PROV.
23.
vers.
29.32
.
To
whom
is
Woe
?
to
whom
is
Sorrow
?
to
whom
is
Strife
?
&c.
In
the
end
it
will
bite
like
a
Serpent
,
and
sting
like
a
Cockatrice
.
SEer
,
art
thou
also
blind
?
Watch-man
art
thou
also
drunk
,
Goe
to
them
now
ye
Drunkards
,
listen
not
what
I
,
or
any
ordinary
hedge-priest
(
as
you
stile
vs
,
but
that
most
Wise
and
experienced
royall
Preacher
)
hath
to
say
vnto
you
.
And
because
you
are
a
dull
and
thick-eared
generation
,
hee
first
deales
with
you
by
way
of
question
,
a
figure
of
force
and
impression
.
To
whom
is
woe
,
&c.
To
whom
is
strife
.
You
talke
of
good
fellowship
&
friendship
,
but
wine
is
a
rager
and
tumultuous
make-bate
,
and
serts
you
a
quarrelling
,
&
medling
.
When
wit
's
out
of
the
head
and
strength
out
of
the
body
,
it
thrustes
euen
Cowards
and
dastards
vnfenced
and
vnarmed
into
needles
frayes
and
combats
.
And
then
to
whom
are
wounds
,
broken
heads
,
blue
eyes
,
maymed
limmes
▪
You
haue
a
drunken
by-word
:
Drunkards
take
no
harme
,
but
how
many
are
the
mishaps
and
vntimely
misfortunes
that
betyde
such
,
which
though
they
feele
not
in
drinke
,
they
carrie
as
markes
and
brands
to
their
graue
.
You
pretend
you
drinke
healthes
and
for
health
,
but
to
whom
are
all
kind
of
diseases
,
infirmities
,
deformities
,
pearled
faces
,
palsies
,
dropsies
,
headaches
?
If
not
to
drunkards
.
Vpon
these
premises
he
forcibly
inferrs
his
sober
&
serious
aduice
.
Looke
vpon
these
woefull
effects
and
euils
of
drunkennes
,
and
looke
not
vpon
the
Wine
,
looke
vpon
the
blew
wounds
,
vpon
the
red
eyes
it
causeth
,
and
looke
not
on
the
red
colour
when
it
sparkleth
in
the
cup.
If
there
were
no
worse
then
these
,
yet
would
no
wise
man
be
ouertaken
with
Wine
:
as
if
he
should
say
,
What
see
you
in
the
Cup
or
drink
,
that
counteruaileth
these
dregges
that
lie
in
the
bottome
.
Behold
,
this
is
the
Sugar
you
are
to
looke
for
,
and
the
tang
it
leaues
behind
.
Woe
and
alas
,
sorrow
and
strife
,
shame
,
pouertie
and
diseases
;
these
are
enough
to
make
it
odious
,
but
that
which
followeth
withall
,
will
make
it
hideous
and
fearefull
.
For
Salomon
duely
considering
that
he
speakes
to
men
past
shame
and
grace
,
senselesse
of
blowes
,
and
therefore
much
more
of
reasons
and
words
insisteth
not
vpon
these
petty
woes
;
no
uissimo
sub
tanquam
Serpens
mordebit
,
&
tanquam
regulus
punget
.
Montanus
&
Mercerus
,
tamquam
haemorrhois
vel
dipsas
Tremelius
.
which
they
,
bewitched
and
besotted
with
the
loue
of
Wine
,
will
easily
ouer-see
and
ouerleape
:
but
sets
before
their
eies
the
direfull
end
and
fruite
,
the
blacke
and
poysonfull
taile
of
this
sin
.
In
the
end
it
stingeth
like
the
Serpent
,
it
biteth
like
the
Cockatrice
(
or
Adder
)
saith
our
new
Translation
.
All
Interpretors
agree
,
that
hee
meanes
some
most
virulent
Serpent
,
whose
poyson
is
present
and
deadly
.
All
the
Woes
hee
hath
mentioned
before
,
were
but
as
the
sting
of
some
Emmet
,
Waspe
or
Nettle
,
in
comparison
of
this
Cockatrice
,
which
is
euen
vnto
death
;
death
speedy
,
death
painefull
,
and
wofull
death
,
and
that
as
naturally
and
ineuitably
,
as
Opium
procureth
sleepe
,
as
Ellebore
purgeth
,
or
any
Poyson
killeth
.
Three
forked
is
this
sting
,
and
threefold
is
the
death
it
procureth
to
all
that
are
stung
therewith
.
in
Spici
legiis
.
Vide
etiam
Seneca
ep.
84.
vbi
cum
opio
elleboro
veneno
ebrietatem
comparat
.
The
first
is
the
death
of
grace
,
the
second
is
of
the
body
,
the
third
is
of
soule
and
body
eternall
.
All
sin
is
the
poyson
wherewithall
the
old
Serpent
and
Red
Dragon
enuenoms
the
soule
of
man
,
but
no
sin
(
except
it
bee
that
which
is
vnto
death
)
so
mortall
as
this
,
which
though
not
euer
vnpardonably
,
yet
for
the
most
part
is
also
irrecouerably
,
and
ineuitably
vnto
death
.
