BOOK I

. A man must not only consider how daily his life wasteth and II. This also thou must observe, that whatsoever it is that naturally III. Hippocrates having cured many sicknesses, fell sick himself and IV. Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning V. Do nothing against thy will, nor contrary to the community, nor VI. To be cheerful, and to stand in no need, either of other men's help VII. If thou shalt find anything in this mortal life better than VIII. Never esteem of anything as profitable, which shall ever constrain IX. In the mind that is once truly disciplined and purged, thou canst X. Use thine opinative faculty with all honour and respect, for in XI. To these ever-present helps and mementoes, let one more be added, XII. What is this, that now my fancy is set upon? of what things doth XIII. If thou shalt intend that which is present, following the rule of XIV. As physicians and chirurgeons have always their instruments ready XV. Be not deceived; for thou shalt never live to read thy moral XVI. To steal, to sow, to buy, to be at rest, to see what is to be done XVII. To be capable of fancies and imaginations, is common to man and THE FOURTH