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BedfHon ["Honor is so sublime perfection,"]


This is an Amber-drop enwraps a Bee,
Covering, discouers your grosse Soule, that wee
May in your through shine front, your harts thoughts see

Yow teach (though wee learne not) a thing vnknowne,
To our late tymnes. The vse of Specular Stone,
Through which all thinges with in, with out were showne

Of such were Temples, so, and of such yow are,
Beeing, and Seeming, is your Equall care;
And Vertues whole svmme is, but knowe, and dare.

Discretion is a Wise Mans Soule, and so
Religion is A Christians, and you knowe
How these are one, her yea is not her noe.

But as our Soules of growth, and Soules of Sence
Haue birth=right of our Reasons Soule, yett hence
They flie not from that, nor seeke Presidence

Natures first lesson, so Discretion
Must not grudge, Zeale a Place, nor yett keepe none
Nott banish itt selfe, nor Religion.

Nor may wee hope to sodder still, and knitt
These two, and dare too breake them, nor mvst witt
Bee colleague to Religion, but bee itt.

In those poore types of God (round circles) so
Religious types, the Peecles Centers flow
And are in all the lynes, which allwaies goe.