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Mystical bedlam, or the world of mad-men. By ThoMystical bedlam, or the vvorld of mad-men. By Tho
Mystical bedlam, or the world of mad-men. By Tho: AdamsMystical bedlam, or the vvorld of mad-men. By Tho: Adams
London: printed by George Purslowe for Clement Knight, 1615
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.
Mystical Bedlam, OR, THE WORLD OF MAD-MEN. The second Sermon.
Mysticall Bedlam, OR, THE WORLD OF MAD-MEN. The second Sermon.
ECCLESIASTES, CAP. 9. VER. 3. The heart of the Sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live: and after that, they go to the dead.
ECCLESIASTES, CAP. 9. VER. 3. The heart of the Sonnes of men is full of euill, and madnesse is in their heart while they liue: and after that, they goe to the dead.
MANS sentence is yet but begun; and you will say, a Comma doth not make a perfect Sense. We are now got to his Colon: having left his heart full of evil, we come to his madness. No marvel if, when the stomach is full of strong wines, the head grow drunken. The heart being so filled with that pernicious ⟨p. 34⟩liquor, evil, becomes drunk with it. Sobriety, a moral daughter, nay, Reason the mother is lost; he runs mad, stark mad. This Frenzy possessing, not some outroome, but the principal seat, the Heart.
MANS sentence is yet but begunne; and you will say, a Comma doth not make a perfect Sense. Wee are now got to his Colon: hauing left his heart full of euill, wee come to his madnesse. No maruell if, when the stomacke is full of strōg wines, the head grow drunken. The heart being so filled with that pernicious ⟨p. 34⟩liquor, euill, becomes drunke with it. Sobriety, a morall daughter, nay, Reason the mother is lost; he runs mad, starke mad. This Frenzy possessing, not some outroome, but the principall seate, the Heart.