euer watcheth opportunities séeing him asléepe y â— regarded not her sorrow w t the same knife where with she had kild her children she cut his throat the cause of her confusion speaking thus boldly during y e time of her execution Thou shalt die thou negligent man since thy ill gouernment hath bene the ruine of me and my children Day time discouering these murders the woman was apprehended examined by the Iustice confessed the fact Finally she was condemned dying with much constancy left examples to wiues to beware of too much fury admonitions to husbands to be more circumspect Sée here how this cursed inuention of the Lydians hath bene the occasion of the murder of foure persons In reading therefore this history be prouident to auoid and shun this Deuill Hauing thus described the children of Mammon let these motiues draw you in hatred both w t them their father consider y â— this Auarice is a burning feuer excéeding the flames of Aetâ—…a nay likewise that it burneth the soules of miserable vsurers incessantly wey this that the couetous man hath as much néed of that he hath as of that he hath not according to that of Ierome Tam de est auarâ—… quod habet qua quod non habet Aristotle for this cause saith that the desire of riches hath no end and Iuuenal the Poet sings thus Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsapecunia crescit Et minus hunc optat qui non habet The more we haue the more we do require And who possesseth least doth least desire It were too long to recken vp all other authorities of Cicero Virgil Ouid and Horace for this were but to heape vp reading and moone no affection I onely vrge to consideration and by it to hatred of the sinne Let vs therfore leaue foolish carking in this world and remember we are made men to behold heauen and not mowles to dig in the earth Denounce saith Paul to Timothy to them that are rich in this world that they be not proud neither fixe their hope on the incertenty of riches but in the liuing God who giueth vs all things aboundantly whatsoeuer wee need Let the Magistrate consider this that as when the Moone appeareth in the spring time the one horne spotted and hidden with a blacke and great cloud from the first day of his apparition to the fourth day after it is some signe of tempests and troubles in the aire the Sommer after so if Secular and temporall Magistrates who according to Ecclesiastes are changed like the Moone shall haue their mindes spotted with the clouds of Auarice and earthly desires it is a signe of subsequent trouble amongst the people For the Soueraignes couetousnesse is the oppression of the subiect O worldling looke as the interposition of the earth betwixt the Sunne and the Moone is the cause of the Eclipse of the same so the interposition of worldly goods betwixt our minds and God is the cause of our blindnes in vnderstanding Heare Augustine what he saith Amas pecuniam quam nunquam videbis caecus possides caecus moriturus es quod possides hic relicturus es Thou louest mony which thou shalt neuer see blind thou possessest it blind thou must die and that which thou enioyest thou must leaue behind thee A couetous man is like him that is sick of the dropsie who the more hée aboundeth in disordinate humors the more excéedingly he desireth and thirsteth and the more he thirsteth the more he drinketh till at last he dieth So the more stored a couetous man is with riches which hée vseth not the more ardently desires he the possession of more The Couetous man likewise is very rightly compared to hell for with possessing in excesse he is still insatiate The couetous man buyeth earth and sells his soule made for heauen and looke as water saith Augustine is poured on the earth so thirst they after the blood of their neighbours All beasts of rauine do neuer prey on other till they be a hungry and being fully satisfied they refraine from further spoile but the couâ—…tous man doth euer desire and is neuer satisfied he neither feareth God nor regardeth man he neither obeieth father nor respecteth mother to his friend he is vntrustie to the widow iniurious the fatherlesse he despiseth the frée he brings in bondage he corrupteth false witnesses occupieth the goods of the dead as if hée should neuer die Oh what madnes is this for man to get gold to loose heauen The cure hereof is gotten by almes déed according to that of Esay Frange efurienti panem tâ—…um Breake thy bread to the hungry and it followeth Tunc erumpet quasimane