Page 130
Of Sloth, &c.
Sloth is to Vertue, chiefest enemie:
And Idlenes, the guide to euery ill.
SLoth dulles the wit, and doth corrupt our strength.
Sloth both corrupts, and chokes the vitall powers.
Idlenes is a death in life esteem'd.
Long slumbers are for idle persons meet.
The idle luske, that no way is enclin'd,
Walkes as one dead among the liuing kind.
Ease is the mothet of dissention.
Who growes too negligent, too soone repents.
Humours, by much excesse of ease are bred.
All idle workes, are but the workes of lyes.
All idle houres are Calenders of ruth,
And time ill spent is preiudice to youth.
Idlenesse causeth errour and ignorance.
Through idlenes, kingdoms haue ben destroi'd.
Idlenes is the root of desperation.
The idle mind is apt to all vncleannesse.
In height of weale who hath a slothfull heart,
Repents too late his ouer-foolish part.