§ 3. And thus may we keep within compass for the measure or quantity both of time and expense. Now 1for the manner of using game further consideration would be had. For therein also many offend, when they are too eager upon play, or are overmuch transported and carried away with delight in it; when, as one well saith, gthey either hsleep at it, or are drunk at it: that is, when it either so occupieth mens minds that it maketh them unwatchful against the motions of sin, or so overcometh them with the delight of it, or other passions procured by it, that it maketh them break forth into outrage of swearing, blaspheming, fretting, cursing, and quarrelling, and such courses as sobriety in such cases would never admit. For ia man may be drunk as well without wine as ⟨p. 245⟩with wine; with the dry smoke of Tobacco as well as with drink. As one saith well of prosperity, that it so transporteth some, that they are even kas drunk with it; and lsome sorts of mirth and mmusic are said to make men little better: So we may well say that men are drunk with game, when they are so addicted thereunto, that it stirreth up in them such distempered passions as men soberly minded cannot but condemn and abhor, and which they themselves could not but dislike in themselves, if they were not for the present besides themselves.
§ 3. And thus may we keepe within compasse for the measure or quantitie both of time and expence. Now 1for the manner of vsing game further consideration would be had. For therein also many offend, when they are too eager vpon play, or are ouermuch transported and caried away with delight in it; when, as one well saith, gthey either hsleepe at it, or are drunke at it: that is, when it either so occupieth mens mindes that it maketh them vnwatchfull against the motions of finne, or so ouercommeth them with the delight of it, or other passions procured by it, that it maketh them breake forth into outrage of swearing, blaspheming, fretting, cursing, and quarelling, and such courses as sobriety in such cases would neuer admit. For ia man may be drunke as well without wine as ⟨p. 245⟩with wine; with the drie smoake of Tabacco as well as with drinke. As one saith well of prosperity, that it so transporteth some, that they are euen kas drunke with it; and lsome sorts of mirth and mmusicke are said to make men little better: So wee may well say that men are drunke with game, when they are so addicted thereunto, that it stirreth vp in them such distempered passions as men soberly minded cannot but condemne and ab•orre, and which they themselues could not but dislike in themselues, if they were not for the present besides themselues.
- 1Ludendi modus quidam retinendus est, ut ne nimis omnia profundamus, elatique voluptate in turpitudivem dilabamur. Cicer offic. l. 2.Ludendi modus quidam retinendus est, vt ne nimis omnia profundamus, elatique voluptate in turpitudiuem dilabamur. Cicer offic. l. 2.
- gFennor of recreate. ••legener. 3.Fennor of recreat. ••legener. 3.
- h1. Thess. 5.6.
- iEsai. 51.21. Ebriae, non à vino. Est & absque tem•to temulentia quaedā, & quaedam etiā, in sobrieta•e ebrietas; ([Greek or Hebrew].) ab ira, àli bidine, ab ambi•icne, ab avaritia. [Greek or Hebrew] Chrysost contra Jud. l. 5. Es•. & mentis ebrietas ebrij sunt mulis qui sibi sobrij videntur: ira•undia anima no in•briat; fur•r plusgiv•briat: inebriant libidines: av•ritia etiam •abidum reddit. Origen. in Levit. homil. 7. [Greek or Hebrew]. Basil. homil. 1. [Greek or Hebrew]. Plato leg. l. 1. [Greek or Hebrew] Plot. sim prob. l. 7. c. 10. Ebrius v•geris mul•is •xisor undique curn. Lucr. l. 3.Esai. 51.21. Ebriae, non à vino. Est & absque tem•to temulentia quaedā, & quaedam etiā, in sobrieta•e ebrietas; (〈non-Latin alphabet〉.) ab ira, àli bidine, ab ambi•icne, ab avaritia. Chrysost contra Iud. l. 5. Es. & mentis ebrietas ebrij sunt mulis qui sibi sobrij videntur: iraundia anima no inbriat; furr plusgivbriat: inebriant libidines: avritia etiam abidum reddit. Origen. in Leuit. homil. 7. . Basil. homil. 1. . Plato leg. l. 1. Plt. sym prob. l. 7. c. 10. Ebrius vgeris mulis xisor vndique curn. Lucr. l. 3.