Seest
thou
one
bitten
with
any
other
Snake
,
there
is
hope
&
help
.
As
the
Father
said
of
his
son
,
when
he
had
information
of
his
gaming
,
of
his
prodigalitie
,
yea
,
of
his
whoring
:
but
when
hee
heard
that
hee
was
poysoned
with
drunkennesse
,
hee
gaue
him
for
dead
,
his
case
for
desperate
and
forlorne
.
Age
and
experience
often
cures
the
other
;
but
this
encrcaseth
with
yeares
,
and
parteth
not
till
death
.
Whoring
is
a
deepe
Ditch
,
yet
some
few
shall
a
man
see
returne
&
lay
hold
on
the
wayes
of
life
,
one
of
a
thousand
,
but
scarse
one
Drunkard
of
ten
thousand
.
One
,
Ambrose
mentions
,
and
one
haue
I
knowne
,
and
but
one
of
all
that
euer
I
knew
or
heard
of
.
Often
haue
I
been
asked
,
and
often
haue
I
enquired
,
but
neuer
could
meete
with
an
instance
,
saue
one
or
two
at
the
most
.
I
speake
of
Drunkards
,
not
of
one
drunken
;
of
such
who
rarely
&
casually
haue
Noah-like
been
surprised
,
Tremelius
,
Haemorrhois
,
which
Gesner
confounds
with
the
Dipsas
,
or
thirstie
Serpent
,
whose
poyson
breedeth
such
thirst
,
drought
,
and
inflamation
,
like
that
of
Rats-bane
,
that
they
neuer
leaue
drinking
,
till
they
burst
and
die
withall
.
Would
it
not
grieue
and
pitie
any
Christian
soule
,
to
see
a
towardly
hopefull
young
man
well
natured
,
well
nurtured
,
stung
with
this
Cockatrice
,
bewailing
his
owne
case
,
crying
out
against
the
basenesse
of
the
sinne
,
inueighing
against
company
,
melting
vnder
the
perswasions
of
friends
;
yea
,
protesting
against
all
entisements
,
vow
,
couenant
,
and
seriously
indent
with
himselfe
and
his
friends
for
the
relinquishing
of
it
:
and
yet
if
he
meete
with
a
companion
that
holds
but
vp
his
finger
,
he
followes
him
as
a
foole
to
the
stocks
,
and
as
an
Oxe
to
the
slaughter-house
,
hauing
no
power
to
withstand
the
temptation
,
but
in
hee
goes
with
him
to
the
tipling
house
,
not
considering
that
the
Chambers
are
the
Chambers
of
death
;
and
the
guesse
,
the
guests
of
death
;
and
there
hee
continues
as
one
bewitched
or
coniured
in
a
spell
out
of
which
hee
returnes
not
til
he
hath
emptied
his
purse
of
money
,
his
head
of
reason
,
&
his
heart
of
all
his
former
seeming
grace
.
There
his
eyes
behold
the
strange
woman
,
his
heart
speaketh
peruerse
things
,
becomming
heartles
as
one
(
saith
Salomon
)
in
the
heart
of
the
sea
,
resoluing
to
continue
,
and
returne
to
his
vomit
what
euer
it
cost
him
,
to
make
it
his
daily
worke
.
I
was
sicke
,
and
knewe
it
not
.
I
was
strucke
and
felt
it
not
,
when
I
awake
I
will
seeke
it
yet
still
.
And
why
indeed
(
without
a
miracle
)
should
any
expect
that
one
stung
with
this
viper
should
shake
it
off
,
and
euer
recouer
of
it
againe
.
Yea
,
so
farre
are
they
from
recouering
themselues
,
that
they
infect
and
become
contagious
and
pestilent
to
all
they
come
neare
.
The
Dragon
infusing
his
venom
,
&
assimulating
his
elses
to
himselfe
in
no
sin
so
much
as
in
this
,
that
it
becomes
as
good
as
meate
and
drinke
to
them
,
to
spend
their
wit
&
mony
to
compasse
alehouse
after
alehouse
,
yea
towne
after
towne
to
transforme
others
with
their
Circean
Cups
,
till
they
haue
made
them
bruits
and
swine
,
worse
then
themselues
.
The
Adulterer
and
Vsurer
desire
to
enjoy
their
sinne
alone
,
but
the
chiefest
pastime
of
a
drunkard
is
to
heat
and
ouercome
others
with
wine
that
hee
may
discouer
their
nakednesse
and
glory
in
their
foyle
and
folly
▪
In
a
word
,
excesse
of
wine
,
and
the
spirit
of
Grace
are
opposites
,
the
former
expelles
the
latter
out
of
the
heart
,
as
smoke
doth
Bees
out
the
Hiue
:
and
makes
the
man
a
mere
slaue
and
prey
to
Satan
and
his
snares
,
when
by
this
poyson
he
hath
put
out
his
eyes
and
spoyled
him
of
his
strength
,
he
vseth
him
as
the
Philistims
did
Sampson
,
leads
him
on
a
string
whither
hee
pleaseth
,
like
a
very
drudge
,
scorne
and
makesport
to
himselfe
and
his
Impes
;
makes
him
grinde
in
the
mill
of
all
kind
of
sinnes
and
vices
.
