The hauen of pleasure containing a freemans felicitie, and a true direction how to liue well : profitable and del[i]ghtfull to all, hurtfull and displeasing to none, except it bee to such pecuish dames as do either foolishlie reiect, or carelesly neglect the dutie of chast matron[e]s / gathered out of the best approued authors.
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The hauen of pleasure containing a freemans felicitie, and a true direction how to liue well : profitable and del[i]ghtfull to all, hurtfull and displeasing to none, except it bee to such pecuish dames as do either foolishlie reiect, or carelesly neglect the dutie of chast matron[e]s / gathered out of the best approued authors.
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I. T.
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[London] :: Printed by P.S. for Paule Linley, and Iohn Flasket, and are to be solde at their shop in Paules churchyard at the sign of the black Beare,
1597.
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Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
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"The hauen of pleasure containing a freemans felicitie, and a true direction how to liue well : profitable and del[i]ghtfull to all, hurtfull and displeasing to none, except it bee to such pecuish dames as do either foolishlie reiect, or carelesly neglect the dutie of chast matron[e]s / gathered out of the best approued authors." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13314.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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Cal to mind at night the things thou didst in the day. Chap. 50.
CAll to mind at night all the things thou hast either done or saide the day before: and be∣fore thou goe to sleepe, take an account of thy selfe howe thou hast spent the day: aske of thy minde what faulte it hath cured, and what vice thou hast resisted, which way thou hast bettered thy life, what increase thou hast made of godlinesse, and how thou hast profited in vertue.
Quo praetergressus? quid gestū in tempore? quid non?Cur isti fac̄to decus affuit? aut ratio illi?
Quid mihi praeteritum? Cur haec sententia sedit,Quam melius mut are fuit? miseratus egentemCur aliquem fracta persensimente dolorem?
Wherein thou went'st too far? what's don in time? what not?Why this thing was so comely don? why reason ruld in that?What thing thou didst let stip? & why that sentence did preuaileWhich might haue bin for better chang'd? & pittying the poo••e,Why thou wast with a contrite mind so touched with his griese.
For it cannot bee vttered howe quiet and peaceable the minde wil be, and how sweet and pleasant a sleepe wil follow, after thou hast once conceiued in thy mind a purpose to amēd thy life. For with this very thought
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thou shalt shake off the clowdie feares of thy minde. And seeing that often times the things which we haue seene and doone in the day time, doe trouble vs in our sleepe: let vs carefully take heede that the day be spent in honest and vertuous exercises: leaste any thinge come to our mindes that may disturbe our sleepe in the night, and make it vnquiet and altogether trou∣blesome.