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How many things fly out when wine goes in? how is it then that he which loveth himself, can be so cruel to himself, that he should love his life and shorten his life? that he should love his health, and destroy his health? that he should love his strength, and weaken his strength? that he should love his wealth, and consume his wealth? that he should love his credit, and crack his credit? that he should love his understanding, and overturn his understanding? that he should love his beauty, and deform his beauty? The Poets need feigning no more, that men are transformed into beasts for if they were living now, they should see men like beasts: some like Lyons, some like wolves, some like foxes, some like bears, some like swine: who is the beast when the beasts satisfy nature and man satisfy appetite? when the beasts keep measure and man exceeds measure? when the beasts are found labouring, and man found surfeiting? who is the beast? I have read of a bird which hath the face of a man, but is so cruel of nature, that sometime for hunger she will set upon a man and slay him: after when she comes for thirst unto the water to drink, seeing the face in the water like the face of him whom she devoured, for grief that she hath killed one like herself, takes such sorrow, that she never eateth nor drinketh after, but beats, and frets, & pines ⟨image 30⟩her self to death. What wilt thou do then which hast not slain one like thy self, but thy self, thy very self with a cup of wine, and murderest so many virtues and graces in one hour?

How many thinges flie out when wine goes in? how is it then that he which loueth himselfe, can bee so cruell to himselfe, that he should loue his life and shorten his life? that hee should loue his health, and destroy his health? that he should loue his strength, and weaken his strength? that hee shoulde loue his wealth, and consume his wealth? that hee shoulde loue his credit, and cracke his credit? that hee shoulde loue his vnderstanding, and ouerturne his vnderstanding? that he should loue his beautie, and deforme his beautie? The Poets neede faining no more, that men are transformed into beasts for if they were liuing now, they should see men like beastes: some like Lyons, some like wolues, some like foxes, some like beares, some like swine: who is the beast when the beasts satisfie nature and man satisfie appetite? when the beastes keepe measure and man exceeds measure? when the beasts are found labouring, and man found surfetting? who is the beast? I haue read of a bird which hath the face of a man, but is so cruell of nature, that sometime for hunger she will set vpon a man and slay him: after when she comes for thirst vnto the water to drinke, seeing the face in the water like the face of him whome she deuoured, for griefe that she hath killed one like herselfe, takes such sorrow, that shee neuer eateth nor drinketh after, but beates, and frets, & pines