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 inevitable necessity and passage of death, therefore we ought to take our death when God will, wilfully and gladly, without any grutching or contradiction, through the might and boldness of the will of our soul virtuously disposed and governed by reason and very discretion; though the lewd sensuality and frailty of our flesh naturally grutch or strive there against. And therefore Seneca saith thus : Feras, non culpes, quod immutare non vales. suffer easily and blame thou not, that thou mayst not change nor void. And the same clerk added to, and saith : Si vis ista cum quibus urgeris effucere, non ut alibi sis oporteat, sed alius. If thou wilt escape that thou art straitly be-wrapped in, it needeth not that thou be in another place, but that thou be another man.

Furthermore, that a Christian man may die well and seemly, him needeth that he con die, and as a wise man saith : Scire mori est paratum cor suum habere, et animam ad superna : ut quandocunque mors advenerit, paratum cum in- veniat ut absque omni retractione eam recipiat, quasi qui socii sui dilecti adventum desideratum expectat. To con die is to have an heart and a soul every ready up to Godward, that when-that-over death come, he may be found all ready; withouten any retraction receive him, as a man would