lumen tuum sanitas tua citius orietur Then shall thy light breake forth like the morning and thy health shall quickly rise I will trouble you no further I feare me I preach too tediously only let me end with this of Manilius Pudeat tanto bona velle caduca O be ashamd so much your hearts to 〈◊〉 On things so fraile that swiftly passe away The discouery of Asmodeus and his lecherous race of Deuils Incarnate in our age NO sooner came Asmodeus into the world by Sathans direction but presently procured he Lothes incest with his daughters Semiramis vnlawfull whordome with her owne sonne and Dinas vnhappy and fatall rauishment he made Thamar be enforced by her owne brother and forced Dauid to commit murther on Vrias and adultery with Bersabe Pasiphae hée brought enamoured with a Bull and Xerxes with a Plantaine trée hée caused a young Athenian to fall in loue with the liuelesse picture of Fortune standing neare the Pritaneum and to offer a great quantity of mony to the Senate to buy it from their hands of which being denied and for which wholly inraged after embracing kissing and such other ceremonies he crowned the statue lamenting slew himselfe he made Glauca of Cythera to loue a dog a young Spartan to be besotted on a bird Xenophon to affect a hound nay the better part of the Philosophers to be Sodomites read Plutarchs booke of Loue and hée will testifie for me yet thinking these gaines too little in expression of his enuy watching Sardanapalus one night hée practised this monstrous villany Hée assembled his hainousest thoughts compacted them togither hée chained his loosest desires to the inward workings and motions of the same and after hée had drunke of Letheo which as the Poet saith causeth forgetfulnes Laetheos potat latices obliuia mentis He drinkes Laethean springs which moone forget He slumbred awhile and during sléepe presented them to his Imagination and Imagination forming them he no sooner alâ—…oke but from his eies like corrupt raies which froÌ„ menstrual women infect glasses out start these deuils made impression in mens hearts euer since haue bene incarnate now in our world are most pratchant busie The first of them is Fornication a notorious â—…ocher
wisest men to be their Counsailers who most of all detested this vice as Salomon who was aduised by Nathan and Sadoch Carolus Pâ—…us the Emperour by learned Alcuinus Traian the iust by learned Plutarch Nero the vniust by graue Seneca Alexander though a conqueror by ingenious Aristotle Prolomey of Egypt bp the 70 interpreters To conclude therefore the discourse of this Deuill I will end with two notable actions of the Romanes whereby you may perceiue by them to make estimation of truth and to grow in detestation of Flatterie and Falshood The Emperour Augustus in his triumpâ—…â—…er Anthonie and Cleopatra led to Roome amongst his other spoiles a graue Egyptian Priest of sixtie yeares old whose life was so full of continence and words so stored with truth that it was neuer heard of him in all his life time that hée had told vntruth or vsed flatterie for which cause it was concluded by the Senate that hee should presently bee set frée and made cheife Priest commanding that among the statues of famous and renowmed men one in especiall should bée reared for him Spartianus on the contrarie side sheweth an example quite opposite to this and this it was during the Empire of Claudius there died a certaine Romane called Pamphilus who as was clearely prooued had not in all his life time spoke one true word but wholly delighted in lying and flatterie for which cause the Emperour commaunded that his bodie should bee left vnburied his goods should bée confiscate his house ouerthrown and his wife and children banished Roome to the end that the memorie of a creature so venomous should not liue and haue residence in his Commonweale In which two things Messia vseth this obseruation that in the time that these first effects happened the Romanes were mortall enemies of the Egyptians for which cause it may easilie bée séene how powerfull the force of truth is since the Romanes raised a statue to their Enemie and depriued their homeborne sonne and Cittizen of buriall for being a flattering lier Hetherto hée and here conclude I the description of this fiend Behold next I sée Contempt marching forth giuing mée the Fico with this thombe in his mouth for concealing him so long from your eie sight He was first nursed by his owne sister Custome to sinne