And
that
I
take
to
bee
the
reason
why
Drunkennesse
is
not
specially
prohibited
in
any
one
of
the
tenne
Commandements
because
it
is
not
the
single
breach
of
any
one
,
but
in
effect
the
violation
of
all
and
euery
one
,
it
is
no
one
sinne
,
And
well
may
it
bee
that
some
such
as
are
altogether
fearelesse
and
carelesse
of
the
former
death
will
yet
tremble
and
bee
moued
with
that
which
I
shall
in
the
second
place
tell
them
.
Among
all
other
sinnes
that
are
,
none
brings
forth
bodily
death
so
frequently
as
this
,
none
so
ordinarily
slaies
in
the
Act
of
sinne
as
this
.
And
what
can
bee
more
horrible
then
to
dye
in
the
acte
of
a
sinne
without
the
acte
of
repentance
?
I
pronounce
no
definitiue
sentence
of
damnation
vpon
any
particular
so
dying
;
but
what
dore
of
hope
or
comfort
is
left
to
their
friends
behind
of
their
saluation
?
The
whoremaster
hee
hopes
to
haue
a
space
and
time
to
repent
in
age
,
though
sometimes
it
pleaseth
God
that
death
strikes
Cosby
and
Zimry
napping
,
as
the
deuill
is
sayd
to
slay
one
of
the
Popes
in
the
instant
of
his
adultery
and
carry
him
quicke
to
hell
.
The
swearer
and
blasphemer
hath
commonly
space
,
though
seldome
grace
,
to
repent
and
amend
:
and
some
rare
examples
stories
afford
,
of
some
taken
with
oathes
and
blasphemies
in
their
mouthes
.
The
theefe
and
oppressor
may
liue
and
repent
and
make
restriction
as
Zacheus
:
though
I
haue
seene
one
slayne
right
out
with
the
timber
he
stole
halfe
an
houre
before
;
and
heard
of
one
that
hauing
stolne
a
sheepe
and
laying
it
downe
vpon
a
stone
to
rest
him
,
was
gran'd
and
hang'd
with
the
strugling
of
it
about
his
neck
.
But
these
are
extraordinary
&
rare
cases
.
God
sometimes
practising
Marshall
law
and
doing
present
execution
,
lest
fooles
shall
say
in
their
heart
,
there
were
no
God
or
Iudgement
:
but
conniuing
and
deferring
the
most
,
that
men
might
expect
a
Iudge
comming
,
and
a
solemne
day
of
Iudgement
to
come
.
But
this
sinne
of
Drunkennesse
is
so
odious
to
him
,
that
he
makes
it selfe
,
Iustice
,
Iudge
and
Executioner
,
slaying
the
vngodly
with
misfortune
,
bringing
them
to
vntimely
shamefull
ends
in
bruitish
and
bestiall
manner
often
in
their
own
vomit
and
ordure
;
sending
them
sottish
,
sleeping
,
and
senselesse
to
hell
,
not
leauing
them
either
time
,
or
reason
,
or
grace
to
repent
,
and
crie
so
much
as
Lord
haue
mercy
on
vs
.
Were
there
(
as
in
some
Cities
of
Italy
)
an
Office
kept
,
or
a
Record
and
Register
by
euery
Crowner
in
Shires
&
Counties
,
of
such
dismall
euents
which
God
hath
auenged
this
sinne
withall
,
what
a
Volume
would
it
haue
made
within
these
fewe
yeares
in
this
our
Nation
?
How
terrible
a
Theater
of
Gods
Iudgements
against
Drunkards
,
such
as
might
make
their
hearts
to
bleed
and
relent
,
if
not
their
eares
to
tingle
,
to
heare
of
a
tast
of
some
few
such
noted
and
remarkeable
examples
of
Gods
Iustice
,
as
haue
come
within
the
compasse
of
mine
owne
notice
and
certaine
knowledge
,
I
thinke
I
should
offend
to
conceale
them
from
the
world
,
whom
they
may
happily
keepe
from
being
the
like
to
others
,
themselues
.
An
Ale-wife
in
Kesgraue
neere
to
Ipswich
,
who
would
needs
force
three
Seruingmen
(
that
had
beene
drinking
in
her
house
,
and
were
taking
their
leaues
)
to
stay
and
drink
the
three
Ou
ts
first
(
that
is
,
Wit
out
of
the
head
,
Money
out
of
the
purse
,
Ale
out
of
the
pot
)
as
shee
was
comming
towards
them
with
the
pot
in
her
hand
,
was
suddenly
taken
speechlesse
and
sicke
,
her
tongue
swolne
in
her
mouth
,
neuer
recouered
speech
,
the
third
day
after
dyed
.
