C02.033 shee was that Aple which /Eue eate, to thys tyme when shee is hee, whose lyfe 158.C02.034 you shall finde in the End of this Booke.| 158.C02.0SS 158.C02.0$$ >>D%5r%6 Downe's Poems<< %1wr. at top of f.5--nonscribal but 17th cent.; lineation here follows Z, ms. line-breaks are noted here with virgules, & words hyphenated in Z are here kept entirely on the line-of-origin; full HE is in poem file; nonscribal writing fills margins around HE, epistle, & much of poem; tildes as in l.11 seem to be visual filler to make a straight RM; 2 ll. of nonscribal, unrelated material wr. between epistle & poem%2