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[Sythen wee see in sicknesse corporall]

Sythen wee see in sicknesse corporall,
Health to recouer, and death for to decline.
Men wyll absteyne from lustes sensuall,
And their desyres submit to medecine:


All for this frayle flesh that runneth to ruine,
How much more should eche man with busy cure,
Seeke for the soules health, repentyngin time,
VVherby he may obteyne such ioyes as shalendure.