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.…

Intemperance is the first dish to be tasted of:¹ it is (if not principalis, yet, si ita dicam, principialis) if not the prime dish, yet the first dish: Satan must first intoxicate the brains, and extinguish the eye of reason; as the Thief that would rob the house, first puts out the Candle. Understanding is first drowned in these waters: ^*Riot jostles, and the Wit is turned besides the Saddle. The Sons of the Earth would not so dote on ^bthe Whore of Babylon, if the wine of her Fornication had not made them drunk: the ghes•s here ^crise early to the wine: it is the first service; and are indeed (as the Apostles were slandered) ^dnine-of-clock Drunkards: ^eThe day would be without his sufficient sorrow, active and passive mischiefs, if the morning wine should not inflame them. They that are daily guests at the Devils table, know the fashions of his Court; they must be drunk at the entrance. It is one of his laws, and a Physic-bill of hell, that they must not wash, till they have drunk. These Waters are to be applied inwardly first, and once taken down, they are fitted to swallow any morsel of damnation that shall afterwards be presented them.

Intemperance is the first dish to be tasted of:¹ it is (if not principalis, yet, si ita dicam, principialis) if not the prime dish, yet the first dish: Satan must first intoxicate the braynes, and extinguish the eye of reason; as the Thiefe that would rob the house, first puts out the Candle. Vnderstanding is first drowned in these waters: ^*Riot iustles, and the Wit is turned besides the Saddle. The Sonnes of the Earth would not so doate on