tt+.. CHAP .5. Epif le to the The/Jalonians. - VEK. 5,6. The truth is,the Meafure is belt taken from that fir - nelre it brings to doe the duties of generali or particular Calling. What euer meafurc exceeds that limit, tranf- ggretferh againft Sobrieti e. A Verrue it is, much commended ma Vs. The name f it bath vfuall amongliGreekes, is amiable; they call it i ar.,pegaávtw; As you would fay, the keeper and guard, as it were, ofWifdome. The Vice contrary, is Drunkennelfe: a Vice,. faith one, to be lamented rather among!' Germans ; wee may fay, amongftEnglifh too, than to bee defined. Venie children, out of effeas, are able to define it, by behol- ding the manners and behaviour of men ouertaken with it. The Spartanes, to make their children loath it, were wont to prefent to their view force of their Vatfals gor- ged with Wine, that when they faw their beatily de- meanour., they might learne to detell ir. The Saracens by infiinía of Nature fo abhorred it, that by Policie of their Countrey, none was permitted to drinke Wine. Pirrarur his Law was, to puntlh euery fault of a Drun- kard with a double Mulff. He thought it fo farre from excuhng any (inne, that it added a crcumf'ance to ag -, grauate euery Li one. What tell I you of Men, though Heathens, when bruit creatures, molt of them, by infiina of Nature de- tell it ? Elephants, they lay, are able to fucke vp Mach. Trunke a great quantitieof water; and yet to gtienclr their thera, are contented with moderate drinking. In cafe they be. defrauded of their hire, they will fill the hollow oftheir Snowt with water, not to drinke, but to powre our; and fo with a fudden inundation to drowne hit Shop, of whom they will beepreuengcd. Whole Poolas.are on a fudden drank Brie ;:'and fuddet l jt,'po:vw- red our, all is afloat; Cui ;eiivaií4 Pon, :tamimmafliaiellra rum çorpora f iperßum nil tonára ? And fee the infatia ble Drapfic of Drinking, forifc átstengftChxiliians ! To 429 Plutarch:
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