This
Sir
Anthony
Felton
the
next
Gentleman
and
Iustice
,
with
diuers
others
eye-witnesses
of
her
in
sicknesse
related
to
mee
;
whereupon
I
went
to
the
house
with
two
or
three
witnesses
,
inquired
the
truth
of
it
.
Two
seruants
of
a
Brewer
in
Ipswich
,
drinking
for
a
rumpe
of
a
Turkie
,
strugling
in
their
drinke
for
it
,
fell
into
a
scalding
Caldron
backwards
:
whereof
the
one
dyed
presently
,
the
other
lingringly
,
and
painefully
since
my
comming
to
Ipswich
.
Anno
1619.
A
Miller
in
Bromeswell
,
comming
home
drunke
from
Woodbridge
(
as
he
oft
did
)
would
needs
goe
and
swimme
in
the
Milpond
:
his
wife
and
seruants
knowing
hee
could
not
swimme
,
diswaded
him
,
once
by
intreaty
got
him
out
of
the
water
,
but
in
hee
would
needs
goe
againe
,
and
there
was
drowned
.
I
was
at
the
house
to
inquire
of
this
,
and
found
it
to
bee
true
.
In
Barnewel
neere
to
Cambridge
one
at
the
Signe
of
the
Plough
,
a
lusty
young
man
,
with
two
of
his
Neighbours
,
and
one
Woman
in
their
company
,
agreed
to
drinke
a
barrell
of
strong
Beare
;
they
drunk
vp
the
vessell
,
three
of
them
dyed
within
24
houres
,
the
fourth
hardly
escaped
after
great
sicknes
.
This
I
haue
vnder
a
Iustice
of
Peace
his
hand
neare
dwelling
,
besides
the
common
fame
.
A
Butcher
in
Haslingfeild
hearing
the
Minister
inueigh
against
Drunkennesse
,
being
at
his
Cups
in
the
Alehouse
fell
a
iesting
and
scoffing
at
the
Minister
and
his
Sermons
.
As
hee
was
drinking
,
the
drinke
or
something
in
the
Cup
quackled
him
,
stuck
so
in
his
throat
that
he
could
neither
get
it
vp
nor
down
,
but
strangled
him
presently
.
At
Tillingham
in
Dengy
hundred
in
Essex
,
three
young
men
meeting
to
drinke
strong
waters
fell
by
degrees
to
halfe
pints
:
one
fell
dead
in
the
roome
,
&
the
other
preuented
by
company
comming
in
,
escaped
not
without
much
sicknesse
.
At
Bungey
in
Norfolke
three
comming
out
of
an
Ale-house
in
a
very
darke
euening
,
swore
,
they
thought
it
was
not
darker
in
Hell
it selfe
:
one
of
them
fel
off
the
Bridge
into
the
water
,
and
was
drowned
;
the
second
fell
off
his
Horse
,
the
third
sleeping
on
the
ground
by
the
Riuers
side
,
was
frozen
to
death
.
This
haue
I
often
heard
,
but
haue
no
certaine
ground
for
the
truth
of
it
.
A
Bayliffe
of
Hadly
vpon
the
Lords
day
being
drunk
at
Melford
,
would
needs
get
vpon
his
mare
to
ride
through
the
street
,
affirming
(
as
the
report
goes
)
that
his
Mare
would
carry
him
to
the
diuell
;
his
Mare
casts
him
off
,
and
broke
his
necke
instantly
.
Reported
by
sundrie
sufficient
witnesses
.
Company
drinking
in
an
Ale-house
at
Harwich
in
the
night
,
ouer
against
one
Master
Russels
,
and
by
him
out
of
his
Window
once
or
twice
willed
to
depart
,
at
length
he
came
down
and
took
one
of
them
,
and
made
as
if
he
would
carry
him
to
prison
,
who
drawing
his
Knife
fled
from
him
,
and
was
three
daies
after
taken
out
of
the
sea
with
the
Knife
in
his
hand
.
Related
to
mee
by
Master
Russell
himselfe
,
Maior
of
the
Towne
.
At
Tenby
in
Pembrokeshire
a
Drunkard
being
exceeding
drunke
,
broke
himselfe
all
to
pieces
of
an
high
and
steepe
rocke
in
a
most
fearefull
manner
,
and
yet
the
occasion
and
circumstances
of
his
fall
so
ridiculous
,
as
I
thinke
not
fit
to
relate
,
lest
in
so
serious
a
iudgement
,
I
should
moue
laughter
to
the
Reader
.
A
Glasier
in
Chauncery
Lane
in
London
,
noted
formerly
for
profession
,
fell
to
a
common
course
of
drinking
,
whereof
being
oft
by
his
wife
and
many
Christian
friends
admonished
,
yet
presuming
much
of
Gods
mercy
to
himselfe
,
continued
therein
,
till
vpon
a
time
hauing
surcharged
his
stomacke
with
drinke
,
hee
fell
a
vommiting
,
broke
A
Veyne
,
lay
two
dayes
in
extreme
paine
of
body
&
distresse
of
mind
,
till
in
the
end
recouering
a
little
comfort
,
he
died
:
both
these
examples
related
to
me
by
a
Gentleman
of
worth
vpon
his
owne
knowledge
.
