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Faire, Great, and Good, since seeing yow wee see What Heauen cann doe, what any earth cann bee, Since now your beautie shines, now when the Sun̅ Growne stale is to so low a value rvnn; That his discheuled 'beames, and scattered fires, Serue but for Ladies Periwigs and tires. In louers sonnets, yow come to repaire Gods booke of creatures, teaching what is faire Since now when all is withered, shrunk, and dryed All vertues ebd out to a dead=low tide, All the worlds frame beinge crumbled into Land Where everie man thinks by him selfe to stand, Integritie, Frendship, and Confidence, (Cyments of Greatnes) being vapourd hence, And narrowe Mann being fild with littell shares Court, Citties, Church are all shops of small wares All hauing blowne to sparks their noble fire And drawne their sound Gold Ingot into wire All tryinge by a loue of littlenes, To make Abridgements, and to drawe to lesse, Even that nothinge, which as first wee were Since in thes tymes your greatness doth appeare And that wee learne by itt, that Man to gett Towards him thats Infinite, mvst first bee greate Since in an age soe ill, as none is fitt Soe mvch as to accuse, mvch less mend itt; (For who cann Iudge, or wittnes in thes tymes, Where all alike are quiltie of the Crimes) [CW: missing] |
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