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The first is, immoderate and excessive sleeping, whereby mens callings and labours are neglected, their time lost, and their wits and senses dulled: and this groweth partly from the abundance of humours, by which the head is oppressed, & partly from the want of cheerfulness, whereby the heart should be refreshed: and therefore observe, that all sluggards are lumpish, and like dead men, saving when they be about the practise or project of some thing unlawful.

The first is, immoderate and excessiue sleeping, whereby mens callings and labours are neglected, their time lost, and their wits and sences dulled: and this groweth partly from the abundance of humors, by which the head is oppressed, & partlie from the want of cheerfulnes, whereby the heart should be refreshed: and therefore obserue, that all sluggards are lumpish, and like dead men, sauing when they be about the practise or proiect of some thing vnlawfull.

This drowsiness of theirs, and disposition to sleep, they are charged with, and challenged for, in the sixth Chapter: How long wilt thou sleep, ô sluggard, when wilt thou arise out of ¹thy sleep? &c.

This drowsinesse of theirs, and disposition to sleepe, they are charged with, and challenged for, in the sixt Chapter: How long wilt thou sleepe, ô sluggard, when wilt thou arise out of ¹thy sleepe? &c.

1. 1Prou. 6. 9.