106 'That drunl¿ennefe is the caufe ofmany other fns. as ready to offer iniuries as impatient tobeare any requitall of wrongs, they come at length to downe right blowese- uerything\ A hichcommethnext to hand fettling asinflru- ments of their wrath ; their cups, which whtlefl theywere fober,carried from one to another pledges oftheirloue, to their drunken rage are dafhed againíl one anothers faces ; their weapons which in their fober moode were vied to de- fend themfclues from theirenennies,are now thrufl into the breafl oftheir dearea friends ; &while(i this fit laieth,.they lobor to murther thole whó at other times they wouldde- fend fromwrong with the hazard of their ownhues. Ano- table example whereof we haue in Alexander, who in his drunkennes murthercd his deare friend Clitu-s, the which horrible faéhe fo muchdeteflcd when he was lober, that Prou:2o,r. & inreuenge thereofhe would haue murtheredhimfelfe.This 23.29, fruit ofdrunkennesSalomon ferteth downe,Pro.2o.t. Wine is amocker ,6tndftrongdrinke is raging. And Pro.23.29. To whom is wo ? to whom isfarrow ? to whom isfirife ? to whom is tabling ? to whom arewounds without cattle ? c. Euen to the thattarry long-at thewine,to them thatgo&feek, mixt wine? that is, who drinke more for wantonnes then for thirft. To this purpofe one faith,that the wine yeeldeth threegrapes ,one for delight,anet herfordrunlZénes, the thirdforoutrage. For w'hêdelight hathbrought a man to drunkênes, drunkenncs makethway for outragious iniuries,and barbarous cruelty. Theconfiderati6wherof, fhouldmake vs to abhorthisvice ofdrunkennes,fceing exceffiue drinkingofwine, bringeth aninfatiable thirfl after bloud, and that not the bloud ofa mans enetnies,but of his companions and neerefl friends. But as drunkennef e is the caufe of bloud-flied and mur- Drunkenrleffe Cher, fo all() of whoredome and all vncicanneffe ; for when i the saufe of the belly is filledwith drinke,thenis the heart alto inflamed whoredom & with lull, & the eies full of adultery gaze vpon flrangewo- o .Z3 33clea33 mcn,as theWife man teacheth vs,Pro.23.3 3.To this accor- ®Biel. lib. '. de Beth Ilierbms iudgement : Nunquam(inquit) ebriumputabo ert.aman. caftasrn; l can neuer be perfwaded (faith he) to thinke that a drunkard can be chaff. And he that bad the greatefl infight into the art of lull, faith, that Vina paarantanimasVeneri; Wine
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