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<DATE>2008-11-06</DATE>
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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B081010.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>A godly Exhortation, nece&s;&s;ary for this pre&s;ent time.</HEAD>
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<L>LEt not the dull and &s;luggi&s;h &s;leepe</L>
<L>clo&s;e vp thy waking eye,</L>
<L>Vntill aright with iudgement deep,</L>
<L>thy dayly deedes thou trye.</L>
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<L>He which one &s;inne in con&s;cience keepes,</L>
<L>when he to quyet goes,</L>
<L>More ventrous is, then he that &s;leepes</L>
<L>with twenty mortall foes.</L>
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<L>Therefore at night call vnto minde,</L>
<L>how thou the day ha&s;t &s;pent:</L>
<L>Pray&s;e God, if nought ami&s;&s;e thou find;</L>
<L>if ought, betime repent.</L>
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<L>And &s;inc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">hy bed a patterne is</L>
<L>of death and fatall her&s;e,</L>
<L>Toward bed it &s;hall not be ami&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Thus to record in ver&s;e:</L>
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<L>My bed is like the graue &s;o cold;</L>
<L>and &s;leepe, which &s;huts mine eye,</L>
<L>Re&s;embles death: clothes, which me fold,</L>
<L>declare the mould &s;o drye.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The byting Fleas re&s;emble well</L>
<L>the wrinckling wormes to be,</L>
<L>Which with me in the graue &s;hall dwel,</L>
<L>where I no light &s;hall &s;ee.</L>
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<L>The nightly bel, which I heare towle,</L>
<L>as I am layd in bed,</L>
<L>Declares, the bell &s;hall for me knowle</L>
<L>and ring, when I am dead.</L>
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<L>The ri&s;ing in the morne likewi&s;e,</L>
<L>when &s;leepie night is pa&s;t,</L>
<L>Puts mee in mind, how I &s;hall ri&s;e</L>
<L>to Iudgement at the la&s;t.</L>
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<L>I goe to bed as to my graue:</L>
<L>God knowes when I &s;hall wake:</L>
<L>But (Lord) I tru&s;t, thou wilt me &s;aue,</L>
<L>and me to mercy take.</L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>Imprinted at London by Simon Stafford, dwelling in Ho&s;ier lane, neere Smithfield. 1603.</P>
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