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¶When you enter in to your bed Pray.

¶Whē you enter in to your bed Praye.

The day now ended men give them selves to rest in the night and so this life finished we shall rest in death. Nothing is more like this life, then every day, nothing more like death then sleep, nothing more like to our grave then our bed, O lord our keeper & defender grant ye I now laying me down to rest, being unable to keep my self, may be preserved from the crafts & Assaults of the wicked enemy, & & grant father, that when I have ⟨image 24⟩run the race of this life thou wouldest of thy mercy call me unto thee that I may always live & watch with thee, now good god give me to take my rest in the & bring to pass that thy gracious goodness may be (even in sleep) before mine eyes, that sleeping I be not absent from thee, but may have my dreams to draw me unto the & so both soul & body, may be kept pure and holy for ever. I will lay me down in peace & take my rest. Think that as this troublesome day is now past & night con & so rest, bed, and pleasant sleep which maketh most excellent princes, & most poor peasants a like, even so after the tumults, troubles temptations & tempests of this life they that believe in Christ have prepared for them an heaven and rest most pleasant and joyful. ⟨image 25⟩As you are not a frayed to enter in to your bed, and to dispose your self to sleep, so be not a fraide to dye but rather prepare your self to it, think that now you are nearer your end by one days journey, then you were in the morning

THe daye nowe endyd men geue them selues to rest in the night and so this life fyneshed we shal rest in death. Nothinge is more lyke this lyfe, then euery daye, nothing more lyke deathe then sleape, nothing more lyke to our graeue then our bed, O lord our keper & defendor graunt ye I nowe layeng me downe to reste, beinge vnable to kepe my selfe, may be preserued frō ye craftes & Assaultes of ye wicked enemy, & & graunt father, yt whē I haue