Foure
sundry
instances
of
drunkards
wallowing
and
tumbling
in
their
drinke
,
slaine
by
Carts
,
I
forbeare
to
mention
,
because
such
examples
are
so
common
and
ordinarie
.
A
Yeomans
Sonne
in
Northhamptonshire
being
drunk
at
Wellingborough
on
a
Market
day
,
would
needs
ride
his
Horse
in
a
brauery
ouer
the
plowed
lands
,
fell
from
his
Horse
,
and
brake
his
neck
:
reported
to
me
by
a
Kinsman
of
his
owne
.
A
Knight
notoriously
giuen
to
Drunkennesse
,
carrying
sometime
payles
of
drinke
into
the
open
feild
to
make
people
drunke
withall
,
being
vpon
a
time
drinking
with
company
,
a
woman
comes
in
,
deliuers
him
a
Ring
,
with
this
posie
,
Drinke
and
Dye
,
saying
to
him
,
This
is
for
you
;
which
hee
tooke
and
wore
,
and
within
a
weeke
after
came
to
his
end
by
drinking
:
reported
by
sundry
,
and
iustified
by
a
Minister
dwelling
within
a
mile
of
the
place
.
Two
examples
haue
I
knowne
of
children
that
murdered
their
owne
Mothers
in
drinke
,
and
one
notorious
drunkard
that
attempted
to
kill
his
Father
;
of
which
beeing
hindred
,
he
fired
his
Barne
,
and
was
afterward
executed
one
of
these
formerly
in
print
.
At
a
Tauerne
in
Breadstreet
in
London
certaine
Gentlemen
drinking
healthes
to
their
Lords
,
on
whom
,
they
had
dependence
,
one
desperate
wretch
stepps
to
the
Tables
end
,
layes
hold
one
a
pottle-pot
full
of
Canarie
Sack
,
sweares
a
deepe
oath
;
What
will
none
heere
drinke
an
health
to
my
noble
Lord
and
Master
:
and
so
setting
the
Pottle
pot
to
his
mouth
,
drinkes
it
of
to
the
bottome
,
was
not
able
to
rise
vp
,
or
to
speake
when
hee
had
done
,
but
fell
into
a
deepe
snoaring
sleepe
,
and
being
remoued
,
layde
aside
,
and
couered
by
one
of
the
seruants
of
the
house
,
attending
the
time
of
the
drinking
,
was
within
the
space
of
two
howers
irrecouerably
dead
:
witnessed
at
the
time
of
the
printing
hereof
by
the
same
seruant
that
stood
by
him
in
the
Act
,
and
helpt
to
remoue
him
.
In
Dengy
Hundred
,
neare
to
Maldon
,
about
the
beginning
of
his
Maiesties
reigne
,
there
fell
out
an
extraordinary
iudgement
vpon
fiue
or
sixe
that
plotted
a
solemne
drinking
at
one
of
their
houses
,
laid
in
Beare
for
the
once
,
drunke
healths
in
a
strange
manner
,
and
died
therof
within
a
few
weekes
,
some
sooner
,
and
some
later
:
witnessed
to
mee
by
one
that
was
with
one
of
them
on
his
death-bed
to
demaund
a
debt
,
and
often
spoken
of
by
Master
Heydon
,
late
Preacher
of
Mauldon
,
in
the
hearing
of
many
:
the
particular
circumstances
were
exceeding
remarkeable
;
but
hauing
not
sufficient
proofe
for
the
particulars
I
will
not
report
them
.
One
of
Aylesham
in
Norfolke
,
a
notorious
Drunkard
drowned
in
a
shallow
Brooke
of
water
with
his
horse
by
him
.
Whilest
this
was
at
the
Presse
,
a
man
85
yeares
old
,
or
thereabout
,
in
Suffolke
,
ouertaken
with
Wine
(
though
neuer
in
all
his
life
before
,
as
hee
himselfe
said
a
little
before
his
fall
,
seeming
to
bewaile
his
present
condition
▪
and
others
that
knew
him
so
say
of
him
)
yet
going
downe
a
paire
of
staires
,
(
against
the
perswasion
of
a
woman
sitting
by
him
in
his
chamber
)
fell
,
and
was
so
dangerously
hurt
,
as
hee
dyed
soone
after
,
not
being
able
to
speake
from
the
time
of
his
fall
to
his
death
.
The
names
of
the
parties
thus
punished
,
I
forbeare
for
the
kinreds
sake
yet
liuing
.
If
conscionable
Ministers
of
all
places
of
the
land
would
giue
notice
of
such
Iudgements
,
as
come
within
the
compasse
of
their
certaine
knowledge
,
it
might
bee
a
great
meane
to
suppresse
this
sinne
,
which
raignes
euery
where
to
the
scandall
of
our
Nation
,
and
high
displeasure
of
Almightie
God
.
These
may
suffice
for
a
taste
of
Gods
Iudgements
.
