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Onely'in this be no Galenist. To make
Courts hot ambitions wholesome, doe not take
A dramme of Countries dulnesse; doe not adde
Correctives, but as chymiques, purge the bad.
But, Sir, I advise not you, I rather doe
Say o'r those lessons, which I learn'd of you:
Whom, free from Germanies schismes, and lightnes
Of France, and faire Italies faithlesnesse,
Having from these suck'd all they had of worth,
And brought home that faith which you carried forth;
I throughly love, But if my selfe I'have won
To know my rules, I have, and you have DONNE.
To Sr Henry Goodyere.
Who makes the Past, a pattere for next yeare,
Turns no new leaf, but still the same things reads,
Seene things he sees againe, heard things doth heare,
And makes his life but like a paire of beads.
A Palace, when 'tis that, which it should be,
Leaves growing, and stands such, or else decayes:
But he which dwels there, is not so; for he
Strives to urge upward, and his fortune raise;
So had your body'her morning, hath her noone,
And shall not better; her next change is night:
But her faire larger guest, to'whom Sun and Moone
Are sparkes, and short liv'd, claimes another right.

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