which wordythings bring to theirowner', 73:5 tomuch as&tire to be let at liberty, but being made flug- gifhand flothfull with this fpirituall lethargic, they forget the ¡oyes of heauen, and that true happineffeof reafona -- ble creatures , and take all their delight and content- tnene in wallowing themfelues like filthy (wine , in the (linking puddle of carnal! pleafures. The which ma. keth the (dareof wordly epicures del-pet-ate and remediletre b: caufe theyare in louewith their difeafes, and hate the me dicines whereby they might becured. And as it is raid of Yly,ffir retinue, th a hauìng drucke thole impoifoned cuppes. which C:reef had prepared for them, and being by them tranftormed into beans, they were fo in louewith theirbru- tal) condition, that they wouldnot againe bee tranfformed intomen : fo there worldly Epicui es,(inwhom this is true- ly moralized )being by this notorious witch ofcarnall plea- lures infatuated in their vndertiandings, and turned into beafts, are fo delighted with this brutifh cftare , that they cannot beperfwaded to leave their bruufhnef e, and tohue a, becommeth reafonablemen,&much leife as it befeemeth the calling of Chrilttans. And as it is laid of the Torpedo fifli,rhat itis"offuch a povfouous &venemousnature,that if itbut conch the lineofhim thatangleth, thepoyfon is therby derluedto the rod, and from thence to the hand,,whereby he is prefently fo thipified and benummed that he lofeth his flrength, and thevieofiiis I mines : fo when therepoifonous pleafuresdoe bur get the left acquaintance, and as it were but tcuch voluptuous minds, they are not onelymade bru-' nth, but euenfobenummedand fenfles, that theyhaueno power tomoue inany good: anion. The which retnidileffe bond:; a of worldly Epicures, one expreflèrh after this ma- ster : D:,ea:thou (faith he)'hinke thofefreemcn, or cleare from dïfeafes, whome pleafures haue barbaroufly bound. and enthralled? why, though they haue not a chame toy tie them, yet their owns luxurioufntff'e holdeth them raft inbonds withvnauoidahlc tenacity; and being fallen into H..eron.e ifs: the&Hares of beaftly pleafures, (as the bird catched by the ad zerotúrta: fubtletyor the fowler) the more they labour and (trine to amicurn. efeape, the more they are entangled and enfnared. So that Tom.a. if
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