The second [seventh] sermon of Master Hugh Latimer which he preached before the Kings…The seconde [seventh] sermon of Maister Hughe Latimer which he preached before the Kynges…

Howe frantic and foolish might all wise men, well judge and deem him too be (which against the day of his arraignment when he should stand upon the trial of death and life) would busy him self, his folks, and his friends to prepare and get many witnesses against him to cast him away by their evidence & witness and to provide such men as should be the only cause of his death. Even. ⟨image 6⟩So frantic, so foolish art thou, which doth toil, travail, and turmoil so earnestly and busily about the getting of goods and riches, before thou haste well learned & taken forth of the lesson, of well using the same. Howbeit, truly I doubt much of the well using of that, which was never well nor truly gotten. Learn therefore first,¹ to know what is enough. For the wise man saith, it is better to have a little with the fear of the Lord, then great and insatiable riches.² Sophonye saith their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the Lords wrath. Let your conversation be without covetousness, & be content with that ye have already,³ Godliness is a great riches, if a man be content with such as God sends. For we brought nothing into this world,⁴ neither shall we carry any thing out. When we have food and raiment, let us therewith be content. Behold thy Schoolmaster Paul teaches the hear a good lesson. Here thou mayst learn well enough, to know what is enough. But lest thou shouldest fear at any time, the want or lack of this enough. Here father the rest of thy lesson. For god verily saith. The ⟨image 6⟩Lord is mine helper, I will not fear what man doeth to me. If the revenues and yearly Rents of thy patrimony and lands, be not enough, nor sufficient for thy finding, and will not suffice thy charges, then moderate thine expenses, borrow of thy two next neighbours, that is to say of thy back and thy belly. Learn to eat with in thy tether. Pull down thy sail. Say down proud heart. Maintain no greater port, then thou art able to bear out and support of thine own provision, Put thy hand no further then thy sleeve will reach. Lut thy cloth after thy measure. Keep thy house after the spending. Thou must not pill and poll thy Tenant, that thou mayest have (as they say) Unde, & that thy never enough to rueful it out in a riotous ruff, and a prodigal, dissolute, and licentious living.