WHen you find an unwillingness to rise early in the Morning, make this short Speech to your self: I'm getting up now to do the Business of a Man; and am I out of Humour for going about that I was made for; and for the sake of which I was sent into the World? Was I then design'd for nothing but to Doze and Batten beneath the Counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living. Granting that: wer't thou Born only for Pleasure; were you never to do any thing? I thought Action had been the End of your Being: Pray look upon the Plants and Birds, the Pismires, Spiders, and Bees, and you'l see them all Regular and Industrious, exerting their Nature, and busy in their Station. For shame! Shall a Spider act like a Spider, and make the most of her Matters, and shan't a Man act like a Man? Why don't you rouze your Faculties, and manage up to your Kind? For all that, there's no Living without Rest: True; But then let's follow Natures directions, and not take too much on't: She likewise has given you leave to Eat and Drink within a Rule; but here you generally exceed your Commission, and go beyond Convenience : Whereas in business you are apt to Favour your self, and do less than lies in your power. In earnest, you have no true Love for your self: If you had, you would improve your Nature, Humour her Motions, and solicit her Interest. Now when a Man loves his Trade, how he'l Sweat and Drudg to perform to a Curiosity, and make himself Master on't! But to speak out, You mind your Person less than a Turner does the making of a Chair; A Dancing Master has much more regard for his Heels, than you have for your Head : And as for Wealth and Popularity, how strongly are they pursued by the Vain, and the Covetous? All these People when their Fancy is once struck, push their Point might and main, and will scarcely allow themselves necessary Refreshment. And now can you think the Functions of Reason, Justice, and Generosity, less valuable than these petty Amusements?