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The governance of virtue teaching all faithful christia[n]s, how they ought daily to lead…The gouernaunce of vertue teaching all faythful christia[n]s, how they oughte daily to leade…
The governance of virtue teaching all faithful christia[n]s, how they ought daily to lead their life, & fruitfully to spend their time unto the glory of God & the health of their own souls. Newly corrected & augme[n]ted by Thomas Becon. 1566The gouernaunce of vertue teaching all faythful christia[n]s, how they oughte daily to leade their lyfe, & fruitfully to spend their time vnto the glorye of God & the health of their owne soules. Newlye corrected & augme[n]ted by Thomas Becon. 1566
London: printed by John Day, 1566London: printed by Iohn Day, 1566
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Wine make folk lecherous and dronkenship causeth brawling and chiding Who so hath a pleasure in them shall not be wise.
WYne make folke lecherous and dronkenship causeth braw•ing and chyding Who so hath a pleasure in them shall not be wise.
Accompany not with riotous drinkers1 and eaters, for such shall come to poverty, ⟨image 93⟩and such sluggish sleepers shall go all to rag ged. Where is woe? Where is wailing? where is strife? where are traps laid? where are wounds without a cause? where are bloody eyes? Do not all these things chance unto them, that sit alway at the wine, and give their minds wholly to gulling and glossing.