and therefore according to Thomas Aquine Magis peccat peccans ex habitu quam aliter He sinneth more sinning in habitude then otherwise Contumacie hath stéeld his lookes so that he disdaines his superiours and Rashnesse so confounds him with will and passion that hée is wholly subiect to headlong Precipitation Arrogancie maketh him sumptuous in apparrell loftie in gate affecting in spéech and thus marcheth forth thiâ—…â—…ncarnate Deuill God blesse your eie sight This is he dare breake statutes blâ—…b the lip aâ—… superiours Mocke Preachers beat Constables and resist Writs nay which is the sin of the Deuils contemne God If a poore man salute him hée lookes as if he scorned him and if he giue him but a becke with his finger hée must take it as an almes from an Emperour The wisest man is a foole in his tongue and there is no Philosophie saith he but in my Method and carriage he neuer speaks but hee first wags his head twise or thrise like a wanton mare ouer hirbit and after hée hath twinckled with his eies as hée would read his destinie in the heauens and chewed the wordes betwéene his lips as if nought but the flower of his Phrase could delight or become him out braies hée foorth so simple a discourse as would make a maÌ„s heart burst with laughing to hear it To the cobler he saith set me two semicircles on my suppeditaries and hée answeres him his shoes shall cost him two pence to his seruant hée chops the fragments of Lattin in euerie feast of his phrase My deminitiue and defectiue slaue quoth hée giue mée the couerture of my corpes to ensconse my person from frigiditie and al this while he cals but for his cloak Get him write letters to his friend and marke mée his Method Sien of my Science in the Catadupe of my knowledge I nourish the Crocodile of thy conceit my wrath-venger hee meanes his sword shall annichilate their identities and seperate the pure of their spirits from the filthie of their flesh that shall frustrate thy forwardnesse or put out the candel of thy good conceit towards me Should I register the whole it would rather waxe tedious then delightfull and as his spéech is extreamely affected and fond his writing ridiculous and childish so is his life so far out of square that nothing can reforme him Talke to him of obedience he saith itis the seale of a bace mind Tell him of good gouernment it is the gift of fortune not the fruit of consideration Rip vp the successe of battels he saies they were not well followed In briefe nothing can please him who despiseth all things If you say that as Publius Mimus saith the smallest haire hath his shadow with Rabin Ben-Azaâ—… that no man liuing is to bée contemned for euerie man shall haue his hower and euerie thing hath his place Hée will answere aquila non capit muscas Euerie bace groome is not for my companie Beware of this Doemon for though hée bée the last of Leuiathans race yet is hée the arrantest and subtillest Atheist of all these Deuils Hitherto haue I discouered pride and his children now hauing taught you to know them let me instruct you to auoid them As euerie mischiefe is best auoided by opposing against him his contrarie so arme your selues with Humilitie against Pride and his faction and he shall not confound you For as Augustine saith Pride sinketh to Hell and Humilitie leadeth to Heauen Pride is the step to Appostasie and being opposed against God is the greatest sinne in man All other vices saith Augustine are to bée taken héed of in sinnes but this in good doings least those thinges that are laudably done bee lost in the desire of praise Follow Christ quia mitis est and heare a Father crying to you Ecce habes humilitatis exemplum superbiae medicamentum Behold thou hast an example of Humilitie and a medicine against Pride Why swellest thou therefore Oh man Thou lothsome and carrion skinne why art thou stretched Thou filthie matter why art thou inflamed Thy Prince is humble and thou prowd Caput humile membra superba The head humble the members loftie thus farre hee Let vs resemble the Pecocke according to the counsell of Ierome which no longer delighteth in the brightnesse and beauty of his feathers but whilst â—…he beholdeth them and séeing the deformitie of his féet is confounded and ashamed so let vs considering our infirmiâ—…ies be ashamed of our lostinesse remembring daily that of Seneca Sequitur superbos victor à tergo Deus Reuenging God attends vpon the proud Amongst many other plagues of a proud man this is one that Dominus deridebit eos
