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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.
These are the fearful terrors whereof the guilty heart cannot be quitted, cannot be quieted; though pleasure it self were his physician, and the whole world his minstrell. oDomino privante suo gaudio, quid esse potest in gaudium? when God withholds his music and peace, what can make the heart merry? Polidore Virgil thus writes of Richard the third's dream the night before Bosworth-field. That he thought all the Devils in Hell pulled and haled him in most hideous and ugly shapes. And concludes of it at last. Id credo, non fuit somnium, sed conscientia scelerum. I do not think it was so much his dream, as his wicked conscience that brought those terrors. When this evil spirit comes on a wicked Saul, let him go to his merriest good fellows, beguile at once the time and himself with plays, and sports, feast away his cares at his own table, or bury them together with his wits, at a Tavern: alas these are piteous shifts, weaker then walls of paper.
These are the fearefull terrours whereof the guilty heart cannot be quitted, cannot be quieted; though pleasure it selfe were his phisitian, and the whole world his minstrell. oDomino priuante suo gaudio, quid esse potest in gaudium? when God withholds his musicke and peace, what can make the heart merry? Polidore Virgill thus writes of Richard the third's dreame the night before Bosworth-field. That hee thought all the Deuils in Hell pulled and haled him in most hideous and vgly shapes. And concludes of it at last. Id credo, non fuit somnium, sed conscientia scelerum. I doe not thinke it was so much his dreame, as his wicked conscience that brought those terrours. When this euill spirit comes on a wicked Saul, let him goe to his merriest good fellowes, beguile at once the time and himselfe with playes, and sports, feast away his cares at his owne table, or burie them together with his wits, at a Tauerne: alas these are pitteous shifts, weaker then wals of paper.
- oCyril.