Howbeit, by mine advice, let us at least make those kinds of
recreation as short and as seldom as we can. Let them serve us but
for sauce, and make themselves not our meat. And let us pray unto
God--and all our good friends for us--that we may feel such a
savour in the delight of heaven that in respect of the talking of
its joys, all worldly recreation may be but a grief to think on.
And be sure, cousin, that if we might once purchase the grace to
come to that point, we never found of worldly recreation so much
comfort in a year as we should find in the bethinking us of heaven
for less than half an hour.
VINCENT: In faith, uncle, I can well agree to this, and I pray
God bring us once to take such a savour in it. And surely, as you
began the other day, by faith must we come to it, and to faith by
prayer.
But now, I pray you, good uncle, vouchsafe to proceed in our
principal matter.
II
ANTHONY: Cousin, I have bethought me somewhat upon this matter
since we were last together. And I find it a thing that, if we
should go some way to work, would require many more days to treat
of than we should haply find for it in so few as I myself believe
that I have yet to live. For every time is not alike with me.
Among them, there are many painful, in which I look every day to
depart; my mending days come very seldom and are very shortly done.
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