discourse it shall make him farre worse then hee was At last hee is but kept aboue ground by the art of Chirurgery Cure FOr his cure let him bloud with the law of God Thou shalt not commit adultery That the righteous God tryeth the heart and the reines euen the place where his disease lyeth That Si Renum cupis incolumem seruare salutem Sirenum cantus effuge sanus eris That breuis est voluptas fornicationis perpetua poena fornicatoris the pleasure of the sinne is short the punishment of the sinner eternall That Nuda Uenus picta est nudi pinguntur amores Nam quos nuda capit nudos amittat oportet That his desired cure is his deserued poyson Age and sleepe are his infalliblest Physicians Disease is the mortifier of his sinne and cures it with an issue That no black shield of the darkest night no subtill art can hide or defend from Gods impulsiue sight That as a moderne Poet of ours Ioy grauen in sense like snow in water wasts Without conserue of vertue nothing lasts That hee walkes the high-way to the diuell and Windes downe the blinde staires to hell That as it is called a noble sinne it shall haue a noble punishment That he hath taken a voyage to the kingdome of darknesse and is now at his iournies end when lust leaues him ere he discharge it Let him obserue S. Pauls medicine Fly fornication Euery sinne that a man doth is without the body but hee that committeth fornication sinneth against his owne body And This is the will of God euen your sanctification and that yee should abstaine from fornication Let him shunne Opportunity as his Bawde and Occasion as his Pandar Let him often drink that potion that Augustine at his conuersion Let vs walke honestly as in the day time not in rioting and drunkennesse not in chambering and wantonnesse c. But put ye on the Lord Iesus Christ and make not prouision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof Phisicians prescribe for the reines inflammation cooling things cataplasmes bathes c. A speciall intention to cure this burning concupiscence is to coole it with the teares of penitence Weepe for thy sins and if the disease growe still strong vpon thee take the antidote God hath prescribed Marriage It is better to marrie then to burne Marriage is honourable in all and the bed vndefiled but Whoremongers and Adulterers God will iudge Much exercise doth well to the cure of this Inflammation When our affections refuse to sit on the nest of Lust and to keepe it warme the brood of actuall follies will not be hatched How Aegistus not without companie became an Adulterer In promptu causa est desidiosus erat For. Otia si tollas periere Cupidinis arcus Cupid shootes in a slugge and still hits the sluggish This intemperate fire is well abated by withdrawing the fewel Delicates to excite Lust are spurres to post a man to hell It is fasting spettle that must kill his tetter Uncleannesse is the bastard begot of Gluttony and Drunkennesse Sine Cerere Baccho friget Uenus When the mouth is made a tunnell and the belly a barrell there is no contentment without a bed and a bed-fellow The rotten Feuer or Hypocrisie Disease 12. AMongst almost innumerable kinds of Feuers there is one called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or febris putrida the rotten Feuer which is a feuer of one fit continuing many dayes without any great mutation Therefore it is called of some continens febris a stable and constant feuer Hereunto I haue likened a rotten disease in the soule called Hypocrisie which is nothing els but vice in Vertues apparell Cause THis corporall disease is caused when the humours doe putrifie and rot equally within the vessels It is not ingendred in those that bee leane and slender or of a thinne and rare state of body or of a colde temper but in those that bee hot and abound with bloud fleshy grosse and thicke-bodied Me thinks this malady smels very like Hypocrisie which is a rotten heart festred and putrified with habituated sins there with great delight and indulgence reserued not incident to those that haue a weake thinne and slender opinion of themselues that through humility haue a leane and spare construction of their owne deserts no nor to them that bee of a cold temper and disposition to religion not caring either to bee good or to seeme so but to those that haue a grosse and a blowne conceit of themselues swelling into an incomprehensible ostentation and implacably hot in the persecution of that they inwardly affect not Signes and Symptomes ROr the Signes of this putrid feuer they be not externally discerned except you feele the pulse which beats thicke quicke and vehement The Hypocrite is exceedingly rotten at core like a Sodome apple though an ignorant passenger may take him for sound He lookes squint-ey'd ayming at two things at once the satisfying his owne lusts and that the world may not be aware of it Bonus videri non esse malus esse non videri cupit They would seeme good that they might be euill alone not seeme euill lest they might not then be euill so much Oues visu Vulpes actu actu hauing much angell without more diuel within a villenous Host dwelling at the signe of Friend Tuta frequensque via est per amici fallere nomen Tuta frequensque licet sit via crimen habet Which one thus wittily englisheth A safe and common thing it is through friendship to deceiue As safe and common as it is 'T is knauery by your leaue He is on Sunday like the Rubricke or Sunday-letter zealously red but all the weeke you may write his deedes in blacke He fryes in words freezeth in workes speakes in elles doth good by inches He is a rotten tunder shining in the night an ignis fatuus looking like a fixed starre a painted sepulcher that conceales much rottennesse a crude Gloe-worme shining in the darke a stinking dunghill couer'd ouer with snow a fellow of a bad course and good discourse a loose hung Mill that keepes a great clacking but grindes no grist a lying hen that cackles when shee hath not layd He is like some tap-house that hath vpon the painted walls written Feare God be sober watch and pray c. when there is nothing but swearing and drunkennesse in the house His tongue is hot as if he had eaten pepper which workes coldly at the heart Hee burnes in the shew of forward profession but it is a poore fire of zeale that wil not make the pot of Charitie seeth He is in company holy and demure but alone demurres of the matter so shuts out the diuell at the gate and lets him in at the posterne His words are precise his deeds concise hee prayes so long in the Church that he may with lesse suspicion prey on the Church which he doth the more peremptorily if his power bee
light he cannot endure for his braine is too light already He presumes that his head containes more knowledge then tenne Bishops and wonders that the Church was so ouerseene as to forget him when offices were disposing or places a dealing and because he can get none railes at all for Antichristian He is the only wise man if he might teach all men to iudge him as he iudgeth himselfe and no starre should shine in our Orbe without borrowing some of his light Hee offers to reforme that man that would informe him and presumes of so much light that if himselfe were set our world would be left without a Sunne 3. Wine he hates specially when it is powred into his wounds as the Fathers interpret the Samaritans wine to the wounded man to clense and purge him Reproofe and hee are vtter enemies no man is good enough to chide him wholsome counsell which is indeed Wine to a weake soule he accounts Vineger nothing so pleaseth him as his owne Lees. Opinion hath brewed him ill and he is like water scared out of the wits 4. He must not bee moued nor remoued from what hee holdes his will is like the Persian law vnalterable You may moue him to choler not to knowledge his braine is turned like a Bell rung too deepe and cannot be fetcht backe againe His owne affectation is his pully that can moue him no engine else stirres him A man may like him at first as one that neuer heard musick doth the Tinkers note on his kettle but after a while they are both alike tedious There is no helpe for his auditour by by any excuses to shift him off if he haue not the patience to endure an impertinent discourse hee must venter the censure of his manners and run away His discourse is so full of parentheses as if he were troubled