from them, who cannot like and approve themselves.

V. Do nothing against thy will, nor contrary to the community,
nor without due examination, nor with reluctancy.
Affect not to set out thy thoughts with curious neat language.
Be neither a great talker, nor a great undertaker.
Moreover, let thy God that is in thee to rule over thee, find by thee,
that he hath to do with a man; an aged man; a sociable man;
a Roman; a prince; one that hath ordered his life, as one
that expecteth, as it were, nothing but the sound of the trumpet,
sounding a retreat to depart out of this life with all expedition.
One who for his word or actions neither needs an oath,
nor any man to be a witness.

VI. To be cheerful, and to stand in no need, either of other
men's help or attendance, or of that rest and tranquillity,
which thou must be beholding to others for. Rather like one
that is straight of himself, or hath ever been straight,
than one that hath been rectified. VII. If thou shalt find
anything in this mortal life better than righteousness,
than truth, temperance, fortitude, and in general better
than a mind contented both with those things which according
to right and reason she doth, and in those, which without
her will and knowledge happen unto thee by the providence;
if I say, thou canst find out anything better than this,
apply thyself unto it with thy whole heart, and that which
is best wheresoever thou dost find it, enjoy freely.
But if nothing thou shalt find worthy to be preferred to that
spirit which is within thee; if nothing better than to subject
unto thee thine own lusts and desires, and not to give