Easie
were
it
to
abound
in
sundry
particular
casualties
and
fearefull
examples
of
this
nature
.
Drunkard
,
that
which
hath
befallen
any
one
of
these
,
may
befall
thee
,
if
thou
wilt
dally
▪
with
this
Cockatrice
,
what
euer
leagues
thou
makest
with
Death
,
and
dispensations
thou
giuest
thy selfe
from
the
like
.
Some
of
these
were
young
,
some
were
rich
,
some
thought
themselues
as
wife
as
thou
;
none
of
them
euer
looked
for
such
ignominious
ends
,
more
then
thou
who
euer
thou
art
:
if
thou
hatest
such
ends
,
God
giue
thee
grace
to
decline
such
courses
.
If
thou
beest
yet
insensate
with
wine
,
voyde
of
wit
and
feare
,
I
know
not
what
further
to
minde
thee
of
,
but
of
that
third
,
&
worst
sting
of
all
the
rest
,
which
will
euer
bee
gnawing
,
and
neuer
dying
which
if
thou
wilt
not
feare
here
,
sure
thou
art
to
feele
there
,
when
the
Red
Dragon
hath
gotten
thee
into
his
denne
,
and
shall
fill
thy
soule
with
the
gall
of
Scorpions
,
where
thou
shalt
yell
and
howle
for
a
drop
of
water
to
coole
thy
tongue
withall
,
and
shalt
be
denied
so
small
a
refreshing
,
and
haue
no
other
liquor
to
allay
thy
thirst
,
but
that
which
the
lake
of
Brimstone
shall
affoord
thee
.
And
that
worthily
,
for
that
thou
wouldest
incurre
the
wrath
of
the
Lambe
for
so
base
and
sordid
a
sinne
as
drunkennesse
,
of
which
thou
mayest
thinke
as
venially
and
sleightly
as
thou
wilt
.
But
Paul
that
knew
the
danger
of
it
,
Now
then
,
I
appeale
from
your selues
in
drinke
,
to
your selues
in
your
sober
fits
.
Reason
a
little
the
case
,
and
tell
mee
calmely
,
would
you
for
your
owne
,
or
any
man
pleasure
to
gratifie
friend
or
companion
,
if
thou
knewe
there
had
beene
a
Toad
in
the
Wine-pot
(
as
twise
I
haue
knowne
happened
〈◊〉
the
death
of
drinkers
)
or
did
you
thinke
that
some
Caesar
Borgia
,
or
Brasutus
had
tempered
the
cup
;
〈◊〉
did
you
see
but
a
Spider
in
the
glasse
,
would
you
,
or
durst
you
carouse
it
off
?
And
are
you
so
simple
to
feare
the
poison
that
can
kill
the
body
,
and
not
that
which
killeth
the
soule
and
body
euer
,
yea
for
euer
and
euer
,
and
if
it
were
possible
for
more
then
for
euer
,
for
euermore
?
Oh
thou
vaine
fellow
,
what
tellest
thou
mee
of
friendship
,
or
good-fellowship
,
wilt
thou
account
him
thy
friend
,
or
good
fellow
,
that
drawes
thee
into
his
company
,
that
hee
may
poyson
thee
?
and
neuer
thinkes
hee
hath
giuen
thee
right
entertainement
,
or
shewed
thee
kindnesse
enough
,
till
hee
hath
killed
thy
soule
with
his
kindnesse
,
and
with
Beere
made
thy
body
a
carkase
fit
for
the
Beere
,
a
laughing
and
lothing-stocke
,
not
to
Boyes
and
Girles
alone
,
but
to
men
and
Angels
.
Why
rather
sayest
thou
not
to
such
,
What
haue
I
to
doe
with
you
,
yee
sonnes
of
Beliall
,
yee
poysonfull
generation
of
Vipers
,
that
hunt
for
the
precious
life
of
a
man
?
Oh
but
there
are
few
good
Wits
,
or
great
Spirits
now
a
dayes
,
but
will
Pot
it
a
little
for
company
.
What
heare
I
?
Oh
base
and
low
spirited
times
,
if
that
were
true
!
If
wee
were
fallen
into
such
Lees
of
Time
foretold
of
by
Seneca
,
Seneca
de
Benesicii
,
lib.
1.
ca.
10
quum
plurimum
me
i
sumpsisse
virtus
erit
,
&c.
in
which
all
were
so
drowned
in
the
dregs
of
vices
,
that
it
should
bee
vertue
and
honour
to
beare
most
drinke
.
But
thankes
bee
to
God
,
who
hath
reserued
many
thousands
of
men
,
and
without
all
comparison
more
wittie
and
valorous
,
then
such
Pot-wits
,
and
Spirits
of
the
Buttery
,
who
neuer
bared
their
knees
to
drinke
health
,
nor
euen
needed
to
whet
their
wits
with
wine
,
or
arme
their
courage
with
Pot
-
〈◊〉
.
