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2 It overturns the estate: The drunkard shall come to poverty, Prov. 23.21. He consumes more in a day, than he earns in a week. He lies open to others plots, and hath no rule of his own spirit, but is a City without walls, Prov. 25.28. He is his own thief, he needs no other oppressors, for he is a caterpillar to himself. He rails on cormorants, yet devours himself. He throws his house out of the windows, it is fit his house should throw him out of the doors.

2 It overturnes the estate: The drunkard shall come to poverty, Prov. 23.21. He consumes more in a day, than he earnes in a weeke. Hee lyes open to others plots, and hath no rule of his owne spirit, but is a Citie without wals, Prov. 25.28. He is his owne theefe, he needs no other oppressours, for he is a caterpillar to himselfe. He railes on cormorants, yet devoures himselfe. He throwes his house out of the windowes, it is fit his house should throw him out of the doores.

3 It poisons the tongue; swearing and lying are the ordinary effects of it: The drunkards made songs upon David. It thinks it self a Caesar, and falls a taxing all the world: Quicquid in cord sobrii, in lingua ebrii, Fulgent. O but In vino veritas: it is false, for no mans good name is spared. If he be multa bibens, he is sure Plurima dicens: he often utters that in a moment, whereof he is driven to repent all his life. Arcanum demens detegit ebrietas: A drunken inveigher against King Pyrrhus, being brought to his answer for those criminations, said; We spake all that is objected, and would have spoke more if the wine had not failed us. Such a one will speak of God most, when he thinks of God least: but the mouth inured to blasphemous or scurrilous speeches, is no fit trumpet of Gods praises.