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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.