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| CARE for thy soule as thing of greatest price, | |
| Made to the end to tast of powre deuine, | |
| Deuoide of guilt, abhorring sinne and vice, | |
| Apt by God’s grace to vertue to incline: | |
| Care for it so, as by thy retchless traine | 5 |
| It not be brought to tast eternall paine. | |
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| Care for thy corps, but chiefly for soule’s sake; | |
| Cut off excesse; susteining food is best; | |
| To vanquish pride, but comely clothing take; | |
| Seeke after skill; deepe ignorance detest: | 10 |
| Care so, I say, the flesh to feed and cloth, | |
| That thou harme not thy soule and bodie both. | |
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| Care for the world to do thy bodie right; | |
| Racke not thy wit to winne by wicked waies; | |
| Seeke not to oppresse the weake by wrongfull might; | 15 |
| To pay thy dew do banish all delayes: | |
| Care to dispend according to thy store, | |
| And in like sort be mindfull of the poore. | |
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| Care for thy soule, as for thy chiefest stay; | |
| Care for thy bodie, for the soule’s auaile; | 20 |
| Care for the world, for bodie’s help alway; | |
| Care, yet but so as vertue may preuaile: | |
| Care in such sort that thou be sure of this,— | |
| Care keep thee not from heauen and heauenly blisse. | |
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