Mystical bedlam, or the world of mad-men. By ThoMystical bedlam, or the vvorld of mad-men. By Tho

Will, sure, wrangle with me, that his name comes so late in this Catalogue; that deserved to be in the front or vanguard of mad-men. Demens Ebriet as is an attribute given by an heathen. It is a voluntary madness, and makes a man so like a beast, that whereas a beast hath no reason, he hath the use of no reason: and the power or faculty of reason suspended, gives way to madness. Nay, he is in some respect worse then a beast: for few beasts will drink more then they need, whereas mad Drunkards drink when they have no need, till they have need again. Quaeris, quis sit homo ebriosus?¹ aetqui Nullus est homo, Maevole, ebriosus. ⟨p. 62⟩Show me a drunken man, thou blest. I can not do't: for he that's drunken, is no man. To prove himself a mad-man, he dares quarrel with every man, fight with any man; nay, with posts and walls,² imagining them to be men. Bacchus ad arma vocat: ³Wine makes them bold, without fear or wit: hazarding themselves into dangers, which sober, they would tremble to think of. Nec enim haec faceret sobrius unquam. Are not these mad? If you should see them like so many superstitious Idolaters, drinking healths on their bare knees to their fair Mistress: which (may be) is but a foul strumpet, swearing against him that will not pledge it, or not pledge it off to a drop; would you in your right wits take these for other, then mad-men? no: let them go among the rest to Bedlam.