And
if
it
were
so
,
yet
if
no
such
wits
or
Spirits
shall
euer
enter
into
heauen
without
repentance
,
let
my
Spirit
neuer
come
and
enter
into
their
Paradise
;
euer
abhorre
to
partake
of
their
brutish
pleasures
,
lest
I
partake
of
their
endlesse
woes
.
If
young
Cyrus
could
refuse
to
drinke
wine
,
and
tell
A
stiages
he
thought
it
to
bee
poyson
,
for
hee
saw
it
metamorphose
men
into
beastes
and
carkases
:
what
would
hee
haue
said
,
if
hee
had
knowne
that
which
we
may
know
,
that
the
wine
of
Drunkards
is
the
wine
of
Sodom
and
Gomorrah
,
their
grapes
,
It
stings
like
the
Serpent
,
and
bites
like
the
Cockatrice
:
To
the
which
I
may
not
vnfitly
adde
that
of
Pauls
,
and
think
I
ought
to
write
of
such
with
more
passion
and
compassion
,
then
he
did
of
the
Christians
in
his
time
,
which
sure
were
not
such
monsters
as
ours
in
the
shapes
of
christians
,
Whose
God
is
their
belly
(
whom
they
serue
with
drinke
offerings
)
whose
glory
is
their
shame
,
and
whose
end
is
damnation
.
What
then
,
take
wee
pleasure
in
thundring
out
Hell
against
Drunkards
?
is
there
nothing
but
death
and
damnation
to
Drunkards
?
Nothing
else
to
them
,
so
continuing
,
so
dying
.
But
what
is
there
no
helpe
nor
hope
,
no
Amulet
,
Antidote
or
Triacle
,
are
there
no
presidents
found
of
recouery
.
Hubet
Deus
suum
inebriamini
,
&c.
Bernard
,
in
Cant.
Come
,
let
vs
drinke
;
and
Christ
hath
his
inebriamini
,
Be
ye
filled
with
the
spirit
.
Here
is
a
fountaine
set
open
,
and
proclamation
made
.
And
if
it
were
possible
for
the
brutishest
Drunkard
in
the
world
to
know
,
who
it
is
that
offereth
,
and
what
kind
of
water
hee
offereth
,
hee
would
aske
,
and
God
would
giue
it
frankely
without
money
,
he
should
drinke
liberally
,
be
satisfied
,
and
out
of
his
belly
should
sally
springs
of
the
water
of
life
,
quenching
and
extinguishing
all
his
inordinate
longings
after
stolne
waters
of
sin
and
death
.
All
this
while
,
little
hope
haue
I
to
worke
vpon
many
Drunkards
,
especially
by
a
Sermon
read
(
on
lesse
life
and
force
in
Gods
ordinance
,
and
in
it
owne
nature
,
then
preached
)
,
my
first
drift
is
,
to
stirre-vp
the
spirits
of
Parents
and
Masters
,
who
in
all
places
complaine
of
this
euill
,
robbing
them
of
good
seruants
,
and
dutifull
children
,
by
all
care
and
industrie
to
preuent
it
in
their
domesticall
education
,
by
carrying
a
watchfull
and
restraining
hand
ouer
them
.
Parents
,
if
you
loue
either
soule
or
body
,
thrift
or
pietie
,
looke
to
keep
them
from
this
infection
.
Lay
all
the
barres
of
your
authoritie
,
cautions
,
threats
and
charges
for
the
auoyding
of
this
epidemicall
pestilence
.
If
any
of
them
bee
bitten
of
this
Cockatrice
,
sleepe
not
,
rest
not
,
till
you
haue
cured
them
of
it
,
if
you
loue
their
health
,
husbandry
,
grace
,
their
present
or
future
liues
.
Dead
are
they
while
they
liue
,
if
they
liue
in
this
sinne
.
Mothers
,
lay
about
you
as
Bathsheba
,
with
all
entreaties
;
What
my
sonne
,
my
sonne
of
my
loues
and
delights
,
Wine
is
not
for
you
,
&c.
My
next
hope
is
,
to
arouse
and
awaken
the
vigilancy
of
all
faithfull
Pastors
and
Teachers
.
I
speake
not
to
such
Starres
as
this
Dragon
hath
swept
downe
from
heauen
with
it
tayle
:
for
of
such
the
Prophets
,
the
Fathers
of
the
Primitiue
,
yea
,
all
ages
complaine
of
.
I
hate
and
abhorre
to
mention
this
abomination
:
to
alter
the
Prouerbe
,
As
drunke
as
a
Beggar
,
to
a
Gentleman
,
is
odious
;
but
to
a
Man
of
God
,
to
an
Angell
,
how
harsh
and
hellish
a
sound
is
it
in
a
Christians
eares
.
I
speake
therefore
to
sober
Watchmen
,
Watch
,
and
be
sober
,
and
labour
to
keepe
your
Charges
sober
and
watchful
,
that
they
may
be
so
found
of
him
that
comes
like
a
thiefe
in
the
night
.
