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But gentlemen will [gently] doe where [gentlenes] is [sheawd],
Obseruing this, with loue abide, or else hence all [beshreawd].
[103.]
¶ Posies for thine owne bed chamber.
1
What wisdom more, what better life, than pleseth God to send?
what worldly goods, what longer vse, than pleseth God to lend?
2
What better fare than well content, agréeing with thy wealth?[1]
what better gest, than trustie friend, in sicknes and in health?
3
What better bed than conscience good,[2] to passe the night with sléepe?
what better worke than daily care fro sinne thy selfe to kéepe?
4
What better thought, than think on God and daily him to serue?
What better gift than to the poore that ready be to [sterue]?
5
What greater praise of God and man, than mercie for to shew?[3]
who merciles shall mercie finde, that mercie shewes to few?
6
What worse despaire, than loth to die for feare to go to hell?
what greater faith than trust in God, through Christ in heauen to dwell?