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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15850	Englands bane: or, The description of drunkennesse. Composed and written by Thomas Young, sometimes student of Staple-Inne	Young, Thomas, student of Staple Inn.	1617 (1617)	STC 26116; ESTC S120602	22,245	54

lacke of foode thou staruest in the street But I will councell you with Nash All you that will not haue your braines twice sodden The fruits of drunkenesse your flesh rotten with the Dropsie that loue not to goe in greasie dublets stockings out at heeles and weare Alehouse daggers at your backes leaue this company keeping this slabbering brauerie that will make you haue stinking breathes and your faces blowed like bladders deckt with pimples your bodies smell like Brewers aprons It will bring you in your old age to bee companions with none but Porters Oastlers and Carmen to talke out of a Cage rayling as Drunkards are wont a hundred boyes wondring about them It is a most bewitching sinne and being once entred into hard to forgoe Saint Austen compares it to the pit of hell into which when one is once falling there is no redemption Therefore you that are free from it reioyce and desire God so to keep you and you that are entring into it forgoe it in time as S. Iames saith Iam. 4.7.8 Resist the Diuell and hee will flie from you draw neere to God and he will draw neere to you Take heede lest you take a habite in it and so it grow to a custome and then like the grand Drunkards of this age of whom I know too many you account it no sinne For consuetudo peccandi tollit sensum peccati the custome of sinning taketh away the feeling of sinne But with these Drunkards I haue not to doe for no admonishment but banishment will make them leaue it For I feare the Lord hath done by them as by Ieremiah Iere. 51.39 he threatneth the Babylonians he hath giuen them ouer to a perpetuall drunkennes Others excuse themselues and thinke they are free from this vice because through the strength of their braines and bodies they can carry more then others and boast although they dranke as much as any in the company and that their consorts were drunke Yet they were fresh enough it is a small conquest they haue got when in excessiue drinking they haue ouercome all their companions seeing in conquering they are ouercome and are shamefully foyled and ouerthrowne by Sathan their chiefe enemy whilest they triumph in a drunken victory ouer their friends these men for want of vertue in them bragge of their vice but Habakuk saith Haba 2.15.16 woe vnto him that giueth his neighbour drinke thou ioynest thine heate and makest him drunken that thou maist see his priuities Isa 28.3 The Lords right hand shall be turned vnto thee and shameful spuing shall be for thy glory And Isaiah saith Prouer. 11. The crowne and the pride of the Drunkard shall be troden vnder feete And in the fift chapter hee pronounceth a woe vnto them which rise vp early to follow Drunkennes and to them that continue vntill night c. The Philosopher saith Nulla capitalior pestis hominibus à natura data est quam Ebrietas nam ex hac fonte prodit quicquid est in hominum vite scelerum calamitatum Nature neuer sent amongst men a more deadlier plague then Drunkennes for it is the well-spring from whence floweth all manner of mischiefe and calamitie that happens to men Wine hath as much force as fire for as soone as it hath ouertaken any it dispatcheth him For it discloseth the secrets of the soule and troubleth the whole minde A drunken gouernour and ruler of any thing whatsoeuer bringeth all to ruine and ouerthrow whether it be a Ship or a Wagon or Armie or any other thing committed to his charge The consideration whereof made the Philosopher say when the Wine is in a man hee is as a running Coach without a Coachman Therefore they that delight not onely to see but also to force their neighbors to sinne in this vice by vrging them to drinke more then they would onely to pledge them doe no otherwise then if they made it their glory and pastime to see God dishonoured his name blaspheamed his creatures abused and their friends and companions damned To reioyce to see a man drunk is no otherwise then to be glad to see a the vngodly and sinner appeare These men are imitators of Tiberius and Vitellius most beastly and luxurious Emperours of Rome who were drunke and rioted all night and sleepe and rested all day The first for his beastly conditions of Tiberius was called biberius Suetonius of Claudius ca●dius of Nero Mero in his drunkennesse be caused Rome to be fired yet before he died as a iust plague vnto him he was forced to drink puddle water and commended the same for an admirable drinke ●a●llius Reguat but eight-monthes and for feare of the Citizens punishment was forced to stab himselfe the other was drawne through the streets with a halter about his necke and shamefully put to death a right reward and good example for drunken Magistrates and gouernours But I could wish that ryotous persons would note and take example by the gouernment of Antonius Pius T. Anto. P. was the 16. Emper. of Rome 23. yeeres in whose time when hee perceiued the people of Rome giuen to drinke without measure he made a law that none should sell Wine but the Apothecaries in their shops and onely for the sicke and diseased Or behold the gouernment of Alexander Seuerus Alex. 26. Empe. Rom. 13. yeeres who quite purged Rome from all the filthy vices and fowle enormities bred in the time of his predecessor Helyogabalus and reduced it to the ancient and ciuill gouernment that Cicero writeth of in his Booke of lawes wherein he affirmeth that no Roman durst goe in the streetes If that he bare not a shew in his hand whereon hee did liue In consideration thereof the Consull did be●re a Battle Axe before him the Praetors a Hat in the maner of a Coyfe the Tribunes a Mace the Cutler 's a Sword the Taylors a payre of Sheares the Smithes a Hammer the Orators a Booke not permitting that those that were Masters of Sciences should bee schollars of vices in such sort that Marcus Aurelius in making mention of the ancient diligence of the Romans writeth that they did also employ with such a zeale their labours and trauely that in Rome could not be found an idle person to carry a letter two or three dayes iourney But if this law of the Romans were in force with vs how many thousands if they made shew of the trade and arte they professed would be forced to goe vp and down with quart pots in their hands our Nation is so polluted with this vice of Drunkennesse that the great drinkings of forraine Countries compared to ours are but sippings We haue them that drinke more in a yeere Maximillion the Emp. is sayd to deuour forry pound of flesh drink a hogshead of wine in one day then Maximillion the Emperour And others that drink more at a draught then any Hackney horse The historie that