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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

But what amendment followeth in many of vs surely I tremble to wryte it and it greeueth mee sufficiently to thinke theron that in steede of reformation they scoffe and taunt amongst them selues in theyr banquets saying Friendes we are forbidden to Quasse or to Carowse and therfore let vs vse none other drynking but a harty draught And hauing thus in theyr owne frantike imaginations cloaked theyr deuyl●she damnable intent they procéede ●ntyll this new founde harty draught bée found flue tymes worse then theyr former Nuassing Carowsing O grosse blindnesse of harte can impudent men thinke so to deceyue the almightye God which seeth the secreets of al harts no surely For hee vvhich dwelleth in heauen shall laugh them to scorne yea the Lorde shall vexe them in his sore displeasure Let vs but consider this one thing in what ciuyll Realme or dominion where the people are taught and exercised in the commandementes and counsels of God England onely excepted shall we see the vnthriftye Artificer or the labourer permitted to syt bybbing and drinking of Wine in euery Tauerne or what woman euen amongst the droonken Almaines is suffred to followe her Husbande vnto the Alehouse or Bee rehouse But it were folly to stand so much vpon these meane personages who for lacke of wytte or good education maye easily be enclyned to thinges vndecent I woulde for God that our gentrie and the better fort of our people were not to much acquainted with Quassing Carowsing and drinking of harty draughtes at many mery conuentions would God that we learned not by the foreleaders before-named to charge and coniure each other vnto the pledge by the name of such as we most honour and haue in estimation Ah las we Englishe men can mocke scoffe at all Countreyes for theyr defectes ▪ but before they haue many times mustred before vs we can learne by lytle and lytle to exceede and passe them al in all that which at first sight we accoumpted both vyle vyllanous The Spanish codpéece on the bellye the Itallyan waste vnder the banch bones the Frenche kuffes the Polonian Hose the Dutch Ierken and the Turkie Bonnet all these at the first we despised had in derision But immediatly Mutate opinione we doo not onelye reteyne them but we do so farre excéede them that of a Spanish Codpéece we make an English foo●eball of an Itallyan wast an English Petycoate of a French ruffe an English Chytterling of a Polonian Hose an English bowgette of a Dutch Ierken an old English Habergeone and of a Turkie bonnet a Copentank for Caiphas In lyke manner we were woont in tymes past to contempne and condempne the Almaines and other of the low Countreyes for theyr beastly drinking and quassing But nowe a dayes although we vse it not dayly lyke them for it séemes that they are naturally enclyned vnto that vyce yet when we doo make banquets and merymentes as wée terme them we surpasse them very farre and small difference is founde betwirt vs and them but only that they by a custome rooted amongst them become next Cosē to nature as beforesayd doo dayly wallow in a grosse maner of beastlines we think to cloake the filthinesse therof by amore honorable solemnitye by the cleanly tytle of curtesie The Almaines with their smal Kenish wine are contented or rather thē faile a cup of Béere may entreate them to stoupe But we must haue March beere dooble dooble Béere Dagger ale Bragget Renish wine White wine French wine Gascoyne wine Sack Hollocke Canaria wine Vino greco Vinū amabile al the wines that may be gotten Yea wine of it selfe is not sufficient but Suger Limons sūdry sortes of Spices must be drowned therin ▪ to minister mater vnto our vaine delights to beguile our selues with the baite which dronkennesse doth therein lay for vs And all this must be couered with the cleanlye name of curtesy friendly entertainment But geue mee leaue O Droonkards to aske you this question if by this curtesy friendly entertainement of yours a friend which is constrayned thus to pledge you doo chance to surfeyte to fal thereby into such distemper that he dye thereof what kind of curtesie shall we then accoumpt it or what friendship can be found in such entertainment yea if he escape surfeyting or daunger of death which is seldome auoyded in them that vse drinking vnmeasurably yet if his former good fame credyte be thereby so much touched that his grauest friends take iust occasion to reprehend him to withdrawe theyr good wyls from him shall hee not haue iust cause to condempne this curtesy as coūterfayt and curse this feyned friendship At the least though his worldly friendes wynke and temporall death forbeare him a whyle let him yet not thinke to escape the iust iudge ment of God who punisheth the abhomination of iniquitie vnto the third fowrth generation And in these thrée poynts especially haue I considred the enormity of this sinne For that it weakeneth and endaungerth mans body dayly it impayreth his credite openly and woundeth his soule secréetly So that for mine owne perticular opinion I could wyshe that Italian or Spaniard lyke we dyd altogether banishe from our banquets the common curtesy of drinking one to another at all not that I would see me thereby to condempne it of it selfe if it be but temperately vsed but because I finde that the pleasauntnesse of the drinke and the infirmity of our nature doo beget one draught vpō another so that beginning with curtesie we ende with madnesse and beastlynesse And well wrote hée which sayd that the first Cuppe quenched thyrst the seconde enduced myrth and reioysing in hart the thyrd voluptuosnesse the fowrth droonkennesse the fifth wrathfulnesse the syxt contenciousnesse the seuenth furiousnesse the eyght sluggishnesse and the nynth extremitie of sycknesse But with vs nyne dranghts yea nyneteene draughts nay somtime nine twēty doo not suffice And whereas the Forefathers gaue no further warrāt then for the second draught and séemed to thinke that passing further then that concupiscence straight waies crept in we ar not abashed to breake their boundes make concupiscense but a tryfling fault in comparison of our beastly excesse For fyrst to speake of sicknesse and infyrmities what knoweth be which taketh the Cup in hand to drink vnto another whether he haue asmuch delyght to pledge as he hath to drinke vnto him or whether the constitution of his body wyll so well awaye with excessiue drynking as his owne wyll then must it follow that if the Pledger be not of lyke disposition the Bryncher is guyltie of alluring vnto sinne And if he were as forwardly disposed as hée yet at the least hee must bee guyltie in styrring him to continuaunce thereof In lyke manner if the Pledger bée inwardlie sicke or haue some infyrmitie whereby too much drinke or drynking when nature doeth not desyre it doo empayre his health and shorten his