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5 As nothing is more pleasing to mans nature than sleepe; Quia perpetuus mo• naturae inferiori regugnat. It is most acceptable, illabens animantibus amicâ dul•ne. Somne quies rerum, placidissime Somne deorum, Ovid. Sleep is feigned to love •thea, because it is a common benefit to all living creatures. Quae a rerum veri••d fabulas, Graeca levitas & Poetica vanitas transtulit, Aret. So there is no•ng more pleasing to corrupt nature than pravity: it is a delight to the wicked to […] evil: and sleep is not more welcome to the body, than that is to the lust of […] soul.

5 As nothing is more pleasing to mans nature than sleepe; Quia perpetuus mo• naturae inferiori regugnat. It is most acceptable, illabens animantibus amicâ dul•ne. Somne quies rerum, placidissime Somne deorum, Ovid. Sleepe is fained to love •thea, because it is a common benefite to all living creatures. Quae a rerum veri••d fabulas, Graeca levitas & Poetica vanitas transtulit, Aret. So there is no•ng more pleasing to corrupt nature than pravitie: it is a delight to the wicked to 〈…〉 evill: and sleepe is not more welcome to the body, than that is to the lust of 〈…〉 soule.

6 As sleep is justly called Frater mortis, the brother of death: so is sin S••• paenae, the sister of pain. There is little difference between him that sleeps and the dead, save only in time: both are void of sense, both like trunks Uterque caecus, surdus, elinguis: both blind, deaf, dumb. Uterque sedat c ras, finite labores; either of them appeaseth our cares, finisheth our labours: only death is the longer and more perfect privation. Stulte, quid est somnus gelide is mortis imago? Ovid. Consanguincus lethi sopor. Medium inter vivere & mori, An. A certain middle thing betwixt life and death. Dulcis & alma quies, placidaeque simillima morti, Aeneid. Death is a long sleep, sleep a short death. So fin is the elder brother of death: if man had not sinned, he should not have died. Sin was been first, but The elder shall serve the younger: for death shall swallow the whole inheritance. Here, the sleep of rebellion precedes the sleep of damnation. They sleep but their destruction sleepeth not. The Apostle said of Lazarus;