°4 That worldly things are rotprofitable. in abundant and daintie fare, they impaire their health,änd bringvpon themfèlues innumerable dangerous and defpe. rate difeafes; for filling their flomaekes with crude and in- digefled humours,and their heads with fumes:they withina while are vexedwithmegrims, palfes,confumptiotrs;aoues, gouts,and what not? fo thatdearely doe they buy that fhort pleafure which they take in eating and. drinking, whichat the fiirthefl extendeth but to the throace,whilefltheir diuers kindwfdifagreeingmeatesbeing put into the fame bellies doe confli6onewith another, and fo ouerburthen and vexe thediflended flomacke with their ititefline diffcnfron,that theyoccafion thefevoluptuous epicures to complainof the E.,(0.31.19.=o. lafl weales plentie, orofthe vnwholefo:nneffe orill cooking offome difh the next day; whereas they might more iuf}ly eomplaine oftheirowne gluttonyand intemperance ,which prefent difconunoditie is commonly attended upon with grieuous and tedious difeafes,asI haue (hewed. Inregard asp ,;ae*r whereofthe Grecians fitly call g'uttony the throat,or belly- y"spy<apx. frentie ; for what greatermadneffe can bee imagined, then Sic C exandnd.px l. forafhort andbrutifhpleafure to lofe the comfort of conti- dag.lib.z.éap.t nuall health., and to fuflaine the torments of tediousficknef- fes? Yea in truththekgluttonous epicures vnwittingly de- privetkemfelues ofthcirmain end,which is their pleafure: for astemperate dietand tneane fare is the mother, not on- 1 ofhealth, butallo ofdelight; fo contrariwife exceffe and fatiety, as it is the caufe ofmanydifeafes,fo altoofloachfome diflike; for where there is fulntffc there is no appetite; and where appetite wanteth, there canbee no pleafure in eating and drinking. But thefe voluptuous pleafitres which'confiff in meats&drinks, as they commonly depriuemenofhealth and delight; fo alfoof life it felfe, whilefl their epicurifine and gluttonymake thway for difeafes,and difeafesfor death. Thewhich doth not alone feldome fall out by fome rare- happening accident, but fo frequently and daily, that wife ©bferuers hauenotdoubted toaffit me,tbat many more haue died through gluttonie,then by the fword.So the fonne of Syrach faith, thatbyfurfet manyhaue perijhed, hat hee that di- !acid0.3e. raeth;hi,:rrfelfeprolaagerhhiilife.With vhom another agree- ing
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