with the rhume and could not spette He is euer tying hard knots and vntying them as if no body had hired him and therefore he must finde himselfe worke If hee light on the sacred Writ he conceitedly allegorizes on the plainest subiect and makes the Scripture no more like it selfe then Michols Image in the bed vpon a pillow of Goates haire was like Dauid He carries bread at his backe and feedes vpon stones Like a full fedde Dogge he leaues the soft meate to lye gnawing vpon bones that wee may say of him this man hath a strong wit as wee say that dogge hath good teeth Curation THe way to cure the Migram is diuers according to the cause either by cutting a veine purging revulsiue or locall remedies But the sanation of this Brainsicke malady is very difficult insomuch that Salomon sayth There is more hope of a foole then of one wise in his owne conceit For he imagines the whole world to be sick and himselfe only sound I might prescribe him the opening of a veine which feedes this disease that is affectation the itching bloud of singularity let out would much ease him Or a good purge of humility to take him down a little because he stands so high in his owne imagination and full vessels to preuent their bursting must haue timely vent Or a little opium of sequestring him from businesse and confining him that hee might take some sleepe for his braines want rest Or a little Euphorbium of sound admonition and fit reproofe dropped into his eare warme Some Euphrasia or Eye-bright would do well Vnctions if lenifying will do no good nor any of the former I doubt except a strong pill of Discipline goe with them The speciallest remedy is Discipline as the Father sayd when hee heard his sonne complaine of his head my head my head commanded a seruant Carry him to his Mother so for these men so troubled with the Head-ach deliuer them to their mother let the Church censure them Inconstancie a kinde of staggers Disease 2. THere is a Disease in the Soule called Inconstancie not vnfitly shadowed to vs by a bodily infirmity possessing the superiour part of man vertigo a swimming in the head a giddinesse or the Staggers The disease in the body is described to bee an astonishing and dusking of the eyes and spirits that the Patient thinkes all that he seeth to turne round and is sodainly compassed with darknes The paralel to it in the Soule is Inconstancie a motion without rule a various aspect a diuersifying intention The Inconstant man is like a Pour contrell if hee should change his apparell so fast as his thought how often in a day would he shift himselfe He would be a Proteus too and vary kinds The reflection of euery news melts him whereof he is as soone glutted As he is a Noune hee is only adiectiue depending on euery nouel perswasion as a Verbe he knowes only the Present Tense To day hee goes to the Key to bee shipped for Rome but before the Tyde come his tyde is turn'd One party thinke him theirs the aduerse theirs he is with both with neither not an howre with himselfe Because the Birds Beasts be at controuersie he will be a Batte and get him both wings and teeth He would come to heauen but for his halting two opinions like two Water-men almost pul him a-pieces when he resolues to put his iudgement into a Boat and goe somewhither presently he steps backe and goes with neither It is a wonder if his affections being but a little luke-warme water do not make his religion stomack-sicke Indifferencie is his ballast and Opinion his sayle he resolues not to resolue He knowes not what he should hold hee knowes not what hee doth hold He opens his mind to receiue motions as one opens his palme to take a handful of water he hath very much if he could hold it He is sure to dye but not what religion to dye in he demurres like a posed Lawyer as if delay could remoue some impediments He is drunk when he riseth and reeles in a morning fasting He knowes not whether he should say his Pater noster in Latine or English and so leaues it and his prayers vnsayd Hee makes himselfe ready for an appointed feast by the way hee heares of a Sermon he turnes thitherward yet betwixt the Church gate and Church dore hee thinkes of businesse and retires home againe In a controuerted point hee holdes with the last reasoner hee either heard or read the next diuerts him and his opinion dwels with him perhaps so long as the teacher of it is in his sight He will rather take drosse for gold then trie it in the fornace Hee receiues many iudgements retaines none embracing so many faiths that he is little better then an Infidell Causes THey giue a double cause of this disease in the bodie either the distemperature and euil affectednesse of the braine or an offence giuen to it from the mouth of the stomack vapours grosse and tough humours or windy exhalations either lodging in the braine or sent thither from the stomack turning about
the animall spirits hence the braine staggers with giddinesse This spirituall Inconstancie ariseth from like causes If it be in religion it proceeds from cloudy imaginations fancies fictions and forced dreames which keepe the mind from a sober and peacefull consideratenesse Multitude of opinions like foggy vapours mist the intellectuall faculty and like reuerberated blastes whirle about the spirits Hee sees some Ceremoniall deuisions in our Church and therefore dares not stedfastly embrace that truth which both parts without contention teach and obserue So leaues the blessing of his mother because hee beholds his brethren quarrelling whiles he sees the vnreconcileable opposition of Rome and vs which he fondly labours to atone he forsakes both and will now be a Church alone Thus his brest is full of secret combates contradictions affirmations negatiues and whiles he refuseth to ioine with others he is diuided in himselfe And yet will rather search excuses for his vnstayednesse then ground for his rest He lothes Manna after two dayes feeding and is almost weary of the Sunne for perpetuall shining If the Temple pauements be euer worne with his visitant feete hee will runne farre to a new Teacher and rather then be bound to his owne parish he will turne Recusant He will admire a new Preacher till a quarter of the sand is out but if the Church dores bee not locked vp he cannot stay out the houre what he promiseth to a Collection to day he forgets or at least denies the next morning His best dwelling would be his confined chamber where his irresolution might trouble nothing but his pillow In humane matters the cause of his variablenesse is not varied but the object Hee is transformable to all qualities a temperd lumpe of waxe to receiue any forme yet no impression stickes long vpon him he holds it the quicknesse of his wit to be voluble Signes and Symptomes THe signes of this disease in the body are a mist and darkenesse comming vpon euery light occasion If hee see a wheele turning round or a whirle-poole or any such circular motion he is affected with giddinesse The Symptomes of the Spirituall Staggers are semblable Hee turnes with those that turne and is his neighbours Chameleon He hates staiednesse as an earthen dulnesse He prosecutes a businesse without feare or wit and reiecting the patience to consult falls vpon it with a peremptory heat but like water once hot is soonest frozen and instantly he must shift his time and his place neither is hee so weary of euery place as cuery place is weary of him He affects an obiect with dotage and as superstitiously courts as an Idolator his guilded block but it is a wonder if his passionate loue out-liue the age of a wonder 9. daies He respects in all things noueltie aboue goodnesse and the childe of his owne braines within a weeke hee is ready to iudge a Bastard Hee salutes his wits after some inuented toy as a Seruing-man kisseth his hand when instantly on another plots arising hee kickes the former out of dores He puls downe this day what hee builded the other now disliking the site now the fashion and sets men on worke to his owne vndoing Hee is in his owne house as his thoughts in his owne braine transient guests like a Haggard you know not where to take him He hunts well for a gird but is soone at a losse If hee giues any profession a winters entertainment yet hee is whether for a penny the next Spring He is full of businesse at Church a stranger at home a Scepticke