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5 It enervates the strength: Vinum ab implendo venas, Isidor. In stead of filling them with blood, it drowns them. It brings rotten teeth, stinking breaths, trembling hands, running eyes, gouts and dropsies. All these are the waiters on ⟨p. 134⟩drunkenness: all strive which shall bring a man soonest and loathsomest to the grave. He is gone in his standing, gone in his understanding, gone in strength to help him self: we commonly say of the drunkard, he is gone. Cum absorbet vinum, absorbetur à vino, August. If his belly be made a tomb of drink, drink will make his body a sepulchre of his soul. Crebro ebrii cito senescunt; It is somewhat, that it alters the complexion: Vino forma perit, vino corrumpitur aetas. But worse, that it dissolves the constitution: for how should his firmamental lamp burn, that is ever drowning it in deluges of riot!

5 It enervates the strength: Vinum ab implendo venas, Isidor. In stead of filling them with bloud, it drownes them. It brings rotten teeth, stinking breaths, trembling hands, running eyes, gowts and dropsies. All these are the waiters on ⟨p. 134⟩drunkennesse: all strive which shal bring a man soonest and lothsomest to the grave. He is gone in his standing, gone in his understanding, gone in strength to helpe him selfe: we commonly say of the drunkard, he is gone. Cum absorbet vinum, absorbetur à vino, August. If his belly be made a tombe of drinke, drinke will make his body a sepulcher of his soule. Crebro ebrii cito senescunt; It is somewhat, that it alters the complexion: Vino forma perit, vino corrumpitur aetas. But worse, that it dissolves the constitution: for how should his firmamentall lampe burne, that is ever drowning it in deluges of ryot!

6 It is the bawd to incontinence, Rom. 13.13. After Drunkenness follows chambering and wantonness. Pro ordine membrorum, ordo vitiorum, Hieron. Ambrose says of Lust; that it is fuelled with junkets, enkindled with wine, inflamed with drunkenness. It is Fomes libidinis: Vina parant animos veneri, Ovid Nunquam ebrium putabo castum, Hieron. I will never believe the drunkard to be chaste. Drunken Lot became incestuous Lot: hence sprang the Moabites and Ammonites, those mortal, almost immortal enemies to the Church. Whom the vices of Sodom could not taint, Lust infected. Uritur ebrius flammis mulierum, quem sobrium sulphurea flamma non attigerat, Origen. The flames that destroyed Sodom, hurt him not; his own fire scorched him. In this sense it may be said; Vinum lac libidinis.