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The devils banquet described in four sermons [brace], 1. The banquet propounded, begun, 2.…The deuills banket described in foure sermons [brace], 1. The banket propounded, begunne, 2.…
The devils banquet described in four sermons [brace], 1. The banquet propounded, begun, 2. The second service, 3. The breaking up of the feast, 4. The shot or reckoning, [and] The sinners passing-bell, together with Physic from heaven / published by Thomas Adams ...The deuills banket described in foure sermons [brace], 1. The banket propounded, begunne, 2. The second seruice, 3. The breaking vp of the feast, 4. The shot or reckoning, [and] The sinners passing-bell, together with Phisicke from heauen / published by Thomas Adams ...
London: printed by Thomas Snodham for Ralph Mab, 1614
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Every get-nothing is a thief, and laziness is a stolen water: if the Devil can win thee, to ply hard this liquor, he knows it will whet thy stomach to any vice. Faction, Thievery, Lust, Drunkenness, blood, with many Birds of this black wing, offer themselves to the Idle mind, and strive to prefer their service. Would you know, says the Poet, how Aegisthus became an adulterer? In promptu causa est: desidiosus erat: the cause is easy, the answer ready: he was Idle. He that might make his estate good by labour, by Idleness robs it. This is a dangerous water, and full of vile effects: for when ⟨p. 77⟩the lazy have robbed themselves, they fall aboard and rob others. This is the Idle-mans best end, that as he is a Thief, and lives a beast, so to dye a beggar.
Euery get-nothing is a theefe, and lazinesse is a stollen water: if the Deuill can winne thee, to plye hard this liquour, hee knowes it will whet thy stomach to any vice. Faction, Theeuerie, Lust, Drunkennesse, blood, with many Birds of this blacke wing, offer themselues to the Idle minde, and striue to preferre their seruice. Would you know, sayes the Poet, how Aegistus became an adulterer? In promptu causa est: desidiosus erat: the cause is easie, the answere ready: hee was Idle. Hee that might make his estate good by labour, by Idlenesse robbes it. This is a dangerous water, and full of vile effects: for when ⟨p. 77⟩the lazie haue robbed themselues, they fall aboard and robbe others. This is the Idle-mans best end, that as hee is a Thiefe, and liues a beast, so to dye a beggar.
4. The fourth Cup is Envy: Water of a strange and uncouth taste. There is no pleasure in being drunk with this stolen water: for it frets and gnaws both in palates and entrails. There is no good relish with it, either in taste or digestion. Only it is like that Acidula aqua, that Pliny speaks of, which makes a man drunk sooner then wine. Envy keeps a Register of Injuries; and graves that in Marble which Charity writes in the dust, Wrong. It cannot endure that any should be conferred with it, preferred to it.