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A00489 A good exhortation to euery man what he should doo when he goeth to bed and when he riseth To a new northen tune. 1580 (1580) STC 10627; ESTC S106706 814 1

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❧ A good Exhortation to euery man what he should doo when he goeth to bed and when he riseth To a new Northen tune AT night lye down prepare to haue thy sléep thy death thy bed thy graue A rise a wake think that thou hast thy life but lent thy breth a blast Let not the sluggish sléep close vp thy waking eye Vntil with iudgement déep thy dayly deeds thou trye He which one sinne in conscience kéeps when he to quiet goes More ventrous is then he which sléepes with twentie mortall foes ●herfore at night call vnto minde 〈…〉 the day hast spent 〈…〉 if nought amis thou finde if ought betime repent And since thy bed a pattern is of death and fatall ●earie Bedward it shall not be amis thus to record in verie The stretching armes the yawning breath that I to bedward vse Are patterns of the panges of death when life must me refuse The nightly Bell which I heare sound as I am laid in bed Foreshowes the Bell which me to ground shall ring when I am dead My bed is like the graue so colde and sleep which shuts myne eye Resembleth death Clothes which me folde declare the moules so drye The frisking fleas resemble wel the wringling worme to me Which with me in the graue shall dwel where I no light shall sée The waking Cock that early crowes to weare the night away Puts me in minde the trump that blowes before the later day The splendent Sun whose golden ray no eye can dure to sée Declares how in that dreadful day God shall appéer to me The rising in the morn likewise When sleepy night is past Puts me in minde how I shall rise to iudgement at the last I go to bed as to my graue God knoweth when I shall wake But Lord I trust thou wilt me saue and me to mercy take Thus wil I wake thus wil I sléep thus wil I hope to rise Thus wil I neither waile nor wéep but sing in godly wise Repent repent you sinners all and call to God for grace That he may graunt vnto vs all in heauen a dwelling place FINIS ¶ Imprinted at London for Richard Ballard and are to be solde at Saint Magnus corner