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THat the bed is the best Rendevou of mankinde, aud the most neces∣sarie ornament of a Chamber.
That Souldiers are good antiqua∣ries in keeping the old fashion, for the first bed was the bare ground.
That a mans pillow is his best Coun∣seller.
That Adam lay in state, when the heauen was his canopie.
That the naked truth is, Adam and Eue lay without sheets.
That they were either very inno∣cent, very ignorant, or very impudent, they were not ashamed the heauens should see them lye without a couerlet
That it is likely Eue studied Astrono∣mie, which makes the posteritie of her Sex euer since to lye on their backs.
That the circumference of the bed, is nothing so wide as the conuex of the heauens, yet it contains a whole world.
That the fiue Senses are the greatest sleepers.
That a slothfull man is but a reaso∣nable Dormouse.
That the Soule euer wakes to watch the bodie.
That a Iealous man sleeps dog-sleep.
That sleep makes no difference be∣tween a wife man and a foole.
That for all times sleep is the best bedfellow.
That the deuill and mischiefe euer wake.
That Loue is a dreame.
That the preposterous hopes of am∣bitious men are like pleasing dreames, farthest off when awake.
That the bed payes Venus more cu∣stome then all the world beside.
That if dreames and wishes had been all true, there had not been since Po∣perie, one Maide to make a Nun of.
That the secure man sleeps soundly, and is hardly to be awak't.
That the charitable man dreames of building Churches, but starts to thinke the vngodly Courtier will pull them down againe.
That great sleepers were neuer dan∣gerous in a state.
That there is a naturall reason, why popish Priests chuse the bed to confesse their women vpon, for they hold it necessarie, that humiliation should follow shrift.
That if the bed should speake all it
knowes, it would put many to the blush.
That it is fit the bed should know more then paper.
R. S.