Part 19

That with thy grace thou would’st us endue,

Virtue to follow and vice to eschew.

Hear this our request, and grant our desire,

O Lord, most humbly we do thee require.

This day us defend that we walking aright

May do the thing acceptable in thy sight;

That as we in years and body do grow,

So in good virtues we may likewise flow

To thy honour and joy of our parents,

Learning to live well and keep thy commandments,

In flying from all vice, sin and crime,

Applying our books, not losing our time,

May fructify and go here in good doing, forward

In this vale of misery unto our lives’ ending;

That after this life here transitory,

We may attain to greater glory.”

The Lord’s prayer then see thou recite,

So using to do, at morning and night.

HOW TO ORDER THYSELF WHEN THOU RISEST AND IN APPARELLING THY BODY

Fly ever sloth and overmuch sleep;

In health the body thereby thou shalt keep.

Much sleep engendereth diseases and pain,

It dulls the wit and hurteth the brain.

Early in the morning, thy bed then forsake,

Thy raiment put on, thyself ready make.

To cast up thy bed it shall be thy part,

Else may they say that beastly thou art;

So to depart and let the same lie,