hour shall come upon thee, it may find thee, as it did him,
ready for it in the possession of a good conscience.

XXIX. Stir up thy mind, and recall thy wits again from thy
natural dreams, and visions, and when thou art perfectly awoken,
and canst perceive that they were but dreams that troubled thee,
as one newly awakened out of another kind of sleep look upon
these worldly things with the same mind as thou didst upon those,
that thou sawest in thy sleep.

XXX. I consist of body and soul. Unto my body all things are indifferent,
for of itself it cannot affect one thing more than another with
apprehension of any difference; as for my mind, all things which are
not within the verge of her own operation, are indifferent unto her,
and for her own operations, those altogether depend of her;
neither does she busy herself about any, but those that are present;
for as for future and past operations, those also are now at this
present indifferent unto her.

XXXI. As long as the foot doth that which belongeth unto it
to do, and the hand that which belongs unto it, their labour,
whatsoever it be, is not unnatural. So a man as long as he doth
that which is proper unto a man, his labour cannot be against nature;
and if it be not against nature, then neither is it hurtful unto him.
But if it were so that happiness did consist in pleasure:
how came notorious robbers, impure abominable livers, parricides,
and tyrants, in so large a measure to have their part of pleasures?

XXXII. Dost thou not see, how even those that profess
mechanic arts, though in some respect they be no better than