abroad an obseruer in the street euery where a foole To conclude their owne vnfaithfulnesse making the Inconstant thus sick there is an accession of the Lords plague he addes dotage as a punishment of wilfull dotage The Lord hath mingled a peruerse spirit in the midst thereof and they haue caused Egypt to erre in euery worke thereof as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit Cure FOr the curing of this bodily infirmity many remedies are prescribed odoriferous smels in weaknesse the opening of a veine in better strength cupping glasses applyed to the hinder part of the head with scarification gargarismes and sternutatory things together with setting the feet in hot bathes c. To cure this Spirituall Staggers let the Patient bee purged with Repentance for his former vnsetlednesse let him take an ounce of Faith to firme his braines let his repose be on the Scriptures and thence fetch decision of all doubts let a skilfull Physician order him a good Minister Let him stop his eares to rumours and fixe his eyes on Heauen to bee kept from distracting obiects Let him keepe the continuall dyet of Prayer for the Spirit of illumination and thus he may be recouered Madnesse and Anger Disease 3. THe next disease I would describe is Phrenzy or Madnesse Now though Physicians do clearly distinguish betwixt these two Phrenzy and Madnesse calling Phrenzy an inflammation of the braine without a Feuer or an impostumation bred and ingendred in the pellicles of the braine or pia mater and Mania or Madnesse an infection of the former cell of the head without a Feuer the one abusing the imagination the other rauishing the memory I list not to dispute or determine That which serues my intention is to conferre either of these passions with a Spirituall disease of like nature Anger Irafuror breuis It is a madnesse I am sure I am not sure how short I doe not ask for men passionlesse this is hominem de homine tollere Giue them leaue to be men not mad men Iraoptimo loco donum Dei magna est ars irasciverbis praemeditatis tempore opportuno Anger in the best sense is the gift of God and it is no small art to expresse anger with premeditated termes and on seasonable occasion God placed Anger amongst the affections ingraffed in nature gaue it a seate fitted it with instruments ministred it matter whence it might proceed prouided humours whereby it is nourished It is to the Soule as a nerue to the body The Philosopher cals it the Whetstone to fortitude a spurre intended to set forward Vertue This is simply rather a propassion then a passion But there is a vicious impetuous franticke anger earnest for priuate and personall grudges not like a medicine to cleare the eye but to put it out This pernicious disease of the Soule hath degrees 1. It is inhumane Tygers deuoure not Tygers this rageth against kind and kindred 2. Impious it rageth often against God as that Pope vpon a field lost against the Frenchmen Sic esto nunc Gallicus So turne French now c. 3. Mad for it often rageth against vnreasonable creatures as Balaam striking his Asse how much is such a man more irrationall and bestiall then the Beast he malignes 4. It is more then mad striking at insensible things as Xerxes wrote a defying letter to Athos a Thracian mountaine Mischieuous Athos lifted vp to heauen make
him to any worke by forecasting the vnprofitablenesse he holds businesse mans cruellest enemie and a monstrous deuourer of time His body is so swolne with lazy humours that he moues like a tunne vpon two pottle pots Hee is tempted to couetice for no other reason but to bee able to keepe seruants whom hee will rather trust then step out to ouersee Neither summer nor winter scape the blame of his lazinesse in the one it is too hot in the other too colde to worke Summer hath dayes too long winter nights too cold hee must needes helpe the one with a nap at noone the other with a good fire He was very fit to be a Monke spare him an early masse and he will accept it yet howsoeuer he wil rather venture the censure then forsake a lazy calling Cause THe Cause of the Lethargie is abundant flegme ouermuch cooling the braine and therby prouoking sleep which putrified in the braine causeth a feuer The cause of Idlenesse is indulgence to the flesh a forgetfulnesse of the end of our creation a wilfull digression from man for the lazy wretch is a dormouse in an humane huske To man motion is naturall the ioints and eyes are made to moue and the mind is neuer asleep as if it were set to watch the body Sleepe is the image of death sayth the Poet and therefore the Church-sleeper is a dead corps set in his pew like a coffin as if the Preacher were to make his funerall Sermon He sings out haruest like the Grashopper therfore may at Christmas dance for and without his dinner He riseth at noone to breakefast which he falls to vnwashed and remoues not out of his chaire without a sleepe Whilst hee sleepes the enemy ouersowes the field of his heart with tares Hee is a patient subiect for the diuell to worke on a cushion for him to sit on and take his ease his miserie is that his damnation sleepeth not His bed is his hauen his heauen and sound sleepe his deitie The standing water stinkes with putrefaction And vertue hath no vertue but in action If he be detain'd vp late he lyes downe in his cloathes to saue two labours nothing shall make him bustle vp in the night but the house fired about his eares which escaping he lyes downe in the yard and lets it burne Hee should gather mosse for he 's no rolling stone In this hee is a good friend to his Countrey he desires no innouation he would scarse shift ground tenne leagues though from a cottage to a Mannour He is so loth to leaue the tap-house in winter that when all leaue him he makes bold with the chimney corner for his Parlour If euer in a â—â—gne hee lights vpon a humour to businesse it is to game to cheate to drinke drunk to steale c. and falls from doing nought to doe naughtily so mending the matter as you haue heard in the fable The diuell mended his dames legge wheÌ„ he shuld haue put it in ioint he brake it quite apieces Signes and Symptomes SYmptomes of the Lethargie are a great pulse beating seldome as if it were full of water a continuall pronenesse to sleepe that they are scarcely compelled to answer a question You may know a lethargicall Idle man by a neglected beard vnkemb'd hayre and vnwash'd face foule linnen cloathes vnbrushed a nasty hand smelling of the sheete an eye opening when the eare receiues your voice and presently shut againe as if both the organs were stiffe with excretions Hee hath a blowne cheeke a drawling tongue a leaden foote a brazen nose he gapes and gaspes so often that sometimes hee keepes his mouth open still as if he had forgotten to shut it Cure TO cure the Lethargicke there are required many intentions not without frictions scarifications sharpe odours and bloud-letting c. To cure the Idle it should more properly belong to Surgery then Physicke for there is no medicine like a good whip to let out his lazy bloud and a good dyet of daily labour which some skilfull Bedle must see him take put him into the bath at Bridewell to take away the numnesse of his ioynts and scowre off his rust and so he may be recouered Fac bene fac tua fac aliquid fac vtile semper Corrumpunt mores otia praua bonos The Dropsie and Couetousnes Causes Disease 6. PHysicians say that the Dropsie is an errour in the digestiue vertue in the liuer bred of the abundance of salt and waterish flegme with the ouer-feeding of raw and moist meates It is distinguished into three sorts Ascites Tympanites and Anasarca or Hyposarca Ascites is when betweene the filme called Peritonaeum which is the Caule that couers the Entrailes much watery humour is gathered Tympanites ariseth from windinesse and flatuous causes gathered into the foresaid places Hyposarca is when the humours are so dispersed through the whole body that all the flesh appeares moyst and spungy Our spirituall Dropsie couetousnesse is a disease bred in the soule through defect of faith and vnderstanding It properly resides in the inferiour powers of the soule the affections but ariseth from the errours of the superiour intellectuall facultie neither conceiuing aright of Gods all-sufficient helpe nor of the worlds all-deficient weakenesse Signes THe corporall Dropsie