Since I find in some obscure Authors somewhat near that which is alleged, of dice, wine, and women: Which admitted for authentical, yet doth no more enforce an absolute and general condemnation of dice, then it doth of the other two, wine and women, that are therein joined therewith; which no wise man or in his right wits will therefore utterly condemn. And yet can there not be more said in that kind of this one, then (I say not Poets alone, but) the Spirit of God it self saith, (not to press ought out of the dApocrypha) of the two other, as well eof women as fof wine. gHowbeit neither are therefore heither the Vines in foreign parts to be rooted all out, or all use of wine to be wholly forbidden us, who yet might live well without it, because by many wine is much abused: nor are women therefore to be abandoned, or deemed ⟨p. 227⟩iEvils, though knecessaries, if many of them, by the abuse of themselves, or others abuse of them, prove as the Spirit of God speaketh: or yet marriage, being lGods own ordinance, in it self no less mhelpful, beneficial and comfortable, then it is nholy, honest and honourable, is to be in that respect any whit the less regarded; but othe use of either limited, the abuses stripped from them, as the rules both of reason and religion require.
Since I finde in some obscure Authors somewhat neere that which is alleadged, of dice, wine, and women: Which admitted for authenticall, yet doth no more enforce an absolute and generall condemnation of dice, then it doth of the other two, wine and women, that are therein ioyned therewith; which no wise man or in his right wits will therefore vtterly condemne. And yet can there not be more said in that kinde of this one, then (I say not Poets alone, but) the Spirit of God it selfe saith, (not to presse ought out of the dApocrypha) of the two other, as well eof women as fof wine. gHowbeit neither are therefore heither the Vines in foraine parts to bee rooted all out, or all vse of wine to be wholy forbidden vs, who yet might liue well without it, because by many wine is much abused: nor are women therefore to be abandoned, or deemed ⟨p. 227⟩iEuils, though knecessaries, if many of them, by the abuse of themselues, or others abuse of them, proue as the Spirit of God speaketh: or yet mariage, being lGods owne ordinance, in it selfe no lesse mhelpefull, beneficiall and comfortable, then it is nholy, honest and honourable, is to be in that respect any whit the lesse regarded; but othe vse of either limited, the abuses stript from them, as the rules both of reason and religion require.
- dDives eram dudum, me fecerunt tria m•dum, Alea, vina, venus, tribus his sum factus egenus. Carm. Proverb & Guil. Pepin. de conf•ss tract. 2. par. 3. c. 6.Diues eram dudum, me fecerunt tria m•dum, Alea, vina, venus, tribus his sum factus egenus. Carm. Prouerb & Guil. Pepin. de conf•ss tract. 2. par. 3. c. 6.
- eProu. 2.18, 19. & 6.9, 10, 11, 26. & 7.26, 27 & 9.18. & 12.4. & 22.14. & 20.27, 28. Eccles. 7.28.
- fProu. 20.1. & 23.21, 29, &c. ad finem.
- gSiracid. 26.5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, & 25.15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. quod cùm in Anglia à ministro Caluinista legeretur, mulierem è coetu exclamasse, Verbum illud non Dei esse, sed Diaboli, refert seriò Bellarm. de verb. De• l. 2. c. 15.
- h[Greek or Hebrew]. Pla•. de audiend. poet.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Pla•. de audiend. poet.
- i[Greek or Hebrew]. Euripid. [Greek or Hebrew]. Sophocl. [Greek or Hebrew], Menaud. [Greek or Hebrew]. Eurip. [Greek or Hebrew]. Menau. apud Stob. par. 2. c. 71. Et idem Menaud. [Greek or Hebrew]. Sed & tragicè nimis Cancrinus, [Greek or Hebrew]. apud Athen. l. 13.