honour Sathan in forme of a Bull binding you to horrible and abhominable crimes as first to adore the Deuill as God then to disauow your Baptisme next to blaspheame your creator fourthly to sacrifice to the Deuil fifthly to vow and dedicate your own children to his seruice sixtly to consecrate those that are vnborne seuenthly to seduce others to your power eightly to sweare by the name of the Diuell ninthly to procure abortion to preuent Baptisme tenthly to eat your children before birth as Horace writeth and partly insinuateth Neu pransalameae viuum puerum extraâ—…at aluâ—… Then teacheth he you to kill and poison againe to rot eattell by charmes then to raise stormes and tempests by inuocation of Diuels what need more horror Blasting of corne inducing of famine prodigious incests the sonne with the mother the daughter with the father Magicall ingendrings â—…etwixt the sorcerer and the Diuel called by the Hebrews Titeth al this as Barkly Câ—…prian in his Recantation confesseth Malleus maleficorum and Prieras in his Booke De demonum mirandis witnesse are the fruits of Curiositie and the working of sorceries and the instructions of the Diuell There are many in London now adaies that are besotted with this sinne one of whom I saw on a white horse in Fléetsâ—…réet a tanner knaue I neuer lookt on who with one figure cast out of a schollers studie for a necessary seruant at Bocardo promised to find any mans oxen were they lost restore any mans goods if they were stolne and win any man loue where or howsoeuer he setled it but his Iugling knacks were quickly discouered and now men that in their opinions held him for a right coniurer dare boldly sweare that he is a rancke cousener Another sonne Luiathan hath that deserues disceuering for of all the children his father hath he is most befriended least suspected his name is Superfluous Inuention or as some tearme him Nouel-monger or Fashions Sometimes he is a cooke inuenting new sauces and banquets sometimes deuising strange confections to besot an idolater of his bellie sometimes for an irefull man he deuiseth strange reuenges sometime for a fearfull strong towers to kéepe him in he is excellent at billiment laces to deuise new and for pouders to breake the cannon and poisons to kill lingeringlie he yéelds neither place to Fierouanti nor any Italian If Ladies lacke paintings and Beleâ—…ze Uenice affoords not the like and if your mastership lacke a fashion commend me to none but him This is he who first found out the inuentions to curle and to him it is ascribed the changing and dying of haire For he could be no lesse then a Diuell in my opinin that durst falsifie Gods words where hée saith Non potes vnum capillum facere album aut nigrum Yet dare he aduenture to know all Cleopatra in her time was his dear friend and in our age he is sought too both in Towne and Countrie The chines of Béefe in great houses are scantled to buie chains of gold and the almes that was wont to reléeue the poore is husbanded better to buy new Rebatoes it is monstrous in our opinion to sée an old man become effeminate but is it not more monstrous to sée the old woman made yoong againe the Elephant is admired for bearing a litle castle on his back but what say you to a tender faire young nay a weakling of womankind to weare whole Lordships and manor houses on her backe without sweating Vestium luxum saith Tully arguit animum parum sobrium Alasse sobrietie where shalt thou now bée sought where all men affect pompe The Plowman that in times past was contented in Russet must now adaies haue his doublet of the fashion with wide cuts his garters of fine silke of Granado to méet his Sis on Sunday the farmer that was contented in times past with his Russet Frocke Mockado sléeues now sels a Cow against Easter to buy him silken géere for his credit Is not this Fashions a iolly fellow that worketh this Urge the constitution of the Apostles to our gallants O homâ—… mors aeterna â—…ibi parata est quoniam propter ornatum tuum illaqueasti mulierem vt amore tui flagraret Man eternall death is prepared for thee because thou hast allured women to sinne by thy dissolute garments Tut say they we stand not on credite nor on conscience and yet they lie too for so long they stand on their credites that they vtterly fall by them Crie out with them to the woman and will her not paint her visage now I faith Sir foole will she say helpe of nature is no sinne to