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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10209	An alarum for ladyes by the Sieur de la Serre, historiographer of France ; nevvly turn'd out of Franch [sic] into English by Francis Hawkins, dravving on to the tenth yeare of his age.	La Serre, M. de (Jean-Puget), ca. 1600-1665.	1638 (1638)	STC 20487.5; ESTC S4841	28,532	138

banquet for yee as neither eating nor drinking beyond your ordinary custome hence yee will find that your bodyes will bee the more sound more healthy and your soules more innocent If after it yee take a walke divert your selues from such discourses where no body is interess'd but if one of the company doth speake ill of another all though it bee in jest turne the discourse in a faire manner and to the end that yee may never accustome your eares to well-like aspersions lay'd on any for defects it beeing that yee your selues are too much charg'd with them If yee pass the afternoone within your doores each one of yee will employ your selues with your needle or read some devout booke to entertaine yee more profitably during the afternoone I say your booke of devotion as for the eloquent speaches the Romances and for the Comedyes they are toyes meere fables which discover in the end the vndoubted folies of them who soe haue been their advancers and given them esteeme therein haue they employed their times exceeding ill Bee it a holy day then let this Alarum wherewith I present yee hinder yee from sleepe howsoever at the Sermon and doe not yee imitate such who are devout in fashion who are weary on good friday to heare of the passion without considering that this our Devine Saviour who hath suffred those for your selues had more patience in his torments then haue those impious had to heare onely the recitall which hath been made Oh Lord for what other crimes dost thou reserue the thunderbolts of thy justice When the hower of your rests doth call on yee before yee bee vnclothed make your recourse to consult to advise seriously and most attentiuely the last time the self same lookinglass it 's the Crucifix fix your eyes on it and there examine your consciences humbly beseeching God's mercy's pardon for all your trespasses which yee haue donne during this dayes journey and that yee may haue grace to retaine your selues from sinne that yee may not fall therein againe There are yee to resolue soe then with the same action offer vp vnto him all your desires and hopes concerning the repose and tranquility of your liues so that hee iustify the one through his benignity and the other through his infinite power but rather humbly resigne your wills to his Obserue it well that hee who knoweth to compose him felf well to God's will is the wisest of the Vniverse It 's that onely science Ladyes which can seate yee in repose Build not the height of your desseignes on the greatness of your familyes nor on the favour of your freinds I haue seen sayeth the Prophet Lords of the Earth elevated beyond the height of the Cedars of Libany but a dreadfull story to recite next day haue vanished from myne eyes and hardly could I find one who conseru'd so much as the memory of his having been The Favourits of the World are of the same nature they solely pass it by Their fortune is a suddaine flash of lightning which farre surpasseth thunder with it's inevitable fall in sort such that if God lay not the first stone to all your buildings all will fall there will not bee found aught but ruine Desire then never aught but what is of God that 's to say that what soever are your affaires yee fully referre them all to his Sovraignity and without murmur to his Devine Providence since that the ordering of all doth properly appertaine to him Wish yee to bee Religious or to bee maried take vnto yee that restraint of humility and obedience my Lord thy will bee donne It 's the prayer which hee hath taught yee judg yee whether it ought to be acceptable vnto him and whether profitable to yee End your examinations by a prayer to the Virgin as well for her particular merit from whence the flash through admiration of it's light so bright dazeleth the sight of all the quires of Angell's as allso for your safety since shee is Advocate and all puissant Mediatress who so hath this Virgin in assistance will never perish A PARTICVLAR ADVISE For direction of a one's life NEVER bee confident in aught but in God all freindshipps of the World retaine parcell of it's variable Nature such an one to day would dye for yee who to morrow were yee disceased would not so much as honour yee attired in morning Interess is ever found in affections bee they never so pure Become yee ill favoured poore or old all your great freinds and who so were last evening your loyall lovers will even vanish this very morning and if yee send for them none of them will bee found at home for yee Ladyes it 's onely God who is a perfect lover and such like freind indeed Will yee haue proofes of his goodness Hee dyed for yee before yee were borne Require yee testimonyes of his mercy dayly hee conferred grace on yee Loue then him onely Ladyes confide in none but in him and yee shall never bee deceived Offer vp your selues in all places for God doth replenish the Vniuers Hee is every where in such sort that hee is witness of your actions to the end that this consideration might retaine yee in the duetye yee owe vnto so Saintly and adorable Majesty The most consonant prayer which yee can offer vp to God is for your enemyes since hee himself hath given yee the patterne then when hee was nayled on the Cross where having nothing but His speach free served himself thereof to craue pardon for those vilains who brought him to that beeing that misery Oh vnheard of charity our sweet Saviour call'd out for mercy for them the self-same who gaue him gaule and vinaiger to squench his thirst Even then when in the dead of winter yee are in your beds shelters free from could weather and other domages which might endanger life set before yee how many poore there bee at this very instant who haue but a little dunghill-straw for their beds sheets and coverlids without hope that to morrow they shall bee provided better Then consider some-what further elevate your spirits to an higher pitch behould that God hath given vnto yee degrees exempt from such like miseryes mooved by nothing else but his goodness and bounty conferr'd on yee Truely they are benignityes which justly exact eternall and gratefull notice I wonder not aught that vnthankfull hence bee punished for ever Take heed that yee prooue not of the number Offer vp your selues againe as having been the same from all Eternity whom yee are now in the judgment of God Allmighty And what yee ought to ponder more sensibly is that amidst the infinity of soules his power Allmighty doth create daily hee hath selected your's to bee instructed in that Religion wherein solely yee may find your safetyes I am confused nay rather extased jointly each time I consider on such venerable truethes and adorable What a wonder of goodness is it that God hath loved yee within