is easily knowne by heauinesse swelling puffing vp immoderate desire of drinke c. The spirituall likewise though it leanes the carkasse lards the conscience at least swels and puffes it vp and as if some hellish inflammation had scorched the affection it thirsts for Aurum potabile without measure The Couetous man is of Renodaeus his opinion that argentum plurimum valet ad cordis palpitationem siluer is good against the heart-panting The Wise man cals it a disease an euill disease and almost incurable The Couetous hath drunke the blood of oppression wrong from the veines of the poore and behold like an vndigestible receit it wambles in hisstomack he shal not feele quietnesse in his belly This is an epidemiall sickenesse Aurum omnes victa iam pietate colunt Religion giues riches and riches forgets religion Religio dat opes paupertas Religionem Diuitiae veniunt Religioque fugit Thus doe our affections wheele about with an vnconstant motion Pouertie makes vs Religious Religion rich and riches irreligious For as Pauperis est rogare so it should be Diuitis erogare Seneca wittily and truly Habes pecuniam vel teipsum vel pecuniam habeas vilem necesse est Hast thou money either thou must esteeme thy money vile or be vile thy selfe The Couetous man is like a two-legd Hog whiles he liues he is euer rooting in the earth and neuer doth good till he is dead like a vermine of no vse till vncased Himselfe is a Monster his life a riddle his face and his heart is prone to the ground his delight is to vex himself It is a question whether he takes more care to get damnation or to keepe it and so
one with that of the Palsey specially if it be caused of cold and grosse humours To helpe a man of this spirituall trembling these intentions must be respected First to purge his heart by repentance from those fowle and feculent corruptions wherewith it is infected and being cleane himselfe he will more charitably censure of others Then teach him to lay the heauiest loade on himselfe and to spare others True wisedome from aboue is without iudging without hypocrisie The wisest men are the least censurers they haue so much a doe to mend all at home that their neighbours liue quietly enough by them Set him a good affection and he will haue a good construction Minister to his soule a draught of charitie which will clense him of suspition for Charitie thinkes no euill None It thinkes no euill vnlesse it perceiue it apparantly To credite all were sillinesse to credite none sullinnesse Against his timorousnesse he hath an excellent receit set downe by God himselfe Feare not the feare of the wicked but sanctifie the Lord of hosts himselfe let him be your feare let him be your dread The way for him to feare nothing as he doth is to feare one thing as he should Awfull reuerence to God doth rather bolden then terrifie a man They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion which cannot be remooued but abideth for euer They may be moued they cannot bee remoued from what is good from what is their good their god This course may cure his paralyticke soule only if it shall please God to be his Physician Immoderate Thirst and Ambition Disease 10 THere is a disease in the bodie called immoderate thirst which is after much drinking desired and answered a still sensible drinesse By this I would I suppose not vnfitly expresse that spirituall disease Ambition a proud soules thirst when a draught of honour causeth a drought of honour and like Tullies strange soyle much raine of promotion falling from his heauen the Court makes him still as drie as dust He is a most ranke Churle for he drinkes often and yet would haue no man pledge him Cause THe disease is caused in the body through abundant heate drying vp moysture and this is done by hot cholericke or salt humours engendred in the stomake or through Feuers burning or Ecticke Signes and Symptomes THe Signes of the disease are best discerned by the patients words The cause of Ambition is a strong opinion of honour how well he could become a high place or a high place him It is a proud couetousnesse a glorious and Court-madnes The head of his reason caught a bruise on the right side his vnderstanding and euer since he followes affection as his principall guide Hee professeth a new quality called the art of climbing wherin he teacheth others by patterne not so much to aspire as to break their neckes No staire pleaseth him if there be a higher and yet ascended to the top he complaines of lownesse He is not so soone layd in his bed of honour but hee dreames of a higher preferment and would not sit on a seate long enough to make it warme His aduancement giues him a fresh prouocation and he now treades on that with a disdainfull foote which ere-while hee would haue kissed to obtaine Hee climbes falling towers and the hope to scale them swallowes all feare of toppling downe Hee is himselfe an Intelligencer to greatnes yet not without vnder-officers of the same ranke You shall see him narrow-eyed with watching affable and open-brested like Absolon full of insinuation so long as he is at the staire-foote but when authoritie hath once spoken kindly to him with Friend sit vp higher he lookes rougher then Hercules so bigge as if the riuer of his bloud would not bee banked within his veines His tongue is flabellum Diaboli and flagellum iusti bent to scourge some flatter others infect infest all Agrippina Neros mother being told by an Astrologer that her sonne should be Emperour but to her sorrow answered Let my sorrow be what it will so my sonne may get the Empire He hath high desires low deserts As Tully for his Pindinessus he spends much money about a little preferment and with greater cost then the captaine bought his Burgesship hee purchaseth incorporeall fame which passeth away as swift as time doth follow motion whose weight is nothing but in her name wheras a lower place well managed leaues behinde it a deathlesse memory Like a great winde he blowes downe all friends that stand in his way to rising Policy is his post-horse and he rides all vpon the spurre till he come to None-such His greatest plague is a Riuall Nec quemquam iam ferre potest Caesarue priorem Pompeiusue parem Tolluntur in altum vt lapsu grauiore ruant He is a child in his gaudy desires and great Titles are his rattles which still his crying til he see a new toy He kisses his wits as a Courtier his hand when any wished fortune salutes him and it tickles him that he hath stolne to promotiō without Gods knowledg Ambitio ambientium crux Ambition is the racke whereon hee tortureth himselfe The court is the sea wherein he desires to fish but the net of his wit and hope breakes and there he drownes himselfe An old courtier being asked what he did at Court answered I doe nothing but vndoe my selfe Cure FOr the bodily disease caused of heate and drinesse Physicians prescribe Oxicratum a drinke made of vineger and water sodden together a chiefe intention in them is to procure sleepe c. To cure the immoderate Thirst of Ambition let him take from God this prescript He that exalteth himselfe shall be brought low but he that humbleth himselfe shall be exalted That he who sets himselfe downe in the lower room heares the masters of the feasts inuitation Friend sit vp higher That a glorious Angell by ambition became a Diuell and a Lucifer of his sonnes the king of Babylon that said I will exalt my throne aboue the starres of God is brought downe to hell and to the sides of the pit That the first step to heauens Court is humilitie Blessed are the poore in spirit for theirs is the kingdome of heauen That he who walkes on plaine ground is in little danger to fall if he do fall he riseth with small hurt but he that climbes high is in more danger of falling and if he fall of killing That the great blasts of powerfull enuie ouerthrow Oakes and Cedars that oppose their huge bodies and passe through hollow Willowes or ouer litle shrubs that grow vnder the wall That the higher state is the fairer marke for misfortune to shoote at That which way soeuer the ambitious man lookes he finds matter of deiection Aboue him behold a God casting an ambitious Angell out of heauen an ambitious king from the societie of men but so respecting the lowlinesse of his handmaiden that all generation
