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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	drink_v	eat_v	5,781	5	7.4332	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07227	A handful of essaies. Or Imperfect offers: by W: Mason Master of Arts	Mason, William, M.A.	1621 (1621)	STC 17624; ESTC S112442	21,733	138

since the time shall come when honour shall bee ascribed vnto drunkennes to drinck much wine shall be held a vertue that time is come non hahet vlterius quod nostris potibus addat posteritas there are those of whom wee may say that which was spoken of the Emperour Bonosus Non vt viuat natus est sed vt bibat He it was who hauing strangled himselfe with a halter was thus iested at by the people Amphoram pendêre non hominem But woe to those who rise vp early to follow drunckennesse Esai 5. 11. Crates throwing his money into the Sea said I will drowne thee that I may not bee drowned of thee But Drunckards so drown their money that themselues are drowned with it Dum absorbet vinum absorbetur a vino Amongst these accusationis occasio est saide Hierom long since adiuratum per Caesarem frequentius non bibisse Who will not bee druncke for Caesar is thought no friend to Caesar Our Sauiour seekes to beat men from this sinne with a take-heede vnto your selues Luk 21. 34. For this sinne robbes a man of himselfe and laies a beast in his roome Noahs nakednesse is seene in his Wine drunckennes doeth both make imperfections and shewe those wee haue to the eyes of euery scoffing Cham To whom is strife To whom is woe saith Salomon Euen to those who tarry long at the Wine Prou ●3 29. For Drunckards are commonly quarrelsome Bacchus tearmed by the Heathens the God of Wine is painted with hornes to signifie that druncken men are euer pushing and quarrelling Men herein are like Elephants If once made druncke they presently growe angry and fall a fighting Alexander in his cuppes kild his deare friend Clitus Saint Aug ad fratres eremo serm 33. reports of a young man the sonne of Cyrillus who being drunke rauisht his Mother kild his Father and wounded two of his Sisters vnto the death Nunquam egoebrium putabo castum said Ierome A drunckard will soone become wanton Saint Paul hauing perswaded from gluttony and drunckennesse Rom 13. 13. Addeth withall neither in chambering and wantonnesse noting that these birds of a feather will flye together for pascitur libido conuiuijs nutritur delicijs vino accenditur ebrietate inflammatur He that could not be tainted with vncleannesse in Sodom was ouertaken with Incest and drunckennesse in a Caue drunckennesse is the high way to all bestiall affections and actions It is therefore Saint Pauls exhortation Be not drunke with Wine wherein is excesse Ephes. 5. for then a man is drawne to excesse and led by the Diuell to commit any villany euen with greedinesse The Diuell in this is like your blacke-smith when his Iron is red-hot hee can then forge it vnto what fashion himselfe pleaseth So when a man is made hott with Wine the Diuell can worke him then to any villany whatsoeuer Saint Paul yokes this swine with the couetous man and excludes both these beastes from the Kingdome of God some collect as much from the Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the name of an intemperate man he is so called saith Phaeuorinus Quod non possit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because he cānot be saued 1. Cor. 6. 9. I leaue this Brewers friend and come to the Powlters to Gluttons As for them the Apostle maketh them plaine Idolaters Phil 3. 19. As the Babilonians vsed daily to sacrifice to their Idoll Bel so doeth the Glutton to his belly making this his God and the graue wherein he burieth all his substance for venter vitae Caribdis As Diogenes sometimes saide the gut is a gulfe wherein many one drowneth all his Patrimony Solebant Dijs construi templa altaria erigi c. In former times men did vse to builde Temples erect Shrines maintaine Priests to offer Sacrifice and burne Incense to the Eternall Deity saide the Heathen but the belly now hath eaten vp all these for now many maintaine no Priests but a Cooke and serue no other God but their belley Their chiefest care is to prouide meate for their bellies and their bellies for meate as Brewers ordaine drinke for their barrels and their barrels for drinke with Philoxenus they wish that their throats were as long as a Cranes necke that the sweetnesse of their meats and drinkes might the longer abide All their Faith is in the Kitchen all their Hope in the Pantery all their Loue in the Kettle The Kitchen is their Temple the Cooke their Priest God their Cater and their belley their God Their exercise is walking to gett them a stomacke to their meate as others labour to get them meate for their stomacke With the Sodomites they feede themselues against the day of slaughter which cannot be farre off If you aske sayth Seneca why we die suddenly it is because we liue by the death of many creatures And how can they liue long Qui meris mortibus viuunt The Fowles are more endaungered by these two-legged then by the foure-footed Foxes and themselues may feare one day with their fellow-glutton to be most tormented in their tongues because they haue offended most in their tasts Nothing is more absurd then that Epicurean resolution Let vs eate and drinke to morrow we shall die As if wee were made onely for the panch and liued that we might liue Wee should say rather let vs fast and pray to morrow we shall die A strong body makes thy death more violent bestowe not then a costly roofe vpon a ruynous tenemēt or a mudde-wall That mans departure wil be happy easie whom Death findeth with a weake Body and a strong Soule 12 Of Goods ill gotten NOthing is more hunted after in this world among many men then wealth and riches as if store of Gold and Siluer were the onely Venison that could procure a blessing we make our selues drudges and slaues beneath all names of basenesse to get a little white or redde earth which haue made many prouder none better for enioying them and yet nothing is more vncertaine then are riches Quem dies vidit veniens superbum hunc dies vidit fugiens iacentem Saint Pauls aduise is not to trust in vncertaine riches 1. Timoth. 6. Fugitiuus est ingratus seruus pecunia quamvis seruorum adhibita sit custodia saepius tamen seruis persuadens cum ipsis fugit Custodibus Chrys. Among other reasons why Riches are so vncertaine one is because they are ill gotten There are those who grow rich and wealthy by the oppression of the people Iob speakes of a man who builds his house as the moath Chap 27. As a moath is made rich by spoiling the garments bookes and barkes in which it liueth so there are those who grow rich and wealthy by deuouring the poore thinking with Vespasian that gaine is sweete howsoeuer gotten but wealth which is gained by vniust meanes like Ionas his gourd soone withereth the owners thereof are like Esdras his visions for a time goodly and glorious to