What good, or ill have I done (this day)? or what not done, that I should do? And xaccordingly was it their usual manner at Even ever to run over what they had said, or heard, or done the day past. And Seneca, as yhe telleth us of one Sextius a Stoic, whose daily practise this was, to call himself ⟨p. 95⟩at Even, to a reckoning, what evil he had healed in himself that day, what vice he had withstood or subdued in himself, wherein he was aught better, being that he had lived a day longer: So zhe professeth of himself, that it was his usual guise, every night after he was laid in bed and the light out, when all was quiet about him, to cite himself as it were to appear before himself, to render an account of his courses, and so privately with himself to recount and record his whole days work, all his words and his deeds, passing such censure upon each of them as the condition or quality of either did require. And aa Latin Poet describing a wise and a good man, maketh this his daily practise, Not to suffer his eyes to sleep, till he have run over all his actions of the whole livelong day past, and taken notice what was well done, and wherein he had faulted and failed, to approve himself in the one, to reprove himself for the other.
What good, or ill haue I done (this day)? or what not done, that I should doe? And xaccordingly was it their vsuall manner at Euen euer to runne ouer what they had said, or heard, or done the day past. And Seneca, as yhee telleth vs of one Sextius a Stoicke, whose daily practise this was, to call himselfe ⟨p. 95⟩at Euen, to a reckoning, what euill hee had healed in himselfe that day, what vice he had withstood or subdued in himselfe, wherein he was oughts better, being that he had liued a day longer: So zhe professeth of himselfe, that it was his vsuall guise, euery night after he was laid in bed and the light out, when all was quiet about him, to cite himselfe as it were to appeare before himselfe, to render an account of his courses, and so priuately with himselfe to recount and record his whole daies worke, all his words and his deeds, passing such censure vpon each of them as the condition or quality of either did require. And aa Latine Poet describing a wise and a good man, maketh this his daily practise, Not to suffer his eyes to sleepe, till he haue runne ouer all his actions of the whole liuelong day past, and taken notice what was well done, and wherein hee had faulted and failed, to approue himselfe in the one, to reproue himselfe for the other.
- xPythagoreorum more, quid quoque die dixerim, audierim, eg•rim; commemoro vesperi▪ Cato apud Ci•. de senect.
- yF•ciebat hoc quotidiè Sex•us, ut con summato die cùm se ad nocturnam quietem recepisset, interrogaret animū suum; Quod hodie malum tuum sanasti? cui vitio obstitisti? qua parte melior e•? Senec. de ira l. 3. c. 36.F•ciebat hoc quotidiè Sex•ꝰ, vt cō summato die cùm se ad nocturnam quietem recepisset, interrogaret animū suum; Quod hodie malum tuum sanasti? cui vitio obstitisti? qua parte melior e•? Senec. de ira l. 3. c. 36.
- zUtor hac potestate, & quotidiè apud me causam dico. Cùm sublatum è conspectu lumen est, & conticuit uxor moris mei jam consci•, totum diem jam mecum scrutor, facta ac dicta mea remetior. Sen. ibid. Et alibi ad L•cil. Scrutor me prius; deinde hunc mundum.Vtor hac potestate, & quotidiè apud me causam dico. Cùm sublatum è conspectu lumen est, & conticuit vxor moris mei iam consci•, totum diem iam mecum scrutor, facta ac dicta mea remetior. Sen. ibid. Et alibi ad L•cil. Scrutor me prius; deinde hunc mundum.
- aVir bonus & sapiens, - Non prius in dulcem declinat lumina somnum, Omnia quàm longi reputaverit acta diei; Quo praetergressus? quid gestū in tempore? quid non? Curisti facto decus absuit, aut ratio illi? Quid mihi praeteritum? •ur haec sententia sedit, Quam melius mutasse fuit? Quid volui quod n•lle b•num suit? v•ile h•nesto Cur malu• antetul•? sic dicta & facta pr omnia Ingrediens, ortoque à […] cuncta revoluens, Offensus pravis, da palmam & praemia rectis. Auson. idyll. 16.
