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Wherein to make 



Their soul's most intimate affections known 

 To Him that sees in secret, when 

 They 're most conceal'd from other men. 



But he that unto others leads the way 



In public prayer, 

 Should do it so 

 As all that hear may know 



They need not fear 



To tune their hearts unto his tongue, and say, 

 Amen ; not doubt they were betray'd 

 To blaspheme, when they meant to have pray'd. 



Devotion will add life unto the letter; 



And why should not 

 That which authority 

 Prescribes, esteemed be 



Advantage got ? 



If the prayer be good, the commoner the better; 

 Prayer in the Church's words as well 

 As sense, of all prayers bears the bell. CH. HARViE. d 



And now, scholar, I think it will be time to repair to our 

 angle-rods, which we left in the water to fish for themselves: 

 and you shall choose which shall be yours ; and it is an even 

 lay, one of them catches. 



And, let me tell you, this kind of fishing with a dead rod, 

 and laying night-hooks, are like putting money to use ; for 

 they both work for the owners, when they do nothing but 

 sleep, or eat, or rejoice ; as you know we have done this last 

 hour, and sat as quietly and as free from cares under this 

 sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibceus did under 

 their broad beech-tree. No life, my honest scholar, no life 

 so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a well-governed 



