let men dispute, whether thou breathe, or no. Onely'in this one thing, be no Galenist: To make Courts hot ambitions wholesome, do not take 60 A dramme of Countries dulnesse; do not adde Correctives, but as chymiques, purge the bad. But, Sir, I advise not you, I rather doe Say o'er those lessons, which I learn'd of you: Whom, free from German schismes, and lightness 65 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 wonne To know my rules, I have, and you have 70 DONNE: [To S^r Henry Wotton. _1633-69_ (Sir _1669_): _same or no title_, _A18_, _A25_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ To M^r H. W. _B_, _W_ (_B adds_ J. D.). _See note_] [4 I could invent nothing at all to please, _1669_] [6 bottle] botle _1633_ To a lock of hay, that am a Bottle of grass. _1669_] [7 lifes _1633:_ lives _1635-69_] [10 though ... worse, _in brackets 1650-69_] [11 even _1669_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TC_, _W:_ raging _1633-54:_ other _P:_ over _S_] [12 poles _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _P_, _O'F_, _S_, _W:_ pole _1633-69_, _A18_, _HN_, _N_, _TC_] [16 cities, ... extremes, _Ed:_ cities ... extremes _1633-69_] [17 dung and garlike _1633_, _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _TC_, _W_ (dung, _1633_): dung, or garlike _1635-69_, _A25_, _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_ a perfume] a _om. 1635-54_, _Chambers_] [18 Scorpion _Ed:_ Scorpion, _1633-69_ and Torpedo _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _TC_, _W:_ or Torpedo _1633-69_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _JC_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_. _See note_] [19 of all three _1633:_ of all three? _1635-69_] [22 no such _1633_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _N_, _S_, _TC_, _W:_ none such _1635-69_, _O'F_, _P_ there were. _1635-69_, _A36_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _W:_ they were. _1633_, _Lec:_ then were _A18_, _N_, _TC_] [24 and of one clay. _1633 and MSS. generally:_ of one clay. _1635-39:_ of one day. _1650-54:_ and at one daye. _A25:_ Princes, some slaves, and all end in one day. _1669_] [25-6 The Country is a desert, where no good, Gain'd, as habits, not borne, is understood. _1633_, _1669_, _A18_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _S96_, _TC_, _W_ The Country is a desert, where the good, Gain'd inhabits not, borne, is not understood. _1635-54_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_ The Country is a desert, where noe good Gain'd doth inhabit, nor born's understood. _A25_]