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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01517	A delicate diet, for daintiemouthde droonkardes Wherein the fowle abuse of common carowsing, and quaffing with hartie draughtes, is honestlie admonished. By George Gascoyne Esquier.	Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577.; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.	1576 (1576)	STC 11640; ESTC S105710	14,266	50

principal authority so wyl I yet recite some examples out of Heathen Authors who wrote of the ages passed and then consequētly descend vnto our owne age present in which this enormity doth so farre exceede that if dead men might be called againe the Forefathers should not want sufficient cause to woder at our impudencie who hauing not the cloked excuse of ignoraunce and lacke of instruction which the Heathen mi●ht after a sort aledge in defence of their defects are not ashamed to pro●●de to surpasse all ages in so lothsome and beastly a transgression whereas in all Morall vertues we can neuerthelesse be content to come farre behind them Alexander the Macedonian who by his valiaunce prowesse in lesse then twelue yeeres conquered subdued Ill●ria now called Slauonia the Cittie of Thebes with the Territories and Countreyes adioyning yea al Greece Asia Persia and India with the East parts of the whole world being setled in peaceable possession of his dominions gaue himselfe ouer vnto vanity pleasures and at the last to excessiue droonkennesse whereby hée became so obious vnto his people generally that they priuily conspired his death executed the same So that they hauing respect to the excellencie of his singuler vertues and there withall weying that his ouerthrowe came chiefly by this detestable vice I can not better terme him then a mighty man transfourmed into a brute Beast Apitius not contented to distemper his owne body continually with wine delicate fare and after much great consumption therof to find an hole in his bags as bigge as fiue hundreth fowre score three thousand fifty fowre peun●s sterlings did yet infect the whole City of Rome with poisō of y same abomination which in times past bad bene a perfect Myrror of temperance to other Nations but in the ende he beas●ly most vngodly dyd wilfully drink poyson and destroyed himself fearing lest the remnant of his substaunce would not minister sufficiētly vnto the plotforme or foūdation which he had layd in this abhominable bybbing banquetting quassing and what shall I name this man but a beastly Metamorphoser both of himself of others Lucullus a famous Romane both for learning skyl in Martial feats after a nomber of great victories exceding Fame got by temperaunce in iustice and pollitique gouerment dyd geue him selfe ouer vnto such an Epicures lyfe and soonke so déepe into the gulfe of this odious enormity that in th end he lost his wyts and memory with all his substaunce was lyke a chylde committed vnto the charge direction of others and was not this a playne Metamorphosis What should I rehearse the Histories of Lucius verus Marcus Bibulus Sergius and sundry other Romaines who wallowing and delyghting in this beastly vice Metamorphosed thēselues most monstrusly For we must not thinke that the auncient Poettes in theyr most famous works dyd dyrectly meane as the lytterall text of theyr Fables do import but they dyd Clarkly in figures set before vs sundry tales which being wel marked might serue as examples to terrifie th● posteritie frō falling into sundry vanities and pestilent misgouernments and thervpon they feigned that Medea Circe and such other coulde Metamorphose transforme men into Beastes Byrdes Plantes and Flowres meaning therby that whoseuer is so blinded in sensuality that forgetting his intellectuall reasons the better part of his vnderstāding he follow the appetite and concupiscence of nature he shal without doubt transforme him self or be transformed from a man to a Beast c. For what greater imperfection can we alledge in the most brute and sauage Beasts then to follow sensuall appetyte vnto al vaine apparaunce of delyghtes Nay rather we must confesse that Beasts doo by a natural enstincte obserue a certaine mediocritie in many thinges whiche doo by extremitie turne into vice The Beasts and Cattell with Fowles Fishes and other such creatures voyde of reason doo yet couet or desyre the acte of generation but onely at certaine times prefixed when nature doth thervnto kindle and prouooke them But men who challenge a perfection aboue all other creatures doo beastly and more then beastly and abhominably delight therein naye prouoke pamper the dayly excesse therof to the weakning of their bodies offending of their deuout wel disposed brethren high displeasing of almighty God The Beasts c. neuer or seldome do surcharge theyr stomacke with more meate then they maye well disgest but men doo cramme them selues with Cates vntyll they be constrained to vomitte Beastes whē they are stirred or prouoked to wrath and angre doo yet presently passe ouer the mallice without entent of reuenge But men can reteyne a mallice yéeres ages whereby the destruction of sundry worthy famyllies hath ensued And now to touch our purpose more perticularly Beasts are satisfied with drinking once or twise a day at ordinary and accustomed howres but men are not ashamed to syt bybbing quassing and tossing of pottes whole daies and nyghtes So that a iust accoumpt of their lyues being called they maye seeme neyther borne to do none other thing or else to haue so guilty mispent their time that the most brute and senceles Beastes are able to accuse them of sundry huge enormities By these and sundry other reasons I thought not impertynent to name this detestable vice of droonkennesse the Circe or Medea which Metamorphoseth transfourmeth men into most ougly and monstrous shapes proporciōs wherof I haue brought foorth some examples out of holy scriptures and others some out of the Neathen Aucthors which wrote the factes and gouernmentes of the famous Romaines But now if we consider our own age yea our owne Nation the verye chiefe cause which made me prefume to adde this smal treatise vnto the Epistle of S. Angustine we shal find by too true experience that we doo so much exceede al those that haue gone before vs that if they might seeme as men transfourmed into Beasts we shal rather appeare as Beasts mishapen chaunged into Deuyls And in this accusation I doo not onely summon the Germaines who of auncient tyme haue beene the continuall Wardens of the Droonkards fraternitye and corporation but I would also cyte to appeare our newfangled Englyshe men which thinke skorne to leaue any newe fashion so that it be euyll vntryed or vnfollowed For now a dayes what Marchaunt what Artificer nay what botcher or boongler in any occupation can be contented to enuite his friende to dynner or supper vnlesse he doo his best to geue him a Cap of Magis as they terme it and beguile both the Coffer of their store and the treasure of theyr soule with counterfeyts names to cloake their beastly inuentions Wherin I note the vyce so much the more daungerous since they cannot denye that they are dayly therof both admonished and reproued by sundyr learned godly Teachers and Preachers who painfully and zealously doo exhort them from this Quassing Carowsing and tossing of Pots