Prison-Pietie or, Meditations Divine and Moral. Digested into Poetical Heads, On Mixt and Various Subjects. Whereunto is added A Panegyrick to The Right Reverend, and most Nobly descended, Henry, Lord Bishop of London. By Samuel Speed, Prisoner in Ludgate, London |
An Alarm to the Drowsie. |
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An Alarm to the Drowsie.
Permit not sluggish sleepTo close your waking eye,
Till you with judgement deep,
Your dayly actions try.
He that his sin as Darling keeps,
when he to quiet goes,
More desperate is than he that sleeps
Amidst his mortal foes.
At night lie down, prepar'd to have
Thy sleep thy death, thy bed thy grave.
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