Part.I.Secl:.z. Love ofgaming,'<!rc. Memb. 3.·Subf. 13. Ufurers houfe at mid-nighr, ,and after that to Eucratts; ~~horn they found" 117 both awake, cafring up their accounts,and telling oftheir mony,' leane,dry, c curiux~tiUI:~ pale and aoxious1fiill fufpe.etjng leaf1: fome bo~y fhould _make a ho_lc through ft~;;~~;~;~. the wall, and fo get in; onfa Rat or Moufe drd but fime, fiarung upon a d " '"' qum 1• ii fudden, and running to the dooreto fee w.hether all were_fafi_. Pla11ttM in his tzlimum in <du {] intromi{tris. Ig· .Aulularia, makes old EucliP, d commandrng Staphy/11 h1s wrfe to JUt the n•mmingui doors fall:, and the fire to be put out,leafi any body ihould make that an er. voto, "'""r~ rant to come to hishoufe; when he waihed his hands,' he was loath to fling i=:~~":q":,;f:.4 'away the foule water, complaining that be was undone, becaufe the fmoak qwue~. s; hD· got out ofhis roofe. And as he went frolt\home, feeing a Crow fcrat upon ; r;::;,.:,;;;:/;:' the muck-hill, returned in all haf!e, taking it for malttmomm, an ill figne, his occlude fisfom mony was digged up,with many fuch.He that will but obfervetheir aClions, amboJU4 peffulis. 1hall findethtfe and many fuch paffages not fained for fporr, but really per- ~;{.er;,~;· ;:,~ formed, verified indeed by fuch covetous and miferable wretches, and that 'md""''" mit1i. it is, fn!t::};;~=~~tc __f manifefta phrenejis qoidoga»>{cio. ' rt locuples moriarM egenti vivere fato, ' e P/or114 aquam A meere madneffe, to Jive like a wretch, and die rich. f:!:,·~:~r!'· SUBSECT. 13. Love ofGa,.ing,c!rc. ind pleafores immlderalt; wifes. T is a wonder to fee, how many poore, difireffed, miferable wretches, one ihall meet alr.nofi in every path and frreet, begging for an almes, that have been wdl defcended, and fametimes in llouriihing eftate, now ragged, tattered, and ready to be fiarved, lingring out a painfulllife, in difcontent and grlefe ofbody and minde, and all through immoderate luft, gaming, pleafore and riot. 'Tis the common end ofall fenfuall Epicures and bruitill1 prodigals, that are frupified and carried away headlong with their feverall pleafuresand lufis. Cebes in his table, S. v!mhroft in his fecond booke of vJbd and Cain, and amongft the reft Lucian in his traCl de Mercede conduflis, hath excellent well deciphered fuch mens proceedin'gs in his pidure of opulentia, whom he faines to dwell on the top of a high mount much fought after by many fuitors; at their firftcomming they are gene~ rally entertained by Pleafure and DaUiance, and have all the content that poilibly may be given, fo long as their money lafrs; but when their meanes faile, they are contemptibly thrufr out at a baCke do01·e, headlong, and there left to shame, Reproach, DefPaire. And hee at firfi that had fo many attendants, parafircs, and followers, young and lufiy, richly arrayed ' and all thedainty fare that might be had, with all kinde of welcome and good refped, is now upon a li1dden fiript of all, f pale, naked, old,difeafed and forfaken,curfing h1s fiarres,and ready to firangle himfelf;having no other company but&pentance,Sorrow, Griefe, Diriflon, Beggerj, and C6nlemp1, which are his dailyattendilnts to his lives end. As the g prodi<>all fonne had exq~ifi~ muficke,merry company, dainty fare at firft; but a Corro~ful.J rcckonmgmthe end; fo have all fuch.vaine delights and their followers. fJJitJ dt tigt/16 t rit.fo'nJ, * luv.Stll,I+' fPeruricD(Itl, 1/Ud~~<J, patlidru, [ttWfJttdbrtm O C CI~(t«nr,dtrtr•fl'ipf~111 fl yd1J.. g~ll11lf, omnrit tt~ttm extnnti pa:1tiltntia hi1 mifaw,. crmficints,&c. gLfll(t I $..
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