Diseases of the soul a discourse divine, moral, and physical. By Tho. AdamsDiseases of the soule a discourse diuine, morall, and physicall. By Tho. Adams

Signs and Symptoms.

Signes and Symptomes.

The corporal disease is easily perceived, by insatiate feeding, which yet ministers almost no virtue to the body, but it is rather made lean, and wasted therewith; the skin is rarefied, the body made fluid and apt to much egestion, &c. An Usurer is known by his very looks often, by his speeches commonly, by his actions ever. He hath a lean cheek, a meagre body, as if he were fed at the devils allowance. His eyes are almost sunk to the backside of his head with admiration of money. His ears are set to tell the clock; his whole carcass a mere Anatomy. Some Usurers have fatter carcasses, and can find in their hearts to lard their flesh, but a common meagreness is upon all their consciences. Foenus pecuniae, funus animae. Some spin Usury into such fine threads of distinction, that they take away all the names whereby it offends: and because R. is a dogged letter, and they conceive a toothless practice, Interest, Usury, and all terms with R. in them shall be put out: and the Usurer shall be called only, one that lives upon his moneys. All his reaches are at riches: his wit works like a Mole, to dig ¹himself through the earth into hell. Plutarch writes strangely of Hares, eodem tempore & parere, & alere, & alios concipere foetus; at one time to bring forth, nourish and to conceive. Your Usurer makes his money truly do all these ²at once. He drowns the noise of the peoples curses, with the music of his money; as the Italians in a great thunder, ring their bells, and shoot off their Cannons, by an artificial noise of their own, to dead the natural of broken clouds. His practice mocks Philosophy, Quòdex nihilo nihil fit, and teaches of nothing to get something. He is a rank Whore-master with his mistress Pecunia, and