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Hee might haue sayd the best that hee could say [233]
Of those fayre Creatures w.ch were made that day
And when next day hee had admird the birth
Of Sunne Moone Starrs, fayrer then late praysd earth
Hee might haue sayd the best that hee could say
And not bee chidd for praysing yesterday:
So, though somethings are not |together| true
(As, that another's worthyest, and that you)
Yet to say so doth not condemne a man
If, when he spake them they were both true than.
How fayre a proofe of this in or soule growes?
Wee first haue soules of growth, and sense, and those
When our last soule, our soule im̀„ortall, came
Were swallowed into it, and haue no name
Nor doth hee iniure those soules w.ch doth cast
The power and prayse of both them on the last:
No more do I wrong any, if I adore
The same things now wch I adord before
(The subiect chang'd and measure) the same thing
In a low Constable and in a king
I reverence His power to worke on mee

[CW: See the rest pa 241]
To M.r Christopher Brooke from
the Island voyage with the E[.]
The Storme
Thou w.ch art I, (tis nothing to bee so)
Thou w.ch art still thy selfe by this shalt knowe

[CW: Part]