thy quarries passable to my trauell or I will cut thee downe and cast thee into the sea But his reuenge was neither vnderstood feared nor felt So the Affricans being infested with a North winde that couered their corne fields with sand from a mountaine leuied an army of men to fight with that wind but were all buryed vnder the sand So Darius because a Riuer had drowned him a white Horse vowed to cut it into so many Channels that a woman with child might go ouer drie-shoo'd We haue some so madly impatient with a storme wind c. which might answere them as Rabshaceh told the Iewes Am I come hither without the Lord it is he that sent mee This anger is imediatly directed against God the heart speakes Atheisme only in other words 5. It is vnnaturall for it maligneth a mans selfe It is full of consternation and amazement and neuer vseth violence without torment to it selfe It thinks to offer wrong and indeed suffers it Ipsa sibi est hostis vesania seque furendo-Interimit As the franticke or drunkard doe that intoxicate which sober they would quake to thinke of so these irefull direfull men or rather beastes dare in their fits play with Serpents mingle poysons act massacres whereat their awaked soules shudder The higher the person in whō this phrenzy raigns the greater the fault The Master-Bee hath no sting the rest haue the greater power the lesse passion It is a Statetyrannie in authority to minde nothing but authoritie Posse nolle nobile It is noble to may and wil not When a rayling wretch followed a Heathen Prince with obloquies all day and home to his dores at night he requited him with commaunding his seruant to light him home to his house with a torch Damascen makes three degrees of anger Bilem Iracundiam Infensionem Choler Wrath heauy Displeasure Some haue added a fourth 1. The first hath a beginning and motion but presently ceaseth wee call this Choler Like fire in stubble soone kindled and soone out These are like gun-powder to which you no sooner giue fire but they are in your face They say these hot men are the best natur'd but I say then the best are naught These are stung with a nettle and allayd with a docke 2. The second is not so soone conceiued but takes deeper holde in the memorie This fire is neither easily kindled nor easily put out like fire in Iron which hardly taking long abideth These men are like greene logges which once set on combustion continue burning day and night too 3 The third entertaine this fire sodainly and retaine it perpetually not desisting without reuenge These are like fire which bewrayeth not it selfe without the ruine and waste of that matter wherin it hath caught this worst 4 The fourth is a moderate Anger not soone incensed but quickly appeased and this is the best because likest to the disposition of God who is mercifull and gracious slow to anger and plenteous in mercie ready to forgiue Causes PHrensie is caused by abundant bloud or choler occupying the braines or the filmes therof the more adust this choler is the more pernicious the madnes The cause of anger is the giuing to Passion the dominion ouer Reason Seneca sayes Causa iracundiae opinio iniuriae est the cause of anger is the conceit of iniurie Such a man gets vp on the wilde Iade his choler and spurres him on hauing no bridle of moderation to hold him backe His conuersation is so full of cholericke fits as a booke of tedious parentheses that they marre the sense of his life He is like an egge in rosting hopefull to be good meate but it growes too hot on a sodaine and flyes in your face not without a great noyse Anger is able to turne Dametas into Hercules furens teaching him that is strong to fight him that is not to talke whilest the lightning of his rage lasts hee thunders out a challenge but after a little calme meditation sounds a retreat He menaceth the throtes of his enemies though they be many and sweares loud hee will be their Priest hee meanes Executioner But if you compare his threatnings and his after-actions you would say of them as that wise man sheering his hogges Here is a great deale of crie but a little wooll His enemies are worse feared then hurt if so they be in personall presence as he is in sober iudgement a little out of the way Signes and Symptomes THe Phrensie is easily seene and needs not to be described by signes Physicians giue many I will say no more but this If the madnesse proceed from bloud they are perpetually laughing if of choler they rage so furiously that bands only can restraine them from doing violence The Symptomes of this spirituall madnesse rash and furious anger are many visible and actuall 1. Swelling of mind so high and so full that there is no room for any good motion to dwel by it Iratumor mētis and makes a man like the Spider-poyson'd toade In this raging fit Reason Modesty Peace Humanitie c. runne from him as seruants from their mad master or Mise from a Barne on fire 2. Contumely without any distinguishing respect of friend fōe aliant familiar reuiles any fratremque patremque 3. Violence of hands sauage and monstrous behauiour Like the troubled Sea when it cannot rest whose waters cast vp mire and dirt fuming and foming like a muddy channell a distorted countenance sparkling eye foule language hasty hands If the angry man and the drunkard had a glasse presented them how hardly could they be brought againe to loue their owne faces Cure TO cure this Bedlam passion leauing the other to deeper iudgements in that profession both nature and Grace haue giuen rules Naturall reason that an angry man should not vndertake any action or speech till hee had recited the Greeke Alphabet as a pause to coole the heate of choler That angry men should sing to their passions as Nurses to their Babes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 haste not cry not Maximum remedium est irae mora The best remedy for Anger is delay What a man doth in anger hee lightly repents in cold bloud That we should keepe our corrupt nature from prouoking obiects as a man that hath Gunpowder in his house keepes it safe from fire That we should conster all things in the best sense a good disposition makes a good exposition where palpablenesse doth not euince the contrary That suspicion is a payre of bellowes to this madde fire That Ielousie and selfe-guiltinesse are the angry mans Eues-dropper and Intelligencer That the Earth suffers vs liuing to plow furrowes on her backe and dead opens her bowels to receiue vs a dead earth conuincing a liuing earths impatience Scripture That anger resteth in the bosome of fooles That the wrath of man doth not accomplish the righteousnesse of God That vnaduised anger is culpable of iudgement Let him take
Without law for it is rebellious without measure for it delights in extreames without reason for it doth all things with precipitation The proud man is bitten of the mad dogge the flatterer and hence runs on a garget Causes THe Pleurisie is caused of an abundance of hote blood flowing vnnaturally to the foresayd place or by the engendring of cold grosse and viscous humours gathered into the voyd place of the brest or into the lungs This spirituall disease ariseth from a blown opinion of ones selfe which opinion is either from ignorance of his owne emptinesse and so like a Tumbrell full of nothing but aire makes a greater sound then a vessell of precious liquour or from arrogance of some good which the owner knows too well He neuer lookes short of himselfe but always beyond the mark and offers to shoote further then he looks but euer fals two bowes short humilitie and discretion Signes and Symptomes THe Symptomes of the Pleurisie are difficult breathing a continuall Feuer a vehement pricking on the affected side The proud man is knowne by his gate which is peripateticall strutting like a new Church warden He thinkes himselfe singularly wise but his opinion is singular and goes alone In the company of good wits he fenceth in his ignorance with the hedge of silence that obseruation may not climbe ouer to see his follies He would haue his iudgment for wearing his apparell passe vnmended not vncommended Hee shifts his attire on some solemne day twice at least in twelue houres but cannot shift himselfe out of the Mercers bookes once in twelue moneths His greatest enuy is the next Gentlemans better clothes which if he cannot better or equallize he weares his owne neglected His apparell carries him to