Two
meanes
haue
you
of
great
vertue
for
the
quelling
of
this
Serpent
,
Such
Anakims
and
Zanzummims
,
as
the
spirituall
sword
will
not
worke
vpon
,
I
turne
them
ouer
to
the
Secular
Arme
,
with
a
signification
of
the
dangerous
and
contagious
spreading
of
this
poyson
in
the
veynes
and
bowels
of
the
Common-wealth
.
In
the
Church
and
Christ
his
name
also
,
intreating
them
to
carry
a
more
vigilant
eye
ouer
the
dens
and
burrowes
of
this
Cockatrice
,
Superfluous
,
Blinde
,
and
Clandestine
Ale-houses
,
I
meane
the
very
pest-houses
of
the
Nation
;
which
I
could
wish
had
all
for
their
signe
,
a
picture
of
some
hideous
serpent
,
or
a
paire
of
them
,
as
the
best
hieroglyphick
of
the
Genius
of
the
place
,
Amyclae
,
Lycophron
,
of
Salamis
,
Herodotus
of
the
Neuri
,
vtterly
depopulate
and
made
inhabitable
by
them
.
Verely
if
this
Cockatrise
multiply
and
get
head
amongst
vs
a
while
longer
,
as
they
haue
of
late
begun
,
where
shall
the
people
haue
sober
seruants
to
till
their
lands
,
or
children
to
hold
and
enioy
them
.
They
speake
of
drayning
Fens
,
but
if
this
euill
be
not
stopped
,
we
shall
all
shortly
be
drowned
with
it
.
I
wish
the
Magistracy
,
Gentry
,
and
Yeomanry
would
take
it
to
serious
consideration
,
Aelian
lib.
14.
cap
27.
Tauta
potentia
huius
mali
vt
sanari
prorsus
sine
concilii
autoritate
non
possit
.
Aug.
ep.
●4
.
ad
Aureliuns
.
how
to
deale
with
this
Serpent
,
before
he
grow
too
strong
and
fierce
for
them
.
It
is
past
the
egge
already
,
and
much
at
that
passe
,
of
which
Augustine
complaines
of
in
his
time
,
that
hee
scarce
knew
what
remedy
to
aduise
,
but
thought
,
it
required
the
meeting
of
a
generall
Councell
.
The
best
course
I
thinke
of
,
is
,
if
the
great
persons
would
first
begin
through
reformation
in
their
owne
families
,
banish
the
spirits
of
their
Buttries
,
abandon
that
foolish
and
vitious
custome
,
Bibamus
pro
saluite
imperatorum
,
comitum
,
Oh
fluititiam
vitium
sacrificium
putant
.
Amb.
de
Helia
,
&c.
Bazil
.
Hom.
contra
Ebrios
.
as
Ambrose
and
Basil
cals
it
,
of
drinking
healths
,
and
making
that
a
sacrifice
to
God
for
the
health
of
others
,
which
is
rather
a
sacrifice
to
the
diuell
,
and
a
Bane
of
their
owne
,
I
remember
well
Sigismund
the
Emperours
graue
answere
,
wherein
there
concurred
excellent
wisdom
&
wit
seldom
meeting
in
one
saying
)
which
hee
gaue
before
the
Councell
of
Constance
,
to
such
as
proposed
a
reformation
of
the
Church
to
begin
with
the
Franciscans
,
&
Minorites
.
You
will
neuer
do
any
good
(
saith
he
)
vnles
you
begin
with
the
Moiorites
first
.
Sure
til
it
be
out
of
fashió
&
grace
in
gentlemens
tables
,
butteries
,
and
cellars
,
hardly
shall
you
perswade
the
countriman
to
lay
it
down
,
who
as
in
fashions
so
in
vices
wil
euer
be
the
Ape
of
the
Gentry
.
If
this
helpe
not
,
I
shall
then
conclude
it
to
be
such
an
euil
as
is
only
by
Soueraigne
power
,
&
the
Kings
hand
curable
.
And
verily
next
vnder
the
word
of
God
which
is
omnipotent
,
Diodorus
Siculus
,
is
the
Royall
munificence
of
Ptolomey
King
of
Egypt
,
for
prouision
of
Nets
,
and
maintenance
of
Huntsmen
,
for
the
taking
and
destroying
of
Serpents
,
noxious
and
noysome
to
his
countrey
.
The
like
of
Philip
in
Aristotle
,
and
of
Attilius
Regulus
in
Aulus
Gellius
.
The
Embleme
mentioned
at
large
by
Plutarch
,
engrauen
on
Hercules
shield
,
what
is
it
but
a
Symbole
of
the
diuine
honor
due
to
Princes
following
their
Herculean
labours
,
in
subduing
the
like
Hydraes
,
too
mighty
for
any
inferiour
person
to
take
in
hand
.
It
is
their
honor
to
tread
vpon
Basiliskes
,
and
trample
Dragons
vnder
their
feet
.
Salomon
thinkes
it
not
vnworthy
his
Pen
to
discouer
their
danger
.
A
royall
and
eloquent
Oration
is
happily
and
worthily
preserued
in
the
large
volume
of
ancient
writings
,
with
this
title
,
FINIS
.