192 Posies for the gests chamber. 
6 They therefore such as make no force what comly thing 
they spil, 
Must haue a cabben like themselues, although against their 
wil. 
~I 
Obseruing this, with loue abide, or else hence all beshreawd. 
103. 
“| Posies for thine owne bed chamber. 
~ 
HAT wisdom more, what better life, than pleseth 
God to send ? 
what worldly goods, what longer vse, than pleseth God 
to lend ? 
wv 
What better fare than well content, agréeing with thy 
wealth ?? 
what better gest, than trustie friend, in sicknes and in 
health ? 
3 What better bed than conscience good,’ to passe the night 
with sléepe ? 
what better worke than daily care fro sinne thy selfe to 
kéepe ? 
4 What better thought, than think on God and daily him to 
serue ? 
What better gift than to the poore that ready be to sterue ? 
5 What greater praise of God and man, than mercie for to 
shew ?3 
who merciles shall mercie finde, that mercie shewes to few? 
6 What worse despaire, than loth to die for feare to go to 
hell ? 
what greater faith than trust in God, through Christ in 
heauen to dwell ? 
1 what mirth to godly welth. 1577. 2 quiet rest. 1577. 
id . ‘ c than hatred to forsake 
What merciles shall mercy get, that mercy none will take. 1577. 
[1573 M.]. 
But gentlemen will gently doe where gentlenes is sheawd, 
