How long shalt thou, slow man, sleep? when shalt thou rise from thy sleep?
Ye unwise men in the people, understand; and, ye fools, learn some-time.
How long, little men in wit, love young childhood, and fools shall covet those things, that be harmful to themselves, and unprudent men shall hate knowing?
Sloth bringeth in sleep; and a negligent soul shall have hunger.
Do not thou love sleep, lest needi-ness oppress thee; open thine eyes, and be thou [ful] filled with loaves.
As a door is turned in his hinges; so a slow man in his bed.
A little thou shalt sleep, a little thou shalt nap; a little thou shalt join together thine hands that thou sleep.
O! thou slow man, go to the ant; and behold thou his ways, and learn thou wisdom.
maketh ready in summer meat to himself, and gathereth together in harvest that, that he shall eat.
A fool foldeth together his hands, and eateth his flesh,
Thou Jerusalem, wash thine heart from malice, that thou be made safe. How long shall harmful thoughts dwell in thee?
A man was sent from God, to whom the name was John.
And we know this time, that the hour is now, that we rise from sleep; for now is our health near [or nearer], than when we believed.
For which thing he saith, Rise thou that sleepest, and rise up from death, and Christ shall lighten [or illumine] thee.