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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
Sermon 1: THE DEVILS BANQUET. The first Sermon.Sermon 1: THE DIVELS BANKET. The first Sermon.
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.
Great men are unmerciful to their Tenants, that they may be over-merciful to their Tendents; that stretch them as fast as they retch the others. The sweat of the labourers brows is made an ointment to supple the joints of Pride. Thus two malignant Planets reign at once, and in one heart, costive covetousness, and loose lavishness: like the Serpent Amphisbaena, with a head at each end of the body,1 who, whiles they strive which should be the Master-head, afflict the ⟨p. 25⟩whole carcass: whiles Covetise and Pride wrestle, the Estate catcheth the fall. They eat Men alive in the Country, and are themselves eaten alive in the City: what they get in the Hundred, they loose in the Sheer: Sic proedae patet esca sui: they make themselves plump for the prey; •or there are that play th• rob-thief with them: Unius compendium, alterius dispendium: if there be a winner,2 there must be a looser: Serpens Serpentem devorando fit Draco: Many Landlords are Serpents to devour the poor, but what are they that devour those Serpents? Dragons. You see what monsters then, usurious Citizens are. Thus whiles the Gentleman and the Citizen shuffle the Cards together, they deal the poor Commons but a very ill game. These are the similitudes. I could also fit you with some discrepancies.
Great men are vnmercifull to their Tenants, that they may be ouer-mercifull to their Tendents; that stretch them as fast as they retch the others. The sweat of the labourers browes is made an ointment to supple the ioynts of Pride. Thus two malignant Planets raigne at once, and in one heart, costiue couetousnesse, and loose lauishnesse: like the Serpent Amphisboena, with a head at each end of the body,1 who, whiles they striue which should be the Master-head, afflict the ⟨p. 25⟩whole carkase: whiles Couetise and Pride wrastle, the Estate catcheth the fall. They eate Men aliue in the Countrey, and are themselues eaten aliue in the Citie: what they get in the Hundreth, they loose in the Sheere: Sic proedae patet esca sui: they make themselues plumpe for the prey; or there are that play th robbe-theefe with them: Vnius compendium, alterius dispendium: if there be a winner,