[29 Giddily, _1669:_ Giddily _1633-54_] [31 farmers _1635-69_, _and all MSS., where it is generally spelt_ fermers: termers _1633_] [33 deare _1633_, _and most MSS.:_ good _1635-69_, _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_] [34 approv'd _1633-54_, _A18_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TC_, _W:_ improv'd _1669_, _B_, _Chambers_] [36 lov'd. _1633-69:_ belov'd. _A18_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TC_] To S^r _Henry Wootton_. Here's no more newes, then vertue,'I may as well Tell you _Cales_, or S^t _Michaels_ tale for newes, as tell That vice doth here habitually dwell. Yet, as to'get stomachs, we walke up and downe, And toyle to sweeten rest, so, may God frowne, 5 If, but to loth both, I haunt Court, or Towne. For here no one is from the'extremitie Of vice, by any other reason free, But that the next to'him, still, is worse then hee. In this worlds warfare, they whom rugged Fate, 10 (Gods Commissary,) doth so throughly hate, As in'the Courts Squadron to marshall their state: If they stand arm'd with seely honesty, With wishing prayers, and neat integritie, Like Indians'gainst Spanish hosts they bee. 15 Suspitious boldnesse to this place belongs, And to'have as many eares as all have tongues; Tender to know, tough to acknowledge wrongs. Beleeve mee Sir, in my youths giddiest dayes, When to be like the Court, was a playes praise, 20 Playes were not so like Courts, as Courts'are like playes. Then let us at these mimicke antiques jeast, Whose deepest projects, and egregious gests Are but dull Moralls of a game at Chests. But now'tis incongruity to smile, 25 Therefore I end; and bid farewell a while, _At Court_; though _From Court_, were the better stile. [To S^r Henry Wootton. _1633-69:_ _do. or_ A Letter to _&c._ _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _S_, _S96_ (_of these Cy and S add_ From Court _and_ From y^e Court): From Court. _P:_ To M^r H. W. 20 Jul. 1598 at Court. _HN:_ To M^r H. W. 20 July 15098 (_sic_) At Court. _W:_ Jo: D: to M^r H: W: _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ Another Letter. _JC_] [1 newes] new _1669_] [2 Tell you _Cales_, (_Calis_, _1633_) or _S^t Michaels_ tale for newes, as tell _1633_, _A18_, _B_ (tales), _Cy_ (and S^t Michaels tales), _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_ (tales), _P_, _S_, _S96_ (tales), _TC_, _W_ (_MSS. waver in spelling--but_ Cales _Cy_, _HN_, _P:_) Tell you _Calis_, or _Saint Michaels_ tales, as tell _1635-54_, _Chambers_ (Calais): Tell _Calis_, or Saint _Michaels_ Mount, as tell _1669:_ Tell you Calais, or Saint Michaels Mount as tell _1719:_ _All modern editions read_ Calais] [6 or] and _1669_] [9 to'him, still, _1633:_ to him, still, _1635-69:_ to him is still _A18_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_]