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And though what none else lost, be truliest yours,
He will make you, what you did not, possesse,
By using others, not vice, but weakenesse.
He will make you speake truths, and credibly,
And make you doubt that others doe not so:
He will provide you keyes, and lockes, to spie,
And scape spies, to good ends, and he will show
What you may not acknowledge, what not know.
For your owne conscience, he gives innocence,
But for your fame, a discreet warinesse,
And (though to scape, then to revenge offence
Be better,) he shewes both, and to represse
Ioy, when your state swels, sadnesse when 'tis lesse.
From need of teares he will defend your soule,
Or make a rebaptizing of one teare;
Hee cannot, (that's, he will not) dis-inroule
Your name; and when with active joy we heare
This private Gospell, then 'tis our New Yeare.
To the Countesse of Huntingdon.
MADAM,
Man to Gods Image;
Eve, to mans was made,
Nor finde we that God breath'd a soule in her,
Canons will not Church functions you invade,
Nor lawes to civill office you preferre.

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