Theol. The wise King in the same book doth most notably and fully describe unto us the inconveniences and mischiefs which do accompany drunkenness, and follow drunkards at the heels.1 To whom (he saith) is woe? to whom is alas? to whom is strife? to ⟨p. 181⟩whom is babbling? to whom are wounds without cause? to whom is the redness of the eyes? Even to them that tarry long at the wine: to them that go and seek out mixed wine. 2In the same chapter he saith, Be not of the number of them which are bibbers of wine, or of them which glut themselves with flesh: for the drinker and the feaster shall become poor: and the sleeper shall be clothed with rags. Moreover, he saith,3 Their eyes shall behold strange women; and that they shall be like him that lieth in the midst of the Sea, and sleepeth in the top of the mast. In all these speeches the holy Ghost doth, in most lively manner, describe unto us the properties of drunkards; even their staggering, their reeling, their snorting, their senseless sensuality. Behold then what be the cursed fruits & events of drunkenness: Even these which follow; woe, alas, grief, misery, beggary, poverty, shame, lusts, strife, babbling, brawling, fightings, quarrelling, surfeiting, sickness, diseases, swinish sleeping, security, and sensuality. So then I conclude, that drunkenness is a vice more beseeming an hog, than any reasonable man. And as one saith, It is the Metropolitan City of all the province of vices.
Well therefore saith the Heathen Writer, When the wine is in, 4a man is ⟨p. 182⟩as a running coach without a coachman.
Theol. The wise King in the same booke doth most notably and fully describe unto us the inconveniences and mischiefes which doe accompany drunkennesse, and follow drunkards at the heeles.1 To whom (he saith) is wo? to whom is alas? to whom is strife? to ⟨p. 181⟩whom is babbling? to whom are wounds without cause? to whom is the rednesse of the eies? Even to them that tarry long at the wine: to them that goe and seeke out mixt wine. 2In the same chapter he saith, Bee not of the number of them which are bibbers of wine, or of them which glut themselves with flesh: for the drinker and the feaster shall become poore: and the fleeper shall be cloathed with rags. Moreover, he saith,3 Their eyes shall behold strange women; and that they shall bee like him that lyeth in the midst of the Sea, and sleepeth in the top of the mast. In all these speeches the holy Ghost doth, in most lively manner, describe unto us the properties of drunkards; even their staggering, their reeling, their snorting, their senslesse sensuality. Behold then what be the cursed fruits & events of drunkennes: Even these which follow; woe, alas, griefe, misery, beggary, poverty, shame, lusts, strife, babbling, brawling, fightings, quarrelling, surfeiting, sicknesse, diseases, swinish sleeping, security, and sensuality. So then I conclude, that drunkennesse is a vice more beseeming an hog, than any reasonable man. And as one saith, It is the Metropolitan City of all the province of vices.
Well therefore saith the Heathen Writer, When the wine is in, 4a man is ⟨p. 182⟩as a running coach without a coachman.
- 1Prov. 25.29.
- 2Prov. 23.21.
- 3Prov. 23.33.
- 4D•most. Olinth.
