A godly exhortation, necessary for this present time. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B00033 of text S123738 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 10626.5). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B00033 ESTC R224566 STC 10626.5 ESTC R224566 Interim Tract Supplement Guide M.S Harl.514[2] 99892570 ocm99892570 183667 2240925221

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B00033) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 183667) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; B1:2[2]) A godly exhortation, necessary for this present time. 1 sheet ([1] p.). by Simon Stafford, dwelling in Hosier lane, neere Smithfield, Imprinted at London : 1603. Verse: "Let not the dull and sluggish sleepe" With a decorative border around the text. Text in black letter. Printed on the verso of STC 17770.7. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Prayers -- Early works to 1800. Christian life -- Early works to 1800. eebo A godly exhortation, necessary for this present time. anon 1603 1 289 1 0 0 0 0 0 34.6 C The rate of 34.6 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-11 Sampled and proofread 2008-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A godly Exhortation , necessary for this present time . LEt not the dull and sluggish sleepe close vp thy waking eye , Vntill aright with iudgement deep , thy dayly deedes thou trye . He which one sinne in conscience keepes , when he to quyet goes , More ventrous is , then he that sleepes with twenty mortall foes . Therefore at night call vnto minde , how thou the day hast spent : Prayse God , if nought amisse thou find ; if ought , betime repent . And sinc●●hy bed a patterne is of death and fatall herse , Toward bed it shall not be amisse , Thus to record in verse : My bed is like the graue so cold ; and sleepe , which shuts mine eye , Resembles death : clothes , which me fold , declare the mould so drye . The byting Fleas resemble well the wrinckling wormes to be , Which with me in the graue shall dwel , where I no light shall see . The nightly bel , which I heare towle , as I am layd in bed , Declares , the bell shall for me knowle and ring , when I am dead . The rising in the morne likewise , when sleepie night is past , Puts mee in mind , how I shall rise to Iudgement at the last . I goe to bed as to my graue : God knowes when I shall wake : But ( Lord ) I trust , thou wilt me saue , and me to mercy take . FINIS .

Imprinted at London by Simon Stafford , dwelling in Hosier lane , neere Smithfield . 1603.