Church without deuotion and he riseth vp at the Creed to ioyne with the rest in confession not of his faith but his pride for sitting downe hides much of his brauery He feeds with no cheerfull stomake if he sit not at the vpper end of the table and be cald young master where he is cōtent to rise hungry so the obseruant company weary him with drinking to on this condition he giues his obligation for the shot Hee loues his lying glasse beyond any true friend and tels his credulous auditors how many Gentlewomen haue runne mad for him when if a base femall seruant should court him I dare wager he proues no Adonis If he were to die on the block as Byron he would giue charge for the composition of his lockes Pride PRide is of the feminine gender therefore the more intolerable in a masculine nature much Ciuet is vnsauory Nō bene olet quae bene semper olet She that breaths perfumes artificially giues her selfe to haue naturally corrupted lungs This woman hath neither her owne complexion nor proportion for she is both painted and poynted together She sits moderator euery morning to a disputatiō betwixt the combe and the glasse and whether concludes best on her beauty caries her loue and prayse Howsoeuer of men saith the Poet Forma viros neglecta decet Indeed there is no gracefull bahauiour like humilitie This fault is well mended when a man is well minded that is when he esteemes of others better then himselfe Otherwise a proud man is like the rising earth in montenous places this swels vp monte as he mente and the more either earth aduanceth it selfe perpetually they are the more barren Hee liues at a high saile that the puffy praises of his neighbors may blow him into the inchanted Iland vaineglory He shines like a Gloeworme in a darke village but is a crude thing when he comes to the Court. If the plethorie swels him in the veine of valour nothing but well-beating can hold him to a man If euer hee goes drunke into the field and comes off with a victorious parlee hee would swell to a sonne of Anak Cure THe Pleurisie is cured by drawing out some bloud frō the veine that hath relation to the affected part A Clister is very good together with some fomentations It is helped much by cupping I doe not meane drinking God prescribes the cure of Pride by precept and patterne Precept Humble your selues vnder the mighty hand of God the reason is giuen for God resisteth the proud and giueth grace to the humble Patterne Take my yoke vpon you and learne of me for I am meeke and lowly in heart and you shall find rest vnto your soules The Master is worth your hearing the lesson your learning the recompence your receiuing The cure hereof is hard for all vices are against humilitie nay all vertues are against humilitie as many are proud of their good deeds nay humilitie hath an opposition against humilitie as if she were false to her owne person Saepe homo de vanae gloriae contemptu vanus gloriatur so that often humility by a prodigious and preposterous birth brings forth pride Pride doth make a wise-man a foole cōtinues him a foole that is so the opinion of his owne wisedome excluding all opportune possibility of receiuing knowledge Powre precious iuice into a vessell full of base liquor and it runs besides That instruction is split which you offer to infuse into a soule so full of selfe affectation Many a man had proued wise if he had not so thought himselfe If the ayre of his pride bee inclosed in a baser bubble attire it is the more vile for the generation of his sinne is produced from the corruption of himselfe God made him a man he hath made himselfe a beast and now the Taylor scarce a man himselfe must make him a man againe a braue man a better man than euer Nature left him Thus he is like the Cynamon tree the bark is better then the body or some Vermine whose case is better then the carkase For his cure open his pleuriticke veine with the sacrificing knife of the Law and tell him that the cause of his pride is the effect of his sinne That wickednesse brought shame to nakednesse and apparell hides it whereof being proud he glories in his own halter Strip him of his gawdy clothes and put him in a Charnel house where he may reade visible lectures of mortality and rottennesse Palsey and timorous suspicion Disease 9. THe former sicke were Tumidi these are Timidi they were bold to all euill these are fearefull to all good The palsey is a disease wherein one halfe of the body is endamaged in both sense and mouing Of that disease which is called Paralysis Resolution or the dead palsey wherin somtimes sense alone is lost somtimes motion alone and somtimes both together perish I intend not to speake It is proportion considered more dangerous to the body then I would imagine this disease to be to the soule I would cōpare it to that corporal infirmity which Physicians call Tremorem and some vulgarly the palsey wherein there is a continuall shaking of the extremer parts somewhat aduerse to the dead
call her blessed Below him behold the earth the wombe that he came from and the tombe that must receiue him About him behold others transcending him in his best qualities Within him a mortall nature that must die though he were clad in gold and perhaps an euill conscience stinging him whose wounds are no more eased by promotion then a broken bone is kept by a tissue-coate from aking That there is a higher reckoning to be made of a higher place That like citie-houses that on small foundations carry spacious roofes his owne toppe-heauy weight is ready to tumble him downe That he mounts vp like a seeled Doue and wanting eyes of discretion he may easily light in a puddle That he is but a stone tossed vp into the aire by fortunes sling to receaue the greater fall That for want of other malignant engines he begets on himselfe destruction That Tiberius complained of fortune that hauing set him vp in so high a monarchie shee did not vouchsafe him a ladder to come downe againe That the honours of this world haue no satisfactory validitie in them The poore labourer would be a farmer the farmer after two or three deare years aspires to a yeoman the yeomans sonne must be a Gentleman The Gentlemans ambition flies Iustice-height He is out of square with being a Squire and shoots at knighthood Once knighted his dignitie is nothing except worth a noble title Then hee thinkes himself whiles a meere Baron a bare on the world must count him a Count or he is not satisfied He is weary of his Earldome if there be a Duke in the land That granted hee thinks it base to be a subiect nothing now contents him but a crowne Crowned hee vilifies his owne kingdome for narrow bounds whiles he hath greater neighbours he must be Caesar'd to an vniuersall Monarch Let it bee granted is he yet content No then the earth is a molehill too narrow for his mind and hee is angry for lacke of Elbow-roome Vnus Pellaeo Iuueni non sufficit orbis Aestuat infoelix angusto limine mundi Last to be king of men is idle hee must Deified and now Alexander conceits his immortalitie and causeth Temples and Altars to be built to his name And yet being thus adored is not pleased because he cannot command heauen and controll nature Rome robbed the world Sylla Rome and yet againe Sylla himselfe not content till then when aduancement hath set him vp as a Butte hee cannot bee without the quiuer of feares Thus the largest draught of honour this world can giue him doth not quench but inflame his ambitious thirst Well let repentant humiliation pricke the bladder of his blowne hopes and let out the windy vapours of selfe-loue And now let him hunger and thirst after righteousnesse and on my life he shall be satisfied Inflammation of the reines or lustfulnesse Disease 7. AMong many diseases incident to the reines as the Diabetes vlcers the stone there and the emission of bloudy vrine there is one called inflammation of the reines To this not vnfitly by comparing the causes Symptomes and cure of either I doe liken Lust the Scripture cals it by a generall name Vncleannesse Couetousnes is commonly the disease of old age Ambition of middle age Lust of youth if it extends further it portends lesse helpe Causes THe Causes of the bodily disease are giuen to be First corrupt humours Secondly drinking of many medicines Thirdly vehement ridings Consider these in our comparison and tell me if they sound