please my husband Nay whispers Fashion in her ears if you be Gods works you had the more reason to be adorned because his Impiety thus alwaies attending on this Deuill he forgeth excuses to dispence with conscience It is a great matter saith Tertulian to sée the vanitie of women in these daies who are so trimd and trickt that you would rather say they beare great forrests on their necks then modest and ciuill furnitures Tut answers Fashion it kéepes their faces in compasse To weare wiers and great ruffes is a comely cops to bide a long wrinckled face in Boulsters for crookt shoulders who but Fashions first sold them in Uenice and since busks came in request horne 〈◊〉 growne to such a scarcitie that Leuiathan hath cast his owne beakers of late to serue the market There are boulsters likewise for the buttocks as wel as the breast and why forsooth The smaller in the wast the better handled Beléeue me I thinke in no time Ierome had better cause to crie out on pride then in this for painting now adaies is grown to such a custome that from the swartfaste Deuil in the Kitchin to the fairest Damsel in the cittie the most part looke like Uizards for a Momerie rather then Christians trained in sobrietie O poore woman cried the Father canst thou lift vp thy face to heaueÌ„ coÌ„sidering God knows thée not Tut all this moues not quoth Inuention of Nouelties we must haue more new Fashions well be it so master Diuell yet let your dames take this verse of Martials for a conclusion Omnia cum fecit Thaida Thais olet When Thais hath done all yet Thais smels But let vs leaue this Diuell at his cutting bord intentiue for new fashions against next Christmas and sée what Diuell and sonne of pride marcheth next forsooth Ingratitude carelesse both in apparrell and lookes This is a generall fellow and thinkes scorne to be vnséene in all the sinnes of the world If hée receiue graces from God it not his mercie that giueth them but his owne industrie he is a right Pelagian presuming by naturall vertue without the grace of God to attaine Paradise Giue him what you can hée condemnes you for your labor he cals his maister old dunce that taught him learning and to his father that brought him vp he protests he knows him not
By reason it was somewhat towards night now a bit then a cup more I was quickly heard so that at the last the Tauerne was full of all sorts of people some bringing water as the contrary to fire others oile good to quench lightning some ladders to clime the house top some vineger to lay on scalding The people entring into the chamber where I was and seeing neither fird nor sinoake fearefully aske mée where the fire was I also hoarse with crying at last answered them that it was in the seller and I was sure of it and for proofe therof quoth I I saw the host very now carrie down store of water They hearing this sodainly ran downe into the seller where they found the Tauerner with his prentice mingling wine and water together all the companie detesting his knauerie one cast his paile of water at his head another his oile another his vineger another broke a sticke out of his lather and all to bebeat him the host souced in souce like a pickled herring ran away to saue himselfe the people fell a drinking til they left him neuer a drop in his seller and I a pottle more of Charnico Edward without paying pennie for my Wine went away with the goblet and I drinke to you good man Pouling this last period is a pottle at least and how say you by my taleteller Wil you haue yet more Take him froÌ„ this his dailie exercise he is as dead as a doore naile hee hath no more sence then a shoat in pickle Get him to church hée sléepes out the sermon persuade him to abstinence tut saith hée it ingenders Cathars nourisheth the Megrim examine him in his worldly affairs talke of that to morrow the onely meanes to wake him is to tell him the Uintage is come home for against that time hée makes him a doublet a quarter wider in the wast then the first because hée will walke and drinke easelie It would make a good wit druncke to dreamâ—… of his qualities I will therefore here leaue him and as I haue painted him out to the eie so will I conuict his detestable course by reason First maketh hée that which was ordained to bée the temple of the Holy-ghost a den of Deuils next drowneth hée that spirit which was created for heauenly contemplations in earthly and transitorie pleasures then by his Gast imargia and Epicurisme he dulleth