Note E22 — 9.
Reading edition
With "The Ladder to Thrift" we may compare the following "Maxims in -ly," from the Lansdowne MS. 762, f. 16b (see Babees Book, ed. Furnivall, p. 247):
"Aryse erly, Serue God devowtely, And the worlde besely, Doo thy werk wisely, Yeue thyne almes secretly, Goo by the waye sadly, Answer the people demuerly, Goo to thy mete appetitely, Sit therat discretely, Of thy tunge be not to liberally, Arise therfrom temperally, Go to thy supper soberly, And to thy bed merely, Be in thyn Inne jocundely, Please thy loue duely, And slepe suerly."