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Manuductio ad coelum. : A poem. In two parts. I. Of joy and sadness. How a good man ought to rejoice. He that looks before him is not cast down. Several antidotes against sorrow. II. Of patience: the occasions and effects of it. The signs of it. An exhortation to it; with instructions how to behave our selves in adversity. The necessity of perseverance. Extracted out of the writings of the holy fathers and ancient philosophers, by John Bona a Cistertian abbot: and turn'd into verse by James Chamberlayne, Gent