his conscience with an apoplery nombnes so that it hath no power to distinguish mortall sinnes from heauenly intelectuall delights lastly by detesting continency he suffereth the plagues of excesse and looseth the benefites of abstinence which maintaine the soule in his harmonie and the bodie in health and temperature and as Horace saith Quin corpus â—…nustum Hesternis vitijs animum quoque pergrauat vna Atque adfigit humi diuinae particulam aurae A bodie loaden with the nights excesse At once the mind with dulnesse doth oppresse Affixing to the earth by dull desire The heauenbread soule that should to heauen aspire Of all detestable sinnes dronkennesse is most vildest for it bréedeth lothsomenesse in those that most delight in it It is a a luxurious thing as the wise man saith and the immoderate vse of wine hurteth a man foure kind of waies first it is the cause of thraldome secondly the confusion of honestie thirdlie the complement of vice and volâ—…ptuòusnesse fourthly the signe of follie The first is manifest in this because the originall root and occasion of disgrace was in wine whereby Noe became the slaue of dronkennesse and the scorne of his sonne Cam That it is the confusion of honestie it appeareth because whosoeuer is accustomed therein hée is banished the societie of good men and subiect to mightie discredits What is more filthie then a droncken man saith Innocentius who hath stench in his mouth trembling in his bodie follie in his tongue and want of secresie in his heart his mind is alienated his face is deformed and no secret can bée had where â—…brietie is soueraigne And Seneca saith That the mind intangled by dronckennesse hath no power of it selfe and if it bée rightlie considered of it is but a voluntarie madnesse Alexander transported with this sinne slew Chtus his faithfull friend at a banquet and after hée had recouered himselfe hée would haue murthered and stabd himselfe for sorrow The Romans figuring out the image of Ebrietie painted it in this sort First they set downe the image of a boy and next they painted a horne in his hand and on his head they set a crowne of glasse A child they painted him in signe that it maketh a man childish and past his sence or gouernement They gaâ—… him a horne in his hand in token that hée alwairs soundeth and publisheth secrets whatsoeuer and they crowned him with glasse because the dronckard reporteth himselfe a glorious and rich man where hée is as poore as Irus Paupâ—…rior Iro as the Poet saith Valerius in his â—…ixt Booke and second Chapter reporteth this Hystorie A certaine innocent and guiltlesse woman was condemned by Philip King of Macedon in his drunkennesse who confident and affuted of her owne Innocencie cried out I appeale from Philip drunken to Philip sober The King ashamed at this reprehension shakt of sléepe recouered his sences and gaue more diligent regard to the cause and at last finding right on her side reuersed the Iudgement and acquited the woman By which it appeareth that the shaking off of dronkennesse is the establishing of reason and the custome thereof the destruction of honestie That it is the complement of voluptuousnesse and pleasure it appeareth likewise for modestie restraineth manie men from sinne and where it is taken away and subdued by wine the pleasure that lies hidden in the heart is discouered without shame Wherevpon Seneca saith Plures pudere peccanaâ—… quâ—…m bouâ—… voluntate prohibiti sunt à peccato scelere More men are prohibited from offence and wickednesse by the shame of sinne then by good intention and will but where the mind is possessed with too much force of wine whatsoeuer euill lurked in the heart is discouered by the tongue That Wine likewise is the experiment and signe of follie it is manifest because if a man bée inclined to any euill whatsoeuer a triall and experience of the same must bée made in his drunkennesse and therefore the Germanes neuer consult before they drinke perhaps alluding and relying on that of Ecclesiastes Vinum corda superbâ—…rum arguit Wine openeth and argueth the secrets of prowd men vpon all which premises I inferre that drunkennesse and all disordinate riot is hurtfull to all estates for if it seize the poore man hée shall not bée rich if it depriue the rich man his substance shal be consumed if it distraught the yong man hée will not bée instructed if it take hold on the old man it makes him a foole For this cause Origen vpon Genesis speaking of Lot