An extemporary ansvver to a cluster of drunkards, met together at Schiedam: made by Timothy Gunton, who was compelled thereto, upon his refusall to drink the Kings health. Whether such impetuous drinking of other mens healths were lawfull, profitable, commendable, or reasonable? Gunton, Timothy. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A85782 of text R202330 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.12[4]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A85782 Wing G2249 Thomason 669.f.12[4] ESTC R202330 99862657 99862657 162797 2248540734

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A85782) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162797) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f12[4]) An extemporary ansvver to a cluster of drunkards, met together at Schiedam: made by Timothy Gunton, who was compelled thereto, upon his refusall to drink the Kings health. Whether such impetuous drinking of other mens healths were lawfull, profitable, commendable, or reasonable? Gunton, Timothy. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1648] Partly in verse. Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "13 Aprill 1648". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Toasts -- Early works to 1800. Satire, English -- Early works to 1800. A85782 R202330 (Thomason 669.f.12[4]). civilwar no An extemporary ansvver to a cluster of drunkards, met together at Schiedam: made by Timothy Gunton, who was compelled thereto, upon his refu Gunton, Timothy. 1648 1 535 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
AN EXTEMPORARY ANSWER To a cluster of drunkards , met together at Schiedam : Made by Timothy Gunton , who was compelled thereto , upon his refusall to drink the Kings health . Whether such impetuous drinking of other mens healths were lawfull , profitable , commendable , or reasonable ?

IF lawfull , it is either by the Lawes of God , or man : If of God , it is contained in holy writ , which is the old and new Testament ; but from the Alpha of Genesis , to the Omega of the Revelations , there is no such thing commanded ; therefore not by the Lawes of God . If by the Lawes of man , search the Records , review the Statutes , and shew in whose reign , and what yeare it was enacted .

If profitable , it must conduce to the good , either of soul or body : If of the soul , it must be suitable , convenient , and agreeable to the soul ; But the soul is a spirituall creature , not capable either to eat , or drink any materiall substance : If of the body , then be ye your own judges , what profit have ye to drinke the money out of the purse , the wit out of the brain , the bread from wife and children , the health from the body , and the peace of God both from soul and body ?

If commendable , it is commended either by wise men , or fooles : By wise men , who know a thing to be good ; By fooles , who suppose a thing to be good : But wise men know that man is the Image of God , and by his reasonable soul he is distinguished from other creatures , and other creatures cannot ( contrary to reason ) be compelled to drink against appetite ; yet man being become worse then a beast , not only drinks himself , but also compels others to drink , untill they vomit it up againe ; Wherefore , no wise man will commend it ; And if a foole commend it , it is for want of wit .

If reasonable , let all the world censure , what reason hath one man to drink another mans health , to impair his own ?

By these let all men know 't is worse then sordid stealth , To fawn upon a friend , and swallow down his health . Yet some audacious Rogues dare in their drunken notes Pour King , and Kingdomes health down their ungodly throats And stove it in their stinking paunch an hour , or twain , And then they 'l spew , and cag , and pisse it out again . Oh then how sick art thou poore King , and common-wealth , While drunken sots daily drink , pisse , and spew thy health . For these my lines I 'le pardon crave , And promise eke they shall be mended : But first I must some reason have , Wherein , and whom they have offended .