not a similitude There is corruptio perdita whence comes eruptio pestifera Prouocatur libido vbi deficit reuocatur vbi desinit Medicines are inuented not to qualifie but to calefie as if they intended to keepe aliue their concupiscence though they dead their conscience Signes and Symptomes THe Signes are many There is a beating paine about the first ioynt of the backe a little aboue the bastard ribs c. with others which modestie bids couer with the cloke of silence The Lustfull man is a monster as one that vseth Humano capiti ceruicem iungere equinam He affects Popery for nothing else but the patronage of fornication and frankenesse of Indulgence Hee cites Harding frequently that common Courteghians in hote countreys are a necessary euill which hee beleeues against Gods expresse prohibition in a hoter climate then Italie There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel then certainely no whore-master He thinks it if a sinne yet peccadillo a little sinne and that the venereall faults are veniall at least venall Thus he would be a Bawd to the sinne if not to the sinners He is carelesse of his owne name of his owne soule iniurious to his own minion whom he corrupts to his bastard whom he brings vp like himselfe He increaseth mankind not for loue to the end but to the meanes His soule is wrapped in the trusse of his senses and a whore is the Communis terminus where they all meete Hee hath no command ouer his owne affections though ouer countreys as our moderne Epigrammatist of Hercules Lenam non potuit potuit superare leaenam Quem fera non valuit vincere vicit hera His practice is as it is sayd of some Tobacchonists to drie vp his purse that he may drie vp his bloud and the radicall moisture Nil nisi turpe iuuat curae est sua cuique voluptas Haec quoque ab alterius grata dolore venit The delight of his wickednesse is the indulgence of the present for it indures but the doing He neuer rests so contentedly as on a forbidden bed Hee is a felonious picklocke of Virginities and his language corrupts more innocent truth then a bad Lawyers Hee is an Almanack from eighteene to eight and twenty if hee scapes the fire so long He can neuer call his haires and his sinnes equall for as his sins increase his haires fal He buyes admission of the Chambermaid with his first fruits He liues like a Salamander in the flames of lust and quencheth his heat with fire and continues his dayes vnder Zona Torrida He spends his forencone with Apothecaries the afternoon of his daies with Surgions the former beget his miserie the latter should cure it Euery rare female like a wandring Planet strikes him hence he growes amazed His eyes are the trap-dores to his hart and his lasciuious hopes sucke poyson from the fairest flowre Hee drownes himselfe in a womans beauty which is Gods good creation as a melancholy distracted man in a Crystall riuer When conscience plucks him by the sleeue and would now after much importunacy speake with him he bids her meet him at fifty hee chargeth repentance attend him at master Doctors When his lifes sunne is ready to set he marries and is then knocked with his owne weapon his owne disablenesse and his wiues youthfulnesse like bels ringing all in Now his common theme is to bragge of his young sinnes and if you credit his
answerable If his place will afford it his grace will without question He beares an earnest affection to the Temple as a hungry man to his meate onely to deuoure it They say come let vs take to our selues the houses of God in possession We pray for their conuersion but if there be no hope we must vse the next words of the Psalme Oh my God make them as a wheele like the stubble before the wind They can abide no point of Popery but only this Church-robbing Euery thing the Papists vsed but this is superstition Some are so charitable that hauing got the tythe-corne frō the Church they reserue from the presented Incumbent their petty tythes also like monstrous theeues that hauing stole the whole piece aske for the remnants Nay it is not enough that they deuoure our Parsonages but they also deuoure our persons with their contumelious slanders Aduantage can make his religion play at fast and loose for he only so long growes full of deuotion as hee may grow full by deuotion His arguments are weake or strong according to his cheare and he discourses best after dinner Selfe-conceit swels him and popular applause bursts him He neuer giues the law good words but when it hath him vpon the hippe Like a kind Henne hee rules and feedes his chickens fat starues himselfe Hee forceth formall precisenesse like a Porter to hold the dore whiles diuels dance within He giues God nothing but shew as if he would pay him his reckoning with chalke which encreaseth the debt If euer his almes smell of bounty hee giues them in publicke He that desires more to be seene of men then of God commend mee to his conscience by this token he is an Hypocrite Hee couers his rauenous extortions and couetous oppressions with the shew of small beneficences so may for his charitie go to the diuel Indeed gentilem agit vitam sub nomine Christiano Hee liues Turke vnder the name of Christian. Hee is false in his friendship hartlesse in his zeale proud in his humilitie He railes against enterludes yet is himselfe neuer off the stage and condemnes a maske when his whole life is nothing els He sends a begger from his gate bountifully feasted with Scripture sentences and though he likes them not so much of the Statutes as will serue to saue his money But if euery house were of his profession Charities hand would no longer hold vp pouerties head What his tongue spoke his hands recant and he weepes when he talkes of his youth not that it was wicked but that it is not His tongue is his dissimulations lacquay and runs continually on that errand hee is the Strangers Saint his neighbours Sycophant his owne Polititian his whole life being nothing els but a continuall scribbling after the set Copy of Hypocrisie Cure FOr his cure there is more difficultie then of the rotten feuer In this two speciall intentions are vsed bloud-letting and drinking of coole water c. But alas what medicine should a man giue to him whom he knowes not to be sick His heart is rotten his huske faire and sightly The core of his disease lies in his conscience and like an onyon is couered with so many pils that you would not supect it Their best Physicke is that God giues to Israel Cleanse thy heart from iniquitie Oh Ierusalem that thou maist be saued how long shall thy vaine thoughts remaine within thee If this serue not let them reade Christs bill his denunciation against them so often menaced Wo vnto you hypocrites I would tel them that simulata sanctitas duplez iniquitas and their life is so much the more abominable as they haue played the better part But I referre them to the White-Diuell Fluxe and Prodigalitie Disease 13. THere bee diuers Fluxes according to Physicians Lienteria a smoothnesse of the bowels suffring the meate to slide away not perfectly digested Difenteria which is an exulceration of the bowels whereof also they make foure forts Tenasmus which is a continuall prouocation to seege that the patient can neither deferre nor eschew yet vents nothing but slime The Fluxe Diarrhea is the generall as being without exulceration or inflammation To this I compare Prodigalitie which is a continuall running out Cause THe corporall disease is caused First either by debilitie of the instruments that serue to digestion Secondly or through abundance of nourishment moyst and viscous soone corrupted Thirdly or through weakenesse of the retentiue facultie The similitude holds well in the causes of Prodigalitie There is first a weakenesse of his vnderstanding brain to digest that which his friends left him Secondly abundance of goods hath made him wanton and the most part being slimy and ill gotten it wasts like Snow faster then it was gathered Thirdly the debilitie of his retentiue vertue is a special cause For Prodigalitie is pictur'd with the eyes shut and the hands open lauishly throwing out and blindly not looking where Signes and Symptomes THe Symptomes of this disease are manifest He is an out lyer and neuer keepes within the pale He runnes after liberalitie and beyond it Hee is diametrially opposite to the Couetous and the difference is in