Ofthe manifold miîeries whichare incident to edges. 5 37- rule, that he alto maybe partaker ofhis proui(ion. So thcfe yongcr prodigals, hauing (haken off the yoke ofgoùern- mene, and being wholly at their owne difpofe,doe wildly runne many defperatecourfes,expofe themfelues to innume. tabledangers, and hauing neither the skill of getting nor care of keeping,, they confume all in riot and voluptuous pleafitre,till their flare is brought to fo low an ebbe, that theyare readyto flarue for want of neceffaries,who before furfetted offuperfluitie, and to be in truth fellow-commo- nets with the hogs in their courfe fare ofmarl and draffe, whobefore were like voto them in the allegorie, glutting themfelueswith pleafitres,and-wallowing in carnal! and fen- foal! delights. Andhowfoeuer they haue now got a nameof liberty, yet truththeywere neuer in the like thraldome; ¡icing they Iraue changed the gouernment ofone father or mailer, into the tyrannie,or rather anarchic ofinnumerable pallions: and reafonbeing not yet feated in his throne, they are like the peopleofIliadwithout aking,whodid nothing well, becaufc they did - eueryone what they would ; and whereas their-other goucrnoursruled with difcretit4naiíned at their good,rePtrained theni from runningon in licencions courfes , and kept them in fotne good order ; there new guides,like lords ofmifrule,leade themwith headlong ralh neffe into all defperatcattempts,riot, exce(fie, and all kindof diforder, which feemethbut to promife the profnt fruition. offomevaine delight. Now fond loue,andfilthie lufi,madde anger,and furious reuenge, proud emulation, and fcornefull contempt;vn grounded hopes, and caufelcife.feams, immo- defl'wantonncfle, and immoderatemirth; fports andpa- fumesno leffeful offnne andvanity,thenof harneand dan- gers,and voluptuoufneffein all kinds, as furletting, glùtto- nie, drunkenneffe,gaming, whoring, rioting and rcuelling, fwaggeringand-fwearingare in their ful firength;and chicle predominance; -which if they yceld vino, they find them- felues coifedfrom one to another and: newer at ref+, and as iv were difiraeled'and hated betweene fo manyfuries,which day andnight haunting them, carrie them headlong into in numerable dangersofbody, foule, and flare, whereinmany . fuffcr
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