the transposing of one Aduerbe The one dat non rogatus the other non dat rogatus One hand is his receiuer but like Briareus he hath an hundred hands to lay out He would beare Dissipatoris non dispensatoris officium His father went to the diuel one way and he will follow him another and because hath chosen the smoother way he makes the more haste Parasites are his Tenterhookes and they stretch him till he bursts and then leaue him hanging in the raine You may put his heart in your pocke if you talke to him bare-headed with many parentheses of your worship there is no vpstart buyes his titles at a dearer rate He loues a well furnished table so he may haue three Ps. to his guests Parasites Panders and Players the fourth he cannot abide Preachers He wil be applauded for a while though he want almost pitie when he wants Like an houreglasse turn'd vp he neuer leaues running till all be out He neuer lookes to the bottome of his patrimony til it be quite vnrauelled and then too late complains that the stocke of his wealth ranne course at the fag-end His father had too good an opinion of the world he too much disdaines it Herein he speeds as he thinkes a little better that those that bark'd at his Sire like dogs fawne vpon him and licke his hand like Spaniels He vyes vanities with the Slothfull and it is hard to say who wins the game yet giue him the bucklers for Idlneesse is the coach to bring a man to Needome Prodigalitie the post-horse His father was no mans friend but his owne and he saith the Prouerbe is no mans foe else of what age soeuer he is vnder the yeares of discretion and if Prouidence doe not take him Ward his
heires shall neuer be sought after His vessell hath three leakes a lasciuious eye a gaming hand a deified belly and to content these hee can neither rule his heart nor his purse When the shot comes to be payd to draw in his company is a quarrel When he feeles want for till then he neuer sees it he complaines of Greatnes for ingratitude that hee was not thought of when promotions were a dealing When his last acre lies in his purse he proiects strange things and builds houses in the ayre hauing sold those on the ground he turnes malecontent and shifts that hee neuer had Religion If hee haue not learn'd those trickes that vndid him Flattery and Cheating he must needs presse himselfe to the warres Hee neuer before considered adposse but advelle and now hee forgets velle and lookes onely to posse Take him at first putting forth into his sea of wealth and profusenesse and his fulnesse giues him Languentis stomachum quem nulla ciborum Blandimenta mouent quem nulla inuitat orexis His stomach so rasping since his last meale that it growes too cowardly to fight with a chicken then he cals for sport like sawce to excite appetite and when all failes thinks of sleepe lyes downe to finde it and misseth it In the conniuence of his securitie harlots and sycophants rifle his estate and then send him to robbe the hogges of their prouander Ioues nuts acornes In short time he is dismounted from his coach disquantitied of his traine distasted of his familiars distressed of his riches distracted of his wits and neuer proues his owne man till he hath no other At last after his houering flight hee drops to a center which is a roome in the Almes house that his father built Cure FOr his Cure I will not meddle with his estate I know not how to cure that but for his soule let him first take a pill of Repentance for howsoeuer hee hath scowr'd his estate he hath clog'd his conscience and it must be purged Binde vp his vnruly hands so lauish and letting flye Pull off from his eyes that filme of errour that hee may distinguish his reproouing friends from his flattering enemies Coole his luxurious heate with Solomons after-course the banket of his pleasures being done that for al these things God will bring him to iudgement That beggerie is the heire apparant of riote as the yonger sonne in the Gospell wee haue too many such yonger brothers That his answer to those that admonish his frugalitie is built vpon a false ground My goods are my owne as the Parasites said of their tongs whereas he is not a Lord but a Steward and must one day reddere rationem dispensationis The bill of his reckoning will bee fearefull Item for so many oathes Item for so many lies Item for drunkennesse Item for lust c. Nay and Item for causing so many Tauerne Items which were worse then Physicke bils to his estate To conclude if Death finde him as Bankerout of spirituall as of worldly goods it will send him to an eternall prison The Iaundeis and Profanenesse Disease 14. ICterus or the Iaundeis is a spreading of yellow choler or melancholy all ouer the body To this I compare Profanenesse which is an epidemiall and vniuersall spreading of wickednesse throughout all powers of the soule Cause THe Iaundeys is caused sometimes accidentally when the bloud is corrupted by some outward occasiō with out a Feuer or through inflammation and change of the naturall temperament of the liuer or through obstruction of the passages which goe to the bowels c. The causes of Profanenesse are an affected ignorance a dead hart a sensuall disposition an intoxicate reason an habituated delight in sinne without sense without science without conscience Signes and Symptomes THe Symptomes of both the Iaundeys and Profanenesse need no description their externall appearance discolouring the one the skinne the other the life saue both Physicians much labour if it be true that the knowledge of the disease is halfe the cure He hath sold himselfe to wickednesse for the price of a little vanity like Ahab or let a Lease not to expire without his life At first sight you would take him for a man but he will presently make you change that opinion for Circe's cup hath transform'd him His eyes are the casements that stand continually open for the admission of lusts to the vncleane rest of his heart His mouth is the diuels trumpet and sounds nothing but the musicke of hell His hand is besmeared with aspersions of bloud lust rapine theft as if all the infernall serpents had disgorged their poysons on it Hee loues Sathan extremely and either swimmes to him in bloud or sailes in a vessell of wine His heauen is a Tauerne whence hee neuer departs till hee hath cast vp the reckoning Hee is ready to sweare there is no God though hee sweares perpetually by him Religion is his footstoole and Policy his horse Appetite his huntsman Pleasure his game and his dogges are his senses He endeuours by the continuance of his sports to make the motion of pleasure circular and the flame of his delight round as the Moone at full and full as bright The point of his heart is touched with the Load-stone of this world and he is not quiet but toward the North the scope of wickednesse He hath bowled his soule at the marke of sensuality and runs to hell to ouertake it If the diuell can maintaine him a stocke of thoughts let him alone for execution though to bastard his owne children and water on his fathers graue To conclude he is but a specialtie of hell antedated and striues to be damned before his time Cure HIs Physick as in some Iaundeis must be strong of operation for the drynesse of the ones stomacke of the others conscience doth eneruate the force of medicines The speciall intentions of his cure are strong purgations and bloud-letting If the law of God doth not purge out this corruption from his heart let him bloud by the law of man manacle his hands shackle his feete dispute vpon him with arguments of yron and steele let him smart for his blasphemyes slanders quarrels whoredomes and because he is no allowed Chirurgion restraine him from letting bloud Musle the Wolfe let him haue his chaine and his clogge bind him to the good behauiour and if these vsuall courses will not learne him continence sobrietie peace try what a New-gate and a grate will doe If nothing let vs lament his doome Their end is damnation whose God is their bellie and whose glorie is in their shame who minde earthly things Apoplexie and Securitie Disease 15. THe Apoplexie is a disease wherin the fountain originall of all the finewes being affected euery part of the body loseth both mouing sense all voluntary functions hindred as the wheels of a clocke when the poyse is down To this I liken Securitie which though it be not sudden